http://www.troublenow.org Just a reference base Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:20:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In addition to the APC PDU's which you can graph nicely to see the power usage, it is also possible to graph a UPS so you can monitor the UPS with mrtg. In this case I will be using a APC Smart-UPS VT 40 which supports graphing the battery temperature, battery ... http://www.troublenow.org/archives/85 With MRTG it is possible to easily monitor the power usage of your APC PDU. In this case I will be using a APC AP7920 Switched rack PDU, creating the MRTG graphs is actually very simple. First create your MRTG config dir in /etc/ and create a mrtg dir in your www ... http://www.troublenow.org/archives/70 When I am on the road sometimes its very handy to have internet around. luckily this is very easy to accomplish in Linux. In this case I will be using a Samsung F700 Mobile phone connected to my Asus EEE 701 laptop running Ubuntu linux. A few things however to think of ... http://www.troublenow.org/archives/22 You can rip dvd's with multiple tools, and some of these rip the dvd to a 'VIDEO_TS' and 'AUDIO_TS' folder. You can burn them again with the tool mkisofs. Place your 'VIDEO_TS' and 'AUDIO_TS' in a folder (lets say /home/user1/mymovie/) Install mkisofs: apt-get update apt-get install mkisofs Then use mkisofs to create a ISO file ... http://www.troublenow.org/archives/20 Running a linux host with VMware 1.0.x Server you are not able to firewall the VMware guests on the host machine. Because vmware runs in the kernel the traffic to the guest is already handled by vmware before iptables will see the traffic. Now it is possible to firewall the client ... http://www.troublenow.org/archives/19