Jonathan

On Nagios

The things I’m about to say will almost certainly be common knowledge to anyone who has used Nagios before, but I’ll say them anyway. In short, Nagios is a network/server monitoring tool. It’s web based and can monitor almost any network device. It comes with dozens of modules included, to monitor things with something asContinue reading “On Nagios”

Baltic cruise: Copenhagen

Our first port of call was Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Unfortunately the weather on the day wasn’t great (grey and rained on and off) but being British we put our brave faces on and walked around in the rain. The walk from the dock to the centre of the town took us past theContinue reading “Baltic cruise: Copenhagen”

Darwin Award

This evening, on my way home from work, I was knocked off my bike by a careless pedestrian. Again. A family of 5 or 6 people walked out into the road without looking. I hit the brakes immediately and shouted to get their attention – cycling around Bristol this is practically an everyday occurrence forContinue reading “Darwin Award”

Baltic cruise: Jewel of the Seas

I briefly mentioned in the last entry that we cruised on the Jewel of the Seas. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, the Wikipedia page is in dispute for being written like an advertisement. So I think some pictures would give a better impression of the ship. The Centrum At the centre of the ship,Continue reading “Baltic cruise: Jewel of the Seas”

Baltic cruise: Harwich

Yes,I know. Harwich isn’t the most exciting, picturesque or romantic destination. But it was the port of departure for the Baltic cruise, which I went on with my family (parents and two younger brothers). I took lots of photos over the fortnight, and now on my photoblog I will upload the highlights of each destination,Continue reading “Baltic cruise: Harwich”

Our hands

Today I have been with Hana for 3 years, and very happy years they have been. I thought it would be nice to take a couple photo to mark the occasion. (This isn’t an engagement ring; although I did buy it for Hana some time ago).

An ugly fix

My home server seems to have developed a problem where its internal-facing network card “jams up”. It still keeps its IP address and everything looks normal, but in actual fact no traffic passes through it, cutting all my LAN hosts off from the Internet. Restarting iptables, network services or anything else doesn’t help. The onlyContinue reading “An ugly fix”

My crazy partition setup

My requirements When I built this computer back in January, I had carefully considered the RAID storage configuration. My requirements were basically: Must dual boot Fedora and some flavour of Windows (unfortunately) Fedora must have a redundant /home partition, as it holds my most important data Windows must have a fast Media (aka /home) partitionContinue reading “My crazy partition setup”

Copper

This week I decided to buy one ounce of copper bullion from eBay. When it arrived, it struck me as a giant 2p coin but it has a lovely red colour so I tried to capture this in a photograph.

WHOIS

A matter brought to my attention just a few minutes ago – visibility of personal data in WHOIS info. I registered the domain jonathangazeley.com with No-IP. It worked, and I thought nothing more of it. But this morning one of my colleagues received a personalised scam and it seems likely that the scammers retrieved hisContinue reading “WHOIS”