I spent the better part of a day trying to get an Adaptec SAS card installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4. The RPM from Adaptec kept bombing when I tried to install it. It kept bombing because the kernel that we are running is not officially supported by Adaptec. I did some searching and found this general outline on how to work around the problem. We are using this SAS card to attach to an external tape drive. So far everything seems to be working great. Consider my experience a guideline but I think it contains the spirit of the install.
1. Install the RPM using ”rpm -ivh adpinv.rhel4qu6.x86_64.rpm”
The RPM reports that no modules were installed because no matching kernel version is found. Mine said something about line 2 is not happy.
2. “cd /usr/adaptec/adpinv”
3, “mkdir temp”
4. “cp adpinv_prebuilt.tgz temp/”
5. “cd temp” your path should be /usr/adaptec/adpinv/temp
6. gunzip adpinv_prebuilt.tgz
7. rm a-f adpinv_prebuilt.tgz
8. Make a copy of the desired module to one that matches current kernel name eg.
“uname -r” = 2.6.9-101.ELsmp
“cp adpinv-2.6.9-67.ELsmp adpinv-2.6.9-101.ELsmp”
9. Create custom adpinv_prebuilt.tgz
tar * > ../out.tar
gzip ../out.tar
cp ../out.tar.gz ../adpinv_prebuilt.tgz
10. run install script ”
cd /usr/adaptec/adpinv/”
“./install_driver”
11. reboot (which worked fine) or
insmod module (this made my box kernel panic)
12. After the reboot/insmod you can run”lsmod” to make sure the scsi driver is loaded. You can also look in /lib/modules/your_kernel_version/kernel/drivers/scsi/your_driver/your_driver.ko and make sure it exists.
Good luck
How to set Safari to not Auto Open Safe Downloads for all usersOpen a Terminal Window.
This is in response to the MACDefender Trojan Variant. I could not find much on the web about how to do this. Hopefully it will help some folks out.
First open a terminal window and type the following:
sudo vi /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/Defaults.plist
Then go to the line that says:
<key>AutoOpenSafeDownloads</key>
<true/>
and change it to <false/>
Save changes and have users log off and back in and it should be disabled.
Cydia is the rouge app store for jailbroken iPhones. You still have the standard Apple Store but you also have the Cydia store as well. You get the best of both worlds.
1. PDANet – It is the easiest way to use your iPhone as a 3G hotspot.
2. LockInfo – You can customize your lock screen. Customizations include, showing emails, text messages, weather and much more.
3. My3G – This will allow you to use your apps on 3G network even though they were once restrited to WiFi networks only. This means you can FaceTime on 3G with this app.
4. WiFi Sync – You can sync your iPhone with iTunes on your wifi network. No cable needed.
It looks like my PS3 information may have been compromised. I received an email (see below).
Important information regarding PlayStation Network and Qriocity services
===================================
PlayStation(R)Network
===================================
Valued PlayStation(R)Network/Qriocity Customer:
We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011,
certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account
information was compromised in connection with an illegal and
unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this
intrusion, we have:
1) Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services;
2) Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full
and complete investigation into what happened; and
3) Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our
network infrastructure by rebuilding our system to provide you
with greater protection of your personal information.
We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill
as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and
efficiently as practicable.
Although we are still investigating the details of this incident,
we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following
information that you provided: name, address (city, state, zip), country,
email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login,
and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data,
including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip),
and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may
have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your
dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have
been obtained. While there is no evidence at this time that credit
card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have
provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity,
out of an abundance of caution we are advising you that your credit
card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have
been obtained.
For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email,
telephone and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive
information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email,
asking for your credit card number, social security number or other
personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information,
you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation
Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that
you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation
Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or
accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them as well.
To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we
encourage you to remain vigilant, to review your account statements and
to monitor your credit reports. We are providing the following information
for those who wish to consider it:
- U.S. residents are entitled under U.S. law to one free credit report annually
from each of the three major credit bureaus. To order your free credit report,
visit www.annualcreditreport.com or call toll-free (877) 322-8228.
- We have also provided names and contact information for the three major U.S.
credit bureaus below. At no charge, U.S. residents can have these credit bureaus
place a “fraud alert” on your file that alerts creditors to take additional steps
to verify your identity prior to granting credit in your name. This service can
make it more difficult for someone to get credit in your name. Note, however,
that because it tells creditors to follow certain procedures to protect you,
it also may delay your ability to obtain credit while the agency verifies your
identity. As soon as one credit bureau confirms your fraud alert, the others
are notified to place fraud alerts on your file. Should you wish to place a
fraud alert, or should you have any questions regarding your credit report,
please contact any one of the agencies listed below:
Experian: 888-397-3742; www.experian.com; P.O. Box 9532, Allen, TX 75013
Equifax: 800-525-6285; www.equifax.com; P.O. Box 740241, Atlanta, GA 30374-0241
TransUnion: 800-680-7289; www.transunion.com; Fraud Victim Assistance Division,
P.O. Box 6790, Fullerton, CA 92834-6790
- You may wish to visit the website of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission at
www.consumer.gov/idtheft or reach the FTC at 1-877-382-4357 or 600 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20580 for further information about how to protect
yourself from identity theft. Your state Attorney General may also have advice
on preventing identity theft, and you should report instances of known or
suspected identity theft to law enforcement, your State Attorney General,
and the FTC. For North Carolina residents, the Attorney General can be
contacted at 9001 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-9001; telephone
(877) 566-7226; or www.ncdoj.gov. For Maryland residents, the Attorney
General can be contacted at 200 St. Paul Place, 16th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202;
telephone: (888) 743-0023; or www.oag.state.md.us.
We thank you for your patience as we complete our investigation of this
incident, and we regret any inconvenience. Our teams are working around the
clock on this, and services will be restored as soon as possible. Sony takes
information protection very seriously and will continue to work to ensure that
additional measures are taken to protect personally identifiable information.
Providing quality and secure entertainment services to our customers is
our utmost priority. Please contact us at 1-800-345-7669 should you have any
additional questions.
Sincerely,
Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment
I created Windows Key Blocker years ago. The purpose was to block the Windows key on your keyboard from being used. When I played Counter-Strike, I’d accidentally hit the Window key on my keyboard and it would drop me to Windows and out of my game. It was very frustrating. Since I no longer game, I was wondering if anyone still uses this. The files are hosted on my other web site.
Download Windows Key Blocker
It was written in VB6 forever ago. I am not sure you will need to download the runtimes but here is the link if you do.
Here are my predictions on the iPhone 5.
1 – It will be called iPhone 4g not the iPhone 5.
2 – It will have 4g coverage.
3 – You will be able to Facetime over 4g networks and not have to be on WiFi.
4 – Antennagate will be fixed (this is a no brainer)
5 – It will have an all aluminum option.
6 – Wireless syncing, maybe even through the cloud.
7 – There will be bigger storage options.
8 – I think it will be carrier specific. I don’t believe that one phone will be capable of being on both networks.
9 – It will have a 7+ megapixel camera.
10 – It will break records by selling more phones in pre-order/first day/first weekend.
I have been on Facebook for a long time. Almost since the beginning I have not had Facebook send me email alerts on anything such as status updates, friend requests, etc. Yesterday at about 3pm my time, I started receiving emails about status updates, comments and just about all other activity. I checked my profile and sure enough all those boxes I had unchecked years ago were checked. I have unchecked them again and so far so good. A number of my friends are reporting the same thing. There must be a glitch in the Facebook Matrix.
I got our small NetRender Farm up and running today. We have not benchmarked it yet but I am hopeful that it will meet our needs. We setup six Cisco UCS C200 M2 servers. The servers have dual quad core procs (Intel E5620 Xeon processor), 8GB’s of RAM and a 500MB of storage each. This gives us 8 cores per server, 48 cores total and 96 threads with hyper-threading capability. The proc’s and RAM scored a 7.7 in Windows 7. These servers were loaded with Windows 7 x64, anti virus and the NetRender software. We should have some benchmarking results in a week or so.
On a personal note, I have never setup a Render Farm before. This was a fun project.
I had a task to give a sum of our atempo mount points. Our mount points are named /mnt/atempo01, /mnt/atempo02, etc. This bash script will give you the free space in TB of those mount points. I set this up as a cron job to run once a day.
#!/bin/bash
# email subject
SUBJECT="Server Space Disk Usage"
# Email To ?
EMAIL="user1@domain.com,user2@domain.com"
# Email text/message
EMAILMESSAGE="/tmp/disksizemsg.txt"
df | awk '/mnt/atempo {sum+=$4}END{print sum/1073741824}' > $EMAILMESSAGE
echo 'TBs of free space available' >> $EMAILMESSAGE
# send an email using /bin/mail
/bin/mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$EMAIL" < $EMAILMESSAGE
If your users are getting the error below for PowerPoint 2003, then chances are that the security patch KB2464588 (MS11-022) has been applied. We have several users who are having problems with their slides. Once we remove the update they are fine.
“PowerPoint was unable to display some of the test images or objects on slides in the file because they have become corrupted. Affected slides have been replaced by blank slides in the presentation and it is not possible to recover the lost information. To ensure that the file can be opened in previous versions of PowerPoint, use the save as command (file menu) and save the file with either the same or a new name.”
