TechFiz on November 20th, 2009

Dell OpenManage System Administration (OMSA) tools makes it easy to see server health, storage management, hardware health checks etc on DELL Servers from anywhere.
If you’re running RHEL5, CentOS, Scientific Linux, RHEL4+yum, SLES+yum, you can easily install DELL OpenManage System Administration Tool (OMSA) from DELL Official yum repository.  Read this link for more information Dell Hardware Repo [...]

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TechFiz on April 16th, 2009

I just tried fixing my Skype on Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” (Beta). I could get it configured just fine in seconds without much headache this time. www.pulseaudio.org did not really bug me this time.
Here is my skype sound preference on DELL XPS M1210 running on Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”.

I’m using internal Mic which comes [...]

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TechFiz on September 26th, 2008

Yes, I’m now on WiFi for few hours. At last I received my new battery this evening. Here you can see some info on backup that I’m getting and it’s power chart.
Thanks to Dell for delivering my order well before the estimated time. But there is an issue, the receipt which I received along with [...]

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TechFiz on September 19th, 2008

Last pose of my Dell 9 Cell Laptop Battery. Tested before disposal.
It gave me pretty good life and almost 4+ hrs backup when it was alive. From past few weeks, it was troubling me. Got to place an order for a new one. New expense when there is a financial crunch in the world.

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TechFiz on August 2nd, 2008

Yesterday I got to work on a Dell Power Edge server remotely. My idea was to checkout how DELL DRAC Card works and How I can enhance the remote server management capabilities. I found that DRAC interface needed Virtual media plugins for browsers before allowing me to use remote video and remote disk mounting capabilities. [...]

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TechFiz on January 13th, 2008

It was scary to upgrade some firmware when there were no one to help you on board at DC on a weekend and you are sitting in a remote location connected via broadband facing technical glitches. Firmware upgrades failed yesterday as I had directly started upgrading the RAID Controller firmware upgrades. I did learn [...]

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