I’ve written yet another Munin monitoring plugin recently. I am a little bit obsessed with checking the weather, so this latest plugin allows me to see exactly what the temperature is both outside and inside at any given point in time, as well as view graphs for the past week, month, and year. I haven’t figured [...]
Ever since I have installed Munin, I have been noticing system statistics that I would like to monitor that the built-in plugins do not. I have written two Munin plugins and I’d like to share them, as simple as they are. Munin doesn’t require a lot when it runs its plugins. The only necessary steps to [...]
On Thursday, I discovered Munin, a nifty daemon for monitoring just about anything on any type of system. I had previously tried Nagios, but found it to be cumbersome and simply too much for my personal needs. I want a monitoring solution that doesn’t have any bells or whistles, doesn’t alert me, but is there [...]
Now that I have had a few days to form an opinion on ZFS, I will provide a more in-depth analysis, while still only scratching the surface. Before I begin, let me explain my build. AMD ASROCK E350M1-USB3 Mini-ITX Motherboard (4x SATA 3 ports, all on a single controller as it seems) 4GB DDR3 1333 [...]
Note: See my latest post on ZFS here. About a week ago, I ordered parts from Newegg to build a NAS that would use a RAID-5/RAID-Z configuration with ZFS and 4TB of usable storage. I ordered the following: ASROCK AMD E350M1-USB3 Motherboard/APU 4GB DDR 1333 RAM 2x2TB HDD (I had 1x2TB already and 1x120GB) Case, [...]
A year or so ago, I decided to write hack together some scripts to create an Arduino temperature logging device that would upload results to Pachube. Achieving this is much easier than it sounds. All you need is an Arduino, an Ethernet Shield, and a temperature sensor or two. Combine it all together with a little [...]
Hello from Illinois! I was rather bored today, so I decided to make a timelapse from one of the windows in my apartment. It isn’t all that great, namely because I did not properly control the exposure once the sun set behind the trees.
I have uploaded some “quick” selections from our wedding on May 21st, 2011. Between the four (!!) photographers at the wedding, 1800 photographs were taken along with four videos. Dave has sorted out most of the bad ones, but that still leaves almost 1000 good photographs. It has been a daunting task attempting to [...]
I’d like to thank everyone for the good times at Mansfield! I have enjoyed being with all of my great friends and I am sad to be leaving all of you behind. I hope to see you in the future. I’ll be moving to Illinois in a few weeks to begin a full-time job.
Mark Burger has accurately summed up many of the problems with Mansfield University in the following letter that he wrote to the school newspaper: Last week there a story was printed lamenting how president Loeschke was the lowest-paid president of a university in PASSHE. Unfortunately, the truth was covered up by percentages. Beneath the grand [...]