Random thoughts... 2004/9

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2004-09-22

My Tax Rate is at 100%
After a couple of months of diligently taking tax-raising decisions, the average income tax rate in The Principality of Jos Visser is now at 100%!

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2004-09-18

Find a better way of life
Yesterday night I went to a concert of Marillion in Vredenburg (Utrecht). It was again a fantastic experience. Los Marillos complete swept the audience (all die-hard fans) with a fantastic show featuring songs from their last album (Marbles; before the break) as well as songs from their 15 (or so) albums released in the last 16 years.

If you have never heard of Marillion, or if you still think of Marillion as "that band from Kayleigh", you are in desperate need of enlightenment....

Start here...
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2004-09-16

Nagios kicks ass!
Hi all,

For some system and application monitoring that I needed to throw together quickly I decided to go with Nagios, an open source monitoring framework. And I must say that it absolutely rocks! I am a veteran OpenView (Network Node Manager, IT/Operations) user but I am impressed with the simplicity and power of Nagios...

The power of open source came to the rescue here as well since I needed some HTTP monitoring that Nagios' standard check_http plug-in could not do. With only a little effort I added features for accessing servers through HTTP proxies and using SSL client certificates. For the interested, the modified source code is here (and a patch against CVS HEAD of 15 September is here.
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