Collection of Freeware Tools for System Administration
Brendan Gregg has put together a collection of freeware tools for system administration written in Perl. One of my favorites is onstat:
$ onstat Server is ON. $
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Vespa & Lambretta Desk Lamps
Vespa Lamp
Maurizio Lamponi Leopardi’s lamps are incredibly cool. He doesn’t list prices on the website but you can email him for a quote – and I suspect that they are very expensive.
Lamponi's Scooter Lamps
Friday, January 2, 2009
Scooter owner traces tracks in frost to find stolen Vespa
A Vespa owner traced his own stolen scooter by following tyre tracks in the frost.
The trail took Steve Bendon to a nearby estate, where he spotted the culprit riding his treasured Vespa.
Police warned him not to try to apprehend the man – then called again the following day – to say the scooter had been damaged in a collision.
He was then given a £170 bill for releasing the damaged scooter from the recovery compound.
Mr Bendon’s Vespa – a 40th birthday present from his wife – was stolen from the garage at his home in Wellingborough, Northants.
When he called the police he was told he would have to wait for an officer to become available.
He set out himself, following the scooter’s tracks in the frost from his home to the town’s Hemmingwell estate, before they melted away.
That night he went back to the estate and saw the thief on his scooter.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Bust a Cap® Window Breaking Accessory
An interesting attachment for your flashlight or tactical baton that allows you to break through automotive glass.
Bust A Cap, Inc. has announced a new, one-of-a-kind device that attaches to your existing flashlight or baton that gives you a tactical advantage to break glass…Replace the existing cap on your flashlight or baton with a new Bust A Cap device. It is now ready when you are.
The Bust a Cap Replacement Maglight End-Cap
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Red Oxx Air Boss – The Best Carry-On Travel Bag
The Air Boss carry-on travel bag was designed by the guy that runs onebag.com and has received rave reviews from the carry-on travel community. There seems to be a large fan-base over at FlyerTalk as well (and those guys know a thing or two about travel). The bag is only available by ordering direct from the manufacturer and sells for $225. I’m sold on this thing…Now for the pressing question – which color to buy?
Kiplingers Red Oxx Recommendation
Thursday, January 1, 2009
iPhone 3G Unlocking How-To
Happy New Year!
The yellowsnOw hack to unlock/jailbreak the iPhone 3G was released today. iClarified has posted a how-to for unlocking the iPhone 3G and CrunchGear has one too.
There are a few caveats though:
“…you must have a jailbroken iPhone and you must be on the 02.28.00 baseband (modem firmware). This means that you must be running the 2.2 firmware. If you used PwnageTool to update to 2.2 from 2.1 you will have to rejailbreak using a QuickPwn jailbreak tutorial for the time being.”
iPhone 3G iPwned