Using TSM with USB hard drives.
January 8th, 2010 by Steven Haigh
I’ve written up a quick page on how to use USB drives as removable storage on TSM.
Feel free to leave a comment on that page if you have any questions.
Archive for the 'Computers' Category
August 27 DAPs now online.
August 28th, 2009 by Steven Haigh
Yes, it’s that time of year for a new cycle of the AirServices DAPs.
These are now compiled and available here.
Windows 7 thoughts
July 31st, 2009 by Steven Haigh
After being a beta tester for Microsoft Windows since Windows 98SE, I was happy to be invited to the Windows 7 testing group. With a somewhat revised testing schedule and process from the past – with only a Beta and then RC being released before RTM instead of builds every few months, it was quite a frustrating attempt – with many of my bugs being closed with “Unable to reproduce” and a comment saying it works in a later build. Read on for more of my thoughts.
SNMP and PPPoE connections
July 31st, 2009 by Steven Haigh
For a while now I’ve been having to restart snmpd on my linux based router running CentOS whenever my PPPoE connection to my ADSL provider went down. This is because the interface disappeared, snmpd cracked it and returned 0 for all snmp queries until it was restarted. This becomes a royal pain when monitoring connection throughput with things like cacti or mrtg.
After getting sick of this the other day, I actually found a solution!
The file /etc/ppp/ip-up.local is run every time a PPP connection is established! This means I can restart snmpd from within this file and have it done automatically – forever!
All that is required is that /etc/ppp/ip-up.local contains:
#!/bin/bash
/etc/init.d/snmpd restart
You could also use the same file to call scripts to update dynamic DNS providers like homeip.net etc as well!
Via Mini ITX BIOS corruption
January 4th, 2009 by Steven Haigh
There’s nothing more that I hate than losing perfectly good hardware due to buggy software. This is just what has happened the last couple of days as I attempted a BIOS update on my Via Mini ITX CN10000 system. After downloading the BIOS flasher (VIAFLASH_V09_Beta_Release090307.zip) and the new BIOS BIN file, I set to flashing the BIOS – as you would any other. Until everything stopped.
That’s right, this BIOS updater seems buggy as all hell – as after a quick search on the ViaArena forums there have been many people who have killed their Mini ITX systems using this BIOS update tool – Some of these many months old. This leads to the question, if so many people have killed their mainboard with this bios update tool, why are Via still offering it as the ONLY way to flash the BIOS of their systems via DOS? Surely after so many people kill their system, they would change the flashing program to a non-buggy one?
Lucky, in my position, I have access to a friends PLCC programmer so it may be possible to recover the BIOS on this system – however if that wasn’t the case, I’d be looking for another $280 mainboard. Not a good solution 