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dell 2135cn – 016-317 restart printer, contact support

2013-06-102013-06-10 by .pQd

i’ve bricked one of our printers. over the network upgrade of the dell 2135cn was interrupted and printer was most probably rebooted at the worst possible time – when it was flashing the new firmware. result? printer no longer responded over the network, the lcd panel displayed just: 016-317 restart printer contact support but… i’ve ... Read More

Endgame: A Future Scenario for Israel

2013-06-062014-02-17 by .pQd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHtgYCS12ZE vpro’s Endgame: A Future Scenario for Israel

[somewhat] byzantine backup setup

2013-05-042022-09-26 by .pQd

below – a description of somewhat convoluted backup system that so far have been serving me pretty well.

installation of debian wheezy on mdadm raid1 + gpt

2013-04-282018-04-11 by .pQd

in branch offices i tend to install two identical pcs running linux and working in active – hot-spare setup. things evolved over time – one location has both routers running under vmware esxi on two different hosts, another – hardware raid, other – desktop-class pcs with single hard drives. hardware raids are good as long ... Read More

“z mocy bezprawia” – sumlinski

2013-04-102013-05-05 by .pQd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbadNtNOYcQ#t=6m30s – prelekcja Wojciecha Sumlińskiego ; miedzy innymi studium niszczenia czlowieka, bagno systemu sadowniczego i nierozliczonej przeszlosci.

adventure with green drives

2013-04-052014-08-16 by .pQd

wd [and other vendors] sell green drives; they are reasonably cheap but have annoying tendency to spin down very very quickly. i bought recently 2x WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0 with intention of using them [in very unprofessional fashion] in PERC6 RAID1 array.

the putin system

2013-03-302013-03-30 by .pQd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zu_h1w_vWI – cbc’s “the putin system”

2013-03-302013-05-02 by .pQd

The Smell of Paradise

2013-03-092013-03-09 by .pQd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqF_STyHXc / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYP7D3p44Ak – another documentary by Mariusz Pilis about Jihad

updating bios / firmware with help of linux, without cds and usb pendrives

2013-03-072013-03-07 by .pQd

from time to time i have to upgrade different types of firmwares in PCs – sometimes it’s bioses, sometimes raid/network/ssd firmware. until now i was either burning cd-rw with iso provided by the vendor or making some bootable usb pen-drive with free-dos or sth similar. but i stumbled on this one and it worked surprisingly ... Read More

Attack of the Drones – USA

2013-02-232014-01-09 by .pQd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msHJLwYWX30 – Attack of the Drones: Is war becoming a video game Obama’s Rules For Assassinating American Citizens number of killed by dronesa in Pakistan [hm… arent Pakis ‘the good guys’?]

vpro – the food speculator

2013-02-172013-02-22 by .pQd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGBM4WngZT4 – commodities / futures markets; seen from all the three ends – speculators, produces and consumers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq1Ln1UCoEU – vpro – Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box

hk/mc/sg/vn

2013-02-092024-11-03 by .pQd

i got another chance to visit Asia. instead of suffering cold, dark and cold January in Sweden i’ve spent 3 weeks in mild Hong Kong & Macau, tropically hot Singapore and pleasantly warm Vietnam.

[pl] Leszek Żebrowski o “Mitach przeciwko Polsce”

2013-02-092013-02-09 by .pQd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojutUc-GSCw

TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard

2013-02-092013-02-09 by .pQd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOKXCEwo_8 – documentary about tpb /. discussion

29c3

2013-01-012014-01-10 by .pQd

talks that were most interesting for me: political: not my department russia’s surveillance state enemies of the state technical hacking cisco phones milking the digital cash cow – [in]security of the contact-less cards Many Tamagotchis Were Harmed in the Making of this Presentation – you know all those cool kids going out going to clubs, ... Read More