Friday, July 27th, 2007, is the 8th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication.
Let’s face it, System Administrators get no respect 364 days a year. This is the day that all fellow System Administrators across the [...]
WARNING: I am not a programmer, I don’t claim to be so it is quite likely that the code you will find here will horrify you!
As part of my drive to monitor as much as possible of my systems I realised that creating an intermediate daemon for WMI would allow me to access some of [...]
I’ve been extremely busy moving house for the past few days so haven’t had much time to catch up on stuff but here are a few things that you might find useful:
Nick Halstead has just done a best of assembleron post. A good place to check out developer / IT Management info and discussion
I’ve finally [...]
How to get your MP3’s playing
The ‘Perfect’ Fedora 7 setup (I wouldn’t totally agree but hey)
As always my NVidia 6600GT caused problems and in order to utilize the graphical setup I had to add vga=791 to the initial command line arguments for setup. With that done and following Mauriat Miranda’s steps for installing the [...]
With the summer fast approaching I’ve noticed that the temperatures in the Server room have been increasing. I’ve yet to turn the AirCon units on as that would use way more power than I’m prepared to use when the weather is still mild. All that aside I thought it best to start monitoring temperatures across [...]
This self made rack cabinet reminded me of the days of ONIMOS and I quote:
“Where else would you find a switch and server racked up with a piece of 2×4, an ADSL modem dangling from a coathanger rail by its power cable, a £600 Wireless Access Point secured to a wall with masking tape.”
mon.itor.us is [...]
This link dump is geared towards stuff that made today a hell of a lot easier to get through:
Splunk is software that indexes and allows you to search all your server logs from any application in real time.
MRTG which was originally for Routers (Hence Multi Router Traffic Graph) can be an invaluable tool for monitoring [...]
I was at a loss of what to do with this domain and it occured to me that the site that spawned this domain OurNetworkIsMadeOfString used to be a sort of blog. To be more precise I guess it could be described as a chronicle of the things we did whilst I was at Uni. [...]