Hanne's blog

Last fall I bought my first UPS'es for the sequencing centre. Two rack mountable 3000VA 2u for the servers, 2 tower 3000VA for the sequencing machine and one tower 2200VA for the cluster station. All from APC. The 3 tower based ones were requireme… more »

To get the Huawei E180 3 modem provided by TDC to work on Ubuntu, one needs to get rid of the airprime module. In /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, add: blacklist airprime The APN is "internet" so wvdial.conf becomes: [Dialer tdcpin] Modem = /dev/… more »

Very brief blog post (but > 140 characters...) After buying Sun server and realizing that they are NOT using LSI RAID controllers and MegaCli will not work, do not despair. Yes it is Adaptec. Or a Sun-ified Adaptec called Storagetek, whatever.… more »

My Dell support man said I had to upgrade the firmware on my perc6/e controller just to make sure that old firmware was not the reason it threw disks offline. And he sent me this link: http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?c=… more »

Update on fax story: So my vendor at last did offer to help me. Not that it was much help in the end, but at least I appreciate the effort. They told me I could buy a 6-7000 kr. Minolta color laser printer and then if the fax would not work, I co… more »