How to flash the BIOS on a Linux Dell PowerEdge system without having to use MS Windows.
Flashing the BIOS without a floppy drive can be done with an Ultimate Boot CD (free!) and a USB memory stick. BIOS upgrades usually come in the form of an MS-DOS executable meant to be run from a bootable floppy, but modern computers don’t usually have floppy drives anymore, and who has a copy of [...]
Libcurl’s Java bindings now compile on Macintosh, with a few minor modifications to the Makefile. Get the code from my Github account.
So I wanted to write a cron job on my Mac. Just run this script every day at midnight. Nothing fancy. In standard Unix, this is one line in a crontab: 0 0 * * * /some/script That’s it. Put that in your crontab and /some/script will run every day at midnight. Naturally, I typed [...]