[geeks] Dell T105 Server, CPU and RAM upgrade

Nate nate at portents.com
Thu Mar 19 21:18:54 CDT 2009


On Mar 19, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:

> nate at portents.com wrote:
>>> Then again, we are talking about the same idiots who have put the  
>>> 10KB
>>> readme txt file for the T105 MIBs into a selfextracting exe which  
>>> takes
>>> up 96KB & only allows windows users to view the txt file!! WTF!?!
>>>
>>> http://ftp.us.dell.com/sysman/DCMIB55R.exe
>> I had no trouble extracting that in Ubuntu Linux - must be a
>> self-extracting ZIP file (or some other compressed standard),  
>> because I
>> could just right click on it and select "Extract Here" and I got a
>> readme_mibs.txt file.  Still, kind of silly that they made it a
>> self-extracting archive, because really, what OS can't uncompress a  
>> ZIP
>> file these days?
>> - Nate
>
> You can't extract winzip self extractors on OS X

Really.  Have you tried?

Mini:Desktop nate$ unzip DCMIB55R.exe
Archive:  DCMIB55R.exe
   inflating: readme_mibs.txt

And I'll leave it as an exercise for our readers to discover all the  
third party tools that can also do it.

- Nate



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