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A colleague asked me how much bandwidth Spotify uses. I basically had no idea. I want to run Spotify on my mobile at some point it so it got me thinking.

This year seems to have flown by so it’s resolutions time again. I’ve done quite well, I manged to stay relatively healthy and read loads of books but I failed completely to keep up to date with LWN.

Too many tabs!

Rsync is ace. It’s also available for Windows as part of the cygwin distro. Every time I need it I have to do a token cygwin install, install rsync, copy out the various rsync files and remote the cygwin install.

On Sunday (03/10/2010) my laptop has a bad crash. The screen went blank, I could still see the cursor and move it around but could do nothing else. I could not even login on a virtual console, after I typed the user name it came straight back with a login prompt again.

This is a quick guide on how to configure an ODBC connection from windows to a Symantec OpsCenter Server. OpsCenter is a Symantec product that integrates various backup products including Netbackup to generate various reports and warnings about how the systems are performing.

OpsCenter is a Symantec product that makes reports for various backup products including Symantec NetBackup. I recently decided that I wanted to improve the reporting of our backups so looked into paying with OpsCenter.

I use Nagios for monitoring. Up to recently I used a regular modem to send sms text messages to various people when systems are going wrong. The way this works is by using smsclient which dials up to a TAP server.

I was looking at a development web site I am involved with and I was interested in where the site was in the big bad world, so I decided to traceroute to it[1].

I go to spinning quite a bit and have had I think six teachers over the last year since I started. I think every teacher has one phrase they use most, this not a bad thing, it’s just something I have noticed.