Autorenname: Florian

Systemadministrator aus Bamberg.

gentoo/octane – A modern GNU/Linux system for the SGI Octane Workstation

It took about 6 months of work, and it’s done: gentoo/octane 1.0 has been released. Grab your copy here: gentoo-octane-v1.0-by-rephlex.tar.xz It’s basically a complete tarball of the system. So: attach scsi disk to any machine or netboot the octane using root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=a.b.c.d/path/to/filesystem (if you’re a tough guy) prepare the octanes local disks add tarball set […]

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Preferred settings for Macs Fan Control on older iMacs that run hot and make funny noises

Yesterday I encountered a customers iMac which ran crazy hot on the backside. Macs Fan Control indicated that the PSU was running on 70°C and more, and something made a buzzing sound (like a wire dangling inside a fan, which was not the case). So I decided to set up the fans manually, the Mac

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Fix IcedTea „cannot grant permissions to unsigned JARs“ error

In case you are a Linux user unsuccessfully trying to connect to your IPMI/LOM Console using IcedTea / OpenJDK 8 or newer, you will likely run into this error. You know, because if you’re a major hardware vendor selling expensive enterprise class servers, you don’t care about your IPMI hardware once you sold it. Here’s

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Workaround of the month: Fix broken n32 o32 virtalenv on Gentoo mips when emerging spidermonkey-52.9.1pre1

Virtualenv ist utterly broken when you run Gentoo on MIPS using n32. This will lead to spidermonkey-52.9.1pre1 failing to emerge, because of „ImportError: No module named pkgutil“ or the like. Here’s how to fix it: Step 1: as root, create a user patch directory and download my patch for virtualenv into it, so emerge applies it

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Fix errors when compiling Linux Kernel 4.12 with GCC 8

Error: In file included from arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c:17: ./include/linux/syscalls.h:196:18: Fehler: »sys_mips_mmap« Alias zwischen unverträglichen Funktionstypen »long int(long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, off_t)« {alias »long int(long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long int)«} und »long int(long int, long int,

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Gentoo Linux working on an SGI Octane – with Xorg and Audio!

UPDATE: gentoo/octane is released. CLICK HERE! Gentoo Linux on an SGI Octane R12000 with working hardware accelerated graphics driver, audio, and even Software RAID 😉 I should be the only person on the planet running this system right now. If you want a copy of the system or would like to know how it’s done,

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