Kosh’s Web Log

I went around a friends house tonight to help with picking up a clothes dryer (long story) and he gave me 2 Compaq Proliant 1850R’s and a Cisco 2926.

(I’m big on free hardware, I’d thank him here but I don’t like giving out names on “teh interweb”)

I got the cisco configured after a few hours (was watching some smallville at the same time … another don’t ask, it’s SUPERMAN dammit !) which was interesting, most of my cisco devices are either too simple (cisco 7960 ip phone) or on the new IOS’s (Cisco 2924)

It was interesting not to be using “wri mem” and “conf ter”

Anyway, I’m up to trying to get linux on the Compaq’s now (one at a time) since I have been wanting to seperate vandread from the “nervhq” network for a while now, and the perfect machine just dropped in my lap.

This one i’m working on now has a single 600mhz P3, 1gb of ram, 3x 18gb scsi hdds and one of those server slimline cdroms (similar to old laptop ones)

I’m having trouble getting it to boot to the “compaq smart management” cd.
Won’t even boot to the debian 3.1r0 cd I have.

It seems like the boot order is wrong, but I hceck the “system partition diagnostic” and it has the correct boot order …. I have to congratualte compaq, I never would have thought of putting a quasi bios setup on the system partition.

Such a good idea …

I hate how internet is in Australia.

I have 3 connections into my house, and two of them are overlimit.

I want american internet, I pay for a segment and the worst I get is slow for a few hours.

I need sleep.

Anyway.

So I went back to poke around with my two favorite toys, UDP Broadcast and XML Serialization.

And it started a journey …. that lasted a few hours and was kinda cool ….

Continue reading ‘Space Daemon UDP’ »

119MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.

w0000t

I have a fair bit of work to do, but when I get stuck coding I like to go off an finish or improve something I started a while ago.

So I rewrote my “space daemon” for my home network.

I was working on a udp based “system status” service for my windows / linux boxen a while ago, this was just a step towards it.

I’ll leave the geeky detail off the main page, ooh brb Kernel COmpile finished,

rebooting.

I was recompiling the kernel on one of my linux boxen and I noticed this after a recompile.

Warning only 896MB will be used.
Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
896MB LOWMEM available.

Seeing as the machine has 1gb of ram, I was a little puzzled. It seems obvious enough, but I always thought that a HIGH MEM enabled kernel was for 2gb plus (as the options are 4gb or 64gb) but apparently, it is for anything 896mb+

Weird number, cbf’d researchng it.

(The option is under Processor Features -> Hign Memory in the 2.6(.15) kernel)

I was reading through my emails and I noticed this in the latest b3ta

Song tapper
We remember a music teacher at school whose
special trick was to recognise tunes from
people tapping our the rhythm of the words.
Never occurred to us that this could be a
web project. And yet here it is - tap out the
words with your spacebar and the application
recognises the tune. Marvellous. BTW: It
recognised Happy Birthday, but had a little
more trouble with Duran Duran’s ‘Rio’.

I tried it out, and it helped me remember what song I had stuck in my head
(it was “every little thing she does is magic” by the police)

I was recompiling the kernel on one of my linux machines (remotely, for the brass ones) and I started remembering about High School …

I used to remember a guy who would always shout out that I was “hacking the colonel” (his misspell) and it always bugged me.

He’d say that and people would start querying ever so nicely as to what I was doing.

It wasn’t that he would just say this to me, he would be annoucing this to everyone especially in the middle of class or the few times I felt like messing with the library computers.

I miss still High School though.

I was installing the OpenAFS tools on one of my Windows 2000 machines and it kept failing, I wasn’t reading the install (left it unattended twice) but I noticed on the third attempt it was stalling on “connecting to the MS Loopback Adapter”. It is probably in the documentation (but the wiki was down and I was feeling like having an adventure)

Anyway, I linked to the MS support page for installing the Loopback Adapter in Win2k.

Have Fun !