http://benjaminrossi.com/blog Digital pimpery Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:20:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Arc90 is the first place I’ve worked where company politics played little to no role in the architecting of software. There are of course the “politics” of the clients we write code for - or more accurately some design practices that allow them to better leverage their own methods ... http://benjaminrossi.com/blog/2008/08/28/not-your-average-internship/ An Art Form Speed does matter. Failure to perform a task with adequate speed can result in missing deadlines, no time to relax, and unimpressed friends. In this guide, I will share with you some of the practices I've adopted, how they're useful, and how you can apply these same practices ... http://benjaminrossi.com/blog/2006/12/18/how-to-be-a-ninja-part-1/ SNMP In the first part, I covered building and installing Cacti from scratch on an OS X machine. Now I will guide you through setting up SNMP on your other OS X machines. I put together a package of some scripts I made to extract CPU usage, disk activity, and temperature ... http://benjaminrossi.com/blog/2006/07/22/cacti-on-os-x-part-2/ y=x Naturally, when you want awesome graphs, flexibility, awesome graphs, SNMP polling, and awesome graphs, you turn to Cacti. Cacti is a web application written in PHP that can graph statistics collected from hosts of your choosing. Hosts are polled with SNMP, the de-facto standard in network device monitoring and control. ... http://benjaminrossi.com/blog/2006/06/29/cacti-on-os-x-part-1/