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I have been working on producing a method to update the kernel \drivers within the Altiris DS PXE image. Here is my how to for compiling a new kernel and integrating it into bootwiz.

Update: I have recently had problems with the latest HP DC 8200 elite desktops that are using the new Intel Q67 express chip sets. from what I have found you need to be using a quite modern kernel 2.6.38/39 ish. I personally have had success with the 2.6.39 kernel. This was not spported in the linux boot that was relaesed for DS SP 5.

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Here is my take on the single line word press upgrade I saw at hack a day.
The bellow will download the latest version and unpack it. IT then removes the new plugins and themes as to not over wright your installed ones. IT then copies the new install over the old one and resets the permissions on the files.
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip && unzip latest.zip && rm -rf ./wordpress/wp-content/ && cp -r ./wordpress/* ../

You may need to change the paths for your installation but this should work quite well.
As allways take a backup before you run this just in case.

Secondary DNS is a bit of an issue that is yet to be sorted fully in ispCP but if you want to do some hosting with it it is a requirement. So here is the documentation of the way we have implemented secondary DNS within ISPCP. (continue reading…)

This is just a quick post to help anyone else who is pulling there hair out trying to get there Lenovo 8808 desktops to upload there inventory to an Altiris DS when booting under windows PE we have tried up to the latest version of the Aclient with no success. We were then given a jolt of inspiration by our Altiris support guy who advised we try booting the DOS environment to see if that would inventory the machine and lo and behold it did so we know have a first job that just boots into dos boot environment and runs a script with just a rem line in it. This makes the Aclient send an inventory which can then be worked with. Hope this helps. To most readers this will mean very little sorry better news to follow….

I have just got a new house (more about that in a later post) and I have had to do some electrical work and as a result I have had to calculate out all the relevant electrical values for the installation. As a result I found a site has a calc on it so I have made a stripped down version in a place were I can remember were to find it… Here so here it is feel free to use it if you like though I take no responsibility for it being correct….

I have pre filled the voltage for the UK you can change this though for your specific application.

You need to have any two of the fore values for the calculation to work.