Important stuff (at least I think it is)

Mybook world edition II (blue rings) – Web GUI stuck

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:26:34 +0000

When replacing drives and rebuilding raid arrays the drive management page got stuck on formatting….

This is caused by a temp file being left in place when something goes wrong.

If you have ssh installed you can log in to box and delete files from /temp that cause the issue, in the drive management case this was /tmp/dm_progress

Scripts which name the temp files are in /usr/www/nbin

TVRAGE.COM API

admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:46:44 +0000

I have been playing with a java program that looks up the TVRAGE site via the published API calls to retrieve the next episode information for TV shows. Most shows work easily when accessed but I had a problem with any that use the greek SIGMA letter and in the case of the show Greek I could not get a url for the API to work until I realised that entering %CE instead of a capital sigma works even if it did not show correctly on the URL line

AMD Athlon XP 2600+

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:20:42 +0000

Info for setting up my old machine that has this processor (took a while to find the last time).

(Mine is 333 FSB)

There are three types of AMD Athlon XP 2600+ desktop processors.

Athlon XP 2600+ with 256KB L2 Cache and 266MHz FSB
CPU Speed: 2133MHz (2.133GHz)
CPU Frequency Multiplier: 16.0x
CPU External Frequency (MHz): 133

Athlon XP 2600+ with 256KB L2 Cache and 333MHz FSB
CPU Speed: 2083MHz (2.083GHz)
CPU Frequency Multiplier: 12.5x
CPU External Frequency (MHz): 166

Athlon XP 2600+ with 512KB L2 Cache and 333MHz FSB
CPU Speed: 1917MHz (1.917GHz)
CPU Frequency Multiplier: 11.5x
CPU External Frequency (MHz): 166

The CPU External Frequency for Athlon XP is half of the FSB Frequency. Thus, with a 333MHz FSB, the CPU External Frequency is 166MHz.

On the ASUS A7V8X-X Motherboard, for a 333MHz FSB Athlon XP, the setting for CPU External Frequency (MHz) should be 166/33. 33MHz is for the PCI Bus, while 166MHz is for the System Bus (a.k.a. External Bus).

For PC2700 RAM, the Memory Frequency is 333MHz.

(was on http://hankfiles.pcvsconsole.com/answer.php?file=564)

HOAT Antifreeze

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:37:48 +0000

Had a greate deal of difficulty in finding the recommended antifreesze/collant for my Jeep in the UK, in fact even one Jeep dealer I asked was using the wrong thing.

So for future reference there is only one make of HOAT antifreeze that I could find for sale in the uk.

Comma Oils Xstream G05, it makes matters worse since the material for this does not actually mention that it is a HOAT amtifreeze but it does contain the correct formulation for my jeep (a diesel btw).

Go to their web site, search for a local dealer and they should order it for you, that’s what I did.