Category Archives: Utilities
lickwh.at – The best URL Shortener Lick-Wilmerding Has Ever Seen!
Just launched a URL shortener service primarily useful for Lick-Wilmerding Alums, Students, Faculty and Staff.
http://lickwh.at
It is a play on the famous/infamous “Lick What?” saying seen around campus for years on sweatshirts and t-shirts. It is open to the public to use and would certainly be a little different than the other generic ones out there [...]
New Life for Linksys WRT300N with DD-WRT
My Linksys WRT300N has been a good router for home but now that I needed a some more routing options, I really needed to decide what to do. I don’t need a full-blown router since I am not dishing a routable class C or anything, just a couple of IPs to for servers.
I have known [...]
Zabbix 1.6.1 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04
After working with other Open Source monitoring systems over the years, I decided to give Zabbix a try. Net-Saint then Nagios was always good, but getting it going initially and then adding the trending graphing was always a pain. Big Brother was another good one, but now that Quest Software owns it, the BTF version [...]
Great, simple note taking application for OS X – NoteBook
NoteBook from Circus Ponies is pretty slick. I have used many different applications out there and was running with xPad for quite a while, but NoteBook seems to be a nice mix of what I need to do notetaking on OS X. Very happy with it.
Get rid of the U3 Launchpad on Your Sandisk Cruzer
I love the Sandisk USB flash memory sticks. They are the best. The fact that they are made retractable and without the need for a cap of any kind makes them the best. Unfortunately, they bundle/format them with the annoying U3 Launchpad application for Windows which I have no use for. So, the first thing [...]