Today we’re going to build a router. Yes, that’s right, we’re venturing into networking, which for many is uncharted, technically daunting territory. Rest easy, as I’ve been doing professional, data-center grade network engineering …
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To celebrate Halloween I’ve decided to put together a guide that will show you how to install Raspbian Jessie, the (as of this writing) most current version of the Debian …
Why am I so tired all the time? That’s the single question I never really thought to ask myself over the course of the past five years. This post is …
Yesterday evening I posted a detailed tutorial that explains how to flash/update the IPMI firmware on the X9DRW-iF server from Supermicro. Today I'm going to explain how to flash the BIOS on the same hardware. If you're not familiar with what a BIOS firmware flash is, there's no shame in not knowing, here is a good explanation. I've found the documentation out on the web to be scattered at best, and a little bit confusing. This is why I thought I'd put together a start-to-finish guide here, where we'll create our own custom bootable ISO, and use it to update to a specific BIOS firmware for the X9DRW-iF.