Archive for April, 2008

I use Nagios to monitor my small network, so I wanted to add my ReadyNAS NV+ to the setup and chose to do so with SNMP. The ReadyNAS supports SNMP, but you must enable it in FrontView.
Download READYNAS-MIB.txt and drop it into /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ (or wherever you keep your MIBS).
After enabling SNMP on your NAS, and [...]

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 at 20:59 | 2 comments
Categories: Hardware, Nagios
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 at 20:32 | 0 comments
Categories: MacOSX
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The ATI Radeon 9800 in the missus' PC died of heat on the weekend. Not that it was so hot here, but I opened the case, and it appears that the fan on the card got stuck, so the card overheated.
I called Dell support. After discussing the situation with two different people, both with a [...]

Monday, April 28th, 2008 at 11:19 | 0 comments
Categories: Hardware
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Thanks for the T-shirt, guys, I really appreciate it:

and it fits. I hope the chapter in my book does your brand new server justice.

Monday, April 28th, 2008 at 07:06 | 0 comments
Categories: DNS, dnsbook
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A comment posted the other day made me consider writing up a bit on how I got started with LaTeX, so here goes.
When the idea of writing a book was born, I dreaded the thought of using a typical word processor to do the job; I've used MS-Word (in umpteen versions except the latest: I [...]

Sunday, April 27th, 2008 at 23:46 | 2 comments
Categories: Books, CLI, Linux, MacOSX, dnsbook
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Thanks, Nic.

Saturday, April 26th, 2008 at 09:48 | 0 comments
Categories: Entertainement
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Early yesterday, I detected that our outgoing BATV signatures weren't correctly being verified upon being returned to us, and some Exim debugging confirmed that:

13:06:15 15374 prvscheck: received hash is b745ee
13:06:15 15374 prvscheck: own hash is b745ee
13:06:15 15374 prvscheck: signature expired, $pvrs_result unset

Unfortunately I had to disable BATV until that was [...]

Friday, April 25th, 2008 at 07:57 | 0 comments
Categories: Exim, Mail
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Wir befassen uns heute mit der Spezies Nocens Executor, besser bekannt als "schlechter CIO".
Mehr>
[danke, Jürgen.]

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 at 11:26 | 0 comments
Categories: Entertainement
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