hddtemp wrapper for Nagios

I was bored tonight so I wrote a wrapper for hddtemp for Nagios monitoring. I have a bit of a quirky setup for Nagios where I run the local system checks on remote systems via netcat, ipsvd, and a script to handle the query. This allows me to monitor remote …

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libcdio and package auditing

There was a vulnerability in libcdio that we sat on for quite a bit because I had accidentally found another way to crash iso-info. Took some time to figure it all out, but we were persistent and Gustavo came up with the fix for all supported libcdio versions.

I don't …

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How to open the Vista box

If you've ever wondered exactly who it is that Microsoft is catering their operating system, wonder no further. For those of who have bought Vista and haven't been able to figure out how to open the box, I have the answer for you. Don't feel bad if you've had Vista …

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Holy Cold Batman!

Well, yesterday was pretty nice considering it's nearing the end of January.. had a high of about -2C. Today.. drastic difference. Woke up and the thermometer read -15C and it was blizzard-like conditions... not heavy snow, but a pretty brisk wind. Currently it's -24C, but with the windchill, it feels …

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Easter humour

Well, it's a little bit early for easter, but I'm cleaning my desktop and came across the following graphic, which is perhaps one of the amusing things that has made it's way to my email recently that sets me to grinning every time I look at it. Enjoy!

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Converting Active Directory to Samba+OpenLDAP

Anyone have any experience with this? I may end up (and will be proposing) that the school my wife works for looks into replacing their (falling apart, IMHO) Win2k server using Active Directory for the domain controller and whatnot to a solution using Samba and OpenLDAP (and I'm presuming kerberos …

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