Year: 2019

  • Tidalwave PS-1000: a delightfully obsolete palmtop

    Tidalwave PS-1000: a delightfully obsolete palmtop

    As smartphones came to be, many common portable devices such as netbooks, palmtops and pocket organizers became obsolete. Today I will present to you one such device – a Tidalwave palmtop computer from 1992.

  • HP ML110 G6 iLO password reset

    HP ML110 G6 iLO password reset

    A really quick post to help others that encountered the same problem as me. The iLO 100 remote management system on the HP ProLiant ML110 G6 server can’t be password reset with a jumper or a similarly simple measure. It involves a DOS boot disk and a certain ipmitool command that resets the username “admin”…

  • Run an outdated cluster with diskless OpenBSD and cute little green boxes (part 3)

    Run an outdated cluster with diskless OpenBSD and cute little green boxes (part 3)

    In the previous part, we set up DHCP, TFTP and RARP servers and successfully booted the OpenBSD ramdisk install kernel on old Soekris hardware over the network from a repurposed Cisco IDS. In the last part of this series, we will add NFS shares to the mix and install OpenBSD to them, making our PXE…