Dominica and I were pretty sleepy this morning. I got up around nine thirty and had a pretty good lead on Dominica and Oreo who weren’t even thinking about waking up yet. I showered and dressed and went over to visit with dad for a while until Dominica was up and ready to get breakfast. …
Monthly Archives: September 2007
September 14, 2007: Driving to America’s Heartland
It’s Friday! I get to sleep in on Fridays (sleep in until seven in the morning!) I had to get up right at seven so that I could pack up the SunFire V100 and load it along with all of our luggage and my CPAP into the BMW so that Dominica and Oreo can leave …
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September 13, 2007: Another Plus for Newark (27 Mix)
I keep feeling the need to write the word canceled as “cancelled” and I keep seeing other people do it too. So I decided to do some research. It caught me by surprise because my automatic spell checked keeps telling me that it is “canceled” even though my finger instinctively spell it with the double …
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SunFire V100 PATA Hard Disks
The SUN SunFire V100 uses legacy Parallel ATA (PATA) – UltraATA 100 – hard drive controllers. A base configuration V100 has one included hard drive (generally 40GB or 80GB) with a removable “drive cage”. A second drive can be installed but will require the addition of a second drive cage. Otherwise there is no where …
Accessing the SunFire V100 LOM Serial Console
Unlike traditional “Intel” or PC based servers (HP Proliant, IBM xSeries, Dell PowerEdge, etc.) the SUN SunFire is a RISC server and does not use keyboard, mouse or monitor ports with which to interact with the server. Interactions traditionally takes place through the integrated Lights Out Management, or LOM, port which provides, in addition to …
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