Icinga/Nagios: Windows monitoring

Another alternative way to monitor Windows machines with NSC-Client, you need only one time access to the Windows-Box and install the client and configure it.

All other monitoring steps can be performed from the monitoring instances like Icinga or Nagios.

Q: What can be monitored? Continue reading ‘Icinga/Nagios: Windows monitoring’

Mutt: bouncing messages


Situation: you need to bounce some messages from one user to another or to a mailing list.
Criteria: the sender should be real and without changes on the message

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aptitude install mutt

…if not installed.

Open your Maildir with mutt:

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mutt -f /home/info/Maildir/

Tag messages with: t

Bounce tagged messages with: ;b
Now enter a address of recipient and accept the bounce process with yes

Yagi Wlan Boosting

One best friend has two apartments not far away from each other, the typical human idea was to pay only for one internet connection and connect the another apartment over WLAN.

A little map of the area (the red line Continue reading ‘Yagi Wlan Boosting’

DLNA – miniDLNA on Debian

DLNA uses Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for media management, discovery and control.
I love DLNA and last year I wrote a review post about my Silver Stone DC01, which is used to browse everything from my TV. I will try to set up a little Debian Server with analogical usage to the Silver Stone DC 01. Continue reading ‘DLNA – miniDLNA on Debian’

Montage wallpaper with ImageMagick


With ImageMagick you can create a really magic things like this one…

You have a dual monitor setup and you want to set for each one a special background, no problem now comes ImageMagick into play to montage two different backgrounds into a single one. Get to work: Continue reading ‘Montage wallpaper with ImageMagick’