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Shuttle XPC Glamor replacement power supply
- Tuesday, June 28 2011 @ 11:35 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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The original 300 Watt PC61 power supply was labeled with the following information:
Shuttle P/N: PPR-PC6100-L000
PC6100L-######### REV.01
MODEL NO: PC61I0002
This is a photo of the dead power supply:
I did my best to locate a cheap replacement, possibly a generic component. I was not able to locate one on the web that I was confident would work with this small case. I found the official Shuttle replacement parts listed in a PDF at the Shuttle web site. Even after I located the part I wanted, there were not many vendors who had the part in stock.
Here is a photo of the official Shuttle PSU replacement part:
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Hacker Run Swag
- Wednesday, June 15 2011 @ 11:13 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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From the Hacker Run wiki:
"Together we can push each other to compete, improve fitness, to lose weight, and relieve the stress of hacker life. So shut down your Wikileaks DDOS, put on a black running shirt and join us for the first annual HackerRun."
The swag trickled in slowly over the past two months, but I'm glad I took the time to register (and to run!).
I received this cool swag which included a really nice tech t-shirt:

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LSI MegaRAID - megacli
- Monday, December 06 2010 @ 02:21 AM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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I recently gained my first experience with the infamous MegaCli command line configuration utility for LSI-based RAID controllers. This utility apparently also works on re-branded LSI cards from Dell (certain PERC cards) and other vendors. Our New servers from iXsystems included LSI 9260 MegaRAID adapters. These servers run FreeBSD and LSI makes a binary available for this operating system. I later noticed that megacli is also in the FreeBSD ports tree, appears to be the same version as what I downloaded from LSI, but I did not test it. The megacli utility is also available in standard repos for many Linux distributions.
I wanted to verify that the RAID controller would start an automatic rebuild. I popped out one of the drives and the very loud alarm started screaming. I waited a little bit and put the drive back in. The alarm continued and the array did not start rebuilding. It turns out that the controller has some self-defense against someone mistakenly re-inserting a bad drive so it won't start an automatic rebuild on a drive that was just disconnected and reconnected. Drives that were previously in an array are marked as "Foreign" if they are reinserted. Replacing a drive with a true spare drive off the shelf triggers an auto-rebuild just fine (unless the adapter's auto-rebuild property has been altered).
I have noticed that the binary I downloaded from the LSI web site is mixed case, whereas the version included in many distrubutions / built from source tends to use all lower-case (megacli). Be aware of this if you copy/paste commands from below.
So back to the screaming alarm...
Here is the magic command to silence the alarm:
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Why I switched to the Google Chrome web browser
- Thursday, June 10 2010 @ 11:03 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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I tried Google Chrome and it does not have this issue. On my slower computers I now use Chrome to help keep my web browsing a pleasant experience.
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Proprietary Software
- Monday, May 17 2010 @ 04:05 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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Over the weekend I found some images that are fitting for such occasions...
(Proprietary Software Toilet Paper)

(Proprietary Software in Quarantine)

NOTE: Images originally found at http://www.openstickers.com/ with the following license:
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or different versions of the book and inside images.
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