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Netsaint AKA Nagios

by Bryan Strawser · Aug 5, 2002

I’m using NetSaint now to monitor my network and some friend / client machines – pretty good system.  Still have to update to Nagios and install the temperature sensor that I purchased from a local company.  Should be pretty neat when I’m finished.


Need to get the MySQL monitoring portion complete – still have problems getting that module to compile.


Any ideas?



Monitoring Network Services with NetSaint. Like many people, you might not pay as much attention to your car’s fuel gauge as you should. You might only notice the gauge when the gas tank is nearly empty. Some new cars, though, have a nice feature: a dashboard indicator light that reads “Low Fuel” when there is about an eighth of a tank left. This strategy is much better than, say, the “Oil” light; by the time that light comes on, the car is already in trouble. [Linux Magazine]

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Let’s light the funeral pyre…

by Bryan Strawser · Aug 5, 2002

Social Security should be eliminated.



Anyone with a brain knows that Social Security is a fallback. No one RELIES on SS for retirement (or if they do, they shouldn’t be expecting too much). It’s the backup. The backstop. Without that, THEN what do you propose we do? Our hypothetical Mary invested in what she had available to her…her 401k from work. She didn’t have the money available to her to buy real estate as an investment. She didn’t have the money available to day trade. And even if she had, what if real estate had plummeted? What if she lost it all in an Enron day trade?  [kerri News]

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Just upgraded to ORiNOCO…

by Bryan Strawser · Aug 5, 2002

I just upgraded to ORiNOCO this past weekend – got a gold card for my main laptop and an AP-500 off of eBay.  The signal strength is awesome.  I still need to run ethernet and power up to the attic and place the access point there, but the difference is already clearly apparant.  I can be wireless in the upstairs shitter now.



Proxim completes Agere product line acquisition: It’s just plain old business news, but it’s part of a big change ahead for Proxim: Proxim Corporation (Nasdaq: PROX), a leading manufacturer of wireless networking equipment, today completed its previously announced acquisition of Agere Systems’ 802.11 wireless local area networking (WLAN) equipment business, including the award-winning ORiNOCO (R) product line, for $65 million in cash.  [80211b News]

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E-Mail, E-Mail…

by Bryan Strawser · Aug 5, 2002

Interesting move by Lyris – for the crazy-ass prices they charge, they should easily have the cash to pull this off.. Their software prices are out of control…



Lyris Acquires SparkLIST. The move consolidates the e-mail ASP with its technology provider, which is looking to expand its list hosting business. [internetnews.com: Internet Advertising Report]

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Liquor…

by Bryan Strawser · Aug 4, 2002

Finally got around to reading this article, via Jeremy’s blog..  Pretty good summary of things..  There are some great comments here regarding various Vodkas and the like.  I’m a scotch guy myself, but I do like a good quality vodka.



K5 Liquor Guide. I’ve been doing a lot of catch-up reading at K5 recently. I found the Liquor Guide to be particularly helpful…. [Jeremy Zawodny’s blog]

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PHP/RSS Feeds

by Bryan Strawser · Aug 4, 2002

PHP parsing of RSS. Jason of the The Trommetter Times has some nice PHP scripts for parsing RSS…. [Content Syndication with XML and RSS]

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MySQL Tuning Problems

by Bryan Strawser · Aug 4, 2002

I’m only running Linux here, but I completely understand Jeremy’s frustration with this.  I had a major problem with my main DB server (running MySQL) a few months ago – it would get a load average pushing 500-600 before settling down.  Some MySQL memory setting changes seems to have fixed it….  Frustrating…



MySQL, Linux, FreeBSD, and Swap Space. I spent a fair amount of time of Friday trying figure out why our FreeBSD servers running MySQL 4.0.2 were… [Jeremy Zawodny’s blog]

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