I’ve always liked Billion ADSL routers, this was my third or fourth over the years. One is still being used by my in-laws. This one I used for a while and then tried to upgrade the firmware. Unfortunately, it failed during the update and this stopped it working properly.
I bought a Belkin and to say I’m disappointed is an understatement. It’s ok as a ADSL modem, but as a router it’s limited.
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I needed to find the sunset time, so I can turn on my path lights for a couple of hours each night. The BOM usually display the sunrise and sunset times when they provide the weather forecast. Having looked at the site I found that it provides a tool, via Geoscience Australia, to find out the sunset and sunrise times each day or for a whole year.
As I needed the sunset time I came up with a command to retrieve it [bash]LATHEMI=south #Latitude Hemisphere LONGHEMI=east #Longitude hemisphere LOCATION=SOMEWHERE #Your location LATDEG=0 #Latitude degrees LATMIN=0 #Latitude minutes LATSEC=0 # Latitude seconds LONGDEG=0 # Longitude degrees LONGMIN=0 # Longitude minutes LONGSEC=0 # Longitude seconds STATE=“NT%20-%20Darwin%20(most%20location)” #Australian state DST=No #Daylight Savings Time (Yes|No) TZ=10 #Timezone UTCOFF=10 #Offset from UTC ATZ="(EST) #Eastern Standard Time LT=“00:00:00 PM” #Time making the call AUSTZONE="+10" EVENT=1 TIMEZONE="+10" DATE=date +"%d/%m/%Y"
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At work we use CentOS and RedHat, therefore we work with and produce RPMs. I wanted my MacBook Air to be able to build RPMs and also act as a build server for when I need to build servers at a new location.
I had previously installed Ubuntu and Cornice without too many issues. This post gave me hope that the install would go well.
I firstly created a USB stick to perform the install.
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We have been having some issues with some Dell servers and we were asked to provide a dset output for one of them. Of course the new version 3.2 does not run directly under CentOS 6.2, however as RHEL is supported then it should work. This is the steps I took to get it to work:-
1. wget [ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/FOLDER00481758M/1/dell-dset-3.2.0.141_x64_A01.bin](ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/FOLDER00481758M/1/dell-dset-3.2.0.141_x64_A01.bin) 2. mkdir dell #used to keep the extracted contents 3. This binary does a lot of checking to see that it is to be run on a supported system, unfortunately CentOS is not one of them.
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My friend over at openfusion has a number of tips on Brackup. One he has not covered though is the ability of Brackup to restore from a backup that has moved location or changed transport. Recently we have been migrating our backups from one set of storage to a bigger volume. In the process we changed how the backups were stored from FTP to SFTP.
So the original backup was saved using the credentials for the FTP service which now did not exist.
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