• unpacking Dell’s iDRAC schtuff

    I hadn’t look at Dell’s iDRAC stuff in forever… and it appeared they’d changed some of the formatting of the iDRAC updates/etc. since then. I didn’t see anything out there, so here’s what I used. First, grab an update – for instance, at – https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=wn31m – I grabbed “iDRAC-with-Lifecycle-Controller_Firmware_WN31M_LN64_7.20.30.50_A00.BIN” On the windows EXE file at…

  • A Legend in Someone Else’s Mind

    So this is a self-indulgent whimsical interlude that’s overly long. Pull up a chair if you want, else, I hope all is well in your world. All that said – if there’s one thing I know, I’ve a vanishingly small idea of what people actually think of me. Honestly, I’m clueless is so many things,…

  • dream #282

    i try to outsmart my phone and when it suggests a word or tries to complete a sentence I laugh and say no that was not what I was going to write at all and I put down a sometimes nonsensical end but with a flourish but i know and it knows it was right…

  • watching dmesg on mac

    Simple script to watch dmesg for changes, something like “dmesg –follow” or “dmesg -w” on systems with a real dmesg command. : # # watch dmesg output on the mac for new results… useful since the mac # doesn’t support the –follow/-w/etc. opts (at least for now!) # tries to update every second # #…

  • Python shim over QEMU to startup BMC

    In case anyone wants to run a/some Supermicro firmware image under QEMU… here’s a short script that sets some network features (thanks to binarly for figuring out the hard stuff!) It still crashes and burns because I didn’t use the gdb trick they mention in the URL, but you can now talk to the BMC…

  • Remotely Access Live Supermicro Firmware+

    TLDR; a vendor supported/supplied utility allows download of live BMC1 firmware/configuration on (at least) some SuperMicro BMCs. It’s hard to tell who might be affected, but the utility used was written by ATEN Technology, ASRock ASPEED, and others all seem to be connected in various ways in not only SuperMicro firmware but the rest of…

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