We’ve finally done another libstatgrab release. It’s been the best part of 8 months since the last release. Given the length of time you might be mistaken for thinking we’ve made lots of changes, but we haven’t. All this release really includes is some mostly untested Windows support, and handful of bugfixes. I guess the problem is that we’ve hit a bit …
So recently my router decided it didn’t want to whir its fans anymore and consequently gave up on life. It’s a dual CPU machine and both CPU fans had managed to wedge. After fixing them and getting things running again I heard klunking noises coming from the front of the case; one of the disks in the mirror had failed. …
I recently found a neat little tool whilst looking for applications that link against libstatgrab. It’s called bwm-ng and is written by a guy called Volker Gropp. The tool itself isn’t anything revolutionary (it’s influenced by the original bwm tool), it’s just a handy way of displaying current bandwidth usage across multiple interfaces. This screenshot shows bwm-ng in action on my FreeBSD router. It has …
At some point towards the end of last week I had the idea of writing a blog. I spent a while looking around for a decent online blogging tool, and, as I suspect most people do, I landed on blogger.com. It looked fairly swish, and had plenty of useful features. Except one. Where is the support for categories? So, moving …
I’ve been putting off upgrading my remotely hosted server from FreeBSD 5.2.1 for a while now, but after I started getting random problems I decided I had to move forward. To start with there were a few reasons putting me off doing the upgrade: From version 5.3 of FreeBSD vinum was pretty much broken, so I’d need to switch to …