Author Archives: Ken

ATT SMS Gateways, consistent source short code

By Ken | Published: September 27, 2009
At work we get nagios pages via SMS using the @txt.att.net email-SMS gateway. Everyone who receives these pages also happens to have an Iphone. Our setup was fairly annoying because every txt message had a unique sender, so in the event you that you receive a ton of alerts its really hard to clean [...]
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Maven tweaks continued…

By Ken | Published: July 23, 2009
In a previous post I mentioned using the settings.xml file to force maven to use a local repository. In my case this is Jfrog’s Artifactory. This was accomplished using the “mirror” element in the settings.xml file (example). While most of our artifacts are downloaded from the “central” repository. Some of them have dependencies that are [...]
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READYNAS NV+ Kernel Out of memory

By Ken | Published: June 16, 2009
Decided recently to pick up a Readynas NV+ to supplement our file storage at the office. I have the Readynas Duo at home and have been quite happy with it. It is a linux based NAS appliance and after installing a few add-ons you can have a remote root shell and apt packages to install [...]
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TemPageR 3E environment monitor

By Ken | Published: May 18, 2009
Recently ran into some heat issues in a mini computer room that has a window in direct line of the sun and problematic HVAC. Picked up a network enabled environment monitor so I could have some data to show when trying to get the issues resolved. Originally I was thinking about getting the Websensor [...]
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Overriding the default maven repository

By Ken | Published: May 15, 2009
If you are using maven for builds or dependency management you will notice that by default maven always attempts to pull dependencies from the public maven repository (repo1). After reading documentation and examples I thought you could easily override this by specifying a local repository in your respective project object model file (pom.xml). Example. Not the [...]
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This RRD was created on other architecture

By Ken | Published: April 27, 2009
I use Munin for some graphing of system and application stats. Like most graphing open source projects its based on the widely used RRDTool. I recently was moving my munin instance from a xen instance on 64bit Ubuntu install, to a bare metal 32bit install. Moving munin consists of the moving the munin.conf file and moving [...]
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Evolution MAPI Plugin on Ubuntu 9.04

By Ken | Published: April 7, 2009
Recently upgraded my laptop to the pre release Ubuntu 9.04 ( jaunty jackalope). One of the things I have been looking forward to is the Evolution MAPI plugin that is a result of work done by the Openchange project to implement MAPI stacks on both the client and server side. Evolution has been able to [...]
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Uptime

By Ken | Published: March 30, 2009
Or lack there of. Blog is back online.
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Climbing in Nepal

By Ken | Published: December 10, 2008
A friend of mine is climbing some previously unclimbed peaks in Nepal. He has a blog describing their adventure, but the sickest part IMO is this video.
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“Do what you love”

By Ken | Published: December 8, 2008
*note: the shortcut to the end of this post is to read the essay “How to do what you love” by Paul Graham. Well almost a year to the date since my last post. I figure I should probably get at least one post on the record for 2008 and if I stay motivated maybe a [...]
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