Category: Hardware
Sun invents the transportable datacenter
“Blackbox” is its name. A container equiped with the state-of-the-art devices… Deployable anywhere, anytime! On a building roof, in a garage, in your garden… See sun.com/blackbox/.
Happy Birthday /dev/hda, /dev/c0t0d0 !
This week, the harddisk is 50 years old! The RAMAC 305 was the first disks developed by IBM: 5MB for $7000!
/dev/hda dead!
No idea if it’s the high temperature we had the last weeks, the hollidays, the moon phase but yesterday my business laptop harddisk died! :-[ Bad blocks on /dev/hda2 (/) and /usr/hda6 (/usr). Game over! RIP! (It’s the 4th HP notebook that lost its disk in my company in 3
Back online…
Major hardware issues with my box! Several random crashes, became very unstable and unusable… 🙁 Seems that it was a motherboard problems! Finally, everything is back online. In the same time, I completely reinstalled the OS (OpenBSD 3.9 now)
State-of-the-art storage solution
I found this funny post on RootPrompt: Mega Floppy 2006.
Sunray @ home
At work, we use Sunray Thin Clients (see a previous post). Based on a client-server schema, the clients uses lot of protocols such as BOOTP, DHCP, TFTP and more. For a few weeks, my goal was to use a Sunray at home: Just plug my smartcard and work on my
High-tech hardware
In my company, such as everywhere, we have some coffie machines. Depending on the model, drinks are more or less “acceptable” 😉 The machine which gives the best coffie (IMHO) is installed in the mess and produces a very high numbers of coffies per day, 24 x 7 (!) So
Nice box
/me is playing with a nice box this morning… 90 processes: 89 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle total 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.8% 395.2% cpu00 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% cpu01 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
Psion forever!
For years, I always took gadgets with me. I owned some Psion, Palm, PocketPC, MobilePhone, … Today, while performing some serious cleanup, I found back my old Psion3a under 5kg of books. Temptation was too big, I put some new batteries and started it. Amazing, the backup battery was dead