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A little perl utility to help you find failing memory in HP servers.. This utility parses hpdiags output to report the value of the ECC memory error counters in the spd registers since the last boot. This utility will report errors even when memory prefailure notification (which would otherwise log these errors to the IML) [...]

While there are tons of things I love about my jailbroken iPhone 3G (OpenSSH, VNC, Google Voice), I have a few favorite apps. As I’m cheap, all of these are free, save for my #1, which was well worth the $0.99: 5. Five Icon Dock lets you add an extra icon. Yeah, it seems trivial [...]

After all the stress I’ve had the last two months, I will be thrilled to close on our new home in ten days. As if loan issues weren’t enough, Thursday was my first 13 hour day at work, debugging a sporadic e-mail receipt problem which turned out to be a problem with Cisco’s latest PIX [...]

One of the really annoying things about starting a new job is learning a completely new infrastructure. Oh it’s not figuring out what 900 Linux hosts do, learning to debug SAN issues, or comprehending the multiple financial businesses my new company is involved in that’s the challenge. The challenge is figuring out how to conveniently [...]

Trying to figure out what to buy your geek for the holidays? Look no further: USB Bear USB “Thumb” Drive USB Dog (video)

For the uninitiated, here’s a summary of the last 35 years of Unix development.  If you can manage to trace the history of the Linux kernel through this, I’m impressed.