Bill O’Neill

To clear the Attention light on a HP Lxxxx class server, perform the following from the console terminal:

• Login as “root” and press CTRL B. This will enter the GSP mode(Guardian Service Processor).
  
• Hit the “Enter” key twicewhen asked for the login name and password, as they most likely haven’t been set.
  
• Enter “sl” from the command line, e.g. GSP> sl
  
• When prompted to select the logs to view, select “E” for the error logs.
  
• View the error on the screen, which is the latest error logged that caused the “Attention” light to start blinking.
  
• Take the necessary action(s) to fix the error.
  
• The light should now be off.
  
• Enter “q” from the command line to end the session.
  
• Enter “co” to return to the “root” console prompt.
  

Normally I’d simply add this to my del.icio.us bookmark list but since it’s a javascript bookmarklet, I don’t think it will accept it.

This will scan the current web page for an ISBN number, then see if the Cobb County Library system has the book available. Useful for reducing the regular Amazon tithing!

Drag this link to your Bookmarks Toolbar: Cobb County Public Library

Found via Jon Udell’s blog

Here’s some of the extensions I use with Firefox that make it much more useful than IE!

Googlebar: Adds a Google Toolbar to the top of the browser, Just as featurefull (and then some!) compared to Google’s own toolbar.
Bloglines Toolkit: Adds a small notifier that tells you if you have new Bloglines subscriptions available.
del.icio.us: If you don’t already use del.icio.us, read some of my previous postings about it. This makes browser bookmarking a dream!
BugMeNot: Tired of being prompted to create a login for a web page, just to read one article? Join several others that create “fake” logins and pool them into this resource. No more registering as Amanda Huginkiss who lives at 123 Main Street!
BetterSearch: This improves search pages on Google, del.icio.us, Amazon, etc. by adding thumbnail previews, site info and a bunch of other features to your search results.
Foxylicious: An even better way to sync your bookmarks with del.icio.us than the way I described here.
LiveLines: Adds a notification icon to the bottom of your browser window when a site has an RSS feed. You can configure it to subscribe to the feed via Bloglines.
miniT: Adds better tab functionality such as rearranging them via drag and drop and opening new tab windows after the current window instead of the end of the tab list.
GreaseMonkey: A fairly new extension, this one lets you add scripts to web pages that enhance their functionality. For instance, I use these scripts:

Book Burro: Adds a drop down menu on Amazon’s web pages that compares prices of the book you’re viewing at Borders, Powell’s and several other book stores.
RSS AdFilter: Filters out the ads you’re starting to see in RSS and Atom feeds.
And there’s a bunch more available.

Some more followup to my earlier posting about better browser functionality…

I use multiple computers (often several in the course of one day!) and subsequently have web bookmarks spread all over the place. I mentioned the benefits of del.icio.us previously but couldn’t figure out a seamless way to get it to work in Mozilla Firefox other than via the plugin for it. Today I upgraded my laptop’s Firefox install to the 1.0 Preview Release. One new feature it added was Live Bookmarks. It’s a fancy way of saying that you can make a bookmark entry dynamic- they parse out each entry in an RSS feed and make them appear to be items under the bookmark.

Big deal, right? Well, del.icio.us also creates an RSS feed of your uploaded bookmarks. So…. you create a Live Bookmark of your del.icio.us RSS feed, place it in your Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar Folder, and your bookmarks are now available as if they were stored locally! I dunno, but perhaps IE has something similar?

Now if only I could figure out a way to import all of my bookmark.html files in batch without resorting to some Perl-fu…

I just love the extensibility of the Mozilla based browsers! Stumbled across two useful extensions today:

Google Preview is an extension that places thumbnail images of the web sites returned while doing a Google search. Make it even easier to judge if the link is worth clicking through too!

This extension integrates the del.icio.us social bookmarking system into the right-click pop-up. If you’re not familiar with del.icio.us or didn’t understand what the big deal about it was (like me until the lightbulb went off in my head 5 minutes ago….) just think of it as a global bookmark list that you can use from any of your browsers, whether they’re at home or work, IE or Mozilla. The social networking features are just icing on the cake. For those die-hard IE users, there’s a similar right-click add-on available here.

Finally! I can now view the Georgia Navigator website on my cell phone! The original site was heavy on the javascript and therefore unusable with the Sidekick. I can even check the traffic cam around the corner from my house.

NPR PVR describes how to use a combination of cron and perl to record NPR shows as mp3 files. A bit convoluted perhaps, but going along with my cheapness theme, it’s better than paying to download the files from Audible.com.

Also useful is the PublicRadioFan.com website, which lists program guides for NPR stations across the country. It also lists what format their streaming audio uses.