Archive for September, 2009
Current cost meter and Nagios plugin
After a highly entertaining talk by Andy Stanford-Clark, I have finally wired up my CurrentCost meter to the computer. In fact it’s a shiny new CC128 device which can accept multiple inputs.
A short while later and I have made this Nagios plugin so that I can monitor it using Opsview. Graphs in a [...]
Posted: September 16th, 2009 under My setup.
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Upgraded router with DGTeam firmware
Just upgraded my Netgear DG834 (v2) modem with the DGTeam fireware. This removes the MSN block that the original has (which I could never get rid of other via hacking in and removing it from time to time). Now I don’t need to use the MSN proxy I can also try the Empathy [...]
Posted: September 8th, 2009 under My setup.
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Bitcube
I’ve now left Opsera to run my own Linux infrastructure consultancy company called Bitcube. I’m looking to do some consultancy, a bit of contract work based around the excellent puppet. A product is also in the pipeline although it is very early days for that.
One thing I’m very keen on is giving back [...]
Posted: September 8th, 2009 under Life, Linux, Work.
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