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Chili Burger With Cheese at The Royal Pavilion Tavern January 22, 2011

Posted by idimmu in food.
The Royal Pavilion Tavern, aka Pav Tav, is a pretty popular student venue in the evenings, but lunch time, on a Saturday, it's mostly OAPs, but they do beer and a burger for £4.99 so it had to be tried, especially as I'm working today!

I opted for the Chilli Burger with Cheese and a beer, at £5.59, and upgraded to curly fries for an additional 69p, so all it all it came to £6.28, and of course soda and lime instead of a beer :)



As you can see, what we have here isn't exactly anything special. It was a generic burger, with some lettuce and tomato inside a white sesame seed bun. On top of the burger was some chilli, and then a slice of elemental cheese.



The bap was a little dry and very uninteresting, the meat was pretty flavourless but oozed a lot of fat, the chili had no taste and no heat, I didn't really notice the cheese either. The tomato tasted nice and the curly fries generic curly fries, so quite tasty.

In short, terrible, will not eat at again, ever.

There are better places for the same price, or less, who also have cute waitresses!

Beer and a gourmet burger at the Wetherspoons January 21, 2011

Posted by idimmu in food.
It's a Friday and traditionally everyone goes to the pub for lunch as a precursor to what will be a fantastic weekend! A new Wetherspoons opened up near us recently and I was looking forwards to trying a Gourmet Burger from them as I'd had one of their normal burgers before and quite enjoyed it!

It's a 6oz burger, made from British beef, and from their description:

Topped with two bacon slices and a Stilton, Shropshire blue & spring onion sauce.

Includes six beer-battered whole onion rings.

The important thing to note is the 1828 kcal the burger has.. this is the kind of meal where you don't eat anything for the rest of the day!



The price including a beer, I opted for a Tuborg but I didn't drink it, came to £7.20 which is not as cheap as the burger from the Wahoo bar but still very reasonable. Instead of the beer I had a lime and soda, which was free.

3 onion rings were located inside the burger, and three were on the side. There was a small pot of relish which wasn't very exciting so I added vinegar, mustard and mayonnaise ;)



The burger was pretty tall, and was actually as wide as the bun, so there were no empty mouth fulls of bread going on, however it must be noted that it comes with a cheese sauce, and not a slice of cheese, which made it very messy to eat, but it was delicious. It also had lettuce and tomato in it, which made me feel a little healthier but didn't really add to the taste or sensation whilst eating it, it could have done with some gerkins.

The chips were rubbish, they felt like cheap oven chips, no crunch and no fluffy insides, just dense pieces of seasoned potato.

All in all I was pleased with the burger, but probably will not be eating it again due to the unnecessarily high calorific content. Ignorance is bliss and in future I will be eating something less indulgent, or at least something I don't know the nutritional information of!

Beer and a burger at the Wahoo bar January 17, 2011

Posted by idimmu in food.
We decided to go and watch the football at the Wahoo bar yesterday and I saw their beer and a burger for £4.99 offer and couldn't say no!



For £4.99 you get a burger on a white bun, loaded with salad, gerkins, 2 hash browns and a side portion of chips. You also get a drink, either a bottle, something on draft or a soft drink, I opted for a pint of Kronenburg!



As you can see from the picture, the burger is rather stacked, it's quite tall, but the actual burger itself is half the diameter of the bun.

It was very easy to eat though as I squashed it down through the middle causing the burger to spread out and fill the bun.

The girl serving didn't take my table number and then forgot what I looked like and gave the order to someone else to bring to me who got a little confused as she didn't know where or to whom she was taking it. Also I wasn't given any sauces and in the confusion forgot to ask and was too lazy to get up out of my chair.

The burger itself was very tasty, the combination of gerkins, meat and hash browns yielded a nice mix of crunchy and soft and there were lots of different flavours coming through.

The meat itself was a little bland and thoroughly cooked through, which is just as well this time even though I quite enjoy a little bit of pink in the middle now and again.

Not the best burger I've had, especially compared to a Wetherspoons burger at a similar price, but very reasonable none the less.

Would eat again, but I wouldn't go out of my way for it.

Changing A DRAC Password On The Command Line With racadm October 19, 2010

Posted by idimmu in linux, dell.
All Dell DRACs come with a default account set up as root / calvin which is a huge security risk if left!

The web interface doesn't let you change the password but the firmware does when you boot the server.

A second way to change the password is with the racadm tool, if installed, at the command line! This means you don't have to reboot that precious production server!

In DRAC 4, the first index slot is root by default. In DRAC 5 and 6, index 1 is Administrator, index 2 is root.

We can display the ID info using racadm command:

DRAC 4:
racadm getconfig -g cfgUserAdmin -i 1

DRAC 5 & 6:
racadm getconfig -g cfgUserAdmin -i 2
# cfgUserAdminIndex=2
cfgUserAdminUserName=root
# cfgUserAdminPassword=******** (Write-Only)
cfgUserAdminEnable=1
cfgUserAdminPrivilege=0x000001ff
cfgUserAdminIpmiLanPrivilege=4
cfgUserAdminIpmiSerialPrivilege=4
cfgUserAdminSolEnable=1


When we're sure we have the correct ID, we can easily change the password with the racadm command too

DRAC 4:
racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i 1 newpassword

DRAC 5 & 6:
racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i 2 newpassword
Object value modified successfully

SVN Rolling Back A Commit To A File September 7, 2010

Posted by idimmu in linux.
I needed to roll back an SVN commit done recently to an init script for one of our daemons, it's a very easy process!

First we need to see what the latest revision number of the file that we want to roll back is


Chill:files idimmu$ svn info slee
Path: slee
Name: slee
URL: http://svn.idimmu.net/msu/trunk/puppet/modules/jnetxslee/files/slee
Repository Root: http://svn.idimmu.net/msu
Repository UUID: 573313b0-15b8-499c-acf0-a5a26a3c7166
Revision: 1517
Node Kind: file
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: idimmu
Last Changed Rev: 1256
Last Changed Date: 2010-08-12 10:51:15 +0100 (Thu, 12 Aug 2010)
Text Last Updated: 2010-08-12 10:50:57 +0100 (Thu, 12 Aug 2010)
Checksum: 8940fdf3ed6ee8281b94f55c2fe7880a


As you can see the Last Changed Rev is 1256, this is the important number :D

Now we want to run a diff of the revision prior to the commit, 1255, and the current file, 1256


Chill:files idimmu$ svn diff -r 1255:1256 slee
Index: slee
===================================================================
--- slee (revision 1255)
+++ slee (revision 1256)
@@ -40,12 +40,12 @@

case "$1" in
start)
- if kill -0 `cat $SLEEPID` > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+ if kill -0 `cat $SLEEPID` 2> /dev/null ; then
echo "SLEE is already running"
exit
else
rm -rf $SLEE_HOME/slee/tmp/*
- if $SSD --start -b -c $RUNAS -d $SLEE_BIN -x $SLEE;then
+ if $SSD --start --oknodo -b -c $RUNAS -d $SLEE_BIN -x $SLEE;then
echo "Starting SLEE"
else
echo "Cannot start SLEE"
@@ -53,8 +53,9 @@
fi
;;
stop)
- if $SSD --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $SLEEPID;then
- echo "Stopping SLEE"
+ echo "Stopping SLEE"
+ if $SLEE_HOME/slee/bin/node.sh -h $SLEE_HOME -m com.jnetx.slee.management.hostagent.Shutdown 1 >/dev/null;then
+ echo "Stopped SLEE"
else
echo "Problem stopping SLEE"
fi


The diff shows the changes so you can confirm that you're on the right track!

We then just issue a merge to revert the file, and then a commit!


Chill:files idimmu$ svn merge -r 1256:1255 slee
--- Reverse-merging r1256 into 'slee':
U slee
Chill:files idimmu$ svn commit -m "rolling back the slee init script"
Sending files/slee
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 1519.


and we're all done :D