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Making OpenDAB, FEC and the Psion Wavefinder work on x64

November 7, 2011 - Geek , Internet , Linux , Radio - by admin - 3 Comments

I’ve had a Psion Wavefinder for a while now, and it’s never really worked that well due to the rather bad combination of poorly written amateur radio related software, out of date build environments (see the previous argument), and the fact that most amateur radio enthusiasts seem to use Windows […]

Bifferboard powered weather station

November 6, 2011 - Geek , Linux , Technology - by admin - No Comments

So, I’ve been busy hacking bits and bobs together. End result is a VPN endpoint with a weather station attached to it. Win! http://lodge.glasgownet.com/tech/remote-bifferboard-powered-weather-station/

Checking time over SNMP

November 3, 2011 - Geek , Linux , Windows - by admin - No Comments

Not content with watching clocks drift on servers, I thought it might be prudent to keep an eye on such things. We already monitor our NTP server drift with Nagios, so why not extend it to all of our Linux servers? The only catch here is that not all servers […]

Nagios and SNMP Storage Checks

October 12, 2011 - Geek , Linux - by admin - 1 Comment

Not content with ruining my life with Nagios, a while back I thought it would be wise to keep an eye on disk usage with Nagios. Admittedly most of this is documented in the documentation at http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_storage.html but I thought one thing should be highlighted – the ability to exclude […]

Upstart & pywws

February 2, 2011 - Computers , Geek , Home Automation - by admin - 2 Comments

Not content with some shonky bash script launched from rc.local, I had a quick look at Upstart. It’s a million times easier than I expected. Simply stick the following into /etc/init/pywws.conf and let upstart do the rest. If you want to start the app, just run service pywws start after […]