Zenoss Swap Threshold Fixes

One of the recur­ring prob­lems I have with Zenoss is fix­ing the swap thresh­old issue. Basically, if your swap space is less than 1G, you’re stuck with an alarm inform­ing you that there’s less than 1G of swap total. The options are to hack it to increase the thresh­old (by decreas­ing the minimum-free thresh­old), or …

Excel Beta 2010

I’ve got Excel 2010 Beta installed on my PC at work, partly to play around with it, partly because I need some­thing to do all the myr­iad spread­sheets I’m required to do. As before, Excel 2010 allows you to open mul­ti­ple work­books with that mad­den­ingly weird pseudo-MDI inter­face that is always a lit­tle jar­ring. I know …

Web Applications

Reading the utopi­anism of world​chang​ing​.com after watch­ing a TED talk from the founder of it, I tried cal­cu­lat­ing car­bon foot­print more accu­rately than I had pre­vi­ously. Catching up on missed blogs, I’ve got­ten myself going on dopplr a moment ago, fol­low­ing a Lessig commenter’s idea to use it to cal­cu­late car­bon for off­set dona­tions — which is …