2011

Remotely reboot the Freebox Server from OpenBSD

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The Freebox Server is an ADSL/FTTH router provided by the french operator Free SA. From it’s Web interface, you can apply changes and reboot the box. But if you can’t access this Web interface, you just won’t be able to reboot the box. Didier Segura provides a PHP script that can be used to remotely reboot the box . On my OpenBSD box, the installation and launch is quite straight forward:

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Monitor the Airport Extreme with Munin

       1055 words, 5 minutes

I already configured Munin to monitor my Synology DS409slim . Today, I’m going to configure Munin to monitor my Apple Airport Extreme, using SNMP.

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Fast sleep on Mac OS X

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By default, my MacBook Pro goes into deep sleep (hibernate) mode when I close the lid. This is nice but I have 8GB of RAM and it is quite a slow process. Furthermore, I never went out of battery during a whole sleep process. So I’m going to avoid dumping my whole RAM content to the SSD disk and save of bit of it: # pmset -a hibernatemode 0 # rm /var/vm/sleepimage Should I want to re-enable hibernate mode, I’d run

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Move WordPress admin bar to the bottom

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I’m building a WordPress theme that has a fixed top menu bar. Hence, the admin bar supersedes it ; and that’s not nice. So I just wanted to move it to the bottom of the page, where nothing lies. You will just need to add the following code to your functions.php file:

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Monitor a Synology NAS with Munin

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My Synology DiskStation DS409slim is, via the DSM software, SNMP aware. This means I can poll it to get some information using a SNMP capable monitoring system. This is how I configured Munin to grab some metrics from the NAS.

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