The soft whisper of the voices in my head
Some time ago I posted a nagios plugin I had knocked together for monitoring network interfaces using snmp. Much to my surprise, a number of people have found the plugin useful and suggested some enhancements to make it more useful. Read More …
I have an EVGA NF66 motherboard based on the nVidia 650i Ultra chipset that I was configuring to use as a VMware host / iSCSI SAN, but every time I started to stress test it, it would hang in a Read More …
I use Wake-On-LAN quite a bit to boot my remote machines when I need access to do something on them or they have died after a prolonged power failure. OK, really I’m just too lazy to walk down to the Read More …
I have written a couple more Nagios plugins for use with NRPE on linux machines. The first one, “check_cpu.sh ,” grabs the cpu state from “/proc/stats” and sends back a status result and perfdata. You can tell it to send Read More …
While looking around for a nagios plugin to monitor the ethernet interfaces on my equipment, I just could not find one that did exactly what I wanted. So… I did exactly what OSS was designed for. I took a plugin Read More …
Recently, on the Mythtv-users mailing list, Gabe Rubin posted a question asking why he was getting no thumbnails in his mythweb view. Having already resolved that problem in my own environment, I told him that there was a bug in CIFS that Read More …
Although I do 99% of the remote administration on my linux servers via a ssh terminal, it is sometimes desirable to connect to the root X11 display. Fortunately X11 has a built-in method for doing this. Step 1: Add the following Read More …
I currently record all my shows in MythTV using a couple of Hauppauge PVR-[12]50’s. This works great, but I sometimes record shows originally filmed in HD and they show up as letterboxed 4:3 shows. This isn’t a problem when I Read More …
Since I haven’t been able to find a version of VMWare Server that works properly under Vista as a host system, I have fallen back to using MS Virtual PC 2007 to run the VMs on my desktop machine. This Read More …
I use VMWare Server on a couple of machines to run various linux and windows guest virtual machines. Depending on what cpu and what kind of power management I have enabled on the host machine I can see some very severe Read More …