Mobility Radeon Not Always Mobile
I was setting up some new Dell servers when I noticed something interesting. The PowerEdge Servers we got use Ati Mobility Radeon chipsets!
The device manager shows the video chipset as “Radeon 7000 Series”.
Seems like a pretty smart idea, really. Servers don’t need a lot of horsepower in the display department, and having a mobile chipset helps keep power consumption and heat output down. Most important, however, is the fact that the display adapter has 16MB of dedicated video memory, so this server ought to be “Quake 3 Arena Ready” right out of the box!
Too Much vi
You know you’ve been using vi to much when you’re editing a text/html file in windows and this happens:
After I did it I was like, “Why is my editor still open? Where is my shell prompt?!?”….then it hit me and I chuckled and figured it was screencap-worthy.
It’s Funny the Things You Remember…
I used to work in the support department of a software company. That was almost four years ago. I got pretty good at that job even though I didn’t enjoy it all that much. As I moved out of tech support and into a System Administrator position, I was surprised how quickly I buried all that support knowledge.
My current employer uses that very same software that I used to support, so I am once again haunted with supporting it. I really don’t mind that much since I don’t have to mess with it that often. Today, however, I was messing around with the jukebox that holds the optical media, trying to determine the best way to handle the large volume of optical media that the software manages.
I decided it would be a good idea to get a detailed list of all the media ever cataloged in the jukebox, when, out of nowhere, the exact command line that I needed popped clearly into my head:
cdadm survey -n +rioh
This command outputs a nice multi-columned list of all media ever cataloged by the jukebox, including different format names of the media as well as media ID number pulled from the software database.
What the command does is irrelevant; what I find interesting is that nearly 4 years later, my mind can still remember obscure commands with the exact syntax necessary to get the desired output. Entorhinal Cortices RULE!