A chainsaw and tree, perfect for fire prevention :)
The simple ones are the best, and I love anything involving more chainsaws 🙂
[Read More]LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar 2012 Day 2
A Gungan - maybe not Jar Jar Binks? :)
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[Read More]LEGO City Advent Calendar 2011 Day 1
Robber with a Snowball
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Update: It seems I’ve found myself a 2011 calendar, but have been doing it in 2012, go me!
[Read More]LEGO City Advent Calendar 2011 Day 2
Snowball Launcher!
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Update: It seems I’ve found myself a 2011 calendar, but have been doing it in 2012, go me!
[Read More]LEGO City Advent Calendar 2012 Day 1
It’s a fireman!
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[Read More]LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar 2012 Day 1
Gungan Sub from the new Episodes
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[Read More]Rebuilding AU / BA / BF Central Locking Actuators
Ford Falcons and their associated other models in the AU, BA and BF range share a central locking system that has an actuator that has a little bit of a flaw. If you hit the lock/unlock button when it’s already in the state you’re asking for, this can happen:
Once that happens, your car’s insecure, just making a weird grunting noise when you hit the button to lock it.
First things first, take the door trim off and undo the bolts that surround the lock latch on the end of the door.
[Read More]Using RANCID/clogin to run commands on multiple devices
As the next step to my previous post about filtering files using egrep, I had to apply a configuration change to a number of devices on our network.
Rather than logging in manually to 1400 devices, I found that the clogin command can login to a device and run a couple of commands.
You can do it in a single line on the CLI, but I’d prefer to script things so they’re documentable and repeatable.
[Read More]I don’t always miss having cats…
monit error “alert handler failed…”
If you get a message like this in your monit log files:
alert handler failed, retry scheduled for next cycle
It’s not immediately obvious what’s causing it. Check the line before, it’s probably what you’re looking for.
In my case I was getting this error
Sendmail error: 553 5.1.7 monit@microserver… address incomplete
Which is actually from the mailserver I’d setup in the monitrc file. Make sure you’ve got your settings right, and don’t just look at the one line 🙂
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