• HP 3-cell Battery for Mini 110 Series (BX03) (NY221AA#UUF)
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The 6-cell batteries are regular price but the coupon should also work.

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How to murder a Blog

Me.

During a server upgrade a few years ago I ran a script to automatically update the code on all of my sites. It just so happened that the script was based on my new site install script which included the above robots.txt line to prevent staging sites from getting indexed before their launch.

So, you guessed it, it took me just long enough to notice my FUBAR that Inert Ramblings had effectively disappeared off the Net over the course of two weeks. Unfortunately, recovery wasn’t as simple as just restoring the original robots.txt and the site instantly reappearing; it still took months for Google and other search engines to reindex the entire site and for traffic to pick back up.

Is there a moral to the story (other than pointing and laughing at me)? Sure. Be absolutely certain that none of your maintenance scripts make unexpected changes to robots.txt or any other config file. Luckily only one site was effected in the long-term but it could have been much worse had it taken longer for me to notice.

Also pay special attention to the release notes. Just because a Firmware version is on the download page for a particular model doesn’t mean it will work. We had to mix and match with Firmware version 4.1.3 for the IP 4000 and 4.2.0 for the IP 430. This is difficult (but not impossible) since pre-4.0 Firmware versions look for bootrom.ld instead of modelnumber.bootrom.ld in 4.0 and higher versions.

The solution was simple; I dropped the following files into place:

• IP 430 4.2.0 Bootrom (Split) 2345-11402-001.bootrom.ld
• IP 430 3.1.3RevC SIP (Split) 2345-11402-001.sip.ld
• IP 4000 4.1.3 Bootrom (Split) 2201-06642-001.bootrom.ld
• IP 4000 3.1.3RevC SIP (Split) 2201-06642-001.sip.ld
• Generic 4.1.3 Bootrom (Combined) bootrom.ld

This way both the IP 430 and the IP 4000 will properly flash themselves with the 4.1.3 Combined image, then the IP 430 will step up to the 4.2.0 Split image on its next reboot.

For even more fun, the new macaddress.cfg files support per-model config files, so I also created phone1-3.1.3C.cfg and sip-3.1.3C.cfg to selectively upgrade a few phones for testing.

Oh, and remember to move bootrom.ld out of the way if you only want to test upgrade a few phones you’ve pre-modified config files for. You really don’t want to brick your whole office, do you?

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