Posts from the 'Various' Category

Netgear Switch loud fans – How to silence Netgear Switch?

Before we even start – HUGE WARNING: with this mod, you are voiding your warranty. Also I will not be responsible for any kind (material, physical, mental) of damage you do by following this tutorial. 

Now, let’s do the work, I’ll demonstrate you my trip to silent Netgear switch. JI’ve got few Netgear 10Gbit switches for testing and for some scenarios even a production purpose. Mostly I don’t care about noise of the switches because they are in the server room, and they are supposed to be loud because it is very hot and tight in the server racks and hot air needs to be pushed out of the switch.

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Supermicro motherboard loud fans

From time to time I need to work with Supermicro motherboards, usually on custom server/workstation builds. One thing with Supermicro motherboards (in my experience) is consistent – loud fans / fans that are spinning up and down whole time.

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How to factory reset HP StoreVirtual 3200

I had a few articles about HP StoreVirtual 3200 this year, and tested that entry level SAN quite a bit. In the end I wanted to erase configuration and do a factory reset.

It looks like it isn’t simple task. I mean, it is – if you have documentation for the restore procedure available. :)

Lets start with the procedure.

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How to install Kali Linux 2018.2 on Dell XPS 15 9560

A bit late summer special. I got a Dell XPS 15 but getting Kali to work on it was a bit rough. Here is the full tutorial.

Dell XPS 15 9560 is a great and powerful machine. In my case it came with Windows 10 Pro installation, but I wished for a Linux distro on it. I tried Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Kali 2018.2 and the results were not great. Here are the problems I faced, and a ways to resolve them.

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