The Full Stack: Tech, Life, and whatever else I muse about.
Here’s the situation: You have a machine called skull that has access to the internet. However, no one can come into skull from the outside. You also have a machine that is on a private network with skull called bones. Finally, you have a third machine out on the internet named benincosa.com that you want…
I had to install an old x440 with SCSI attached tape drive. I did it like this: 1. Go here: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Linux/lin_tape_source-lin_taped/ Grab IBMtapeutil, lin_tape-1.*, and lin_taped* 2. Make sure you install dependencies: rpm-build, gcc Easy way: yum -y install rpm-build gcc kernel-devel 3. rpm -ivh lin_tape-1.27.0-1.src.rpm.bin (why they left the bin extension is beyond me)…
Last night I tried my hand at iPhone development. I watched the Stanford classes on iTunes U. The first class by Evan Doll was ok. Since I’ve been programming for a while, really the only thing that helped was the last 15 minutes where he gave a demo of it. The demo didn’t work and…
All the sudden I stopped getting voicemail. I thought perhaps nobody wanted to leave me any messages. I was fine with that. Then I tried it myself. Lo and behold! It just stopped working! This is yet another example of the lameness of AT&T and the iPhone. I can tell you that people like me…
In xCAT we’ve been doing ram-root solutions since 2005. We call it ‘stateless’. Since 2005 there have been a lot of other ‘stateless’ solutions that don’t necessarily match our definition. Fair enough. You can call it what you like. Red Hat for example calls ‘stateless’ an NFS root solution. We have ignored NFS root for…