Oct 29 2008

No video display in RHEL5 Linux installation on HS21 Blades

Working on IBM Blades is not very fun, things get harder day by day when you start noticing one issues after another. I spend several days just to update the firmware on all IBM HS21 blades. I remember 6-7 years ago working on IBM Blades, the administrative console now called Advanced management module for managing [...]

Oct 25 2008

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 is best laptop for students

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 which was released on September 4th, 2008 is a perfect buy for students because of several reasons. Dell Inspiron Mini 9 pricing starts from $349 for the base model that comes with 1.6-GHz Intel Atom processor, and a dell version of Ubuntu Linux .

The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 can be customized [...]

Oct 24 2008

How to fix non-working keyboard on IBM Blades

If your keyboard stopped working on IBM blades then there could be some problem with kvm card installed on the Blade.I have this situation when all of sudden keyboard control stopped working from AMM web console, I was trying to change the IBM HS21 Blade boot order and to get into boot sequence i have [...]

Oct 24 2008

Updating BMC firmware on HS21 Blade

I haven’t find automated way of updating BMC firmware on brand new IBM blades, if you are running any Microsoft operating system on blades then you use update express or Remote deployment manager(RDM) with IBM Director.

If IBM blades are brand new and you don’t have no operating system installed then to update Baseboard management controller [...]

Oct 22 2008

How i fixed Bridged networking to work in VMware workstation 6 on Windows Vista

Bridged networking doesn’t work but NAT works fine in VMware workstatrion 6 on Windows Vista ?
On my Windows Vista HP Pavilion desktop i decided to upgrade VMware workstation from version 5.5 to version 6.

I managed to get this part working but soon I noticed my guest virtual machines running RHEL5 and fedora 9 lost [...]

Oct 18 2008

How to find Dell Service Tag from command line in Linux

How I get the Dell Service Tag on Dell Servers running Linux

Dell servers support running Linux and there is cool command that you can run to find the Dell Service Tag. This is helpful if your Data center is located remotely and for placing hardware call to Dell you need to find the Dell [...]

Oct 17 2008

How to install VMware Tools in CentOS 5

VMware tools are needed on VMware virtual machines so that guest operating systems can run without any performance issues.

I have installed CentOS 5 on VMware workstation 5.5 and here is how i installed VMware Tools in CentOS 5:
1. Install CentOS 5 kernel-devel packages required for VMware Tools installation

1. First make sure you have network access [...]

Oct 16 2008

Free IBM Director 5.20 downloads location

IBM Director version 6.1 download availability was announced here few days ago, However if you are planning to use older version of IBM Director then the most stable version available to use in Production environment is Director version 5.20.

If you are planning to install IBM Director 5.20 then you should also install service update 2, [...]

Oct 15 2008

How to remove ANTIVIRUS 2009 Internet ADWARE

Here is one more success story on removing a Adware using MalwareBytes”. One of my friend called me up to ask how he can remove this adware called “Antivirus 2009 Internet adware”. He is running Windows XP with Trend Micro Internet security, he brought Trend Micro on my recommendation. Guess what since I recommended Trend [...]

Oct 13 2008

How to remove all Trojans from Windows vista

How can i remove all Trojans from Windows Vista?
MalwareBytes Anti-Malware is one of the most effective Anti Malware available in market and CNET recently ranked MalwareBytes as 2nd most Popular Spyware Removal Software for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 Server, Windows vista platforms. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware is an anti-malware application that can thoroughly remove even the most advanced malwares.

Almost [...]

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