The killer idea, death by invention
Sun, 31/08/08 – 2:59 | No Comment

1944AC: Inventor and chemist Thomas Midgley, Jr. accidentally strangled himself with the cord of a pulley-operated mechanical bed of his own design.
Turns out Thomas Midgley, Jr. also invented CFCs but didn’t live long enough to …

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Converting 32bit RRD to 64bit RRD (moving cacti between architectures)
Saturday, 3 Oct, 2009 – 15:25 | One Comment

While migrating cacti over to a new virtual machine I got “ERROR: This RRD was created on another architecture” in /var/log/httpd/error_log when the crontab ran resulting in blank graphs.

CentOS 5.3 Smokeping 2.4.2 Install (quick)
Monday, 29 Jun, 2009 – 17:20 | 9 Comments

Install the latest smokeping (without distributed polling) on a virgin Centos 5.3 minimal box… It’s probably the best (free) tool for monitoring network latency at a glance.
Examples: Pipe Ten Derby and Pipe Ten Sheffield.

CentOS 5.3 Zabbix 1.6.5 Install (quick)
Friday, 19 Jun, 2009 – 13:08 | 4 Comments

A quick reference for a from-scratch Zabbix install on CentOS 5.3. We’ve used Zabbix for the past 3 or 4 years and just implementing 1.6.5 across multiple Xen nodes for funky distributed monitoring.

Ardunio Visible Distance Detector v1.0 snippet
Monday, 24 Nov, 2008 – 23:09 | No Comment

/*
This code receives input from the SRF02 ultrasonic and maps the values to RGB outputs to a tri-colour LED.
*/

Arduino and HD44780 LCD v1.0 snippet
Saturday, 20 Sep, 2008 – 23:04 | One Comment

/* LCD display with 4 DataPins
* ——–
*
* This is a example in how to use an LCD screen
* configured with data transfers over 2 x 4 bits. The example
* based on the “LCD Hola example” …