Mumblings of a Crazy IT Guy

Administering Dell Remote Access Controllers with Ubuntu

"RACADM enables you to locally or remotely configure and manage your DRAC 5", according to Dell. Installing racadm in Ubuntu is very straightforward and easy. Here's how. Run [...]

Titanic II

Speaking of tragedies and the Titanic, some rich Aussie is building a replica of the Titanic. The maiden voyage is planned for 2016. I highly disapprove for many reasons, some of them ethical and [...]

Flight 447

Check out this Telegraph article detailing the crash that occurred on June 1st 2009. It's all so tragic. It really makes me think of the Titanic. All this tragedy and death, because of screens [...]

Add RDP Link To Windows Servers in V-Shell

I decided to add an action link in the host and service list views, in V-Shell. So I added this functionality in fetch_icons.php. The problem was, though, that not all hosts required the same acti [...]

Monitor Dell Servers: check_dell

I was looking for a good way to monitor our Dell servers, but I didn't want to have to go through OpenManage. I wanted to be able to connect directly to the machine, without going through an add [...]

Unix: Count Lines or Words

A neat little utility to count words or lines in a file, or from stdout: wc For example, to count how many lines (-l) the locate *.desktop command returns: locate *.desktop | wc -l Or to cou [...]

PowerShell Warning and File Unblocking

When trying to run a PowerShell script on Windows Server, I got a warning message. Security Warning Run only scripts that you trust. While scripts from the Internet can be useful, this script ca [...]

Make Outlook and Android Talk to Each Other

One of our users wanted to get his Outlook contacts on his new Samsung Galaxy Gio (GT-S5660M). One would have thought the one-time-sync process to be easy, simple, and painless, right? Wrong For [...]