Today I went to the NJ DMV (Never will I ever call you the MVC, you are the DMV, deal with it and the negative connotation that DMV implies; you deserve it) fully expecting to get my license renewed. It’s the first Tuesday in the month of June, it’s 4:45pm, they don’t close til 7:30pm — it’ll be fine.
How wrong I was.
Ornery. That’s the only way to describe how I am feeling today. Ornery is a good word. If it’s not an SAT word I’d be disappointed. Edit: I almost missed out an a glorious opportunity: I’d be ornery if ornery wasn’t an SAT word. I don’t know if that actually works. I think it does. English is weird. Whatever. I’ve said it, I can’t un-say it.
Today’s (the weekly post for this week) is brought to you by Mike, the Ornery bugger. It’s going to be a bunch of things that have me REALLY annoyed at the moment. Not RAGE AGAINST THE WORLD annoyed, more: come on man, use your damn brain. I tweeted out a few of these, but I realized I should just blog it out and fill my self-imposed (currently on-schedule) blog quota for the week (for those not keeping track: the plan was to do one blog post a week for the entire year).
On Reddit I found a great little recipe for Mini Steak and Ale Pies. These looked delicious, and also seemed pretty simple to do. That being said, I am a lazy, lazy man and didn’t want to sit over the stove to cook it all. So I took the recipe and modified it so I could make it in my slow cooker overnight (minus the baking part, but the cooking of the steak and the braising afterwards were all done in the slow cooker to save myself from standing over the stove and watching it).
I have included the recipe, which I tweaked slightly, below.
Sigh.
It’s been a week. I was going to follow-up on a previous post about Zabbix API and getting a working status display going, but either Dell or Pitt-Ohio threw a wrench in the works today. We’re not sure who mucked it up, but someone mucked it up and we’ve spent the last two days cleaning it up.
So, Zabbix has a lot of cool functionality in it. One of my favorite features is the API.
The API allows you to pull data like graphs, status of hosts, and active triggers.
About a week before we were slated to replace a Cisco 3560G switch in the Middle School, we had a catastrophic pipe failure above one of our racks. The failure was so bad that water flooded the floor above the rack, seeped into the cracks, and eventually found it’s way through a light fixture into the rack.
What followed was incredibly unfortunate and predictable:
Yep. The switch is down. Crap. Crappy crap. Crappity crap.
Someone on Reddit made an interesting discovery yesterday, regarding a key stat in The Division: Protection from Elites. The end-game of The Division involves killing lots of Blue (or maybe Purple) and Gold-tier mobs (elites). There is a stat on high-end gear called “Protection From Elites.”
One would understand that this means damage from Elites would be decreased.
Well, someone dug through the code on Reddit and… Well suffice it to say that it might not be accurate nor working as intended. The two relevant snippets of code (thanks to u/AlCalzone89 for digging through it) are:
Sorry, I’ve been tied up with Statewide Mandated PARCC testing this week, and haven’t had time to write a post (let alone do ANYTHING worthy of posting).
So here’s a video of an asshole driver from NJ.
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My upcoming to-do list includes:
I’ve been talking a lot about Zabbix lately (mostly because it’s a lot of what is on my plate at work) and I keep finding little gotcha points that I understand but are very frustrating. Last week (and into this week) I’ve been setting up trigger dependency. Here’s an example, just as a hypothetical situation.
This guide modified from 2DayGeek’s post available here. Some of the steps (namely 7) didn’t work, so I wanted to publish my own step-by-step guide because Zabbix’s provided instructions of build from soure and hope for the best were found lacking in my view.
For your information, this guide is written for upgrading Zabbix 2.4.7 to 3.0.1 on an Ubuntu installation. The steps will be slightly different for different flavors of Linux/Unix and completely different for Windows. If you’re doing a Windows Zabbix box you should already know how to manage it because .exe is simpler than this.
