Adding limited fancybox support to octopress

After taking a photo session [https://log.cyconet.org/2012/12/27/roast-goose/] I thought it would be cool to have some more shiny Image functionality in octopress. FancyBox [http://fancybox.net/] seems to be bleeding edge, so I did have a look into it. Devin Weaver had a solution…

Roast Goose

This year it turned out that we had to care the first time for ourself about Christmas dinner. So we decided to try a roast goose [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roast_goose#European]. Obtaining the goose is a different story and will maybe told later. The second challenge was…

nagios-plugins 1.4.16 is going to be released

Short before Debian is freezing [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/06/msg00006.html] the upcoming release of a new version of nagios-plugins [http://nagiosplugins.org/] is scheduled for Wednesday. The good news is, that a recent version is available in unstable and testing. Upstream only fixed some check_ping…

Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2012

As announced [https://log.cyconet.org/2012/02/26/booth-at-chemnitzer-linux-tage-2012-clt14] 3 weeks ago, the Debian project was present at Chemnitzer Linuxtage [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2012/]. Several talks and workshops where held by people related to the Debian project. At the booth we had talks and discussions with exhibitors and…

Is using Octopress a good idea?

Octopress [http://octopress.org/docs/setup/] seems to become more popular these days. As it looks great at a first view, I see two problems. Ruby 1.9.2 All documentations and howtos requires to install ruby 1.9.2 via rvm. Maybe anybody can tell me, why I could…

Monitoring dualstacked service with Icinga

Having monitoring for dualstack connectivity inplace [https://log.cyconet.org/2012/03/09/monitoring-dualstacked-systems-with-icinga] helps a lot. Unfortunately in most cases we are running also services we want to offer dualstacked. In the past we just monitored in those cases IPv4 only or created a separate check for the same…

Monitoring dualstacked systems with Icinga

Since some ages we are deploying IPv6 in our network and also for some selected services. Some days ago we discovered, that anybody has enabled accidentally a router advertisement daemon in a network where this shouldn't happen. As result of this, IPv6 enabled systems got (additional) IPv6 addresses…