Yay! It is here. After a month or two of quietness, another release of oculus, the easy server monitor. I implemented the alarm features in a alarm plugin. The following commands are added: ALLS (ALarm LiSt), ALST (ALarm SeT) and ALRM (ALarm ReMove). The alarm framework is not done yet, Lees meer…
Work has started on oculusd 0.13. I set up the alarm framework and starting thinking on how to implement events on monitors. Alarms will be implemented in a plugin, so you can choose to use them or not. Because alarms need to stay ‘alive’ between reboots and application restarts (of Lees meer…
I am working on a project that uses the RS-485 bus to poll some info from slaves. Because I have quite some experience with RS-232 I’d reckon this a no-brainer. However, my system didn’t work. On the RS-232 bus, with a 232/485 converter, no problems. But, with the slaves connected Lees meer…
Don’t get me wrong. I like automatic updates. They keep my systems running, updated and relatively bug-free. I think automatic updates are a Good Thing. But there are also (as always) Bad Implementations. Nokia’s phone updater is one. This is a short transcript of what happened, a play in 5 Lees meer…
Yes, it has a few nice features. Grouping all your accounts together in one meta-account is a good idea. The synchronising the IMAP folders by default is not. Isn’t the whole point of IMAP that you don’t have your mail on your computer. If I’m offline, I have no mail. Lees meer…
A new month, a new version. Not much interesting, but some internal changes. But, as Linux Torvalds said: “release early and release often”. I removed the fork() call and implemented threads to handle each connection. This yields immediately to the “CONN” command (which will show you who is connected to Lees meer…
This morning I had the idea to create an online marketplace using LinkedIn. A lot of people use that network and are just ‘on’ it. No actions, no reactions. So, I was thinking, what if people could tell eachother two things: what they want (demand) and they have (supply). All Lees meer…
Another evening of little hacking. The goal is to get rid of the fork() and implement POSIX threads. Not easy, because I of course want some extra stuff (a list of threads, and some control of them). For now, I am playing with a doubly linked list. The thing crashes Lees meer…
Ja. Ik heb eens een accountje gemaakt. Kijken hoe het werkt en of het werkt. En dan ook nog al mijn sociale netwerken aan elkaar knopen. LinkedIn, Twitter, Blog, Hyves. En dat ook allemaal ‘on-the-road’ met mijn smartphone. Mocht je willen volgen, dan zit ik op http://www.twitter.com/bartfriederichs. Je moet eraan Lees meer…
Oculusd 0.11 is out! You can download it here. I implemented the monitor thread, and plugins can now easily register functions to be called every N seconds. This is made as simple as possible, just like the commands in the plugins. Adding monitor threads in your plugin is as simple Lees meer…