My sister’s kids are the best! This is Rosie my niece, and Arthur my nephew, when they visited me for a day in York.
I recently commissioned a new HP DL380 G7 server – and stuck a problem when registering the iLO Advanced license – this is needed to continue using the Remote Console beyond the initial install process.
I already had an HP account and I’ve done this before, so no problem I thought. Wrong. After inputting the registration code, I was asked for my SAID (service agreement identifier) – with no indication on the page, the registration certificate or anywhere else as to what that was.
Thankfully our reseller found out the answer – “It’s unknown”, she said. “OK… but the site’s insisting on an entry”, I said. “You actually type ‘UKNOWN’”, she said. And it worked. Crazy but true.
I’m always having the perceived faults of the iPhone 4 pointed out to me, especially Android users. I’m usually happy to fight the corner, but there are some things the iPhone 4 is lacking. One of them is a notification LED. Most of the phones I’ve owned have had them, but not this one.
Except now it does, using the camera flash – it turns out it was added quietly in iOS 5.
Settings, General, Accessibility, LED Flash for Alerts – Job done!
I’m aware there is a problem with IE9 users, the post titles do not appear as they should. I’m working on it.
Update: a new theme has fixed this.
I still play GTA IV multiplayer quite a lot, but I’ve had alot of conversations about how cool GTA V will be, what thing’s we’d like to see in it… at long last today we start to find out. Not a huge amount to go on, but it’s good to know it’s on the way, and it looks great!
I entered this competition. It seems with the astounding quality of all the entries, I have got to up my game significantly. Each one of the six category winners here are just wonderful.
I keep bumping into people who are not aware that crossover Ethernet cables are not needed in this day and age.
If you want to connect two computers together directly by Ethernet and if one or both computers has a gigabit port, a normal (‘straight through’) cable will work just fine.
There is one caveat – the speed and duplex settings must be set to “Auto” on at least one of the computers – the gigabit one in the case of connection with a computer without gigabit.
This is called Auto MDI-X, and it was ratified as a standard back in 1998! It’s years since I’ve needed a crossover cable, and I enjoy the simplicity of not having to worry about whether I have the right cable or not.
After some unfortunate delays getting and Internet connection in my new place, it’s now all sorted. A special mention to BT whose inefficiency and stupid artificial product differentiation caused much annoyance and delay. Thanks to Vodafone who provided the required link very quickly and efficiently in the end. Even when I needed to phone them up to confirm some router settings, they were very helpful. Now to get some more content written…
–Update – I spoke too soon, and Vodafone didn’t give me the fixed IP we ordered. It is now, they assure me. My thanks to the guy who just fixed it for me.
Norcliffe.com will be down from tomorrow, Sunday 22nd May 2011. I’m moving home and I don’t yet have Internet at my new place. It will be back.
I have set up a Nagios monitoring box at work, running Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit. It’s now connected to a TV so we can have a constantly-refreshing page showing us problems on our systems and networks, and it works very well.
Unfortunately, once I installed an ATI card (Radeon 4350) for an HDMI connection to the TV and installed the proprietary FGLRX graphics driver, remote access to the computer has been a problem – I can connect to the desktop and see it in my client window, but my remote view of it never refreshes from that point on. The Ubuntu box itself keeps working fine, and I could see mouse movements on the TV – but the client window stayed frozen on how it looked when I connected.
This happens in the built-in Remote Desktop, as well as using X11VNC package – both behaved in this broken way. I tried three different clients on my workstation to see of that helped, and it didn’t.
The solution is simple – go to System/Preferences/Appearance, go to the Visual Effect tab, and set it to None. It then works fine, both in X11VNC and the built-in Remote Desktop application.
Other sites have mentioned this as a problem with Nvidia drivers too in the past, as well as the Radeon ones.
