… mammoth cave …
In the previous post I have mentioned that I managed to connect to the wifi from the field near my home and I failed to find the WiFi at home.
Occasionally I had to check for WiFi at home at different locations of my flat! I found one with an excellent connectivity and unprotected :) Now I have internet at home.
As I have probably already mentioned, I do not have any internet connection at home which makes me feel bored during the weekends.
Few days ago I got a laptop, which had wireless card in it. I checked if I can access any wireless from inside of my home, but unfortunately there are no access points around :(
Today I decided to go for walk on the field near by my place and I took the laptop with me check if any connections are available there. Guess what – I found 3 of them and I managed to connect to one of them. I am currently writing this post through that connection. I will try to find better place to sit here and will spend some time on internet during the weekends here :)
Finally I got a nice laptop to work with. It is a new HP nx6110 laptop with Intel Mobile Centrino 1.7GHz, 512 RAM, 60 GB HDD and a whole bunch of stuff which is normally supplied with a laptop like wireless, bluetooth and so on.
Although this laptop does not belong to me, I can use it all the time, which is enough for me. My latest activities involve a lot of running here and there and in most of the cases I need a laptop for either having a nice repository of software nearby, connection to some tricky devices, backuping something or just to do some small tasks in the applications I run on the laptop. In addition I use it as a mobile development platform for small stuff I need to do.
I hope that one day I will buy my personal laptop, but until that this is enough.
I\’ve beet fighting with the CP1251 char encoding to work with Kopete ICQ for a while and finally I found how to enable it properly.
After creating the ICQ account withing the Kopete, edit ~/.kde/share/config/kopeterc and under [ICQ] part of the config change DefaultEncoding to 2251.
The problem is that CP1251 is a most used encoding for ICQ to talk in Russian and that was preventing me from using Kopete as an IM, since it had some problems with this encoding. Now everything works just fine.
BTW, I also seen some Skype plugin for Kopete, although it was still under early development.
I am playing around nagios now (again) and it seems that I have found the nice way to monitor most of the stuff I need.
Monitoring Linux servers in not a big deal and a lot of custom plugins can be (and already) written for watching different stuff, but monitoring Windows servers were not so easy for me until this days. Now it seems that I found the way.
It is well known that SNMP under windows really sux (I mean the standard one), the thing that really caught my attention was Performance Counter. This can do the job well.
My idea was to integrate nagios, windows performance counters and rrd graphs. For this I have set up nagios, installed NRPE plugin on windows to be able to check it and added a plugin which is able to watch performance counters. Now I have everything: performance counters are monitored, nagios updates the state of services and does all that fancy stuff it is supposed to do and in addition, the output and performance data of the plugins is written by nagios to the named pipe from where my small perl script takes it and updates a bunch of rrd databases. A simple web GUI shows me all needed graphs.