After playing with IPMI on one of our new Dell servers at the office, I decided it would be a very useful addon to The Colo Machine. For less than E50, I found a card compatible with my motherboard, that macTijn and I installed today.
So far it works, we’re able to access the serial console [...]

For more than a year, I’m using my loyal NSLU2 as a fileserver. Recently I’ve added a 500Gb external disk to it, which is when the ‘issues’ started.. It formatted fine, booted fine, and I could transfer everything on it. However, after the first powerfailure, the second disk would not be available. Running fsck on [...]

Decided to start making a little list slash inventory of some stuff I have running at the moment. Just for the fun of it, nowhere near finished though :)

Today, I went to Amsterdam to fix an “old” server. After driving around in circles for a while, I finally found the datacenter (yay for roadblocks!) and the guy I had an appointment with. Unfortunately, the security-department wasn’t notified of me being there. “The person you requested access from is not well and at home”. [...]