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Zenoss + gnokii

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Zenoss is a wonderful piece of software (once installed) that allows you to monitor devices and programs. It’s really nice at keeping a history of events and the like.

It grabs data via snmp (or a few other methods) and monitors them, creating graphs and status reports. It’ll even map out your network for you. It’s fairly basic software, but it does wonderful things.

So I’ve wanted to do this for awhile, but now I’ve got all the bits together. A friend has given me a Nokia phone with a broken screen, and another a sim card. I was able to “borrow” dads bluetooth dongle that he never uses, and hook up gnokii up to my zenoss.

Now whenever a device dies, I can get a sms alert about it. Pretty nice stuff :>.

iPhone

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Now that I’ve seen the iPhone pricing plans from Optus I’m pretty sure I want to get one. I’ll only get the cheapest capped plan of $19 a month to start off with and if I need more I can increase it. I only send about 5 sms a month and maybe one phone call, so I’m sure it’ll be alright.

I’m disappointed with Optus, because I expecting some real competition with the Telstra Sidekick which has unlimited data. The iPhone only comes with 100mb data on the cheapest plan and on the $79 plan comes with a gigabyte. I suppose I’m only going to be using this for a bit of IM or small research, not to torrent off or anything silly. I have wifi at home and I can always borrow from wifi hot spots.

I’m looking forward to using bluetooth and gps on the iPhone, and the possibility of geo tagging photos. I hope to see some nice applications in the iPhone App Store, and I hope most of them are free. I have an iPod touch and I have really liked the Installer.app, so hopefully someone can get that working on the iPhone 3g.

Uh. These posts are starting to get Yum9me sized.

A phone that suits me? It can't be true.

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I’ve been looking for a phone/pda to splash a bit of money on, since I have bought anything geeky in awhile. I’ve made a short list of features I want it in it. Here is my little list:

  • GPS
  • QWERTY
  • Wireless
  • 3g
  • Bluetooth
  • Camera (with video)
  • SD card
  • An OS that is currently being developed on
  • Dual Sim (Not too important, but it would be nice)
  • Large Screen
  • Phone-ish sized ( I don’t wanna be carrying around a laptop )
  • Looks nice
I’ve found the Nokia E90 smart phone that looks really nice and fits all the requirements but the Dual Sim point. Now the Nokia E90 has a GPS and wireless (802.11g), so it’s probably only time before Symbian OS has kismet running on it :>. If I can’t find any war driving apps, I’ll suppose I’ll have to make one.