Bloghttp://www.morepackets.com/blog/en-IE2010-07-31T00:43:57ZSquarespace Site Server v5.11.5 (http://www.squarespace.com/)OpsView/Nagios check for Blacknight.ie Status Pagehttp://www.morepackets.com/blog/2010/7/16/opsviewnagios-check-for-blacknightie-status-page.htmlJohn Long2010-07-16T11:54:09Z
If Blacknight are having issues we tend to get alerts messages about "Connection Refused" which tend to cause some consternation!

To cut down on the amount of clicking, I've wrote a small bash script that can be run by OpsView/Nagios that will check the Blacknight Status Page and return a count of the number of times that the "NOTOK" image is shown!]]>Recovering a corrupt LDAP DB on OS X Serverhttp://www.morepackets.com/blog/2010/6/7/recovering-a-corrupt-ldap-db-on-os-x-server.htmlJohn Long2010-06-07T22:00:27Z
This weekend a problem arose with the OS X Server back home. I initially noticed it when I couldn't gain SSH access to the machine.

Using verbose output the SSH connection would reach the status of "entering interactive session" but would proceed no further.

When a user attempted to log on locally to the machine, even though the password and username were correct it would still display a logon failed message.


Using the local administrative account I determined that slapd wasn't starting up.
]]>My MiFi!http://www.morepackets.com/blog/2010/4/3/my-mifi.htmlJohn Long2010-04-03T00:01:29Z
Here's my experience so far!]]>Connecting an Apple computer to the IT Sligo WiFihttp://www.morepackets.com/blog/2010/2/4/connecting-an-apple-computer-to-the-it-sligo-wifi.htmlJohn Long2010-02-04T16:20:36ZRecently I met some people who said that Computer Services was unable to help them get their Mac OS X computers onto the student WiFi network in IT Sligo.

In this day and age, why isn't a college computer services dept. able to cater for Macs...

Anyhow, here's a PDF I've thrown together to instruct a user in how to do it. Leave me a comment if you need any help or more information.

Click here to download/view the PDF!

]]>Checking your IT Sligo Studentmail whilst avoiding webmail!http://www.morepackets.com/blog/2010/1/19/checking-your-it-sligo-studentmail-whilst-avoiding-webmail.htmlJohn Long2010-01-19T17:28:52Z
If this sounds interesting to you read more!!]]>OS X Remote Management using a "man-in-the-middle" linux serverhttp://www.morepackets.com/blog/2010/1/14/os-x-remote-management-using-a-man-in-the-middle-linux-serve.htmlJohn Long2010-01-14T02:20:06Z
How, you might ask, can I accomplish this when my friends are 2 hours away!]]>Use SSH as a replacement to "Back to my Mac"http://www.morepackets.com/blog/2010/1/12/use-ssh-as-a-replacement-to-back-to-my-mac.htmlJohn Long2010-01-12T11:28:50Z
SSH can be used as an alternative.]]>HTML Scraping + Presentation for iPhonehttp://www.morepackets.com/blog/2010/1/6/html-scraping-presentation-for-iphone.htmlJohn Long2010-01-06T02:26:07Z
I had such parsing working from within the app itself using TFHpple, an XPath parser. However this meant that the iPhone would be doing all the work. Also, if the site that I'm scraping ever changed it's layout, my app would immediately stop working and my app would be out of action for at least 10 days!

To that end, on the recommendation of many fine XCakers, I began into coding a middle-man script. This script would be passed an identifer and would then go and parse the HTML generated by using that identifier. It would then return the wanted data in the form of a JSON string.]]>@iPhoneAppSchoolhttp://www.morepackets.com/blog/2009/7/28/iphoneappschool.htmlJohn Long2009-07-28T09:25:58Z
The aim of the course is to teach “developers everything they need to produce their own apps—from writing their first lines of Objective-C to publishing their app in the iTunes App Store.”]]>