Archive for the ‘Random’ Category Some weird music.
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Whilst working some great music is always needed. It can really help with motivation during those late night emergencies. I’m sure most of of you have not been able to avoid Kid Cudi’s track “day & night”, but if you haven’t be sure to check it out and also the many remixes that are doing the round http://www.myspace.com/kidcudi
But aside from that another tune that really caught my eye was a new one from Tiga. Tiga recorded the classic “Sunglasses at night”. His latest record has slightly creepy feel to it much like the last one but has a really punchy sound to it…I think it will be something we will definitely be hearing more of. http://www.myspace.com/officialtiga
My last selection its Flo Rida’s somewhat filthy remix of “You Spin me round (like a record baby)” I find this song whilst undeniably terrible techniqually, immensely amusing, I love it 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4b6EC3995Q
1 Comment »Tags: flo rida, kid cudi, music, roundrightround, tiga
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Another Short One
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Gosh its October already! A couple of little things that have caught my eye recently.
One is these is the great Girls Aloud – The Promice . It makes you wonder if we forgot about truly sexy clothes and fashion in the naughties, then again i doubt alot of people would fit into 60s style clothes nowadays…
On this retro note, if anyone from the 80s doesn’t remember this song they were never there!
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Ninja Cat
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Ninja cat is sneaky. What more needs to be said.
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Monitoring with Monit
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
There are two types of Linux Administrator; those that have discovered monit and those that have not. monit is a daemon that sits in the background keeping an eye on everything that’s running on your server and reporting back to you if things crash. Not only that, it can produce a pretty (more functional than pretty) status screen for you to view, with lots of reassuring green text for everything that is running:
Monit in action
Once you’ve set it up by either reading the manual or by reading a couple of the tutorials online it requires very little maintenance. Be careful if you are running apache2 as it needs a slightly different setup. If a process fails or restarts monit will email you.
But the real power of monit is that not only does it report if a service fails, it can take action to correct the problem, and it can even take action before the problem causes a crash. It can monitor CPU and Memory usage of a service so if they are using too much, or a process has crashed using 100% CPU it can be automatically restarted. It will of course restart crashed services.
The best thing about monit is it saves having to write a set of shell scripts to keep an eye on each individual service, saving you significant time in administration.
If you just can’t get enough of monitoring you server Its close relative munit which is extremely easy to setup on Debian is good for long term monitoring as it produces some very pretty historical graphs, even up to a year back. You have no excuse for not realising your hard disk will run out of space in 2 months time. But you might forget to check so monit can be set to send you an email when you are approaching 95%.
Munit Graph Example
We employ both monit and munit on our web servers to ensure maximum uptime.
No Comments »Tags: admin, linux, monit, munit
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Why you should NOT filter your email
Monday, July 28th, 2008
I guess making a post like “Delivering your promises” is just asking for something to go wrong. Karma is a funny thing.
Apologies to everyone who had trouble contacting us in the past week, unfortunately our junk mail filters decided to store all of the blocked mails in a folder and not send them on. It has cost us several sales, as we have not been receiving sales emails. All requests for refunds have been processed in full. We’ve decided wading though tonnes of spam is better than losing potentially important sales and support emails from customers, so we have turned junk email filtering off on all of our email addresses.
Thanks for the image we borrowed from Epic Failures of 2007
Epic Fail
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Some weird music.
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Whilst working some great music is always needed. It can really help with motivation during those late night emergencies. I’m sure most of of you have not been able to avoid Kid Cudi’s track “day & night”, but if you haven’t be sure to check it out and also the many remixes that are doing the round http://www.myspace.com/kidcudi
But aside from that another tune that really caught my eye was a new one from Tiga. Tiga recorded the classic “Sunglasses at night”. His latest record has slightly creepy feel to it much like the last one but has a really punchy sound to it…I think it will be something we will definitely be hearing more of. http://www.myspace.com/officialtiga
My last selection its Flo Rida’s somewhat filthy remix of “You Spin me round (like a record baby)” I find this song whilst undeniably terrible techniqually, immensely amusing, I love it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4b6EC3995Q
1 Comment »Tags: flo rida, kid cudi, music, roundrightround, tiga
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Another Short One
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Gosh its October already! A couple of little things that have caught my eye recently.
One is these is the great Girls Aloud – The Promice . It makes you wonder if we forgot about truly sexy clothes and fashion in the naughties, then again i doubt alot of people would fit into 60s style clothes nowadays…
On this retro note, if anyone from the 80s doesn’t remember this song they were never there!
No Comments »Tags: 60s, 80s, girls aloud
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Ninja Cat
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Ninja cat is sneaky. What more needs to be said.
No Comments »Tags: ninja cat, sneaky
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Monitoring with Monit
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
There are two types of Linux Administrator; those that have discovered monit and those that have not. monit is a daemon that sits in the background keeping an eye on everything that’s running on your server and reporting back to you if things crash. Not only that, it can produce a pretty (more functional than pretty) status screen for you to view, with lots of reassuring green text for everything that is running:
Monit in action
Once you’ve set it up by either reading the manual or by reading a couple of the tutorials online it requires very little maintenance. Be careful if you are running apache2 as it needs a slightly different setup. If a process fails or restarts monit will email you.
But the real power of monit is that not only does it report if a service fails, it can take action to correct the problem, and it can even take action before the problem causes a crash. It can monitor CPU and Memory usage of a service so if they are using too much, or a process has crashed using 100% CPU it can be automatically restarted. It will of course restart crashed services.
The best thing about monit is it saves having to write a set of shell scripts to keep an eye on each individual service, saving you significant time in administration.
If you just can’t get enough of monitoring you server Its close relative munit which is extremely easy to setup on Debian is good for long term monitoring as it produces some very pretty historical graphs, even up to a year back. You have no excuse for not realising your hard disk will run out of space in 2 months time. But you might forget to check so monit can be set to send you an email when you are approaching 95%.
Munit Graph Example
We employ both monit and munit on our web servers to ensure maximum uptime.
No Comments »Tags: admin, linux, monit, munit
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Why you should NOT filter your email
Monday, July 28th, 2008
I guess making a post like “Delivering your promises” is just asking for something to go wrong. Karma is a funny thing.
Apologies to everyone who had trouble contacting us in the past week, unfortunately our junk mail filters decided to store all of the blocked mails in a folder and not send them on. It has cost us several sales, as we have not been receiving sales emails. All requests for refunds have been processed in full. We’ve decided wading though tonnes of spam is better than losing potentially important sales and support emails from customers, so we have turned junk email filtering off on all of our email addresses.
Thanks for the image we borrowed from Epic Failures of 2007
Epic Fail