Server availability monitoring with email notifications

I was searching for some tool to monitor availability of a computer in the network. Found some solutions, but they wasn't really satisfying. That's why I wrote this simple script inspired by one script I found.

Wrapper for googlecl calendar

Recently I was searching for tool to keep my TODO list synchronized with my laptop and my mobile phone. One simple and effective solution is to use googlecl tool to manage the calendar entries. I've written a simple wrapper to make it really easy to work with googlecl and to use it as a simple TODO list for console.

Remastering shell

Here you will find basic and more advanced shell (console) usage and some tips to make your work more effective and to save you some time.

IP Validator

This is a simple script, which validates IP addresses, converts them into binary form and assign to an IP class.

KDE 4.6 - kmix eating up CPU

It happened to me few times, the CPU load was high because kmix was pretty hungry. It also stopped responding. The problem was in the corrupted profile file.

SSH Login (long delay problem)

If you wait a few second before the password prompt appears read this simple tip to fix it.

VIM tips

Vim is a shortcut for Vi IMproved and  it is a powerful console-based text editor.
This article briefly describes some useful operations and tips you can do in vim editor.