EaKiu: Eye Candy for the Wi-Spy
While at WWDC John and Daniel turned me on to EaKiu. Its a cool piece of software for the Wi-Spy 2.4Ghz USB Spectrum Analyzer. It touts some pretty cool 3D graphs. Unfortunately its OS X only. For...
View ArticleShmoocon Labs 2008
Recently I have been getting all the stuff for Shmoocon Labs off the ground. In case you don’t know Shmoocon Labs is an event held one day prior to Shmoocon. The basic idea is as follows. Get 30 or so...
View ArticleCUWiN Homer Mesh Project
The CUWiN folks spent some time recently adding new equipment to the Homer mesh network. My company Metrix has provided them with all the gear for this project to provide the Village of Homer with a...
View ArticleEvolution MAPI Plugin on Ubuntu 9.04
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...
View ArticleThis RRD was created on other architecture
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...
View ArticleOverriding the default maven repository
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...
View ArticleTemPageR 3E environment monitor
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...
View ArticleMaven tweaks continued…
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...
View ArticleGanglia: Using the ruby gmetric gem
If you are new to Ganglia this post might not make much sense. If you are interested in Ganglia I suggest you read this paper first to get a better understanding of how it works. Over the past year I...
View ArticleMySQL: ERROR 1286 (42000): Unknown table engine ‘InnoDB’
I was asked to review a application recently that had some performance issues. The db engine was MySQL and the database was getting hammered. Changing the behavior of the queries the app used was not a...
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