The Serial-Attached SCSI BIOS takes about a minute to run. In order to speed up the boot time. I disabled it in the BIOS. The computer wouldn’t boot. I re-enabled it. Still wouldn’t boot. I added it back into the boot sequence, and resigned myself to looking at it every time I rebooted. I ran… [Read More]
Archives for 2011
Dell T7500 OOBE, part 2
I installed two 2 TB hard disks as placeholders and configured them as a single 4 TB spanned volume. I put the swap file on that volume. I ordered a Host Bus Adapter (HBA) that would support the 3 TB drives, and got to work on getting the machine to boot without the 250 GB… [Read More]
Dell T7500 OOBE
The new workstation arrived yesterday. Big box. Inside, nicely packed, under a cardboard tray with the keyboard, software, cables, and mouse, was the computer. Big computer. Honkin’ big computer. Normally, I open up a new machine before powering it on to make sure nothing has slipped loose in the journey, but the Dell machines have… [Read More]
Win 7 SP1 OONE
What’s an OONE? I just made it up. Remember that OOBE was an “Out of Box Experience”, which encompasses the user’s initial contact with the product. Since Windows 7 Service Pack 1 doesn’t arrive in a box, but rather is downloaded from the Internet, it can’t have an OOBE. It can, however, have a Off… [Read More]
Tech Hall of Shame: JPEG 2000
Brooks Jensen has this to say: …a clearly, demonstrably, indisputably better image compression format that failed miserably in the marketplace because of bureaucratic wrangling and delay after delay after delay. Shame on everyone involved in this one. It’s always tough for new document or network standards, because their successful implementation requires so many people to… [Read More]
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