by bgrolleman | Apr 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
I wanted to use Pushover with Uptimerobot, as it’s a much nicer way to be notified about site issues then email. Unfortunately, Uptimerobot only supports GET requests and pushover needs POST requests.So to fix that I wrote a small PHP script that I loaded on my...
by bgrolleman | Nov 16, 2013 | Hacking
So, wife want’s to transfer from Spotify to Google Music. Luck would have it that there is a tool to do that. Quick disclaimer, These are the steps I did to get it to work on my Ubuntu 13.04 install Portify isn’t fully stable, it stopped/hanged a couple of...
by bgrolleman | Apr 18, 2013 | Hacking
I love playing with autokey-gtk, as it saves me a lot of keystrokes and helps improve my workflow. It’s also the main reason I will not be switching to any other OS like ChromeOS I’ll try and post a few of my scripts once in awhile, it uses python code so...
by bgrolleman | Jun 18, 2012 | Hacking
So, I hate Apple with a passion. They make great hardware, but you are limited in choice and if something breaks you can bet your sorry ass that your system is under repair for a couple of weeks. I run Ubuntu, thank you very much. But, my wife Maaike Appels has to...
by bgrolleman | Feb 13, 2012 | Hacking
Uptime Robot is an excellent tool if you want to know if the site is up, but it won’t tell you much about system health. It’s either down or up and let’s face it, we much rather avoid the down. The professional solution would be to configure Nagios,...
