Tag Archives: Monitor

Gas Meter Monitoring Project – Part 2

Posted by dave on July 7, 2012 No comments

Ok, so in my previous post I talked about the hardware used to read the pulses from our gas meter, connected to an old pedometer this was recording each time the right most dial completed a full revolution. Next was …

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Gas Usage Monitoring Project

Posted by dave on July 2, 2012 No comments

A while back I wrote about using The Owl electricity monitor and pulling out information from it’s SQLite database and graphing it using PHP. That’s working fine still and providing very useful information. But, it’s only half the story, well, a third …

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The Owl USB Energy Meter and using the SQLite Database with PHP

Posted by dave on June 14, 2012 2 comments

I’ve had The Owl running for a little while now and the software that comes with it is a little bit rubbish to be honest. I kinda works OK I guess but is very limited, so it was time to have a little …

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PowerShell Script to Monitor Server Date and Time using PRTG Network Monitor

Posted by dave on August 10, 2011 2 comments

I had an issue this morning when a hosted server was randomly 1 day out. All the date and time settings were correct, but as a lot of the web sites running on this box depend heaivily on system time, …

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PCI, PCI-E and AGP Simplified

Posted by dave on February 28, 2011 No comments

So you want a new graphics card, or rather you need a new graphics card since your old one is now obsolete and not supported by Windows 7? It’s probably best to have a cup of tea ready before going …

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DVI Connectors Explained

Posted by dave on February 28, 2011 No comments

Well, my simple interpretation of the explanation found here anyway. DVI-D = Digital only DVI-A = Analogue only DVI-I = Both analogue and digital So not quite as complex as I initially thought. Importantly, you need to know that the …

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PFSense Upgrade 1.2 -> 1.2.3

Posted by dave on February 9, 2011 No comments

I figured I was about time I upgraded out PFSense box, mostly because I wanted to play with the new packages available for 1.2.3. The upgrade from 1.2 is simple, just head to the “Firmware” option on the left: And …

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Toner OID’s for Konica-Minolta BizHub C451

Posted by dave on October 21, 2010 12 comments

Having recently upgraded to PRTG Network Monitor 8, I had questioned how I might then also check the toner levels in my Konica-Minolta Bizhub C451 printer and also the RAID arrays in my HP Servers. Patrick from Paessler pointed me …

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PRTG Network Monitor 8 Review

Posted by dave on October 20, 2010 4 comments

The other day I was checking my emails and amongst the mundane rubbish of people trying to flog me Viagra or robots spamming my blog, I spotted an interesting mail from a person at the PR company for Paessler, the …

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