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  • Booting a dell server from a remote ISO image

    This is in various scripts and snippets, but I didn’t see it simply by itself…. People sometimes ask me how to reboot a server and boot it off a remote image via the BMC. Dell’s BMC (that little chip that runs IPMI and other things) can speak DMTF/WSMAN/etc/etc, like just about all the servers in…

  • dump supermicro stuff

    A trivial utility to dump password/account information from a special file found on a SM BMC (see this R7 post about the PSBlock file.) (Later edit – put a new version on github that fixes a bug) #!/usr/bin/env python # usage: $0 file # # (try to) Dump out passwords/accounts from a SM binary file;…

  • I wrote this almost a decade ago when walking with dona on the streets of San Francisco; today I learned that John Dobson is dead. I remember you, john; RIP. The original link to his personal site no longer works… replaced with a wiki entry ;( This happened with a waxing moon about 88% full,…

  • By sheer Chance

    Sometimes you’re simply struck by a phrase, a line, a feeling…. Was struck the other day by a song on the radio – Cocoa Butter Kisses, where a fast talkin’ rapper who misses his grandma’s kisses because he reeks of tobacco/weed.  Forgot about it for awhile, then ran across the album to the right on…

  • 1001 nights

    My main server/gateway/everything finally passed the 1000 day uptime mark, a first for me (at home, at least!) $ uptime 23:17:43 up 1001 days, 3:06, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.01 Of course… being up all that time means an older kernel that can’t be upgraded (without rebooting, at least), an old creaky out-of-date…