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- February 8, 2010 – 9:05 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
This is my admittedly minor but I hope useful contribution to the TinyOS development community. TinyOS is an Operating System and development framework for Wireless Sensor Networks and other platforms which has a small footprint and is very energy conscious.
The TinyOS source code is available for free online for many operating systems, however it takes a [...]
Categories: Programs, Software, Ubuntu
Tagged: tinyos, ubuntos, Ubuntu, virtualbox
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- September 29, 2009 – 5:00 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
I was recently tasked with copying speaker’s presentations, files and handouts onto 100s of USB Drives (key drives) for a conference that work is hosting down in Washington, D.C. My first thought was that it was going to be a pain to have to copy/paste the files to each drive. I thought about creating a [...]
Categories: Hardware, Other Code, Programs
Tagged: conference, key drive, tips, tricks, usb drive, usb key drive
- Published:
- August 5, 2009 – 9:16 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
You’ve flashed your old WRT54G or other vanilla router with the Tomato firmware. This itself turns your router into a lean, mean routing machine with QOS, SSH and more, but let’s say we want to take it a bit further. What it we want to get some more stats out of it?
In order to do [...]
Categories: Code Samples, Configurations, Hardware, Linux, Other Code, Programs, Shell, Software, System Administration, Tech
Tagged: cacti, firmware, network, router, SNMP, sysadmin
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- May 3, 2009 – 11:12 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Zabbix is an excellent system monitoring package. It does everything from basic availability checking to detailed system resource analysis. It is capable of graphing the variables pulled from the system, and alerting admins if there is a problem or something needed for attention.
Once you have the Zabbix server set up, you need to install the [...]
Categories: CentOS, Code Samples, Configurations, Linux, Programs, System Administration
Tagged: agent, alerts, monitoring, zabbix
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- December 29, 2008 – 3:58 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
I recently got stuck while trying to install Headless Virtualbox on a Centos 5.2 server per the directions at Howtoforge here. The RPM failed with the error that it couldn’t find the kernel source. I thought I had already installed kernel-devel, and confirmed that I did. The instructions were to define the KERN_DIR variable like [...]
Categories: Configurations, Linux, Programs, Shell, Software, System Administration
Tagged: error, kernel, virtualbox