An It-slave in the digital saltmine

I’ve got a hint from a partner to take a peak at http://folk.uio.no/trondham/software/check_openmanage.html It describes How-To monitor Dell hardware with Nagios, of course it works perfectly well with op5 Monitor aswell.

This guide describe howto install and configure SNMP on Ubuntu. In an earlier article I have described howto set it up on RHES or CentOS, it is slightly different in Ubuntu.     1.Installation root@ibsen:~# sudo apt-get install snmpd Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree       Reading state information… Done The following packages were automatically […]

Sometimes I ask myself why does not person X living in country Y not answer the phone or email. When I try the switchboard nobody answer. Maybe they have a holiday in that part of the world. A tool to find that out is “Earth Calendar” http://www.earthcalendar.net/ So mabe the reason that my blog dropped […]

At my home the most critical system is the MythTV system and a MythTV downtime will create a revolt at home. This article will describe howto make sure that a MythTV backend can be surveillanced with Nagios or op5 Monitor. I have in earlier articles described howto install and configure both the backend and the […]

Background In earlier articles I’ve described howto install mythbuntu and configure the backend In this article I assume that you have a workin Xbox with a quit new version of XBMC. Download xbmcmythtv The xbmcmythtv is not being maintained anymore so the version downloadable from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmcmythtv/ does not work with newer versions of MythTV. However, […]

Part1 can be found here. Start To configure the newly installed MythTV system run: mythtv-setup The settings will we be default if nothing else is mentioned.

My MythTV systems root disk crashed so I need to reinstall it. I will keep my progress posted in this blog. The Backend hardware: IBM Desktop PIII 800Mhz 512 Mb memory 120 Gb disk Hauppauge PVR-350 The frontend hardware is an old Xbox, with XBMC. I downloaded Mythbuntu and installed it on the MythTV backend […]

I have a modern laptop with 4Gb memory so in theory I should gain from running 64 bit Linux. I installed Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop x86_64 and had som problems with: Java based webpages Flash I spend several hours with google and tested several versions av java and flash plugins. I managed to get flash running […]

A friend of mine did send me a desperate email, explaining that her 1½ year old son in less then a second managed to tilt her windows desktop to the right on her work laptop. After a simple google search I stumbled into the following link: http://internetducttape.com/2006/08/01/stupid-windows-features-monitor-display-turns-sideways-or-upside-down/ The solution was simple after finding this link […]

If you are the lucky owner of a PlayStation Portable, Congratulations. Unfortunatly Sony has created a broken machine. It cannot play videos in full resolution with the builtin player, if you do not buy extremely expensive UMD discs. One way of playing full resolution movies is using the PMP Mod player: http://jonny.leffe.dnsalias.com/