http://portertech.ca/2011/11/01/sensu-a-monitoring-framework/
Think I’ve had this page open for a while now, and I can’t remember whether I had linked to it previously or not… so I guess I’ll go ahead and do it so I don’t lose it. Interesting solution for truly large scale monitoring. I need to spend some time with some of the MQ apps, I can see a lot of things they would be useful for…
Just recently read about the spice protocol for remote display/audio/etc, and it looks very promising. Finally got my new build system up and running on Ubuntu (turns out that “nomodeset” as a kernel option was key to that, and had to work around through a few hoops… still not sure whether it’s running UEFI or typical, but it’s running, so I’m done caring). Next step is to get a couple of virtual machines running, and see if I can justify shutting down a couple of other systems and end up saving power, as I suspect my new build is quite a bit hungrier for juice than the miscellaneous small boxes I currently run. Will have to hang the Kill-A-Watt off it at some point and test to be sure.
I’ve been watching this space for a while, and I continue to find it frustrating. Virtual Computer’s NxTop was one of the more promising platforms to develop into what I’d really like to see this area of computing become: a type 1 virtualized environment capable of running multiple operating systems simultaneously (much like the existing server virtualization environment) with the ability to display consoles for the running guests (which is lacking in the existing server environment), and perhaps eventually provide direct guest access to certain devices such as video cards to achieve maximum performance from that component. XenClient/XCI was the other promising platform in this area, so hopefully Citrix does see this as an opportunity to develop and build out a product (hopefully without leaving open source behind… I see a lot of advantages in being able to run something like this at home too) rather than just an opportunity to swallow some competition and further entrench the VDI model, which I find immensely unpalatable.
http://www.mindrot.org/projects/softflowd/
Keep in mind for Linux-based infrastructure.
http://raffy.ch/blog/2012/03/24/advanced-network-graph-visualization-with-afterglow/
Slick use of AfterGlow for log analysis.
Good list of tips to improve the site. Hit a couple of them that were very convenient, and will “immediately” get around to the other ones at some point in the future, to be determined. Will try to keep these in mind as I work on other projects as well.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/Server/Backend
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=MythTV
Seriously, can’t Mac just use Ctl+V/Ctl+X/Ctl+C? Thought they had a “control” key as well, in addition to the poison apple and the cloverleaf. Guess I’ll have to check.
After a bit of a hiatus, getting back into MythTV a little bit. This time, just going to set up backend on a PC I always have running anyway, and as noted in the second link, run XBMC as a Myth frontend. Since I finally bought a TV from the modern era, I ordered a video card with an HDMI output and am thinking I can get an XBMC set up as a frontend so we can DVR the very small handful of shows I actually kind of give a damn about watching.
I’ve also been doing some research and playing with Joomla, as it seems like it may be a better platform for my most recent web endeavor than WordPress. As much as I like WordPress and am relatively comfortable with it, there are some layout things that I think would take additional work in WordPress that I can just do or use a plugin for in Joomla. I could probably make WP do what I want, but I think I’d probably have more time in that than I would in learning Joomla and implementing the plugins I need to deliver the experience I’m looking for. Plus, without digging into the backend and really building an understanding of the platform, I’m not comfortable with my ability to build out the changes I want securely. At layer 2 or 3 of the OSI, I have enough experience to trust my judgment, even cross platform. At layer 7 (8?), I question myself a little more. I’m not comfortable in situations where I can’t trust my own judgment.
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