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IPMI and CentOS with the N36L

December 24, 2012

Over this weekend I’ve been setting up Nagios on my Microserver.  Specifically, I want to have alerting when/if the Microserver reaches critical conditions such as RAID device failure, over temperature, on UPS, stuff like that.

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Pushover – Easy Notifications

December 16, 2012

Recently got myself a new work phone - a Galaxy S3 4G.  At the same time, I decided to do some research on what I could do about getting notifications to the phone.  Notifications of things like RAID array problems, stuff going onto UPS power, that sort of thing.

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Password Reuse – Just Don’t.

December 4, 2012

Another XKCD to illustrate poignantly the evil that is password re-use;

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Password Selection

December 4, 2012

The following sums up about what this post will be regarding perfectly.

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Raspberry Pi and Argus TV/MediaPortal

December 1, 2012

I recently set up my Raspberry Pi so that I could watch TV and videos from my MediaPortal media center.
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Triple-head with Guild Wars 2

November 28, 2012

Over the weekend I decided to go and give Guild Wars 2 a go.  I’d heard some good things about it, and I wanted to try it out since I’m after something that’s in the fantasy MMO style, but doesn’t attract a subscription fee.

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