Archive for February 2005

Serial Console Goodness

If you’re tired of messing around with KVM switches, monitors and keyboards, or need remote console access to your server, a serial console may be just what you need! It’s far easier than you think, and it’s convienent, especialy if you have a laptop or a really long serial cable to your desktop. Please note […]

Dell Servers and the Real Time Clock

It seems that Debian gets angry with Dell server hardware. I’ve heard this isn’t a problem on 2.6.10, but cross compiling for 64-bit in a 32-bit userland is annoying, so using Debian’s precompiled em64t-p4-smp kernel is less of a headache. The problem is that when the system boots, it hangs on the setting real time […]