Monthly Archives: May 2007

I’m voting Green. Here’s why…

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Barry O'Donovan

We’re just coming to the end of three weeks of a fascinating political election campaign here in Ireland. Fascinating that is if you’re a political anorak. The big election is on Thursday and the two main blocks seem to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Rants | 2 Comments

Nagios Alerts via SMS with Kapow

Posted on May 19, 2007 by Barry O'Donovan

I have a client who required a Nagios installation with alerting via SMS (*). They use Kapow as their SMS gateway. There were two aspects required: The sending of alerts via the SMS gateway; The monitoring of available credits on … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, OSS, Recipes | 8 Comments

O2 XDA Exec as a Modem

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Barry O'Donovan

I recently purchased an O2 XDA Exec to fulfill by on-call/support obligations. With a trip away this weekend, I decided to play it safe and just make sure it worked as a modem for an install of Windows hidden away … Continue reading →

Posted in News | 9 Comments