Archive for the ‘Code’ Category

Custom Weather Notifications with Growl

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Last night I download Prowl on my iPhone and setup my growl to work with it. It's very cool stuff together, i've been using growl forever. Anyway tonight I was reading in this thread in the prowl forum where one poster is using growl notifications for weather. Not just any weather ...

Getting check_ndo.pl working under osx

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

I often work and tweak things to get them going on OSX (not server) and then forget how I did it. Then I'll end up wiping the machine and have to everything over and spending a ton of time on it. I should have documented getting nagios going properly and ...

Nagvis on OSX

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

I recently replaced the hard drive in my G5 Mac (PPC) and reinstalled the latest version of OSX. Which didn't solve my problems, but thats a differnt topic. Anyway I was running Nagios to monitor my home network. I do this for 2 reasons. 1 is that its just a lot ...

Local Lifestream with GCalDaemon

Friday, May 30th, 2008

I've been dreaming of lifestreaming for years. I've written various programs in perl and php and who know what else with and without database several times over. I really should have done something cool with it way back before it started popping up all over the place, but I didn't. ...

jEdit Tip – Abbreviated Plugin List?

Friday, March 18th, 2005

After adding a few more plugins to jEdit, the plugin menu changed from the full list when clicking plugins to an abbreviated list cut into 2 parts. This slowed me down, but I never thought much about it. On the jEdit mailing list somebody posted how to change it: Globals Options ...