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	<title>An It-Slave in the digital saltmine</title>
	<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs</link>
	<description>Another Blog from a Geek that has no life</description>
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		<title>Howto use rndis device in Openwrt as a modem, i.e HTC Desire with Android</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background
I wanted to use a 3G dongle with a twin SIM&#160;card as my Internet connection when I&#8217;m traveling. I&#160;have earlier decribed howto share the Internet connection and make it more flexible by using an OpenWRT&#160;router with USB&#160;interface as a bridge between Wlan and 3G/GPRS provided internet.
Unfortunatly Tele2s support personel cannot keep track of the unlogical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/07/02/howto-use-rndis-device-in-openwrt-as-a-modem-i-e-htc-desire-with-android/</link>
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		<title>op5 and City Cloud introducing monitoring in the Cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;

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op5 is the leading provider of monitoring  software in Europe. op5 uses Open Source  and their monitoring  services are now available in the Cloud via City Cloud, a cloud  computing service from City Network. By introducing monitoring in a new  business model, customers are now able to get professional monitoring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/07/01/op5-and-city-cloud-introducing-monitoring-in-the-cloud/</link>
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		<title>Install OpenWRT on LaFonera 2.0G router, FON2202</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
Background
After waiting for the Hummingbird release for the LaFonera 2.0G a long time and discussed with the Fon support team when 3G&#160;dongles will work, I&#160;gave up and installed OpenWRT on my LaFonera 2.0G router.
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I&#8217;m sorry FON, you have a cool idea and nice routers but your unlogical approach to the users and communtity, finally got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/06/28/install-openwrt-on-lafonera-2-0g-router-fon2202/</link>
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		<title>Howto use 3G dongle Huawei E1750 in OpenWrt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background
After succesfully installed my new Linksys WRT160NL with OpenWrt, the next step is to configure it. As the summer is approaching and my need for Internet access in our summer cottage will arrise. The summer cottage is in the middle of nowhere so it would be handy to put a USB dongle and the Wlan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/06/12/howto-use-3g-dongle-huawei-e1750-in-openwrt/</link>
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		<title>Install OpenWRT on Linksys WRT160NL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
Background
After getting fedup with the bad fon support I decided to give a new wireless router a try. After browsing internet and openwrt forums I&#160;thought that a Linksys WRT160NL would fulfill my requirements:
The requrements are:

N
3G USB&#160;dongle
Cheap

&#160;
Packing up
The installation from Linksys is crap, a CD comes with the product and if you want to configure it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/06/04/install-openwrt-on-linksys-wrt160nl/</link>
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		<title>OpenBSD 4.7 is out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is old news but still important.
&#160;

- OpenBSD 4.7 RELEASED -------------------------------------------------

May 19, 2010.

We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.7.
This is our 27th release on CD-ROM (and 28th via FTP).  We remain
proud of OpenBSD's record of more than ten years with only two remote
holes in the default install.

As in our previous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/05/26/openbsd-4-7-is-out/</link>
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		<title>Splunk are not open</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
I have registred me to attend&#160;the open Splunk event in Stockholm. Within 24 hours I&#160;got an email telling that they do not want competitors at the event and would like to discuss the purpose of me attending.
I&#160;called the Splunk representative and told him that op5 thinks Splunk is a competitor in some cases and in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/05/25/splunk-are-not-open/</link>
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		<title>VOIP Today Magazine 8th issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Toda



VOIP Today magazine releases its 8th the postscript to www.voiptoday.org
            
            VOIP Today magazine is a freely available and independent online publication presenting up-to-date VoIP news and information covering all aspects of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/05/25/voip-today-magazine-8th-issue/</link>
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		<title>Enable Huawei E1750 in Ubuntu 10.04</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
I&#8217;m the happay owner of a Huawei E1750 modem and it is real easy to get it running in Ubuntu. This guide will probably work with many other 3G USB&#160;modems.
Just type from the command line:

sudo apt-get install usb-modeswitch

Plug in the modem
Go to the Network manager and enter your Mobile Broadband credentials and now it works!
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		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/05/23/enable-huawei-e1750-in-ubuntu-10-04/</link>
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		<title>Use Android as a remote control to MythTV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
I found a new favorite app to my Android, mythmote.
By using it you can turn your Android into a remote control for MythTV. On the mythfrontend telnet control must be enbled and it is found under Setup-Setup-General and check&#160; &#34;Enable Network Remote Control Interface&#34;.
The Android uses wifi to connect to the telnet server at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/05/18/use-android-as-a-remote-control-to-mythtv/</link>
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		<title>Unlock Huawei modems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
I&#160;wanted to unlock my operator locked Huawei e1750 modem. After googling I&#160;found this page in swedish.
The unlock code can be calculated by using the IMEI number, the unlock code is sent by using AT&#160;commands.
I&#160;have succesfully tested this on e1750 and e1550.
I&#160;also tried it on e220 and it did not work.

&#160;
1. Get the IMEI number
Normally this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/05/02/unlock-huawei-modems/</link>
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		<title>Android app for Nagios or op5 Monitor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
With my new and fancy HTC Desire I wanted to look at my Nagios or op5 Monitor status. I&#160;have found two apps Nagroid and NagMonDroid.
&#160;
NagMonDroid did I&#160;not get working, probably because op5 Monitor only uses https as protocol.
&#160;
Nagroid works like a charm:

&#160;
The configuration is rather straightforward:

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		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/05/01/android-app-for-nagios-or-op5-monitor/</link>
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		<title>Hint: Howto get Android SDK working on Ubuntu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
I wanted to use the Android SDK on my Ubuntu machine, mainly to grab screenshoots but also to play around with it.
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I followed the guidelines at this guide, but it did not work. DDM just show garbage as the device and when trying to get a screenshoot it complained with:

54:42 W/ddms: Unable to get frame [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/05/01/hint-howto-get-android-sdk-working-on-ubuntu/</link>
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		<title>Finally it has arrived, my HTC Desire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After waiting for several weeks, my new phone, a HTC Desire has finally arrived. I have been a heavy cellphone user since started working as a Tivoli consultant in -98. I bought my first cellphone -94 and have had several so called smart phones both from Nokia and Ericsson.
&#160;
For the first time I felt that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/04/30/finally-it-has-arrived-my-htc-desire/</link>
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		<title>Ash hole luck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
I have not updated my blog lately because of heavy traveling. In Tuesday, after visiting GoOpen 2010, I took this picture at Gardemoen, Oslo. I was very lucky because my flight was DY3774

It seams like I was in luck and used an ash hole to get home:-)
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		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/04/23/ash-hole-luck/</link>
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		<title>op5 Monitor 5.0 Release Party!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
op5 will release op5 Monitor 5.0 April the 13:th including:

Ninja, the new Nagios GUI
Merlin, database backend and support for load balancing and redunduncy in Nagios
NagVis, Nagios visualization including integration with Google maps
Nacoma, a Nagios webconfigurator tool
Reports, good looking SLA reports, new Availabilty reports, new Trend reports, filter notifications and more.
and much more&#8230;.

&#160;
&#160;
&#160;
You are welcome to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/03/31/op5-monitor-5-0-release-party/</link>
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		<title>Installing Developer Firmware on Fonera router</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background
I bought a Fonera 2.0g WLAN router and I wanted to extend the functionality to have the possibility to add packages from OpenWRT. I also wanted the possibility to manage my new router with ssh.
The way to achive this is by installing developer firmware.

&#160;
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Installing
I followed the instructions at Fons beta/developer wiki.
The image I used can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/03/29/installing-developer-firmware-on-fonera-router/</link>
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		<title>Install SNMP on OpenWRT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
When using a cool router software like OpenWRT it is a good idea to monitor the network usage. This article describe howto get SNMP&#160;on your OpenWRT&#160;based router.
&#160;
&#160;
1. Install
The easiest way is to use the webgui, http://&#60;your router ip&#62;

Log in as root/-&#60;your password&#62;
Click on Adminstrator to enable the Advnced menues
System-&#62;Software
Click on &#34;Update Package List&#34; (this require [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/03/23/install-snmp-on-openwrt/</link>
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		<title>Install OpenWRT on LaFonera router</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

&#160;Background
I got an unused La Fonera router by a collegue. They can be bought from http://www.fon.com for approximately 40 Euro including freight. The purpose of the Fon community is to build a community of hotspots around the world so every owner of a La Fonera could use any other La Fonera router in the world.
&#160;
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/03/21/install-openwrt-on-lafonera-router/</link>
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		<title>Monitor HP Proliant with Nagios or Op5 Monitor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
Background
It is always a good idea to monitor the server hardware, in many cases the root cause of the probblem is hardware related like: a fan stops and the temperature gets to high, dust in the machine makes it to hot, disks that fails, memory corruption and so on.&#160; This article will describe howto enable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/03/02/monitor-hp-proliant-with-nagios-or-op5-monitor/</link>
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		<title>op5 Monitor 5.0 Beta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The release of the next generation Open Source Network Monitoring Software is only weeks away with the release of op5 Monitor 5. Here you can download a Beta version of the sofware intended for testing och evaluation or try it at a live demo.

op5 Monitor Beta, virtual image in ovf format
Try op5 Monitor Beta

The op5 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/02/26/op5-monitor-5-0-beta/</link>
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		<title>Rockbox makes your media player much better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have an old iPod G3 player that I haven&#8217;t used for several years. The main reason is that it is full of Apple vendor lock-in &#34;features&#34;. The most annoying issues are:

Hard to manage without iTunes
iTunes is crap
Cannot play ogg and flac
I&#160;just want to attach it and it should popup like a USB disk, drop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/02/19/rockbox-makes-your-media-player-much-better/</link>
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		<title>Book review: AsteriskNow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
&#160;
I&#160;have read the book Asterisk now by Nir Simionovich,&#160;published in March 2008.&#160;The book was a big disappointment, the reason is that the book do not cover the software used in AsteriskNOW today. The book cover the Asterisk GUI but AsteriskNOW is using FreePBX instead which is totally different. One main reason to use AsteriskNow is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/02/17/book-review-asterisknow/</link>
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		<title>Merlin and Ninja roadmap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An email sent to op5-users from op5s CTO, Peter &#214;stlin.
&#8211;cut&#8211;
Hi All,
The op5 devel team has been kind of quiet on the list lately. The
reason for this is that we have been working very hard to complete the
next release of Merlin and Ninja. The result of this will be the
release of op5 Monitor 5.0 scheduled for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/02/17/merlin-and-ninja-roadmap/</link>
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		<title>Share your internet connection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
Background
I&#160;was with my geekfriends at a ski resort and I&#160;managed to get an Internet connection using a cellphone. Of course I&#160;wanted to share it with my friends. As geeks we brought a switch and a couple of ethernetcables.
&#160;
Solution
Using this script on a Ubuntu 9.10 I&#160;managed to share my connection:

sudo ifconfig eth0 10.8.16.1
sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
sudo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.it-slav.net/blogs/2010/02/12/share-your-internet-connection/</link>
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