Apologies for the noise

I just wanted to apologise for any noise that may've been caused by this feed over the last 3 days. I've switched the underlying software and in the process changed the URL slightly. I've attempted to ensure that any old URLs will continue to work, as well as the feeds.

So far it's worked out fairly well, with only facebook and one or two desktop based feed readers giving people a few duplicate articles. PlanetPlanet seems to be coped very well, so my hat goes off to the PlanetPlanet team!

Defective By Design Perceptions in the Real World

Whilst I totally support the goals of the FSF I'm not sure that I can totally endorse their militant wing; Defective By Design.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to DBD as a concept. I totally support what they intend to achieve. It's just a shame that their methods and actions are perceived as being completely mental by real people, in the outside world, and it's starting to show that these perceptions are beginning to be applied to anyone who supports Free or Open software.

Cisco IOS 15: Community Pain?

I've not been doing anything that could be considered interesting with Cisco kit recently, although at work do have have some of their products in use. Before rolling out the solutions simulators were rather handy to try out different scenarios, but it seems that this may become a bit of an issue from IOS 15 - at least at the moment.

If you want to know more I'd suggest taking a gander at Strech's article on the need for educational IOS licensing.

Graphing Micromiser with Munin

I've been playing with Micromiser for a few days, and wanted to graph what it claims to be saving on one of the servers. Luckily this is pretty easy with Munin (which is already running on the box), since Micromiser logs into syslog occasionally. Below is the plugin I hacked together that looks at syslog and uses sed to extract the percentage saving. It's not pretty, but it does work.

Perhaps this'll save you a few minutes.

#!/bin/sh

# Plugin to graph the savings made by micromiser

if [ "$1" = "autoconf" ]; then
        echo yes
        exit 0
fi

if [ "$1" = "config" ]; then

        echo 'graph_title Micromiser Savings (percentage)'
        echo 'graph_args --upper-limit 100 -l 0'
        echo 'graph_vlabel savings'
        echo 'graph_category system'
        echo 'savings.label savings'
	echo 'savings.draw AREA'
        echo 'savings.min 0'
        exit 0
fi

RES=`grep Estimated /var/log/syslog | tail -1 | sed 's/.*(\([0-9\.]*\)%)$/\1/'`
echo -n "savings.value $RES"

Mostly harmless

I've had a few people asking me, via various channels, about my "sudden" change in status on the LFSforum. Rather than deal with it individually again I figured a quick post might help.

  • It's correct that I'm no longer a moderator.
  • It wasn't the result of anything I'd done, or any animosity between myself, any of the other mods, or the LFS devs. Quite the opposite, in fact, and I wish the both the moderation and development team all the luck in the world with LFS.
  • It was the largely the result of the community as a whole, which I no longer felt that I could moderate impartially. I won't go into further details, even if you ask. So please don't.
  • It was also due, in part, to my ever increasing lack of time to post, let alone do consistent and "proper" moderation.

For these reasons I'm taking a break away from the forums, however I intend to return to assist with the programmers forum and various bits of support again at some [undetermined] point in the future.

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