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Oracle-ified

I had enough with the old layout, it was ok but I needed a change.. So I ended up with this and then realized that my site changed the same way sun.com did. From blue to red. I think I spend to much time on those sites.

I will try to post some more soon..
Sun RIP

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The APC ES 550

I wanted some backup in case the power went down at home, not that it happens every day or even month but it happens. there was always a problem after such an event, not all the discs were found on my opensolaris (usb disk with a very low spin up time) or it was stuck on the boot archive. So I bought me two of these UPS’es, each for about €80 and they have a usb cable to monitor them! I hooked one to my soekris downstairs wich runs openbsd and one to my backup/media server running opensolaris. here is what I did to configure them from the source on http://www.apcupsd.org/

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Playing with RRD

I’ve been playing with Round Robin Databases and rrdgraph. So I needed some data.. and te target was the connections per minute to my ntpd server. check it out here: https://sunrise.yakuza.be/ntp/. I must say it’s easyer then I tought.

What do you think of the result?

4 hourly ntp

yearly graph

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