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I had mod_python enabled and it would give me 404 on random python scripts in downloads directory (not cgi)…
Nothing in error log either!

Here is the fix:

put .htaccess file in the download directory with following contents:

<Files *.py>
    RemoveHandler .py
    AddType text/plain .py
    SetHandler none
    SetHandler default-handler
    Options -ExecCGI
</Files>

This is a follow up to this post.

After a few weeks of testing the throttle body swap the following issues have surfaced:

1) Very high idle on cold start up (>3000rpm)
2) Random idle oscillations (cold and warm start up)
3) Abrupt overrun transition

Continue reading Toyota Vitz RS throttle swap sorting out bugs

WARNING: don’t blame me if you brick your card ;).

Building large cost effective storage solutions present a problem: lack of cost effective HBAs.
The solution to this problem is an interesting controller from IBM/Lenovo M1015. These can be bought for about 70USD on ebay.
The only problem with that controller is that the firmware it comes with (aka WebBIOS) is utter crap.
This problem can be resolved thanks to LSI providing alternative firmware images.

I generally flash these cards in Pass-Through mode, as they are not suitable for hardware raid scenario (lack of battery and RAM). Besides in low cost situation it is far better to use mdadm RAID (or ZFS) than hardware RAID (due to flexibility in reshaping, monitoring and fault recovery). With hardware RAID you simply cannot start with 3-disk RAID5 and grow it a disk at a time to 12-disk RAID6 without moving data to another storage.

I decided to write this guide as I could not find a guide that would use the tools and firmware images directly acquired from official sources (LSI/Avago/Broadcom).

All the guides include their own download links, which present security (malware) and possible bricking issues (if images were corrupted).

The goal of this guide is to stick to only files sourced from LSI (now Broadcom) as well as avoiding using Windows (Linux friendly).
By the time someone reads this the version and links will change so I am including search keywords on how to find the files in question.

I will be focusing on Pass-Through mode firmware (IT mode), but the only difference to IR mode is the 2118it.bin vs 2118ir.bin.

Continue reading Cross-flash M1015/9240-8i LSI controller quasi-official way

A while ago I was gifted a prezzy card. These buggers: https://www.prezzycard.co.nz/.
They are actually Kiwi bank.
This prezzy card is not accepted in many places. In addition it needs to be activated.
I was putting it off, until the bloody thing expired.

So these bastards take legal tender (that does not have expiry) and set expiry on it.
I simply see no point of these things as cash is accepted pretty much everywhere, and it can also be deposited in your account (stating obvious here).

What these gift card/prepay debit cards companies rely on is chumps like me that let their cards expire.
This is a very shady business model.

So if you want to be a good friend and want to gift some cash, just gift the cash. No prezzy card or Dicksmith gift cards or any other stupid vouchers, thank you very much.

As for Kiwibank – shame on you for supporting such scam.