Burning Lithium Ion BatteriesBurning Lithium Ion Batteries
I had an old Nexus 4 phone that was expanding and decided to test some of the theories about battery combustion. The first claim that often gets made is that[...]
Dell BIOS UpdatesDell BIOS Updates
I have just updated the BIOS on a Dell PowerEdge T110 II. The process isn’t too difficult, Google for the machine name and BIOS, download a shell script encoded firmware[...]
More About the PowerEdge R710More About the PowerEdge R710
I’ve got the R710 (mentioned in my previous post [1]) online. When testing the R710 at home I noticed that sometimes the VGA monitor I was using would start flickering[...]
Setting Up a Dell R710 Server with DRAC6Setting Up a Dell R710 Server with DRAC6
I’ve just got a Dell R710 server for LUV and I’ve been playing with the configuration options. Here’s a list of what I’ve done and recommendations on how to do[...]
BBB vs JitsiBBB vs Jitsi
I previously wrote about how I installed the Jitsi video-conferencing system on Debian [1]. We used that for a few unofficial meetings of LUV to test it out. Then we[...]
Jitsi on DebianJitsi on Debian
I’ve just setup an instance of the Jitsi video-conference software for my local LUG. Here is an overview of how to set it up on Debian. Firstly create a new[...]
Links July 2020Links July 2020
iMore has an insightful article about Apple’s transition to the ARM instruction set for new Mac desktops and laptops [1]. I’d still like to see them do something for the[...]
Windows 10 on Debian under KVMWindows 10 on Debian under KVM
Here are some things that you need to do to get Windows 10 running on a Debian host under KVM. UEFI Booting UEFI is big and complex, but most of[...]
Debian PPC64EL EmulationDebian PPC64EL Emulation
In my post on Debian S390X Emulation [1] I mentioned having problems booting a Debian PPC64EL kernel under QEMU. Giovanni commented that they had PPC64EL working and gave a link[...]
Debian S390X EmulationDebian S390X Emulation
I decided to setup some virtual machines for different architectures. One that I decided to try was S390X – the latest 64bit version of the IBM mainframe. Here’s how to[...]