Nagios Plugin - check_rss

As IT moves towards the cloud there are certain things we can't monitor effectively with Nagios, so I made a plugin to check RSS feeds. Many cloud services offer an RSS feed with their status. check_rss allows you to parse these feeds either looking for certain keywords that exist (or don't) or the date of the last post.

Login/Boot Scripts for Ubuntu/Gnome

I couldn't find any good information on writing logon/boot scripts for Ubuntu/Gnome, so here you go.

Tiny Borders in Ubuntu

**Update** - This also works in 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)

Maybe I'm a little late to the party, but I figured I would post a fix to the really annoying fact that the default Ubuntu theme (Ambiance) in 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) has super tiny (1 pixel) borders, which makes resizing nigh impossible.

Nagios Check - check_temp_weathergoose

I wrote a check for Nagios to check (and convert to Fahrenheit) the temperature for a Weathergoose environmental monitor.

Nagios Check - check_users (Windows)

   I wrote a check for Nagios to tell you the number of users logged in to a machine, as well as the last person logged in.

AutoDVDEncoder

   I wrote a script to help me encode DVDs to  to high quality Xvid videos in a Matroska container, with multiple AC3 audio streams (if the film is foreign), subtitles and chapters. The script was written in bash for GNU/Linux.

Compaq Evo N610 on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

   I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) on launch day. I quickly noticed that my laptop (Compaq Evo N610c) was running very hot. I mean never having children, melting flesh hot. I had a spare laptop cooler so I started using that for a little while. It would then start to slow the computer down drastically. Not content with leaving well enough alone, I found out the issue.