Many moons ago I bought a MK809 II Android TV stick. This is a popular RK3066 device that one can flash G8’s Picuntu image, and run Ubuntu server on it. It was bleeding edge stuff where you could install an armhf version of Ubuntu 12.04 onto the stick. It makes an ideal “stick server” […]
HP ProLiant DL380 G7 and Windows Server ...
A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be on site to play with a HP ProLiant DL380 G7 rack server. The server was souped up with 2 x Xeon processors (giving total of 16 cores!) 64GB ECC RAM 8 x 142GB SAS Hard disk, running Raid 50 4 x 1Gb NIC iLO3 remote control The reason […]
Sage Line 50 ODBC driver – Manual instal
NOTE [26 OCT 2010]: The following article will teach you how to extract a Sage ODBC driver from a PC with Sage installed, and then install the extracted driver onto another PC without using the installation CD. For Windows 7 users: I have been receiving many hits on this article from people searching for “Windows […]
Upgrading Ubuntu on your Dell Mini 9
Apart from a few user commands that I know to get by in unix (e.g. ls, mv, cp, top, etc), I am a bit of a noob when it comes to Linux. I bought a Dell Mini 9 a year ago, and I hardly used it because of its cough cripped version of Ubuntu 8.04. I […]