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agentless monitoring of linux servers from ossec

2012-07-222012-10-06 by .pQd

we’ve been poking around ossec for a while. it’s nice and all but… i never liked the idea of opening additional ports on the production server or letting it ‘call home’ with alerts to the central monitoring machine. i prefer ‘polling’ model where central server communicates with monitoring nodes. ideally all should be done via ... Read More

poor man’s vm clonning under vsphere 5 without downtime

2012-07-182012-07-18 by .pQd

how to clone a virtual machine under vmware vsphere 5: using the vsphere client create a new vm with similar parameters [at least the same number and size of hard drives] using the vsphere client create a snapshot of the original vm log in via ssh as root [ to enable the ssh access check ... Read More

status anxiety

2012-07-12 by .pQd

status anxiety – socialistic sentiments aside an interesting document: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_acgqf27CIU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFab92rIHRY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThXcAko2KJ8

Call “HostFirewallSystem.UpdateRuleset” for object “firewallSystem” on ESXi “…” failed.

2012-07-04 by .pQd

while poking around brand new installation of free edition of vmware vsphere 5 i managed to screw up the firewall. in result any changes done in vshpere client in configuration>security profile>firewall properties were resulting with errors: i’ve found a solution here. to get rid of errors from gui i had to: ssh to the vsphare ... Read More

excel 2010 displays garbage when opening xls documents from the web

2012-06-292012-06-29 by .pQd

while migrating few dozens of users to new desktops with the new office 2010 i’ve encountered a problem: when users open xls [saved in the excel 97-2003 format] directly from the web browser and allow editing excel displays garbage. amount of garbage depends but sometimes it makes the spreadsheet completely unusable. things get even worse ... Read More

gtd

2012-06-232012-06-24 by .pQd

i like gtd, i’ve heard first time about the idea around 2006. since then i use some tiny-little-miniature form of it on daily basis; it boils down to writing things down, using reminders, tasks and todo lists. in other words – having OCD / being anal. i still manage to miss things, but in general ... Read More

higher TCP ICW – real world tests

2012-06-172012-06-18 by .pQd

this post inspired me to check how much performance can we gain by just upgrading to more recent kernel on the internet-facing proxy servers at work.

[pl] petelicki

2012-06-172012-06-17 by .pQd

dobre podsumowanie serji brutalnych samobojstw tutaj. a lemingi w najlepsze griluja cieszac sie co tym co im mainstream podrzuci. ciekawe komentarze na stronie michalkiewicza. + dla przeciwwagi – confirmation bias aka efekt potwierdzenia.

asia trip – 4/4 philippines

2012-05-302012-10-06 by .pQd

for the last 10 days of my Asian adventure i was traveled around Philippines.

asia trip 3/4 – thailand

2012-05-292012-05-29 by .pQd

from Singapore i flew to Bangkok Thailand and stayed there for 5 days.

asia trip 2/4 – singapore

2012-05-232012-05-25 by .pQd

after 10 days in Hong Kong my next stop was Singapore. i had 2.5days to use for some meetings and sightseeing.

asia trip 1/4 – hong kong

2012-05-232024-11-03 by .pQd

i’ve spent last month in Asia – Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Philippines. totally new experience in many ways.

2012-03-302012-10-06 by .pQd

[pl] to nie jest kraj dla mlodych ludzi

2012-03-212012-04-04 by .pQd

Film Fundacji Republikańskiej – To nie jest kraj dla młodych ludzi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHG3bm_MvRk jako bonus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5HOP82rsso – grzegorz braun, cork. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFbPq8UxFb4 – ziemkiewicz

Benford’s law

2012-03-042013-10-05 by .pQd

by a coincidence [process well described in this xkcd’s comics] i’ve stumbled on the definition of Benford’s law. since i have access to quite a lot of different economic & financial data i’ve decided to check if that law applies also to it.

morocco

2012-02-282012-07-22 by .pQd

in search for some February sunshine i’ve spent 11 days in Morocco.

extracting single database from a [large] mysqldump

2012-02-082014-12-01 by .pQd

extracting the whole database: sed -n '/^-- Current Database: `databaseName`/,/^-- Current Database: `/p' /path/to/the/fill/dump.sql > output.sql single table: sed -n '/^CREATE TABLE `tableName`/,/^\-\- Table structure for table /p' /path/to/the/fill/dump.sql > output.sql [via this blog]

aspies

2012-02-042012-02-04 by .pQd

few articles about mild form of autism: Jeff Atwood – Software Developers and Asperger’s Syndrome Tracy Mayor/computerworld – Asperger’s and IT: Dark secret or open secret? sounds familiar?

cloning the server using rsync

2012-02-042025-03-02 by .pQd

braindump of things to do/directories not to copy when cloning physical debian to a vm using rsync

sopa/pipa/acta

2012-01-222014-01-10 by .pQd

while sopa/pipa legislation in the US seems to be postponed after a wave of protests acta in EU/Poland is doing just fine; acta possibly will be ratified [at least in Poland] without much of the mainstream attention. is pushing this law through the EU parliament going to be the only ‘success’ of otherwise pathetic polish ... Read More