I read today the following news: “Le Centre de l’Informatique de la Région bruxelloise (CIRB) procédera au cours de l’année 2005 au renouvellement et à l’extension de l’équipement informatique mis à la disposition de 147 établissements scolaires du réseau secondaire (113 F et 34 N) de la capitale ayant adhéré
Format your old disks!
Are you selling old hard disk drives on Ebay from time to time? Sure, it’s a great way to get some money back against unused hardware! But, did you always take care of their content? How do you format them? Read this story: Old hard drives yield data bonanza. For
Where do you want to go today?
1. Go to http://mappoint.msn.com/DirectionsFind.aspx 2. Start address Norway / city: haugesund 3. Destination address Norway / city: trondheim 4. Press get directions 5. Smile…
Is your computer “hot” ?
Are you looking for an original CPU monitor? Try this one… Site: http://dindinx.net/hotbabe/ PS: Don’t be afraid to charge the CPU once the tool has been started! 😉
Why reinvent the wheel?
From time to time, all UNIX admins have to quickly write a small shell script to automate specific tasks or monitor data. Why reinvent the wheel? BigAdmin has plenty of ready-to-use scripts classified per categories: Installation, Backup/Restore, Monitoring, Filesystems, … See: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/scripts/indexMon.html
DeLL RAID monitoring thru Nagios
Now, that I can manage my RAID controllers via a command line interface (See this story), the next step was to integrate this tool to Nagios. I found the following URL: http://www.linagora.org/article76.html (in French). But the check_raid script was written to check local RAID only. So I patched my nagios_statd
DeLL needs sound to manage servers?
I’m managing several DeLL servers with builtin RAID controllers. They run Linux and, of course, I need to have a view as complete as possible of the system status. I went on the DeLL website dedicated to “Linux on DeLL hardware” (http://linux.dell.com/) and found some interesting resources. I downloaded a
About Banksys system crash…
I read the following comment in Data News (17/12/2004) regarding the problem encountered by Banksys in the beginning of December: “Le matériel et le software de notre fournisseur HP ne sont pas en cause. C’est du solide. Pas comme Microsoft: nous ne nous permettrions jamais de travailler sous environnement Windows,
White night?
White night for me today! 🙁 Nov 30 21:13:54 kuifje unix: [ID 198239 kern.notice] free: freeing free block, dev:0x76000000b0, block:40432, ino:6291714, fs:/depot Then: [ 22:34:00 root@1-kuifje 0 ] /depot # find . -inum 6291714 -ls find: cannot open .: I/O error
Belgacom hotspots on your Tomtom GPS!
A very cool initiative from Belgacom, the Belgian historical operator. They provide a list of their hotspots as POI (Point of Interest) for the TomTom Navigator! Download: http://www.belgacom.be/web/Portal/hotspot/hotspot_gps.zip