HowTo: install zabbix agent on Centos with Yum

December 9, 2010

We’re experimenting with Zabbix for monitoring our boxes at work. The available docs on how to Install a Zabbix Agent on Linux were way too complex for our techs, so here it is in a nutshell. Note: in our case, we are behind a hardware firewall so firewall is disabled. YMMV, and more steps may [...]

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Investing – 2010 October Performance Update

October 23, 2010

We’re travelling back to the land of Snow and Taxes for the next two days so here’s a quickie post … I rock! Don’t you wish you invested with me when I was trying to get you to be my client? How is YOUR portfolio this year? Being a financial advisor, to be honest, sucked. [...]

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Stranded in Asia? Start a business!

September 27, 2010

Two weeks ago, Rose and I got some great news – she received her Canadian permanent residency visa. Woohoo party party! Time to get on a plane and pick her up – back in a week or less, and no missing work! Well, the best laid plans…. Two factors have led to me still being [...]

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Fly Peso Fly

May 12, 2010

Someone was recently complaining about how much their currency (the Pound) had depreciated against the Philippine peso. I created this handy dandy graph to see how the major currencies had fared against the peso in the last year. Of course due to local prejudices I added the Canadian Dollar as well. Interesting Stuff. Google Finance [...]

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Affiliate Evolution – An oldie but goodie.

April 26, 2010

I haven’t said much about my online efforts lately. No, they haven’t completely faded away, but they have definitely been going through a reorganization. Gone are the hundreds of sites which barely make their reg fee every year, and I have been “focusing” on getting the backend process for my offline business, Intellefits, off the [...]

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Gear Lust: Equallogic PS6500E

March 9, 2010

I have to admit, being back in the IT world has been better than I’d feared. Working for a big company (>100 employees) for the first time has also been good. Am I finally seeing the light? Who knows. But for now, this gig is good. Recently I built a FreeNAS box to refresh my [...]

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