After being a beta tester for Microsoft Windows since Windows 98SE, I was happy to be invited to the Windows 7 testing group. With a somewhat revised testing schedule and process from the past – with only a Beta and then RC being released before RTM instead of builds every few months, it was quite a frustrating attempt – with many of my bugs being closed with “Unable to reproduce” and a comment saying it works in a later build. Read on for more of my thoughts.
Archive for July, 2009
For a while now I’ve been having to restart snmpd on my linux based router running CentOS whenever my PPPoE connection to my ADSL provider went down. This is because the interface disappeared, snmpd cracked it and returned 0 for all snmp queries until it was restarted. This becomes a royal pain when monitoring connection throughput with things like cacti or mrtg.
After getting sick of this the other day, I actually found a solution!
The file /etc/ppp/ip-up.local is run every time a PPP connection is established! This means I can restart snmpd from within this file and have it done automatically – forever!
All that is required is that /etc/ppp/ip-up.local contains:
#!/bin/bash
/etc/init.d/snmpd restart
You could also use the same file to call scripts to update dynamic DNS providers like homeip.net etc as well!
After nearly a year of self study, my Commercial Pilot License exams have finally been completed. 3 weeks short of a year, I can proudly say that I managed to get the following scores:
- Aerodynamics: 78%
- Air Law: 95%
- Flight Planning & Performance: 92%
- Human Factors: 90%
- Meteorology: 93%
- Navigation: 80%
- Aircraft General Knowledge & Systems: 83%
This means my training now turns to flying, flying and more flying. Lets hope for a lot of time with very few SIGMETs in the coming weeks 
After initial testing, v2.1.2.0 of DeviceUpdate is now available for public testing. You can grab a copy from the DeviceUpdate site.