linux

So you have a mobile broadband dongle and you want to use it on Linux, one option is to just plug it in and from Gnome 3 it just works and can be set-up instantly with NetworkManager.

What has Gnome 3 done to my g’s:

I use nagios to monitor servers. It’s great. I just thought I would share a quick snippet that I just put in my vimrc. It sorts the servers listed in host_name lines so they are in alphabetical order.

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, so it got me thinking. I decided to do some basic analysis.

On Sunday (03/10/2010) my laptop had 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 log in on a virtual console.

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 playing 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].