Sigmundvoid

I have recently switched to another job and one of my tasks was to find a good monitoring system, since the one currently depolyed is a mismatch of different ones, it does the job, but we want to try and have everything under one umbrella so to speak.

So what did I use? Thats a bit of a story…

NAGIOS
Synonymous with monitoring Nagios is usually a the port of call for any task like this, but its not the most friendly when it comes to configuration,  so I installed Groundwork to elevate some of that potentiall trouble, Groundwork is a web based GUI for Nagios, while it was very easy to install and get up and running it just didnt click with me when I was using it, seemed cumbersome to me.

ZENOSS
Another web based monitoring system, far nicer than Groundwork, had trouble though getting it to use SNMP on the Cisco routers, so my impatiance got the better of me and I decided to look again.

HYPERIC
I love pictures,  screenshots and from the website Hyperic looked grand, I was kind of concerned that it was wrote in JAVA and didnt really like it much that I had to install an agent on the machine that I wanted to monitor, but I gave it a whirl and loved it! It takes a while to get used to the terminolgy, but once grasped its a very powerful tool that detects everything that the agent is running on, i.e. whether its an Exchange server, MS SQL server, it readly then gives me granualar information about the services that server provides.

So for now, Hyperic is it, does everything I want it to do and more, It allows me to get my hands dirty and yet still spare me from sinking huge chunks of time into getting it working and monitoring my network and its respective devices

Ill keep you posted on my progress and how its fitting into our grand scheme of things.

And I quote:

Hello Psymon101, do you speak English (UK)?
Help translate Facebook into English (UK) so that it can be used by people all over the world, in all languages.

Besides the different spelling of a few things, like grey and gray, color to colour,
what is there to translate?

Example 1:

English(US) : “Hi, I am one of the new translators for Facebook”
English(UK #2): “Wotcha there, I am one of the new translators for facebook!  ”
English(UK #3): “Allroyt, I yam ‘un of the noo translators fer facebook.”

Here we have two “UK” translations of the same thing, if I lived in the city of London I would probably say Example 2, if I lived in Birmingham I would say Example 3.

This is, as with many things about Facebook things that can be filled under ridiculous, the only thing that Facebook has ever offered me is a great way to get in contact with friends of long ago. As for their silly apps/games they just don’t appeal to me., I just cant see the point!

So Facebook, if you see some “translations” in Brummy or Cockney (Example 3 and 2 respectively) you know what translator did the deed.

Its took a while, but I have finally moved the blog to another hosting service, working on the theme now I do see one post not working here due to some URL problem, but they are just images..

Last note, due to the sheer amount of comment spam I have had to make it so to comment you must register first, I appologize for this, but I am hoping it stops alot the spam… I also tried the comment spam filters, no worky:(

With all the going on concerning the massive bailout Wall Street was given this picture
came to mind.. Please remember that this poster was designed in 1911!

Testing my iPhone

  Doing my morning browsing before I set into work mode for the day I found this wonderful article at Stronglifts, check it here.  It really does ring true on a lot of points as regards to how we  place mental blocks upon ourselves, plus the owner of this blog has wonderful advice for all strength lifters..

Oh dear, I havent really wrote for a while now, in R.L. things are rather hectic… but still, with laptop on lap, dog by side sleeping I  decided to give a snoopsis on whats going down..

I <3 OSX
I managed to install OSX upon my Dell M90, ofcourse I didnt format my Vista partition, just used gparted to rezise a nice 20gig partition,  ofcourse I wouldnt recommending installing OSX since its not exactly legal. Anyway I used the Kalyway 10.5.2 release of OSX, a special version of OSX with support for alot of PC hardware.

In the past I hahve fiddled quickly with OSX but nothing serious, yet the more I used it the more I just fell in love with it, Linux with a fast and friendly desktop, what more do you really need?  Well nothing:) with the help of Vmaare Fusion you can run your windows apps in tandem with your OSX apps as though they are one nice
intergrated OS.

Its not all roses though, since I am using a “hacked” version of OSX I didnt get sound to work via the headphones, apparently my chipset (Sigmatel 9221) is on the problem list, but everything else worked like a charm, due to the legalities though and the possible questions I would get from clients looking at my laptop I since removed it.. I filled that void then with OpenSuse 11, just to see how thast distro is comming along… no OSX, but still nice and polished, but this is not about Suse..

The 2 weeks I ran OSX exclusively has made me realise that OSX is a pure gem in my eyes and even though Apple sells overpriced hardware to run it upon its just maybe what I have been looking for all these years…. Anyone want to buy a Dell M90 ?:)

Kitties!
Everyone loves the Kittah, my wife volunteers at our local animal shelter here in town, its kitty seasion and she is fostering kittens to prepare them for kitty loving
people like yourselfs to adopt, she is writing a blog about the kittens she is adopting, check it out here. Her bog also has details on adoption, incase you fall in love with one or all of the kittens:)

Thats it for now, more soon:) By the way, my spell checker is not working on the built in editor within wordpress, so now you can see how bad I really do spell:)

This will appeal to the hardcore geeks… The video below shows a chap who with a single micro controller wrote a demo, but with an extra twist, he wrote a software based GPU and software based audio functionality. That’s one extraordinary feat!

Initially the video has the chap giving you a brief description of the specifics, then follows he’s creation..

Enjoy..