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Announcements / Website Updates

Renaming Jak3 Wallpaper

Jak 3 Thumb

I know I’m breaking the code, but I’m renaming the Jak3 wallpaper hosted in my pics section, the reason is that for the 3rd month in a row it is by far the biggest bandwidth eater, & I just can’t afford it :(

Please don’t get me wrong, I love that game, and it makes me happy to see that so many people out there do to, but recently I’ve found a couple if forums out there using the LARGE 2MB file as an AVATAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes really ! So every time someone reads a post from them, I get stung with a download / bandwidth theft.

If you want use this pic as an avatar please use my pre-shrinked version, or better still download it the image you want an host it yourself.

<img src=”http://www.linickx.com/files/pics/.thumb.jak3-wp-1_1600x1200.png” alt=”Jak 3″ />

Thanks to all, rant over ;-)

PHP – Nagios Ping & Traceroute Tool

Another day, another mini project.

My place of work pretty much demanded the need for our monitoring guys (i.e. people that stare at the nagios screen, waiting for red things) to have the ability to run traceroutes from nagios to the effected node – The twist in the story was that they wanted to do it from a browser !

So, I thought, that’d be an easy php script then :cool: , well to be honest it took a little longer than expected, mainly because I don’t really understand regular expressions (yet).

Nagios-ping-tool Is a package of small scripts :

  • config.php – some simple config variables, important for telling the script where to find your nagios hosts.cfg
  • index.php – the script that creates the buttons
  • readhosts.php – the script that reads /etc/nagios/hosts.cfg to find names & ip addresses
  • header.php & footer.php – my actual implementation went into another skinned site, so I put these in to format the pages properly

nagios-ping-tool.tgz can be downloaded from this site or the Nagios Exchange Project Page

Linickx.com IS BACK !!!!!!!!!

After a few weeks of downtime, my site is finally back on line.

You’ll notice the banner at the top of this post, this is my way of saying a BIG THANKS to Chis at Urevised.com for all the hard work he’s put in; I know I pestered him a lot , but I found him to be very dedicated and helpful; it’s been worth it in the end ! I’m one very happy customer (again ;) ) and would recommend urevised hosting.

I’m not sure what he did to fix wordpress but as soon as I know, I’ll share it with the support forum :cool:

Online Birthday List !

Well it’s my Birthday in 10 days time & I’m not usually very good at giving present suggestions to my friends, well this year I thought I’d change that.

It’s only a start (currently only 4 ideas), but here we have it:

http://www.linickx.com/birthday

:D

XFCE 4.2.2 Released

XFCE 4.2.2 has been released, and to be honest I’ve struggled to get the rpm rebuilds done… just no time :’( !

Anyway the official announcement was here

http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2005-May/000021.html

You can update your whitebox installation using [LINICKX].com ! Check that you have something like this in your /etc/yum.conf…

[LINICKX]
name=LINICKX Yum Repo
baseurl=http://www.linickx.com/files/rpm/whitebox/xfce-repo/

Then… from a shell do:

root@localhost # yum update xffm\* xfwm4\* xfce\* xfdesktop

…and your done :cool:

PHP-ICES BETA Released !

This is my 1st mini-project ! :D

Written completely in PHP it’s a web front end to manage ices.

A short while ago I stubled across www.icecast.org whilst looking for a way to stream MP3′s from my house to my desk @ work ;) To Stream MP3′s you need a Streaming Server , i.e. something to stream audio to the clients and a Broadcast Server i.e. something to broadcast your audio file (*.mp3) to the streaming server. I’ve used both icecast (Streaming Server) & ices (Broadcast Server) , both of which only have shell (command line) & text file config tools, not exactly pretty & lots of typing :(

So to make things easier I decided to start wrting my own, I wrote some alpha code which did the job , but I wasn’t happy with the code. I posted the icecast-mailing list to see if anyone else had already done something I could use. It turns out that no one had :( , a guy called Chuck was also thinking of doing the same thing; so I asked him if he’s interested in sharing what he’s done, actually I’m a little further than him, but because I was ashamed of my alpha code, I decided to finish my BETA, and here it is :D !

It’s realsed under GNU GPL. A HTML version can be found at http://www.linickx.com/index.php?content=gnugpl and a text version can be found at http://www.linickx.com/files/COPYING

Have a go, and let me know how you get on . Please report bugs on my Contact Page.

DOWNLOAD: php-ices-BETA.tgz

TO DO:
Things I’d like to do for a next version. (In no particular order).

  • File Browser Cookies (so it remembers the last directory your loaded files from)
  • Skining (This version isn’t exactly pretty)
  • More control over ices.conf
  • Config via gui rather than config.php

Install Instructions

This hopefully should be quite straight forward.

  1. Unpack php-ices into your webservers root.
  2. Create a temp directory in php-ices. Something like /var/www/html/php-ices/temp
  3. Make the temp directory writeable to the webserever process. Something like
    chmod 666 /var/www/html/php-ices/temp or chown apache /var/www/html/php-ices/temp
  4. Edit config php to meet your needs ;-) At the very least set the stream password on line 31 !
  5. Point your Web browser at php-ices !

Cacti SNMP V3 Document Moves.

Grr , Some times I’m so indecisive I make myself cross (But I’m so angry I’m not sure ;-) )

I’ve moved my Cacti SNMP v3 Document into wordpress so that users/viewers can comment directly.

l8trz

Advertising Apology

Advertsing, some people hate it, others it’s just mildy Annoying… Well I have the answer, yep, the 1st ever website where you the viewer can disable the ad’s for free !

Check the Advert Control Panel and disable the ad’s… cool. ;-)

I’ll be posting the code so other’s can enjoy this revelation; lets make advertising a choice, not a burden.

And the site goes Live !

So I’ve only gone and done it, joined the BLOG-bandwagon.

The questions is… Am I going to use it, or was it just more fun Hacking wordpress to make it “fit” my webiste ?

I’ll be using this BLOG & RSS feed to publish general rants & news about this site, I just hope it makes an interesting read ;)

l8trz