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ossec-syscheckd(1702): INFO: No directory provided for syscheck to monitor; Segmentation fault

2011-12-28 by .pQd

i’m playing around with ossec 2.6. i’m trying to set up server for agentless monitoring of multiple linux boxes. after installation [where i answered no for most of the question] i’ve run into the following problem: to make things work and not segfault on config generated by the installer i had to modify /opt/ossec/etc/ossec.conf and ... Read More

hw projects to follow up

2011-12-142012-01-15 by .pQd

java7, XMLEncoder problems

2011-12-122011-12-13 by .pQd

for the last few days i’ve been looking into java7… it surely seems faster. but also some of my old code broke when run under it.

[pl] Historia III RP

2011-11-262011-12-02 by .pQd

cz. I – lata 80 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elq5igrZFZM cz. II – okragly stol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxqjIJB1LU cz. III – wybory czerwcowe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eees8BExTy4

ghettovcb hangs while removing the snapshot

2011-11-202011-11-20 by .pQd

i’ve upgraded few vmware esxi 4.1 servers with the latest patches and… obviously something got broken. i use ghettoVCB script to take weekly snapshots of the vms. scripts hanged last night on all servers.

istanbul

2011-11-152011-11-15 by .pQd

i was in istanbul / turkey for 9 days… longest ‘stationary’ holidays in the last couple of years.

The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse

2011-11-082011-11-09 by .pQd

article from 2006 but might be quite up-to-date taking into consideration recent news about the region. http://www.energybulletin.net/node/12125 related wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_oil_bourse

croatia / bosnia & herzegovina / serbia

2011-10-232014-09-13 by .pQd

brain-dump from few days of backpacking around ex-yougoslavia

2011-10-222012-10-06 by .pQd

rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]

2011-10-21 by .pQd

i use rsync to transfer my backups around. to better utilize available bandwidth i run multiple rsyncs in parallel… but from time to time i’ve noticed failures that on the client side.

journalist on the frontier

2011-10-012012-08-12 by .pQd

robert fisk – journalist on the frontier ; semantic chaos in the way situation in the middle east is described. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay1klyYcNe8#t=04m30s other lectures by him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLJBZ_dpiFQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-py0hlRY7k

ilo

2011-09-21 by .pQd

i take care of one HP server with ILO remote access card. but recently i started having problems with using web applet to connect to it.

Are we in control of our decisions

2011-09-18 by .pQd

paradox of choice; again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X68dm92HVI

kiev

2011-09-162011-10-24 by .pQd

i’ve spent 3 days in kiev…

How juries are fooled by statistics

2011-08-22 by .pQd

Peter Donnelly: How juries are fooled by statistics few statistical paradoxes + their grave implications: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLmzxmRcUTo as a bonus – birthday paradox – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

2011-08-062012-10-06 by .pQd