VMWARE server out of desktop

Yo,

I made a vmware ESXi 5.1 server out of a hp dc7900
My buddy gave me a bunch of memory for it, and I
added hard drive to it, and added them as datastores.
I also made a false bay out of an old cd rom  -- check it out.
Also, put a SSD in there :)   needed an ssd ...
It works pretty well, and boots very fast compared to my other vmware server.  

Fedora Tablet out of old tablet

Yo,

So check this out ..
I took an old HP tablet, and threw fedora 17 on it.
It jams, and has a touch pen to use as a mouse, and a keyboard that can be detached .. and usb ports, and sd card port, and pcmcia ..
Actually a pretty useful machine .. and built in wifi.
not a bad deal .. not the fastest thing on the planet as it only has a single core, but good for a work beater w/o having to lug another laptop.

check it out.

 

 -out

 

Started Playing w/ Glowz spray paint ... having a good time

Who knew that you could have so much fun for $5 ?

I have always been fascinated by anything that glows in the dark ever since i was a little kid.

I started seeing these cases for cell phones that glow in the dark ..
Then got jealous ..

Every phone but the phone I have (evo3d) has a crappy case available that glows in the dark except for mine !

It came out like a year ago! WTF ?

So, I started to thing about the new "Glowz" paint from krylon ..

I've seen a few posts on the web about what other did with it ..

Its a little hard to work with, I'll admit, but figured, if I got a clear case for my phone and sprayed the crap out of it with glowz it would be fine ..

I was not wrong ..


But then I got to thinking .. what else can I spray and make glow ..

I wanted to paint everything in the house but, started with my mini mouse for my laptop .. but, the phone case barely captures the light it puts out .

But either way, check these out .. in case another person had the same idea ..

I had 2 of these mouses... mice ?
deer? flock of deers ?
..

any way ..
The old one died, and I throw almost nothing out, for stupid ideas/projects like this one :)
I just kept the original top, and put the glowing one on there.

Here is my spray area .. That thing on the left is the case for my evo3d.

 

                         It glows LIKE CRAZY ... I will post an update below, once its
                         on the phone, and its at night .. Might be easier to                    find phone at night, when I lose it like a dipshit ..

This is as close  a pic as I can get of the night glow .. you can just barely make it out .

So there we have it .. I will post more as I continue to do more with this magical paint.
It needs some scraping and manipulation to make it fit the mold again .. but works sweet .

out -
-B

Prelude intake AGAIN .... Yes, this would be the 5th time ..

Hi,

I think I may be a glutten for punishment.
This coming weekend, I am going to do the intake on my 96 h22 prelude.

Ive done this job ... 4 times before ..

I have a brand new skunk2 IM in the box, and all the gaskets necessary.
Hopefully, this will be smoother than previous times.

The 99 SH prelude was a bitch to work on because of the ATTS unit, and it was NOT compatible w/ the ECU in that car. Didnt stop me from doing the job 2 times (once in, once out) .. and then selling the intake .. (i thought i was done w/ preludes after that one) .. little did I know ..

I will post more stuff as I get it done, but I am getting a new car soon.
My prelude will be kept as a toy/winter beater.
Im not able to get rid of it .. I cant bring my self to do so.
I loved this car(s) more than my corvette, camaro, and trans am.

Heres a link below to my previous post. Ill grab some pics as I do this one again.
Fun times

-Brian


 http://briand354.blogspot.com/2011/09/intake-removal-reinstall-on-my-99.html

and the update-

http://briand354.blogspot.com/2011/09/prelude-intake-update.html

IBM T60 :Laptop: Fix ... The hdd threading went bad .. so .. i drilled ..

Here is todays issue .. on the IBM t60 

The internal screw that would secure the plastic cap over the drive caddy

became unthreaded .. and broke .. It was a tiny grooved piece of aluminum

So the next best thing ... I drilled out a hole about a 1/2" from the corner

using the 90 degree bracket  and making sure it would not affect the drive inside, or it closing.

Parts Needs :

Metal drill bit (going through aluminum frame)

Drill (mine sucked .. have to buy a wired one)

90 degree metal bracket

Screw/bolt

silicone for car gaskets

Cost - 

Bolt/screw kit - $2

90 degree bracket - $1 (maybe)

silicone car gasket maker - $3

Whole thing should cost about $5-6 or just use stuff acound the house and spend no $  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I removed the sata drive while doing this mod .. just in case .. but because I measured correctly, It was not a problem.

Use the plastic drive caddy top as the measuring device .. if your bracket is too long, you would be drilling into the drive's area of the laptop, and thus - not be able to put that screw through the frame of the laptop.

**PSA - I am not to be held responsible for any damage you do to ANY of your crap because you listened to me on this blog for ANY of my posts **

Once you have the hole drilled - slip the screw through the frame, and bolt it tight. Then apply some of the gasket sealer, and let it sit in a way that it wont be glued to a table or something.

Good luck, hope this helps.

-Brian

How to hack a compound bow sight (for more UV)

Yooo.

Wassup!?
Been a while since I last posted something cool ..
Havent had time .. shits been busy.
All no one comments, so IDK if anyone even bothers to read what I post.

Not that many people like to hack and mod I realize.

But, I'm not one of them.

So recently, my buddy got me hooked on archery .. and its so much fucking fun.. I have to admit.

He bought a new compound bow, and hooked me up w/ his old one.

Doing the only thing I could think of, I started hooking it up w/ the normal accessories .. first was arrows, second was a sight.

I then ran into a cool issue/idea ......
The sight came w/ a uv led.  Having played w/ UV leds for a few years straight now .. I figured .. what the hell ..  I could make a WAY more powerful one for a few bucks ..  After a bad test  (that burned out horribly !) I had to go back to the drawing board .
But, I think I have the formula figured out .. its taken several tries (other the years) and I came upon what I think it a solution.

Check this out ..
Here is what the light looks like in complete darkness (or as dark as I can get it :) ]

Rear view of the modded sight

close up of the bezel, with the UV's on.

Here is the powering mechanism. This is just a 9v battery attached to a power plug.

             To light it: All you have to do is swing the battery terminal onto the
           9V prong. Nice and easy. I didnt want to add a toggle switch.

bad pic of the 9v zip tied to the mount for the sight itself. weights almost nothing.

 I can wait til the season for hunting. This is the year.
I dont think the light that it gives off will make the deer alarmed,
but well see I guess. At complete worst, I can turn it off easily.

we shall see ..
out-
-B

My raspberry Pi & dl360 g5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEAwkUgJNqc

Check out my raspberry Pi running fedora remix ..

hanging in place, rasp pi

fan on, [pi on :)

inside view, and my fan/led setup

pi on, fan off

inside view .. my handywork

I added the upper drives, and lit them by adding the cable

 my dl360 g5 .. what a pain this has been to setup. Im getting there :)

-B

Raspberry pi in a box

I put a raspberry pi in a box .
It's slow but still badass.
I didn't want to pay crazy $ for a case so I just dremelled myself one out of a $1 plastic food container.

Plasma Ball 3d

Just for fun, heres a 3d video .. of a plasma ball

5 types of yummy

Theres not much better than 17 year macallan .. except more and older macallan!

New ESXi VMWARE server

Yo.

I thought i would get an enterprise piece of hardware since thats what i have to support.
I use these at work for a lab, so it seems only fitting that I would have one at home since they are now affordable and huge. I do mean huge BTW.

Here is the new beast! DL360 G5. 4 gig ram, 256 p400i array controller

p400i array controller

rear section of the machine for those that have not seen inside one.

So looking at this pic again .. you can see the drives. It came with the two on the left, and I added a 250gb SATA drive from Ken.

It took a little while before I could get vmware to see it and format it.
The trick was to ssh into the esxi host, and delete the partition through fdisk .. (error below)

so do ..
fdisk -l
(get your disks path)
then do :
fdisk (/your/disks/path)
p   #prints partition
d   #delete all partitions if more than one
n   # add new partition, first (1) through end
then
w   #write changes to disk

then run fdisk -l
again to see changed disk. go back to storage, and add the datastore. Also booting into gparted would have been my next idea. Either way.,


(End results:) Added the 250gig sata into storage pool ! YAY

Console toys

I added some toys to my console.
I suggest you do the same if you spend any sort of time on one of these things.

Check it out :
I found I had a CCFL in the box new, one was broken though :(
I wired everything to have a molex connector, and then connected everything.
It works great .. there was a lighting issues where I sit, so i figured I would take a stab at it, and then it
went bad from there into wheat you see before you.

The switch is just for the CCFl on top of the monitor.
I double side taped the controller to the back of the LCD, and the CCFl onto the top of the monitor. I thought it would look as cool on the bottom, and wouldnt provide enough light.
But damn this thing is bright*

Here are the molex connectors. I might make a 3 way switch so you can switch between the various things you would want, but it is just as easy to switch the molex connector to the option you want.

Here I have the keyboard lights on. I think this is the coolest mod I did to this table before the CCFL!

So here s the show w/ the CCFL and the keyboard lights.
Pretty cool huh ?

-B

My half-top

Yo,

I was very .. very .. bored ..
I took an old laptop and made it a half-top!

All you need to do is remove the LCD part of the computer. This is done various ways depending on model.
It took all of 10 mins maybe.

I wanted to trash this thing, but since it works, theres no sense of trashing it.

The lcd panel was fine, but didnt want another screen in my little nightmare of a "data center"

This thing is BREAAAAAKKing my balls.
It old and I always run into problems with old hardware like this, but Im trying to PXE boot and install a linux flavor of my choosing. Once I figure the whole PXE -> linux thing Ill post a link or a how to.

sweet ..

-B

prelude starting problems

Yo.

So I have had a problem with my prelude lately.
Some times, I flip the key over and it just does nothing.

Symptoms:
I CAN hear the fuel pump running after flipping the switch forward to start 2 mode
I resoldered the main relay after removing it, and putting another in its place for temp. testing.
I replaced the ignition switch : (below):

But now it still was giving me issues.
So, I removed, and connected together the Clutch Inhibitor switch as well as the cruise control switch.
I will grab a pic later - but so far this has solved my issue.
We will see if in the long run this is the fix, but I have been chasing this issue for a bit ..

Now on to the oil leak :(

-B