Comments for Adam Sweet's Blog http://blog.adamsweet.org Occasional bursts of brilliance shot through with a cloying sense of under-achievement Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:03:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on IPMI on HP Proliant ML115 G5 by Adam http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=297&cpage=1#comment-155255 Adam Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:03:35 +0000 http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=297#comment-155255 No I didn't I'm afraid. I tried on Centos 5.x and Debian 5. I might have tried the version of Ubuntu that was current at the time too. The issue seemed to be that the IPMI card didn't present a network interface, which is counter to all of the other IPMI cards I've used, which were on Dell and Supermicro servers. As you can see in the article, I called HP and they didn't understand what I was on about. No I didn’t I’m afraid. I tried on Centos 5.x and Debian 5. I might have tried the version of Ubuntu that was current at the time too. The issue seemed to be that the IPMI card didn’t present a network interface, which is counter to all of the other IPMI cards I’ve used, which were on Dell and Supermicro servers.

As you can see in the article, I called HP and they didn’t understand what I was on about.

]]> Comment on Create Your Own Anti-Virus Signatures with ClamAV by Adam Sweet http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=250&cpage=1#comment-155251 Adam Sweet Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:49:50 +0000 http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=250#comment-155251 Nice one :) You act like I owe you something because you run Windows and have 3 viruses? This article is for people who run Linux servers. In any case I offer you some options: 1) Figure it out yourself based on the information above. That's what I'd have to do, I'm not here to spoon feed you. I run Linux. This article is for people who run Linux. 2) Take a backup of your important files and re-install your machine. That's what people who have viruses they can't get rid of on Windows have to do. 3) Run an operating system that is immune to Windows viruses. Maybe Linux, maybe something else, then the viruses you have a problem with won't affect your machine and you can use my instructions above. 4) Install Linux on another hard disk in the same computer, install clamav on your Linux disk, create signatures for the viruses you have and then tell clamav to scan your Windows disk. Clamav won't remove the files for you, it will just tell you what they are, you can remove them manually. 5) Boot from a Linux live CD and manually remove the problem files from your Windows disk. I'm slightly concerned by the fact you think you have viruses but not one of 16 AV engines can remove them. What told you you have viruses in the first place and how much do you trust it? While I don't believe AV companies are perfect, I've only encountered 1 piece of malware I couldn't remove in 10 years of IT and that was 6 years ago. Then again, I don't run Windows so my exposure is limited, but I'd be wary of removing files that no AV engine can remove on the basis that maybe whatever told you you have viruses is either wrong or itself untrustworty. Try uploading your malware files to: http://virscan.org/ They scan files with 35 AV engines to tell you whether your files are malware or not. If none of the suggestions above are suitable for you, then you either don't have the technical understanding to solve your problem in a way I can relate to or you're just plain doing it wrong. Nice one :)

You act like I owe you something because you run Windows and have 3 viruses? This article is for people who run Linux servers. In any case I offer you some options:

1) Figure it out yourself based on the information above. That’s what I’d have to do, I’m not here to spoon feed you. I run Linux. This article is for people who run Linux.

2) Take a backup of your important files and re-install your machine. That’s what people who have viruses they can’t get rid of on Windows have to do.

3) Run an operating system that is immune to Windows viruses. Maybe Linux, maybe something else, then the viruses you have a problem with won’t affect your machine and you can use my instructions above.

4) Install Linux on another hard disk in the same computer, install clamav on your Linux disk, create signatures for the viruses you have and then tell clamav to scan your Windows disk. Clamav won’t remove the files for you, it will just tell you what they are, you can remove them manually.

5) Boot from a Linux live CD and manually remove the problem files from your Windows disk.

I’m slightly concerned by the fact you think you have viruses but not one of 16 AV engines can remove them. What told you you have viruses in the first place and how much do you trust it? While I don’t believe AV companies are perfect, I’ve only encountered 1 piece of malware I couldn’t remove in 10 years of IT and that was 6 years ago. Then again, I don’t run Windows so my exposure is limited, but I’d be wary of removing files that no AV engine can remove on the basis that maybe whatever told you you have viruses is either wrong or itself untrustworty.

Try uploading your malware files to:

http://virscan.org/

They scan files with 35 AV engines to tell you whether your files are malware or not.

If none of the suggestions above are suitable for you, then you either don’t have the technical understanding to solve your problem in a way I can relate to or you’re just plain doing it wrong.

]]> Comment on Create Your Own Anti-Virus Signatures with ClamAV by Puneet Dikshit http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=250&cpage=1#comment-155249 Puneet Dikshit Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:25:16 +0000 http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=250#comment-155249 hi, adam nice info but it is not sufficient for more than 90 percent people becaue they use windows not linux so kindly tell in details or in easy language so everyone contribute there effert on making a number one antivirus ""Clamwin"". hoping that you can understand i have 3 virus in my P.C i know it but i am unable to delete tham or remove them i have tried more than 16 antivirus but nothing heppens, so kindly send me detail information on that means signature files. hi, adam nice info but it is not sufficient for more than 90 percent people becaue they use windows not linux so kindly tell in details or in easy language so everyone contribute there effert on making a number one antivirus “”Clamwin”".
hoping that you can understand i have 3 virus in my P.C i know it but i am unable to delete tham or remove them i have tried more than 16 antivirus but nothing heppens, so kindly send me detail information on that means signature files.

]]> Comment on IPMI on HP Proliant ML115 G5 by Stuart http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=297&cpage=1#comment-155053 Stuart Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:53:50 +0000 http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=297#comment-155053 Did you ever get this working without the 100c ILO Card. I really want to leverage this within vmware, but don't want to spend over 300 notes to purchase 2 if i can achieve remote power on/off remotely without it Did you ever get this working without the 100c ILO Card. I really want to leverage this within vmware, but don’t want to spend over 300 notes to purchase 2 if i can achieve remote power on/off remotely without it

]]> Comment on Get Simon Burke Home by Michelle in USA http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=277&cpage=1#comment-154664 Michelle in USA Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:35:07 +0000 http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=277#comment-154664 Simon, you have been home eight months and I just learned of your story. I wish you love, Sir. May you have Love and Peace and Joy. I am so glad you are home. "Welcome Home." Simon, you have been home eight months and I just learned of your story. I wish you love, Sir. May you have Love and Peace and Joy. I am so glad you are home. “Welcome Home.”

]]> Comment on Fucking robbing bastards! by Dangerous http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-154619 Dangerous Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:32:59 +0000 /?p=3#comment-154619 Hi, Like most of you I bought a Time craptop. Junked the recovery CD and installed XP pro with drivers from the driver CD for the 8375. That was about 2004. However it came with a pre SP1 recovery disc so it ended up with XP pro and worked well. Recently I found a new BIOS on the Mitac site. I downloaded this and the flashit.exe. I extracted the files to a floppy disk on another PC I have a Sony USB external floppy drive. Using the floppy made above I booted to A drive and used flashit.exe to save the old bios first (as whatever filename you want) then flashed the new bios. The instructions are all there at Mitac. Time were a bunch of moneygrabbers that much is true. I had to figure a way to stop their nag screen at every start to join their ISP, as they wanted to charge ne £1 per minute for technical support to remove it since it was not a warranty issue. A little registry editing took care of that! Fortunately I had declined their warranty at some horrendous yearly cost as they went busta couple of months later. Other than that it has been OK, just a bit slow by today's standards, but a modern (g) rated wireless card has helped relaible Wi|Fi as the orignal (b) card was never very goosd at connecting. Hi, Like most of you I bought a Time craptop. Junked the recovery CD and installed XP pro with drivers from the driver CD for the 8375. That was about 2004.

However it came with a pre SP1 recovery disc so it ended up with XP pro and worked well.

Recently I found a new BIOS on the Mitac site. I downloaded this and the flashit.exe. I extracted the files to a floppy disk on another PC

I have a Sony USB external floppy drive. Using the floppy made above I booted to A drive and used flashit.exe to save the old bios first (as whatever filename you want) then flashed the new bios. The instructions are all there at Mitac.

Time were a bunch of moneygrabbers that much is true.

I had to figure a way to stop their nag screen at every start to join their ISP, as they wanted to charge ne £1 per minute for technical support to remove it since it was not a warranty issue. A little registry editing took care of that!

Fortunately I had declined their warranty at some horrendous yearly cost as they went busta couple of months later.

Other than that it has been OK, just a bit slow by today’s standards, but a modern (g) rated wireless card has helped relaible Wi|Fi as the orignal (b) card was never very goosd at connecting.

]]> Comment on Dealing With BT by Adam Sweet http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=376&cpage=1#comment-154357 Adam Sweet Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:15:59 +0000 http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=376#comment-154357 Quote from the article: "Since I live just outside the cable area, literally by about a mile or 2, cable is no option for me" I would have gone to cable 3 years ago but there is no cable in my area :( Quote from the article:

“Since I live just outside the cable area, literally by about a mile or 2, cable is no option for me”

I would have gone to cable 3 years ago but there is no cable in my area :(

]]> Comment on Dealing With BT by fred http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=376&cpage=1#comment-154348 fred Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:45:07 +0000 http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=376#comment-154348 I had no end of problems with BT regarding speed and thier innability to fix what was a faulty line as it would mean ripping up roads. In the end I jumped ship to VirginMedia for both phone and internet and all is now very rosey. The cost is virtually the same and I actually get 20mbps that I pay for (I average 2.4megabytes a second!) rather than the 2.5mbps that I got on my 'up to 20' setup from BT. As for the usage allowances they are very reasonable and don't exist at all on the 50mbps package (costs a lot more though of course). The best thing is there is no messing around with filters etc because the phone and internet etc break into seperate feed cables outside the house and so can be routed anywhere. Lastly as the system is fibre-optic the the street junction box it doesn't suffer from all the syncronisation and 'oops lets slow down your connection as it looks like you had some transmission problems' nonsense that you get with ADSL. I used to have my BT speed get to about 4mbps and then something would happen with the line and it would instantly drop to 2.5mbps and take 2 months to get back to 4mbps again. I dreaded if I needed to do any electrical DIY as it would mean turning my modem off which again knocked the speed back down again. Go cable man it's the only way! I had no end of problems with BT regarding speed and thier innability to fix what was a faulty line as it would mean ripping up roads.

In the end I jumped ship to VirginMedia for both phone and internet and all is now very rosey.

The cost is virtually the same and I actually get 20mbps that I pay for (I average 2.4megabytes a second!) rather than the 2.5mbps that I got on my ‘up to 20′ setup from BT.

As for the usage allowances they are very reasonable and don’t exist at all on the 50mbps package (costs a lot more though of course).

The best thing is there is no messing around with filters etc because the phone and internet etc break into seperate feed cables outside the house and so can be routed anywhere.

Lastly as the system is fibre-optic the the street junction box it doesn’t suffer from all the syncronisation and ‘oops lets slow down your connection as it looks like you had some transmission problems’ nonsense that you get with ADSL.

I used to have my BT speed get to about 4mbps and then something would happen with the line and it would instantly drop to 2.5mbps and take 2 months to get back to 4mbps again. I dreaded if I needed to do any electrical DIY as it would mean turning my modem off which again knocked the speed back down again.

Go cable man it’s the only way!

]]> Comment on Portable Ogg Player Required by Félim Whiteley http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=433&cpage=1#comment-153906 Félim Whiteley Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:11:13 +0000 http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=433#comment-153906 Ah man FFS you are killing me here! I'd meant to blog about the fact I dropped mine, or mashed it against my keys in my pocket and broke the media button... essentially turning it into an iPod shuffle-esque farce being unable to browse, only skip. Sent it off to Advanced MP3 players, they even gave me a French address to send it too and 2 weeks later had it all fixed.... I can picture big ass drill-bit chewing the poor thing to bits :'( Whhhyyyyy Ah man FFS you are killing me here! I’d meant to blog about the fact I dropped mine, or mashed it against my keys in my pocket and broke the media button… essentially turning it into an iPod shuffle-esque farce being unable to browse, only skip. Sent it off to Advanced MP3 players, they even gave me a French address to send it too and 2 weeks later had it all fixed…. I can picture big ass drill-bit chewing the poor thing to bits :’( Whhhyyyyy

]]> Comment on Portable Ogg Player Required by gnudoc http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=433&cpage=1#comment-153896 gnudoc Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:03:40 +0000 http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=433#comment-153896 I loved my iaudio 7 until someone broke the charging port on it. Replaced it with the S9 which i never really liked it. I played with a D2 for a few days, but wasnt that impressed. Im planning on getting the i9 as well. good luck. I loved my iaudio 7 until someone broke the charging port on it. Replaced it with the S9 which i never really liked it. I played with a D2 for a few days, but wasnt that impressed. Im planning on getting the i9 as well.

good luck.

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