Still kicking in 2013 despite long hiatus

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Generations Springer at all its original box art glory.

Has been in active for more than a year. I have decided to merge all my previous blogs into a single one.

I will use this blog to share my hobbies as well as my technical articles.

I have not stop collecting toys but slowing down due to others commitments.

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Generations Blitzwing box art.

I will try to update my blog as often as possible.

Bandai Robot Damashii ARX-7 Arbalest

Arbalest dodging with combat shotgun

Bandai Robot Damashii or Robot 魂 entry for the Full Metal Panic series arm slave ARX-7 Arbalest, perhaps is one of a solid action figure mecha and yet affordable compared to the Alter Mechanical Model ARX-7 from my previous entry.

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Cloudkick customed plugins for windows

Cloudkick which is part of RackSpace provides Agent based monitoring for external servers and cloud servers. Other than monitoring computer resources such as CPU, memory, HDD utilization. It is able to cater for customed check which is known as customed plugin. In other words, Cloudkick offers limitless way of administrator to monitor their IT assets as host level which is limited to the operating systems shell scripting support as well as limited to the creativity of the scripters.

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Automating ossec installation in linux

One of the challenges that I have faced in linux environment were to automate installation.

Of course it is simple to script using bash in linux to run rpm or deb binary installation.

What if the installation comes with an interactive installation or installer which is coded as a bash script. Yes, I am looking at you OSSEC .

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Malaysia International Toys Fair day 2 and summary

About 24 hours later from the event here is the summary of the Malaysia International Toys Fair aka MITF.

EinsamSoldat MITF 2010 goodies

With exception of MP Grimlock at the background, others TF toys and Hi-Metal VF-1J, those are freebees as well as things bought from MITF.

The most treasured item for the event is of course the Exhibitor’s tag 🙂 Thanks to TransMY.

This post will be highlighting the some of those figures in closer view. Of course from my point of view 🙂

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