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Alfresco public share

geek — Mon, 07 May 2012 04:33:47 +0000

I’ve been using Alfresco Community Edition 4 (Share) for a while now, mostly as a Document Management System. It’s easy to use, and the file explorer functionality is really nice. A few days ago I wanted to share files to …

MySQL Synchronous Multi-Master Replication

geek — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:05:38 +0000

We’ve been testing Codership’s Galera for MySQL/InnoDB for several months now, and we love it. The ease of use is excellent, performance is adequate (depends highly on amount of nodes in the cluster) and finally provides the best (affordable) synchronous …

New toy for development

geek — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:09:12 +0000

For one of our customers, we were looking for a mobile Point-of-Sale (POS) terminal, which would cost less than the bigger names in that market (e.g. Verifone), but would still allow us to develop applications on it. The mobile terminals …

Observium HDD temperature

geek — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:02:25 +0000

The only sensor missing in my Observium setup, which is quite critical, are hard disk temperatures. S.M.A.R.T. is supported by almost all recent disks, and provides a lot of information about them, including temperature. Based on an article from Glen Pitt-Pladdy, …

Observium IPMI pass-through

geek — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:33:45 +0000

I’ve already implemented Observium several months ago, and am impressed by the ease of implementation, functionality and overall UI. I also use Zabbix, but after several years, the graphs were getting very slow to visualize. So we now use Zabbix for problem/warning alerting/notifications, …

Zabbix call notification with FreeSWITCH

geek — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:24:21 +0000

Getting alerting/problem notifications via email is useful, but sometimes not enough. Using Zabbix and FreeSWITCH we can add notification via calls too. Add a new media type (under Administration), Then on the Zabbix server, in /etc/zabbix/alert.d/ create callnotification.sh with the following contents, …

New blog

geek — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:45:12 +0000

Ok, welcome to my blog, blah blah.. This blog is mostly for cataloging interesting and useful snippets of code, commands, applications and website urls. It will mostly be related to Linux and software development.