Tech: July 2008 Archives

Igor was having problems understanding what a root nameserver did, so I gave him this explanation. I am proud of this.

freebsdgirl: think of them like a directory service at the mall.
freebsdgirl: you want to know if sephora has chanel no 5 perfume, so you go to the mall, look at the directory service to find out where sephora is, and then you walk to sephora and ask them directly if they have chanel no 5.

I'm going to be moving the site over to a new server soon. Plans are being made for blog.freebsd.org, as well. More about that (and the company that's going to be hosting me and blog.freebsd.org) in a bit. It's pager week for me at IronPort, so I'm tired and busy.

The ipmitool that comes by default with OSX sucks. I needed to use ipmitool for work, and I couldn't find any OSX ipmitool packages anywhere, so I rolled my own. If anyone else is interested, I have a copy of it here. gunzip it, copy it to /usr/local/bin, and move your /usr/bin/ipmitool elsewhere as /usr/bin is before /usr/local/bin in $PATH by default. Enjoy.