Jonathan

Urban exploration

A friend visited me this weekend. His latest hobby is urban exploration so we decided to give it a go in Bristol. We considered a few sites but eventually we happened upon a factory by chance which shall remain nameless. Entry was through a small hole in the side. The ground floor doors and windowsContinue reading “Urban exploration”

An evil wizard

I painted this scene in art class in year 8 at school. It’s a pretty poor painting, but I was very proud of it at the time and evidently still proud enough to put it on my website! I came across it in a box of papers the other day and scanned it in. UnfortunatelyContinue reading “An evil wizard”

Water

For the summer period, Stu set us Tuesday Challenge Summer Homework. After much um-ing and ah-ing, I settled upon the theme of Water. I’ve interpreted the theme quite loosely – all of these photos have water in them in some way, but not necessarily the focal point. Llys-y-Fran dam, Pembrokeshire Tenby harbour, Pembrokeshire Raindrops onContinue reading “Water”

Fedora, kmod-nvidia and akmod-nvidia

If you have Fedora and an nVidia graphics card, chances are you’ll want to use kmod-nvidia as your graphics driver. It is closed-source, but produced by nVidia themselves and has several advantages over the default open-source drivers that are typically bundled with most distributions – for example, 3D hardware acceleration. If you have already installedContinue reading “Fedora, kmod-nvidia and akmod-nvidia”

Setting up NRPE remote Linux monitoring with Nagios

This a short and simple guide, explaining how to set up remote monitoring of Linux hosts using NRPE in Nagios. The procedure is simple, but having searched for information on this earlier today I didn’t find a straightforward all-inclusive guide, so I’ve written my own. These instructions were written with Nagios 3.0.6, and they assumeContinue reading “Setting up NRPE remote Linux monitoring with Nagios”

Checking for the latest kernel with Nagios

I’ve just written a module for Nagios that will determine if the currently running kernel is the latest kernel available on the system. It will not tell you if there is a newer kernel in a yum repository or similar. The main gotcha is that you need an RPM-based system for my script to work,Continue reading “Checking for the latest kernel with Nagios”

Changing the verbosity of wpa_supplicant on Ubuntu

Sometimes you need to change the log verbosity of wpa_supplicant for debugging purposes. First check which log verbosity you are currently running with. ps -ef | grep wpa_supplicant | grep -v grep -d represents verbose -dd represents extra verbose To change the log verbosity, edit /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.service and add -d or -dd as appropriate. Example: [D-BUSContinue reading “Changing the verbosity of wpa_supplicant on Ubuntu”

An error I don’t want to see

Is it just me, or is this not the kind of error message you want from a company that handles your bank and debit card details?

Baltic cruise: In summary

Well, I’ve now finished posting photos from my Baltic cruise – one destination each day. If you would like to see the whole lot, have a look at these: Harwich Copenhagen Stockholm Helsinki St Petersburg Tallinn Oslo And last but not least, some pictures of the ship. Jewel of the Seas

Baltic cruise: Oslo

Our final port of call was Oslo in Norway. The port of Oslo is reached by travelling up some 60 miles of the narrow Oslofjord. Of course the ship has to slow down as it passes through the narrow channel, giving everyone on deck a stunning view. Here are my photographs of the approach toContinue reading “Baltic cruise: Oslo”