So I was curious to see how our internet usage was and so I started looking into the ability of my ADSL modem to enable SNMP and then use Cacti to log and graph the data. The modem provided by my ISP was a Thomson ST516, which as it turns out has a telnet connection that can be used to turn on the SNMP agent. Once I was able to turn that on, all I had to do was install Cacti on a computer to monitor the usage on a regular basis ... this proved to be much simpler than I had anticipated.
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Sunday, October 31. 2010
Cacti & Thomson ST516
So I was curious to see how our internet usage was and so I started looking into the ability of my ADSL modem to enable SNMP and then use Cacti to log and graph the data. The modem provided by my ISP was a Thomson ST516, which as it turns out has a telnet connection that can be used to turn on the SNMP agent. Once I was able to turn that on, all I had to do was install Cacti on a computer to monitor the usage on a regular basis ... this proved to be much simpler than I had anticipated.
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Monday, September 6. 2010
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init
Saturday, August 28. 2010
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Yes, yes .. I know, it has been out for a while, and I have been using for quite some time now, but since this site is just new, I figured I'd add my two cents about it here too.
My initial attempt to upgrade my Ubuntu 9.04 and Ubuntu 9.10 systems to the latest release succeeded, but after a reboot it turned out that it kept kicking me out as quickly as I would log in. This become very frustrating, since the machine was pretty much a deadweight in terms of use. Not wanting to loose any of the information, or having to retrieve it from my backups, I booted into the terminal and copied over my files and then did a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 on the machine.
Lo and behold, following a reboot, I had the same problem! Knowing that a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 (from the same CD) works ok on a separate machine, I went through the process of installing the packages and add-ons that don't come with Ubuntu one by one and rebooting after each to find the culprit. Turns out it was cairo-dock that was at fault. I have since removed it, and would love to get it back (I hate that windows style tool bar at the bottom), but I haven't found one that won't lock me out again! Hehe
Other than that, I love Lucid Lynx, it has a nice user interface, nice colour schemes, it came built-in with dual monitor support which was a must! Just to give you an idea, I am currently running this on a Compaq Presario R3000 series, with a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor with a 2.4GHz CPU, and a 40GB HDD. The graphics card in this is an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP. Yeah, I know ... nowhere near the kind of laptops you see now, but this is my very first laptop from like 2003, and yup its still alive and kicking!
My initial attempt to upgrade my Ubuntu 9.04 and Ubuntu 9.10 systems to the latest release succeeded, but after a reboot it turned out that it kept kicking me out as quickly as I would log in. This become very frustrating, since the machine was pretty much a deadweight in terms of use. Not wanting to loose any of the information, or having to retrieve it from my backups, I booted into the terminal and copied over my files and then did a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 on the machine.
Lo and behold, following a reboot, I had the same problem! Knowing that a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 (from the same CD) works ok on a separate machine, I went through the process of installing the packages and add-ons that don't come with Ubuntu one by one and rebooting after each to find the culprit. Turns out it was cairo-dock that was at fault. I have since removed it, and would love to get it back (I hate that windows style tool bar at the bottom), but I haven't found one that won't lock me out again! Hehe
Other than that, I love Lucid Lynx, it has a nice user interface, nice colour schemes, it came built-in with dual monitor support which was a must! Just to give you an idea, I am currently running this on a Compaq Presario R3000 series, with a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor with a 2.4GHz CPU, and a 40GB HDD. The graphics card in this is an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP. Yeah, I know ... nowhere near the kind of laptops you see now, but this is my very first laptop from like 2003, and yup its still alive and kicking!
