An It-slave in the digital saltmine

Do you want Nagios or op5 Monitor notifications to be sent by MSN? Follow the steps below to implement it. This is a hint from my colleague Martin Kamijo, kudos to him 😛

I found a nerd test http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php I did the test and I got a rather good score: 2% scored higher (more nerdy), 1% scored the same, and 97% scored lower (less nerdy). And a nice picture to put on my homepage:

Do you have a traffic lights that just lay around? I do or more accurate, I did. After some soldering, here is the result:

In an article in Svenska Dagbladet the claim that Linux is not only for geeks. Now with the minicomputers like Asus EeePC Linux is widely used by non computer geeks and for “normal” humans it is as easy to use as Windows. Read the article in Swedish here.

To make everybody on your office jealous buy a binary watch. It shows the time in a semi binary format. I think a true geek watch should show the number of seconds since epoch in binary, but a very few could translate that to time used in the normal world. Thinkgeek is the obvius place […]

After succefully get your 1-wire bus working with OWFS and been able to read the temperatures, it is time to create some nice graphs. The red line is the temperature and the blue is the sliding avarage temperature the last 24 hours. I’m using RRDTools to store the data and create the graphs. If you […]

Are you jealous at the cool scrolling signs that stockbrokers have at their offices. Of course, stock rates are boring, it is much more fun/cooler/geekier to have op5 Monitor or Nagios messages at your scrolling LED. I find one at Clas Ohlson for 37SEK approx 4 EUR, and after a late night with some perl […]

I do not like spam. This a problem that grows and there are many technologies how to fight it. As I’m the sysadmin of my mailserver it makes it possible to use many approaches. The best way is to find out if it is a spam before it is accepted at the SMTP server. I’m […]

To make my computer to be able to use the 1-wire protocol I’m using OWFS. The packages to get it running on CentOS5 or RHEL5 can be found here. It has several options and I like the client-server model mainly because it is easy to use the 1-wire stuff in perl in his case. To […]

It all started with that I wanted to keep track of the temperature in my DataCenter, called PDC (Peters DataCenter), in my basement. I have a couple of computers running 24×7 and if the doors are closed and the outdoor temperature is hot it can get very warm. I have an op5 Monitor system that […]