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I've just finished migrating The Jimternet from Wordpress to Pelican, a static blog generator written in Python. There are already plenty of posts extolling the virtures of Pelican and static blogs in general, so I'll simply share why the static...
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On the evening that I finished reading James Altucher's new book Choose Yourself, the nightly news lead with the story of 260 employees at Target's Geelong headquarters being made redundant. Footage showed these newly-unemployed leaving what used...
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As part of a forthcoming project to build a computerised thermostat, I require a means of programatically controlling a pair of relays to switch mains power. The brains of my thermostat will be a Raspberry Pi. This credit-card-sized computer is...
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Zenoss' zenperfsnmp daemon generates a lot of events. In most cases it is the leading source of events by a significant margin. Depending on the monitoring templates in place and the number of devices being monitored by Zenoss, zenperfsnmp may be...
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As part of a project for my day job, I've been getting to grips with Flume. Chances are that if you've found this post, you're already aware of what Flume does, but for the uninitiated: Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for...
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