Dibbler's Net

For many many version now I have maintained a patch for Nagios called the Read Only Patch. I have found in most cases that when I have a Nagios install I have some type of external user involved. Nagios is a great tool for showing what’s working and not just what’s wrong. But in order to allow external users to see what’s working they need an account. And with that account there are all sorts of commands they can run or comments they can see. This patch removes that ability for selected users. It also removes comments as in most Nagios installs I leave the comments as a way for techs to relay information regarding a system and that information is not always meant for external view. If you have any questions please feel free to comment or ask them on the Nagios-Devel Mailing list.

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Finally bought a SlingBox Solo. I have a DirecTV HD DVR at the house and wanted to see what windows mobile can really do. I installed the Slingbox on the DVR using the Comp video out. I was able to setup the software pretty easily. I had one issue where my Astaro Firewall IDS was causing an issue with the last configuration wizard. Once that was resolved I tried it out. First using my notebook and a nearby Wifi I found that the slingplayer works really well. Good Picture and it gives you your home remote so you can watch anything on the DVR. Next I downloaded the slingplayer for Windows Mobile 6 for my T-Mobile Wing.

Now the second day I even have my wing at work the most Internet connected thing happens. On one of my barely used monitors I keep iGoogle homepage up which has news headlines and other modules. One of the modules is a twitter client. About near lunch time I see about 3 twitter postings from people about an Earthquake hitting lower SoCal. I am originally from the Los Angeles, CA area so I am immediately interested. I break out the wing hit my slingbox player and turn on 202 (CNN). I instantly have live video in decent quality over the Edge network and am watching CNN. This is really the type of reason to have something like this. The battery and quality are not there to watch BSG for an hour each week, but it’s perfect when you need news anywhere.

Overall I like the Sling Product. Setup was easy, quality and software work like expected. Down side, the pc client is free, but I need to buy the mobile client.

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