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Upon walking to work, I see another one of the giant inflatable rat! This time it’s some construction workers protesting about unfair pay, or something like that. This was on Center St and Shattuck Ave in Berkeley, CA.

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n\\printservername\printersharename

The above command in Windows Server 2008 will allow you to add a shared printer. Pop this command in a batch file and put this on your machine’s local start up folder (c:\program data\microsoft\windows\start menu\programs\startup). Anyone who logs in with the appropriate printer share permissions will get the printer automatically mapped with their account. You could also put this in your start up scripts in group policy for your domain.

PandoraFMS is an open-source systems and network monitoring tool created by some Spanish folks with typos on their website. Sounds great! So why do I hate it? Because I can’t install it. Let’s go through my hoops.

1) Their newest 2.1 virtual image for VMware doesn’t work with VMware ESX 3.5. It doesn’t recognize it so it is worthless.
2) Their Perl CPAN requirements cannot be met with Fedora 10. Fedora10, which plain out sucks already for me, couldn’t even use CPAN. Some weird errors. Fedora 10 fails again!
3) I switched to ubuntu 8.10 x64. Everything goes well until I try to install the CPAN Net::Traceroute::PurePerl. Again, some more obscure errors pointing me to some stupid stats site.
So what the hell does the below mean? I have no idea. Good luck.
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cpan[1]> reports AHOYING/Net-Traceroute-PurePerl-0.10.tar.gz
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:29:03 GMT
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.68)
Going to read 33 yaml files from /root/.cpan/build/
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9719)
………………………………………………………………….DONERestored the state of 33 (in 0.2969 secs)
Distribution: A/AH/AHOYING/Net-Traceroute-PurePerl-0.10.tar.gz
CPAN: CPAN::DistnameInfo loaded ok (v0.07)
CPAN: LWP loaded ok (v5.812)
CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.21)
Fetching ‘http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Net-Traceroute-PurePerl.yaml’…DONE

0.10:
+PASS 5.8.8 on Linux 2.6.16.14 (x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld)
+PASS 5.9.5 on Darwin 8.10.1 (darwin-2level)
+PASS 5.8.8 on Openbsd 3.5 (OpenBSD.i386-openbsd)
+PASS 5.6.2 on Linux 2.4.27-3-686 (i686-linux)
+PASS 5.9.5 on Netbsd 2.1.0_stable (alpha-netbsd)
+PASS 5.9.5 on Solaris 2.9 (sun4-solaris)
+PASS 5.8.6 on Freebsd 5.4-release (i386-freebsd-64int)
+PASS 5.8.8 on Linux 2.6.20-gentoo-r6 (i686-linux)
UNKNOWN 5.10.0 on Linux 2.6.22.10 (x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld)
+PASS 5.11.0 patch 33684 on Darwin 8.10.0 (darwin-thread-multi-64int-2level)
UNKNOWN 5.8.8 patch 33662 on Freebsd 6.1-release-p23 (i386-freebsd)
UNKNOWN 5.8.1 on Darwin 7.9.0 (darwin-2level)
+PASS 5.10.0 patch 33921 on Darwin 8.10.0 (darwin-thread-multi-64int-2level)
UNKNOWN 5.10.0 patch 34065 on Darwin 8.10.0 (darwin-thread-multi-64int-2level) UNKNOWN 5.10.0 on Freebsd 6.1-release (i386-freebsd)
+PASS 5.6.2 on Freebsd 6.1-release (i386-freebsd)
UNKNOWN 5.10.0 on Solaris 2.9 (sun4-solaris)
+PASS 5.10.0 on Freebsd 6.1-release (i386-freebsd-thread-multi)
+PASS 5.8.8 on Freebsd 6.1-release (i386-freebsd-thread-multi)
UNKNOWN 5.8.8 on Freebsd 6.1-release (i386-freebsd-64int)
UNKNOWN 5.10.0 on Linux 2.6.24.3 (i686-linux)
+PASS 5.8.8 patch 34327 on Darwin 8.10.0 (darwin-thread-multi-64int-2level)
UNKNOWN 5.8.8 on Linux 2.6.24.3 (i686-linux)
UNKNOWN 5.11.0 patch 34383 on Linux 2.6.26.5 (i686-linux)
UNKNOWN 5.10.0 on Linux 2.6.26.5 (i686-linux)
UNKNOWN 5.8.8 on Linux 2.6.26.5 (i686-linux)
UNKNOWN 5.11.0 patch 34435 on Linux 2.6.26.5 (i686-linux)
UNKNOWN 5.8.9 on Freebsd 7.0-release (amd64-freebsd)
UNKNOWN 5.8.8 on Freebsd 7.0-release (amd64-freebsd)
UNKNOWN 5.10.0 on Linux 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-amd64 (x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld)
+PASS 5.8.8 on Linux 2.6.18.3 (i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi)
+PASS 5.8.9 on Linux 2.6.21.5-smp (i686-linux-thread-multi-64int-ld)
UNKNOWN 5.10.0 on Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (x86_64-linux-thread-multi-ld)
See http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Net-Traceroute-PurePerl.html for details
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So why would I even remotely think about purchasing PandoraFMS Enterprise if I can’t even get the open-source version working? Time to check out Zabbix

Sweet Tomatoes Sunday Easter brunch!!!! No reservation necessary.

Sweet Tomatoes Sunday Brunch

Don’t miss the Sunday brunch at Sweet Tomatoes!

Sweet Tomatoes Sunday Brunch

My sister came back from Spain and brought me back this. Unfortunately it was all crumbled into pieces, but it was supposed to be 2 doughnuts.

Simpsons Spanish doughnut

To disable SFTP connections and keep alive SSH connections, just comment out this line from your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file
#Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server

Remember to restart your ssh service
/etc/init.d/sshd restart

Check out Soluna’s in San Francisco. Located right next to city hall and BART‘able with a little walking. Nice place to take a date for dinner and then off to catch the San Francisco Opera or San Francisco Symphony about a block or two away!

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Grilled Ahi from Soluna's in San Francisco

Chicken at Soluna's in San Francisco

Another day of Berkeley protestors marching down Shattuck Ave in Berkeley, CA, protesting the wars and/or occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Israel.

Berkeley protestors protesting the wars. Note the girl with the megaphone in the lower left corner