SNMPon for ReadyNAS (Intel)

Posted on 2010-11-13 by Stefan Rubner

Every ReadyNAS comes with a full blown installation of SNMP. So monitoring the box that stores one’s critical data shouldn’t be a problem – weren’t it for the fact that SNMP is deemed a “business” feature by Netgear. Thus, SNMP is by default not only disabled on the non-business line of products. It also can’t be activated using the management interface. To remedy that problem I just wrote another add-on for the ReadyNAS (Intel line): SNMPon. It allows you to enable SNMP, set a public read-only community name, define a host where SNMP traps are being sent to and a list of hosts that are granted access to the SNMP information.

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End Of Reason

Posted on 2010-11-12 by Stefan Rubner

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Neuer Rekord für “Skype for Mac (beta)”

Posted on 2010-11-05 by Stefan Rubner

Gerade eben hat die neue Skype for Mac (beta) einen neuen Rekord in der Kategorie “kürzeste Verweildauer auf meinem Mac” aufgestellt. Installieren, Starten, Gruseln, Runterschmeissen – das war alles in weniger als 60 Sekunden durch. Die neue “Schaltzentrale” ist für mich total unbrauchbar. Skype for Mac beta - Main Screen
Es interessiert mich nicht, wann ich zuletzt mit wem aus meiner Kontaktliste gechattet habe – was übrigens neben “ich schick’ mal schnell die Datei” meine Hauptanwendung von Skype ist -, aber ich muss alle meine wichtigen Kontakte im Schnellzugriff haben. Naja. Die alte 2.8.0.863 wird ja hoffentlich noch ‘ne Weile funktionieren.

P.S.: Ich bin da nicht allein

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Nebenwirkungsfrei

Posted on 2010-11-04 by Stefan Rubner

Der Künstler wusste von sibirischen Nomadenstämmen, die den Fliegenpilz heute noch als Rauschmittel verwenden. Dafür isst der Schamane des Stammes den Pilz, der anschließend seinen Körper durchläuft und als Urin wieder ausgeschieden wird. Die anderen Stammesmitglieder trinken den Urin, der zwar noch die berauschende Kraft des Pilzes enthält, aber von allen unerwünschten Nebenwirkungen gereinigt ist.

Da bekommt der Spruch “Der hat doch was im Tee” gleich eine andere Bedeutung. Für 1000 Euro die Nacht darf man das mit Rentier-Urin auch gerne selbst probieren.

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Ausgelaufen

Posted on 2010-11-02 by Stefan Rubner

Es hat sich ausgelaufen

Ausgelaufen


Ein bisschen über 160.000 km hat sie gehalten – jetzt hat sie sich ausgelaufen und ich muss mir eine neue Antriebsratte suchen. Mist. Aber bei der Gelegenheit kann ich dann gleich die Kugellager am Laufrad wechseln.

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SABnzbd and Python on the ReadyNAS

Posted on 2010-11-01 by Stefan Rubner

Since many ReadyNAS users seemed to have problems getting SABnzbd to run on their ReadyNAS, I decided to give it a try. The result:

To make those work, Python must be installed on the ReadyNAS as well. As usual, there’s Python for ReadyNAS (Intel) and Python for ReadyNAS (Sparc). Setup instructions:

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Schön, Mitglied einer Elite zu sein

Posted on 2010-10-22 by Stefan Rubner

Es hätte nur nicht grad diese sein müssen. Wie auch immer, Mail geht wieder.

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Speed up SSH Logins

Posted on 2010-10-03 by Stefan Rubner

Ever since some upgrade of my Ubuntu workstation it would took forever (10-15 seconds) to login to remote hosts using ssh. The solution is quite easy. Edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config and make sure you have set the following options:

    GSSAPIAuthentication no
    AddressFamily inet

Since I made these changes ssh logins again work in no time.

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Dringend benötigte Management-Seminare

Posted on 2010-07-23 by Stefan Rubner

Eine sicherlich unvollständige Liste der Seminare, die jeder “Manager” doch bitte danke einmal besucht haben sollte:

  • Die Kunst, E-Mails bis zum Ende zu lesen
  • E-Mails verstehen: Einfacher als man denkt!
  • Umgekehrte Proportionalität: Textmenge und Qualität des Inhalts von E-Mails
  • Richtig antworten – Teil 1: Vorher auf die Frage achten!
  • Richtig antworten – Teil 2: Die Frage nochmal lesen!
  • Richtig antworten – Teil 3: Passt meine Antwort wirklich zur Frage?

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All You Need Is 4 Chords

Posted on 2010-07-17 by Stefan Rubner


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What I Really Hate About Windows

Posted on 2010-07-13 by Stefan Rubner

I don’t run Windows regularly. I use Mac OS X. I use Ubuntu. I use Solaris. But when I need to run Windows it will never, ever fail to remind me why I don’t run Windows. It’s as simple as that. If updates are available, Mac OS X will inform me. Ubuntu will inform me. And if I told it to do so, Solaris will inform me. But all of these systems will never fucking ever *reboot* my machine just because they *thought* it’d be necessary. And even if they did have a function like that, they’d sure as hell be intelligent enough to find out that there are tasks running and stop or at least postpone the reboot. Oh well, after all it’s Windows I’m ranting about here ;)
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As If You Were In China

Posted on 2010-07-10 by Stefan Rubner

ChinaChannel FireFox AddonThe Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet user outside China to surf the web as if they were in China. Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (supported by western companies).
Or watch the video first.

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Gerade eingetroffen

Posted on 2010-07-08 by Stefan Rubner

Erstznerv
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In Heavy Demand Right Now

Posted on 2010-07-08 by Stefan Rubner

Geduldsfaden
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Workaround

Posted on 2010-07-07 by Stefan Rubner

Workarounds are everywhere as I just found out

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Duct Tapes n’Elbow Grease

Posted on 2010-07-05 by Stefan Rubner

Duct Tapes'n Elbow GreaseThis photo was taken with a $45 point-and-shoot, and it wasn’t by an astronaut sitting in a space shuttle! Two regular guys sent their cheapoid camera 27 miles up into the sky by attaching it to a balloon! Duct tapes n’ elbow grease is all it takes sometimes, kids.

[ Watch how they did it >>> ]

[Thanks, Mischa]
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Scan Magic With Scan Tailor

Posted on 2010-07-05 by Stefan Rubner

If you do a lot of newspaper scanning you know the problem: grey backgrounds, blurry pictures. No longer. Using Scan Tailor, a high quality scan is just six mouse clicks away. Scan Tailor is available for Windows and Linux – and it’s free as in free beer. Would someone please port this to the Mac?

Before Scan Tailor

Before

After Scan Tailor

6 clicks Later

Scan Tailor not only optimizes the pictures and cleans the background. It also deskews the image and can handle multiple images in one go.
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Belkin PlayMax Saves The Day

Posted on 2010-07-01 by Stefan Rubner

Belkin PlayMax Router - not a beauty but has powers within ;)
Today seems to be one of these days again. Just when I started working on some projects my wireless router died. LuckilyBelkin has sent me a PlayMax router just a couple of days ago so I decided to use that one as a drop-in replacement. Installing the hardware was a breeze since all cables were already attached. Connecting to my home network only required to plug in one additional network cable. I skipped configuration and used the credentials provided on the card attached to the router to connect to the wireless network. No problems there either so I was up and running again in under five minutes. Nice: from my first judgement the PlayMax has an enhanced coverage zone. Signal strength on my Macbook Pro is a lot better than with the old WLAN router. So my first impression is very positive, we’ll see how it plays out in the long run.

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Building A 64-bit Resin On Solaris 10 Using SunStudio 12u1

Posted on 2010-07-01 by Stefan Rubner

This has been bothering me for quite some time. Resin is one of the best application servers I’ve come across. But to get the best performance out of it, you need to recompile it for your platform. While this is no problem on Linux it never quite worked out on Solaris for me when using SunStudio 12. But now I finally made it happen. Here’s how.
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Steuer-Mann

Posted on 2010-06-30 by Stefan Rubner

Quelle: BZ 28.6.2010

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