I don’t know what you think of rebooting for getting information from your computers’ bios, but I would take it as quite disturbing. Bios supporting the SMBIOS/DMI standard can be queried using the dmidecode command. You can even read the bios version using the following command: dmidecode -s bios-version
Author: ToeiRei
Not quite quiet in the hood
It is always nice to watch the neighbors’ children playing and wrecking their home, isn’t it? Especially regarding the noise as I’ve been in bed for just two hours until they managed it to terminate my sleep.
Withdrawal symptoms
As Grazer was posting a comment on my statement that I wouldn’t drive my scooter again until springtime, nobody would have guessed the truth into his words. Right, I was starting the engine again after some smalltalk with my kickstarter. But I think you don’t know the feeling of driving down the road, feeling the wind in your […]
SQLgrey
I am using Greylisting since quite some time to keep malware away and I have to admit, it is a blessing: As many malware and spam programs do not respect the RFC, they just try to deliver their load just once – so they fail and we do not have to do analytics work on it.
No 2.6.23 yet
There was really big noise around the new kernel 2.6.23. But is it really worth it? I have waited for the gentoo-sources patchset, added my patches and started testing to satisfy my curiosity. But there were more problems around than good news. So I stepped back to the old gentoo-sources, 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 with my swap prefetch pachset and uvesafb […]
Cool
Did you miss me during the last days? Sorry, but I had to take a break of blogging. Have you noticed, that it’s getting cold outside? Everytime you’re in a hurry, you’ve got to clean the windscreen. If you don’t have an ice scraper, don’t worry – an old CD case will do the job. A real nice […]