Starvin’ Marvin

I’ve setup a simple and reliable monitoring mechanism on VPS. Basically i’m using:

• Monit:  as stated in the site, monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. So basically I’m using it to monitor (and restart if necessary) the daemons I consider important.
• Munin: well it generates a ton of graphs and stats that allows me to check up how everything is going.

I like these tools, they are simple and nice. So what do you guys use?

It seems that haven’t been post for a long time now. So here it goes a brief news update.

First of all, I have a new job - I’m working as Network Enginner in Sonaecom in Access and Transmission Engineering group.

Other good news is that Benfica won against the city rivals Sporting 2 - 0. I was on the stadium and I must say it was one of the amazing games I ever watched live.

And now for something completely different, here goes a reading sugestion: If you are geek enough, you should read this lengthy article sent by a friend of mine (thanks Nuno). It’s about the famous Moore’s law. It’s a great way to learn a little more about the Moore’s law, processor’s manufacturing proccess and options taken by manufacturer’s.

I’ll try to keep a tigher posting agenda.