Getting the HP Array Configuration Utility (ACU) and the Array Diagnostic Utility (ADU) for Linux to work was non-trivial. It does not seem to be supported anymore, but I managed to get it working on CentOS 5 running on an HP ProLiant DL185 G5.

First, install compatibility packages:

sudo yum …

First, let me tell you some first impressions about the machine. The keyboard is very good. It feels even a bit better than the one in my old T60. The display is very bright and sharp, but viewing angles could be better. WLAN worked right out of the box, as …

A backup server was saturating the DSL links of remote offices every time the backups were running. To prevent this, I had to limit the incoming bandwidth of the TCP-connections that were used to back up the remote hosts, but not touch the ones that were used to connect to …

Here's a description how to do it without any extensions:

http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2008/01/21/how-to-make-image-links-in-mediawiki

First, you must install fileset bos.cifs_fs.rte, and optionally bos.cifs_fs.smit for the Smitty interface, from the installation DVD.

To invoke the Smitty interface, run:

root# smitty cifs_fs

The Smitty interface will enable you to do almost anything you need with the CIFS filesystem.

For people aligned the …

Here's a statically compiled version of Sqlite 3.5.6 command line interface on ARMEL with Readline support. It runs nicely on Nokia Internet Tablets with the OS 2008 (libreadline4 must be installed):

sqlite3-armel.gz

It was compiled with the following settings:

./configure --disable-shared --enable-readline --enable-dynamic-extensions

This short list should apply to a situation where an organization with one domain and a simple Exchange environment wants to upgrade from Exchange 2003 to 2007. It assumes everything will be installed on a single server with a fresh installation of Windows 2003 R2, joined as a member server …

I wanted to try out the Maemo SDK for Nokia 770, N800 and N810 devices (for some reason I happen to own one of every generation), but found out that there are no prebuilt packages for the 64-bit environment. The quick (?) remedy for this is the chroot jail, because a …

Requirements for a suid script include:

• #! directing the KornShell be used
• Executable by user, group, and other
• No read permission
• Add suid permission by chmod u+s on the file

Add a -p option to #! to increase security to force a separate process if one is not normally done.

Example …

I had a chance to configure an HP ProCurve 4208vl switch the other day. The first impression was that the command line interface is heavily influenced by, if not directly copied from, the Cisco IOS command line interface. So if you have experience with IOS, you will probably feel almost …