heather and susan thought it would be fun to use some post-it notes to cover my cube. Hrm I guess I will just need to go to work on something other then foil

here are some pictures from last wed other then that nothing to report. Saw Cast of characters last night in freemont and left my credit card at the bar tab. DOH

oh yea its my birthday Sunday (9th)

Keeping the RSS feeds popping thought i would send out a link to a collection of old US government propaganda films. Since this is all open source and paid for by the people we all own this. Therefor you can use it in your own video editing. Some of the old bomb video is good for anything. What about the flicks like sally isn't to touch boys. Good stuff

Old Government films

Old computer commercials

so a while back I posted about Mike Jones and how I dug the beats. Well I just discovered a new SwishaHouse story. Turns out that some dude Dj Screw  was notorious for spinnin cuts under the influence of purple syrup. The effects slow your bubbly ass down. Thus the chopped and screwed sound you can get on the Disc II of each of the Mike Jones and Paul Wall Cd’s. Dj Michael Watts was a ‘student’ of DjScrew and thusly has the sound you Hear today.

Where is this going you ask me? Well i just found Disc2 of each of the Cd’s I gotta say that I am now a hard core fan of the dirrrrttttyyyy south chopped and screwed sound. Keep it commin swisha even if you didn't get the rights to the .com!

Now playing: Paul Wall - Drive Slow (Feat. Kanye West)

This is cool did you know that you can use Remote Desktop Client (RDP) or Terminal Service Connector (TSC) to connect to the Console of a box? Thus allowing the reboot of a Terminal Server or if you run a fat client that isn't capable of running in a service. Just add the /CONSOLE switch

mstsc /v:SERVERNAME /console

$imdb(The Sting) here is a movie that NetFlix recommended to me. It was $imdb(Robert Redford) back in the day. This movie was actually very good minus the 2.5 hour play time. They could cut a lot from it. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a remake of this movie some day. It had some plot twists I have never seen in this old of a movie. Seems like even the old farts of film had some talent. They even get all fancy with page wipes and its funny if you watch you can tell when they put static art in the place of a skyline it bounces a little haha. seriously check this one out.

So your company just dumped a new HP Integrity 64–Bit Server rx7620 in your lap and said get this working yesterday? well thats not as easy as I thought. First off it needs power. According to the white page 12a a line cord at 4(12) we are actually eating power! So read the Prep Guide its handy then when you gotta put the 250lb server in a rack this is Super handy install Guide. Note that the whole line of servers has the same documentation for its individual model. I found it by selecting my server from HP site then clicking on the self-help resources and the manuals link

64 Bit Madness So here are some pointers to setting up a HP Itanium with the EFI / SCI after you read the setup guide you will have a uhh what now question like I did. Thanks HP for that. so here is some tricks to keep you from my delays.

• first have a laptop or dummy server handy to run a COM cable to its prolly not possible to have a remote COM session so just best to have a laptop or something handy. Then you can set the IP for the telnet to the MP after thats done. or leave the dummy server to do your dirty work.
• TTY with VT-UTF8 emulation
•  login of (Admin/Admin or Oper/Oper first time default) to get back to the MP for example get to the EFI and press CTL+B <– remember that
• edit your cells/partitions from the MP -make sure your COM port is pluged into the master or MP (lit up with a LED)
• once you get in you will see Server2003 Boot, then you want to access the SCI interface
• run the command ‘ch’ to list your channels then run the command ‘ch -si #’ to connect to the Unattended Setup for Windows or ‘ch -?’
• finish windows setup -reboot
• go back into the SCI and login then type ‘CMD’ this maps a command prompt to a channel
• follow the step to connect to a channel and connect to the server command line
• then set your IP if needed or find out what dhcp did with Netsh
• connect via RDP
• allow the HP scripts to run
• rename/domain/whatever your new $100k server!

Consider this HP makes a Video/USB card that will allow a local console so that you can use a keyboard and mouse and monitor just like every other non Linux hardware out there. (damn command line nerds) its the part number A6869A or get a ILO card

More handy notes

• if your dont see the boot DVD/CD go into the EFI config and edit the boot menu to allow booting DVD (add the scsi device)
• server is preloaded with 2003 to reinstall download the newest SmartSetup then boot it for OS install
• the HP docs are good to get you thru OS install
• remember its x64 so things like your DOS boot disk and ghost wont work but RIS03 will!

* netsh command is as follows for a example

netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection" static 192.168.0.100 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1 1

How to use the nparcommands to Edit the Partitions

• download the tools for 32 or 64 bit
• if your on a external host remember to add the -u -p -i (username password Ip address) options to your command line
• if your local you jsut run the commands
• figure out what your up to with the ‘parstatus’ just run that and print to screen or a file for your managment
• delete the partition you dont want ‘parremove -p 2’
• modify the partition you do want to add the cell you jsut deleted ‘parmodify -p 2 -a 0/5:base:y:ri’
• power off the cells then power them on with the PE command
• check your new config with parstatus see if you did good