Setting Up Nagios - Working with Cisco's CIMC
This was far more challenging than it needed to be. Cisco makes some SDK's available for use with Nagios but I was totally unable to make the system see them. They are just Python packages so I didn't...
Tag: topslakr
Setting Up Nagios - Installing on Centos 7
Long story short, I changed jobs about 6 months ago and found myself in a new position without any appreciable monitoring of the hardware for which I'm responsible. That needed to change as soon as I...
Libresonic on Centos 7 with SSL
I've been a happy iTunes Match user since the service was introduced. I have a large music collection and I don't always want to dedicate the required amount of iPhone and computer storage to keeping...
When the Photo Bug Bites
I remember the first time I saw a moment that I knew I had to photograph. I wonder if other photographers are the same. I was in Maine, spending a weekend with a friend at his lake side cabin. I woke...
Automated Backups of OpnSense
I use rsnapshot, on Centos 7, to manage the vast majority of my backups across a myriad of linux servers both within my network and across the globe. I've never blogged about the entirety of that proc...
Cleaning up old Logs on Centos 7
As often happens with computers of all types, log files build up over time. Generally speaking, the operating system will rotate these logs, which means it breaks them up into chunks, but it isn't usu...
Interesting Failure Modes - SD Card Arching
I've been using Raspberry Pi computers for several years. A few months ago the Raspberry Pi B I had hooked up to my TV and running OpenElec, stopped working. The Pi was locked up and then wouldn't reb...
How To: A Clean install of Windows 7 in 2016
Maybe I'm alone here, but I still have occasion to install Windows 7 from time to time. For a while, that was no big deal; Install the OS, update, update, update and you're good to go. Lately though,...
Install Centos 6 on a Non-PAE Machine
I have a Thecus N5200 that was modified to have a VGA port. Though the machine will run a variety of current Linux distributions, I wanted it to run Centos 6. Unfortunately, the N5200 doesn't support...
Thecus N5200 as a Server
Back in 2007, I bought a Thecus N5200 to use as bulk storage on my network. I've spent many years using and fighting with the unit but it wasn't until my storage needs out grew the 5 SATA disks it cou...
Portable Pi - Raspberry Pi with a Motorola Lapdock 100
Having read countless accounts online from people who have taken various lapdocks and paired them with a Raspberry Pi, I thought I would give it a try myself. I went to Ebay and purchased a Motorola L...
Installing X-Plane 10 on Fedora 20
I'm a bit of an aviation buff and have been known to spend a fair few hours playing flight sims. My favorite sim these days is X-Plane, and thankfully it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. My current hos...
Camera Equipment Change... Again.
It seems like every year or so I rethink my photography equipment and make some changes. I've gone through many variations of my day-to-day photography kit but I seem to keep reducing the amount of au...
Building an Inexpensive iSCSI SAN on Centos 6
I was recently given an HP DL360 G4 server with two 36GB SCSI disks. At first blush the system is of little use in todays tech landscape due to it's low storage capacity and limited processor feature...
Medium Format On My Back: Weekend at the Fair
My first chance to shoot with the Mamiya 645 on the road came a few weeks ago in the form of a local fair in the neighboring town of Kingston called 'Kingston Days'. Quite a creative name, I know. I s...
Choosing the Correct Camera Gear
I am constantly trying to evaluate what camera gear I need and what camera gear I don't. I am in the process of selling off a considerable amount of equipment and cutting back to just the gear I like...
Film in a Digital World - Capturing Film Shooting Data Automatically
One of the benefits to shooting digitally is that you have a record of the settings and equipment combinations embedded into each image you make. Every time you click the shutter on your camera, be it...
Medium Format On My Back: The Prep
I've never been excited about photography in a studio setting. A lot of people enjoy working in a studio but I'd much rather be shooting landscapes, hiking through the woods or wandering through a loc...
Delving into Medium Format Film Cameras
What follows is a post which, as usual, is written more for me then anyone else. It has taken more than 1300 words to help wrap my mind around medium format, the Mamiya 645 Pro, and how it compares to...
Three Shades of Photography
To my mind, I see three 'goals' in photography: Documentation, Journalism, and Art. You may have other goals in mind but for me I'm usually shooting with one of those goals in mind. The art goal is ea...