Behind The Driver

April 17, 2012

Removing modern Dell servers from rackmount

Filed under: Uncategorized — Chris Hamilton @ 4:55 pm

Step 1: Remove all cables from the rear of server. Undo all velcro straps holding cables to the cable management apparatus.

Step 2: Lift up tabs on left and right sides and unscrew phillips head screw.

Step 3: Lift up both tabs at the same time and slide server out gently until it stops.

Step 4: Push up on both smaller internal levers in order to allow the server rails to fully extend. Gently slide the server the rest of the way out.

Step 5: Evenly lift the server up and out of the rails.

Step 6: Remove rails from server rack by pulling on small blue tabs.

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March 28, 2012

GGR AutoX #1 Preliminary Results Un-Zipped

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: AutoX, Porsche, rain, results — Chris Hamilton @ 8:59 pm

Un-Zipped and re-posted from bbs.pca-ggr.org.

2012-GGRAX01_Pax_unofficial

2012-GGRAX01_Class_unofficial

2012-GGRAX01_Time_unofficial

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March 27, 2012

Insomniac Dell Mini 9

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: debian, dell, gdm3, gnome3, linux, mini9 — Chris Hamilton @ 7:39 am

Recently noticed that closing the lid on my Dell Mini 9 running Debian Wheezy and Gnome3 wasn’t making it sleep.

First step in debugging the sleep problem was using the pm-utils command ‘pm-suspend’. This worked right away ( as root ).

After waking the machine up I checked the settings in ‘gnome-tweak-tool’ ( ‘sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool’, it doesn’t come with gnome by default ). Settings were correct.

Finally after a lot of looking through log files and other debugging I realized my problem. On my desktop machines at work I prefer to use the console login and then manually start X11 with the ‘startx’ command. So I go into /etc/rc2.d/ ( or whatever runlevel I’m using, 2 is the default ) and I move S01gdm3 to K01gdm3 to prevent it from running automatically at boot. This was preventing gnome-power-manager from being able to call pm-suspend ( for some reason, still need to research it a bit further ). Changing back to using GDM3 at boot instead of the console login fixed the sleep problem.

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December 7, 2011

Podcasts December 2011

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: nerdist, podcast, smodcast, the verge — Chris Hamilton @ 7:07 am

I’ve been listening to and enjoying a few podcasts lately.

Here is a short list of podcasts I like to listen to this month:

-The Nerdist ( http://www.nerdist.com/ ) in which Chris Hardwick and his buddies interview famous people, and just generally geek out. Live sometimes.

-Smodcast ( http://smodcast.com/ ) in which Kevin Smith and his buddies get incredibly high and talk about nothing in particular.

-On The Verge ( http://www.theverge.com/ ) in which tech journalist Joshua Topolsky and his buddies talk about tech for about a minute and then derail the podcast into madness.

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November 22, 2011

Alameda Autocross 11-19-11 – Dummkopf Award

Filed under: Uncategorized — Chris Hamilton @ 8:46 pm

Had a great autocross on Satuday, and got to see the presentation of our most coveted award, the Dummkopf.

The video shows it all:

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November 13, 2011

Agent 18 Clearshield for AT&T iPhone 4 on iPhone 4S

Filed under: Gadgets — Tags: Agent18, Gadgets, iPhone 4S — Chris Hamilton @ 6:48 am

Just got an iPhone 4S the other day, wanted the Agent 18 Clearshield ( in clear, not pink! ). Sadly the clear one wasn’t available for the iPhone 4S.

White iPhone 4S Agent18 Clearshield Side

My white iPhone 4S with Agent18 Clearshield

Quick primer: The iPhone 4, 4 for Verizon, and 4S are all separate models. The iPhone 4S is the same for all 3 major US carriers ( AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint ). The only major differences are the AT&T iPhone 4 and the 4S have a SIM slot, and the iPhone 4 for Verizon and iPhone 4S for all carriers have the mute switch moved down slightly.

Note how the 4S hold switch is moved down.

I ended up buying the Agent 18 Clearshield for AT&T iPhone 4 even though I knew the mute switch would be placed slightly wrong.

Very satisfied with this case. If the mute switch placement is a problem for you I suggest CDMA iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S users wait for Agent18 to release the Clearshield in clear for the new devices.