Florian is working on a XEN setup for our new web hosting machine. It’s a Dell PowerEdge 1850 machine with enough RAM for the four instances…more on that when it’s running productive…

Source: http://www.xensource.com
Florian is working on a XEN setup for our new web hosting machine. It’s a Dell PowerEdge 1850 machine with enough RAM for the four instances…more on that when it’s running productive…
Source: http://www.xensource.com
Well… first there was a 1.3 TByte RAID5 volume that showed several defect sectors…and then it disappeared completely.
Now what? – We changed the internal cabling of the host system … nothing changed. The SCSI Interface Card does see an Easyraid X8P device but no volume shows up in the Disk Management.
Fortunatly I made a copy of all the data to our – now working – Promise VTrak m500i…
28x 146 GB hardrives (Seagate Cheetah ST3146807FC and Hitachi Ultrastar HUS103014FLF210)…I am waiting for my now.netapp.com login to be activated at the moment – so I could not do any tests. NetApp decided to not deliver any CD or manual inside the two packages…weird.
The hardware itself looks very very promising (got the joke?)… it’s all redundant and quite heavy. You can clearly see that it’s far more pricy than the cheap promise/easyraid hardware.
on top the FS270 and below it the DS14MK2. All equiped with 10k UPM SCSI drives.
As soon as I got all my logins I will post several tests and information about the two devices. So be sure to check back often to technology-ninja.com
I wrote about the ImagineCup 2006 some days ago – and this time the news is that the registration opened it’s doors.
Source: ImagineCup 2006 Registration
You can have a lot of fun building cool things when you’re student… and in that particular case they built a dart game that is really cool ;)
The dish follows the dart…
If you didn’t attend this this years PDC05 you can watch and listen to nearly all tracks from this professional developer conference for free:
Anybody want to make some comments about the myth that Microsoft does not talk about it’s technologies in-depth?
Update: Be aware of the fact that if you want to download ALL of the material(like I am doing at the moment) it’s about 24 gigabytes…
Source: http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC05/
Since the JASJAR / MDA pro has a gorgeous 640×480 display there are some tools – originally designed for Windows Mobile 2003 SE to allow you to use the high dpi display with all it’s capabilities.
The normal case is that Windows Mobile scales everything up when it detects a higher resolution than 320×240 (QVGA). Since that means that all text on the screen looks really good but takes the same space like it would on a QVGA.
And there comes ozVGA. It’s a small tool that helps you to configure the systems dpi settings to better match the display. That does not necessarily lead to a better readable display but you’ll have much more space on the display since it’s used in it’s “unfiltered unoptimized raw dpi”-beauty.
There are some bugs to this moment: the status bar at the top is not displayed correctly. Some of the applications cannot cope the high dpi (such as the calendar…) – But I hope that future updates of ozVGA will solve that.
Source: http://oz.sciox.org/
After several weeks of waiting today the JASJAR / MDA pro arrived together with the T-Mobile UMTS contract + USIM.
As you can imagine the unpackaging was quite an event (I am not posting the pictures that show me retardedly smiling)
Since ahzfs JASJAR also arrived today and the third one is on it’s way and expected to arrive on monady we now can just start over developing the applications for our research project.
“VirtualWiFi is a virtualization architecture for wireless LAN (WLAN) cards. It abstracts a single WLAN card to appear as multiple virtual WLAN cards to the user. The user can then configure each virtual card to connect to a different wireless network. Therefore, VirtualWiFi allows a user to simultaneously connect his machine to multiple wireless networks using just one WLAN card. This new functionality introduced by VirtualWiFi enables many new applications, which were not possible earlier using a single WLAN card. For example,
Source: http://research.microsoft.com/netres/projects/virtualwifi/
What are your plans for 4./5. November? Nothing? Perfect. You gotta listen to some talks at the FH Deggendorf.
Source: http://dotnet-deggendorf.sefnet.de/
So I was asked why I would accept another test, after all the unsuccessful tests and support calls. The point is that I wanted to give Promise a second chance because they contacted us on their own talking about concerns they have that we do have some problems with their Promise VTrak m500i.
After all we got our hands on a disclaimer-less firmware update which solved at least our 3 Terabyte problem: We could not create a 3 Terabyte RAID volume. It just did not sync. 2 Terabyte was the maximum volume size.
This bug is fixed. The other ones not. Like the complete crash of the m500i when you try to enable DHCP on the management network interface…
Promise M-Class | Logical Drive 0 Info and SettingsLdId : 0 ArrayId : 0
OperationalStatus : OK NumOfUsedPD : 14
NumOfAxles : 1 RAID Level : RAID5
Stripe : 64KB Sector : 512Bytes
Capacity : 2.94TB PhysicalCapacity : 3.17TB
SYNCed : Yes WWN : 22a6-0001-5501-c7bf
SerialNo : 114163942163624924927000000000000Alias : raid_3TB
ReadPolicy : ReadAhead
WritePolicy : WriteBack
Hurray! 2.94 Terabyte!!
Promise M-Class | Controller 1 Basic InformationAlias :
Vendor : VTRAK-MB
Model : VTRAK
OperationalStatus : OK
PowerOnTime : 3 hoursCacheUsagePercent : 0% DirtyCachePercent : 0%
CmdProtocol : SCSI-2 WWN : 2000-0001-5500-2027
PartNumber : P29000020000036 S/N : M06G05715100016
Revision : 3 ManufactureDate : Jul 23, 2005
BootLoaderVersion : 1.05.0000.00 BootLoaderBldDate : Jun 17, 2005
FirmwareVersion : 2.00.0000.00 FirmwareBuildDate : Oct 3, 2005
SoftwareVersion : 2.00.0000.00 SoftwareBuildDate : Oct 3, 2005
H2bench — by Harald Bögeholz & Lars Bremer / c’t Magazin für Computertechnik
Version 3.6/Win32, Copyright (C) 2002 Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
Dutch translation by F&L Technical Publications B.V.
*** drive too large.
And interestingly there are some limitations in Windows. After I connected the iSCSI device and initialised the drive:
I had two partitions…automatically created. Because the maximum size of partitions on a MBR-Volume is 2 Terabyte.:
“Because partition tables on master boot record (MBR) disks only support partition sizes up to 2 terabytes, you must use dynamic volumes to create NTFS volumes over 2 terabytes. Windows XP Professional manages dynamic volumes in a special database instead of in the partition table, so dynamic volumes are not subject to the 2-terabyte physical limit imposed by the partition table. Therefore, dynamic NTFS volumes can be as large as the maximum volume size supported by NTFS. Itanium-based computers that use GUID partition table (GPT) disks also support NTFS volumes larger than 2 terabytes.”
So I just had to convert it:
and there it is:
3086914 MB Speicherplatz auf dem Datenträger insgesamt.
307200 KB in 2 Dateien
4 KB in 9 Indizes
0 KB in fehlerhaften Sektoren
162455 KB vom System benutzt
65536 KB von der Protokolldatei belegt
3086456 MB auf dem Datenträger verfügbar.4096 Bytes in jeder Zuordnungseinheit
790250239 Zuordnungseinheiten auf dem Datenträger insgesamt
790132825 Zuordnungseinheiten auf dem Datenträger verfügbar
Since there are some problems with the machine left and I am testing it right now you can expect some more news on that subject…
Source 1: Promise Disclaimer Trouble
Source 2: Size Limits in NTFS/Windows
Surprisingly Blinkenlights is back for our viewing and gambling pleasure. If you are in Berlin these days, make sure you’ll take a look.
(it’s the building in the upper middle…which is used as a big b/w screen)
Source 1: http://www.berlin.de/webcams/.bin/index.php
Source 2: http://www.blinkenlights.de/
It seems that there is another cool viral concept going on these days regarding the upcoming Xbox 360 launch in november/december.
The point seems to be that the roman numbers I, VI, VIII in these crop-circles are 168. And all links point to the website hex168.com which shows us the same circle:
Since hex 168 is 360 decimal…
Sounds weird? Yes. Cool, eh?
Source: http://www.hex168.com
Imagine a world where “technology helps us to live healthier lives”
As last year there will be an international competition and a national competition. The categories in the international competition would be:
and the categorie of the national competition:
Subscribe here:
Source: http://www.thespoke.net
I would like to thank Tim for his awesome work. This gifted guy is working on the final version of the official Technology-Ninja.
Source: Mumblebeast, Tims website
Medienfloh aka Mr. Radio-Muckefuck is in China at the moment. On his trip he was able to take that picture.
The text next to the Microsoft logo says: “Original is better.”. As you may know software piracy is a big issue in china. And they at least seem to adress that.
You may ask why we are still testing the VTrak M500i… well… this and more details when I am awake in some hours, until then:
administrator@cli> shutdown -a shutdown**** Shut down in progress ****
administrator@cli> Shutdown complete. It is now safe to power off the subsystem.
For gods sake why seem some people unable to use a phone? In 8 out of 10 cases when I call them, they just reject my call – calling me instantly back “Oh sorry, I must have pressed the wrong button”.
IT’S COLOR CODED! Green for GO Red for NO-GO.
Actually there are only TWO buttons on the phone that are enlighted. So how come that they almost always push the wrong one?
GRRR!
That’s what happened just now:
GREAT! I just had the Excel file open for about..uhmm…2 weeks or something… and now this…
It seems that there are more and more fan films these days. After the announcement of a german Star Wars movie there is “Star Wreck” – a Star Treck parody available for download.
“The first Finnish full-length scifi parody is made from astounding special effects, action and loads of dark humour. It is the product of a core group of five Finns and many people who’ve helped us during the seven years it has been in the making. You can download the entire movie by clicking here. For free, of course.”
Source: http://www-fi1.starwreck.com/
Since yesterday the Studentpartner team is meeting in Aachen. The agenda is quite huge so they gave a short progress report this night:
Start of the build-up: 10:00
CISCO Switch CAT 3750, CISCO PIX Firewall 525, HP Integrity 2600, HP Pro Liant 360 Server up and running.
17:00:
The helpdesk was available based on a Sharepoint Portal Server. The login screen is working:
around 23:00
the cabling works, V LANs configured, the IP Network runs.
The team installs the server software:
– Exchange
– MOM
– ISA 2004
– Windows Server 2003 EA
– ADAM
etc.
Source 1: http://msdnaa.uni-duisburg.de
Source 2: http://www.studentprogram.de