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collectd 4.3.0 uploaded to unstable

friday, 22 february 2008 20:15:00 CEST

Yesterday, collectd 4.3.0-1 has been uploaded to Debian unstable. The most important changes since 3.x are (in chronological order):

the much improved plugin infrastructure offers a lot more flexibility
the much improved networking code offers a lot more flexibility
the new bindings to Perl allow plugins to be written in the scripting language Perl
the new unixsock and exec plugins allow external programs to communicate with the daemon and submit data
integration with Nagios has been implemented
support for flexible intervals has been added
support to read values from SNMP enabled devices has been added
basic support for monitoring has been added
many new plugins

See the changelog for details.

About collectd:
collectd is a small daemon which collects system information periodically and provides mechanisms to monitor and store the values in a variety of ways. It is written in C for performance. Since the daemon doesn't need to startup every time it wants to update the values it's very fast and easy on the system and allows very fine-grained statistics.

FrOSCon 2007: Debian on a Lego robot

sunday, 26 august 2007 13:01:00 CEST

This little Lego robot runs (well, drives) with Debian ;-)

Debian at FrOSCon 2007

saturday, 25 august 2007 16:57:00 CEST

The team of the Debian booth at FrOSCon 2007. Standing (from left to right): Bernd "bzed" Zeimetz, Thomas "MrFai" Lange, I, Elmar Hoffmann, Martin "zobel" Zobel-Helas, Luk "luk" Claes. Sitting: some visitor, Christoph "Myon" Berg.

Thanks to Michael "mika" Prokop for taking this photo (I cowardly stole it from his blog).

HDR image of Les Menuires

sunday, 18 february 2007 16:13:00 CEST

This HDR (high dynamic range) picture was assembled from seven individual images of the city of Les Menuires, France, taken during my snowboarding vacation in January 2007. I was using Qtpfsgui (which is based on pfstools) to render the image. I am going to package those pieces of software for Debian soon.

Upgraded my laptop from Sarge to Etch

saturday, 20 january 2007 21:40:00 CEST

I just upgraded the Sarge system on my laptop to Etch. As I was using all kinds of selfpackaged and -backported packages from all kinds of sources a couple of minor dependency problems arised. Besides that, the upgrade went very smooth though and I did not recognize any problems so far. Good job Debian people! :-)

Is it spring already?

saturday, 20 january 2007 13:59:00 CEST

This picture was taken in my parents' garden today...

New camera :-)

thursday, 28 december 2006 18:52:00 CEST

My new camera - a Canon EOS 30D digital SLR camera and a Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM zoom lens - arrived this morning. I'm very happy that it arrived in time for my snowboarding vacation (which starts on Saturday) as I did not order it before last Friday. Today, I bought two 2GB CF cards for it so I should be equipped pretty well for the time being :-)

Yesterday I found and removed a bug in the computer lab at university ;-)

tuesday, 05 december 2006 12:11:00 CEST

Second set of pictures uploaded

tuesday, 10 october 2006 23:21:00 CEST

The second set of pictures of my Norway trip - taken with my Canon EOS Rebel G camera - have been uploaded to my gallery.

Harddisk failure

friday, 06 october 2006 19:48:00 CEST

Today, for the second time in just a few weeks, one of my harddisks on alba failed. Both of them were less then a year old...

Anyway, I just took the chance to upgrade to a 2.6.17.13 kernel with the latest stable Linux-VServer patch applied.