For our mirror server I have switched to a CentOS kernel. Since somewhere during Fedora Core 6 I was not able to use the newest kernel any more. At the point Fedora Core 6 switched to 2.6.19 based kernels it became unusable for us. There were different bugs since 2.6.19 which all were fixed just to be replaced by new problems. So after trying 2.6.22.5-76.fc7 which unfortunately also crashed after a few days without any obvious reasons I switched to 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 in the hope that it is more stable because it is 2.6.18 based (which always worked pretty good for us) and because it is from CentOS and I hope that it is therefore much more stable.
Monthly Archive for September, 2007
Finally I have found (thanks Alex!) a
simple GPS tracking software for my mobile phone: GPS Track
It almost does exactly the things I was looking for: It just tracks. Unfortunately
it does not track the time and the elevation which would be nice to
have in addition to the coordinates but as it is GPLv2+ it should be possible to
add the missing features if they are ever needed.
Today I tracked a short tour on my bicycle with GPS Track and after
loading it in google earth it looked something liked this:
Inspired by Mark Cox I copied various python scripts into one to get notifications via Jabber when somebody calls. The script just does a tail on /var/log/messages and if it detects a log message from the ISDN card it sends a XMPP message to Jennifer and me with the number of the caller. The script tries to resolve the caller’s phone number to a name if it is a known number.
The script can be downloaded at: http://lisas.de/~adrian/phone2jabber.py.
The jabber code requires python-xmpp installed and that is also where I copied the XMPP specific code from.