Munin is written in perl. Yummy.
I noticed that the iostat plugin was broken and was not returning any values. To fix this you need to change a line in the plugin code.
nano -w /usr/share/munin/plugins/iostat
You need to change line 176 to read:
next unless $tmpnam !~ \/c\d+d\d+$/
In nano, press ctrl + shift + – (or...
Munin is an awesome monitoring package and can provide you with all the information you will ever need. If you needed more information, you can (if you are that way inclined) create your own plugins.
To install, simply run the following command:
sudo apt-get install munin munin-node
This will install munin, and place files...
So, with the the capitali$t whoremongers in the USA attempting to pass through laws which provide the organisations who bankroll politicians the ability to cut off websites that they disagree with. This will obviously extend to political disagreements – the government (of America for now) will have the ability to...
If you want to grab some extra stuff for Ubuntu, I would recommend that you add some extra repositories. Here are a couple:
Medibuntu
Medibuntu is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons, usually it is down to patent issues, geographical patent issues or they are just...
Once in a while, I need to run things that I want to keep slightly more hush-hush. I’m not going to go into the details of what, or why or whatever. There are far worse things that people try to keep quiet.
Anyhoo. You can selectively force traffic from different applications through Tor using torify. A word to the...
Blender is awesome. Its a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software package used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications and/or video games. I have only just started to use it, but it is pretty epic.
Here is how to get the latest and greatest version:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cheleb/blender-svn
sudo...
There are thousands(ish) of applications on Ubuntu’s Software Centre, and some can be incredibly useful, some really good games, and some which you’d never have thought existed.
Here is a rundown of a few:
Preload is a little application that could make your linux system a lot more responsive.It’s an adaptive...
I have written an application to do most of this with a rather special USB -> TTL adapter, and would quite happily do this for a bottle of wine for anyone, but here is how I fixed my inlaw’s Seagate drive…
Prepare Drive
Remove the PCB from the hard drive. Place some thin card between the PCB and the contacts...
I use Spideroak for all my backups (I’ll dispense with the obligatory referral link) – http://www.spideroak.com and I wanted to use it to back up my VPS I have with CloudNext.
As I use Ubuntu, my VPS is Ubuntu too, so these instructions are designed for Ubuntu, but with a little bit of common sense, it can...
Here’s a quickie to loop through files and convert them to MP3s:
#!/bin/sh
for i in *.wav; do
if [ -e "$i" ]; then
file=`basename "$i" .wav`
ffmpeg -i "$i" "$file.mp3"
fi
done
Simples!
