random notes, guides, and thoughts…
January 1, 2013
The dmesg log on CentOS frequently is missing timestamps. While it can probably be added, what I wanted to do was add a mark to dmesg every few hours so I’d know how the passage of time went with it. This can be done with a simple cron job in /etc/cron.d, like this;
December 28, 2012
I’ve been spending way too much time today engaging in epic battle with Avidemux (a good tool, although I’m pretty angry at it right now) trying to get it to convert videos into a specific format, from the command line. Anyway, I finally figured it out.
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.
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.
December 4, 2012
Another XKCD to illustrate poignantly the evil that is password re-use;
December 4, 2012
The following sums up about what this post will be regarding perfectly.