Talk the SNMP Talk

I'm not sure if it'll apply to what I want to do, or to be more
exact, if it's not a needless excercise, considering you could
just have a cronjob that pings your ISP on a regular basis and
logs it. Not that it'd hold up, if you were to go to the ISP and
demand a prorate for the month due to their excessive down
time. That dog ain't gonna hunt, at least with most of them.
They will, all probability, tell you they do not guarantee 100%
or even close to it, uptime. Maybe for a commercial account,
but not for a home user. Be that as it may, I thought it would
be a good learning experiment. There are links on the page
to other subsequent followup articles.

ONLamp.com -- Talk the SNMP Talk

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Converting FAT32 to NTFS

I started into this not expecting what I was about to encounter.
I was wanting to convert an external usb 2.0 160G Seagate hd
from fat32 to ntfs. Downloading Bootitng, putting it on a floppy,
rebooting, and doing the realigning went quickly. Rebooted to XP
and the fun started. I told it to do a full defrag of the drive
and it took all night and all day. When I ran convert, it had
file errors it couldn't fix, probably from one of many of good
old "Windoze" lockups and reboots. Checked the drive, fixed the
errors, and finally was able to convert it to ntfs. I have cygwin
on the box with accounts and directories for all the users on the
LAN, each of which has a cronjob that uses rsync to backup the users
home directory to the XP box nightly. I wanted an environment
where owneship is pretty much followed, the same way it is on
all the OpenBSD boxes. It's done now, and my butt is dragging
as usually does after fooling around with a multios environment.
But hey, it works! ;)

Converting FAT32 to NTFS in Windows XP

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OpenBSD Desktop

Who says you can't do desktop with OpenBSD? Of course,
this took several months to accomplish. Long nights of
sweating buckshot on the keyboard, reading books and
mailing list archives, googling, asking questions and
being told to RTFM. ;) But, things aren't too bad at
this point. Got sound with xmms and mp3blaster playing
all my oldies. I can make my own iso images and burn cds.
I can print across my LAN to either one of my other
printers. I got BitTorrent working and regularly download
BSD and Linux iso images. Know how to update my source
code and my system, along with how to tweak my kernel.
All users have automated nightly backups to external
storage using rsync in cronjobs. The list goes on.
Happy OpenBSD camper at this point! ;)

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