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OpsView check_snmp_runningproc not matching process list

By Killian

I was adding a few checks for oracle processes using check_snmp_runningproc and noticed a few problems. It seems that when the check returns a list of processes from a remote host it lowercases them all and attempts to strips out .e .ex and .exe extensions. The extensions used in the regular expression weren’t escaping the [...]

Getting Your Ubuntu 8.10 Notification Back In 9.04

By Killian

If you miss the notification that used to be in the 8.10 [...]

Changing Your Tag’s Case In Wordpress

By Killian

Yet another pet hate of mine is things capitalised incorrectly. For me things like tags need to be either first letter uppercased of lowercases, and definitely not a mix of both. The problem with Wordpress is that you unfortunately cannot change the case of a tag once it’s been used. This is because all your [...]


Changing Wordpress Default Theme Front Page To Show Post Excerpts Only

By Killian

This is one of those things that tends to get under my skin. Web sites with long pages showing far too much information on the front page. Realistically I think the best approach is to give users access to plenty of information, but not necessarily having them bombarded with it. For the Wordpress Default theme [...]

Cleaning Up Ubuntu

By Killian

This is just a quick look at cleaning up an Ubuntu system. This is all documented elsewhere by an abundance of people, some of whom I no doubt took this off in the past and have forgotten where now (If you’re that person, then thanks very much, this stff has been coming in handy for [...]

Renaming Files Using Perl

By Killian

I finally got around to writing a script to rename all my music files to the same convention. That being either <track>-<song>.mp3 or <song>.mp3 with no spaces (I prefer underscores instead) and all lowercase. I know, it looks so simple! But the problem is all those occasions where you have something like <track>_-_<SONG>_-_(<remix by>).mp3 [...]