Setting Linux System Timezone
I change the timezone on the linux systems so rarely that I almost always have to look it up. I'm writing it up here for my own personal reference. With any luck it'll also help others.
Starting Puppet Master on Fedora 19
I was trying to get puppet running out of the box on Fedora 19 and found a bug
exists in their systemd service file. After installing puppet
and
puppet-server
, whenever I tried to start the server with the following
command:
Playing With the Linux Bluetooth Stack
List all available bluetooth interfaces:
hciconfig -a
Updating BMC on Dell PowerEdge C6100
I just received my Dell PowerEdge C6100 and found it's software quite a bit outdated. After searching around quite a bit I found the resources lacking for explaining how to perform these updates. So in this post I'm going to quickly cover updating the BMC firmware on each blade.
Updating the BIOS on Dell PowerEdge C6100
The BIOS was quite a bit more complicated and there was a few options that I had available to try, all of which require either Windows or DOS environments. I don't have any legal copies of Windows to put on my server and didn't want to go through all that effort.