http://uminac.com I'm not creative enough for this, and you can't help me. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:54:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We ordered one of these little Aleratec Disk Cloner things about 2 or 3 months ago. It finally came yesterday. The thing works nicely, it accepts laptop & desktop SATA drives and clones with one button push. It cloned a 160GB deathstar in about an hour, which isn't bad for that ... http://uminac.com/2010/02/23/aleratec-cruiser-mini-disk-cloner/ Recently, I needed to roll a port back to a much older revision. While I usually dislike this type of thing, I found it to be necessary this time. Somebody recommended that I use portdowngrade to revert the ports tree to the older version, so I could install ... http://uminac.com/2010/02/09/using-portdowngrade/ This is a confirmed bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540554 To fix it, you just need to go in the config editor and set mail.server.default.use_condstore to false, supposedly. http://uminac.com/2010/01/26/thunderbird-3-0-1-update-marks-messages-unread/ Just a simple way to test that an ATX power supply is functional (or dead). ATX Power Supply Test http://uminac.com/2009/12/16/simple-atx-power-supply-test/ This has been fixed as of update 1. If you've tried to install the vSphere client on Windows 7, you've undoubtedly come across errors like the following: Error parsing the server "192.168.2.2" "clients.xml" file. Login will continue, contact your system administrator. and The type initializer for 'VirtualInfrastructure.Utils.HttpWebRequestProxy' threw an exception. Although Windows 7 is fully ... http://uminac.com/2009/11/06/vsphere-4-client-windows-7/ A strikingly similar situation as with the Sun I posted about earlier. The installation actually was quite easy after having completed the Sun configuration. Install LDAPUX (available from HP's site somewhere, just google for 'download ldapux'). On slapd: Make sure the 'profile' OU is accessible by anybody. It doesn't store ... http://uminac.com/2009/08/26/hp-ux11-authenticating-with-openldap/ Well worth mentioning: There's a way more updated version of the iSCSI Initiator on the developer's public FTP site. ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/ With this version I'm now seeing acceptable IO (around 65MB/s reads/writes) after setting tags=256 in iscsi.conf. All credits to the developer. Because I'm in the US, I have fairly bad connectivity to that site. ... http://uminac.com/2009/08/03/update-freebsds-iscsi-initiator/ After plenty of hours of trying to figure out why it was that Sun's native LDAP client wouldn't talk to my OpenLDAP server I decided to call support. I had been through just about every Google result I could read and still got nowhere. It turns out that when you ... http://uminac.com/2009/07/29/solaris-10s-native-ldap-client-and-an-openldap-server/ Please see the update to this post As A Target (Server) The only available iSCSI target software in FreeBSD is the /net/iscsi-target port. This is the iSCSI target from OpenBSD and is absolutely not suitable for production use (or even most non-production uses). Problems I've come across: Does not support CHAP. Will not allow ... http://uminac.com/2009/07/17/the-scoop-on-freebsd-iscsi-currently/ Got a new storage server, it's a PE2900 from Dell. Installed FreeBSD 7.2 on it, rebuilt the kernel with all the updates and included: options iscsi_initiator connected to the iSCSI target across the LAN, then I used: dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/testiscsi/file.out bs=65536 to test the speeds after mounting it. I observed horrific speeds ... http://uminac.com/2009/06/19/poweredge-2900-iscsi-performance-problems-w-freebsd/