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Jan 102010
 

Or you could also title this “How to talk your company into buying you a high end gaming rig for your desktop”

So I’ve been playing with this web service I’m writing for OpsMgr. I was doing a bunch of practical things with it, that you’d normally want to do with it – but then I thought screw that, let’s do something fun with it.

I like to play Team Fortress 2. I like to monitor things. Why not put them together?

Well friends, once you’ve made a web service that talks to the system, it’s fairly trivial to write something to take that information and put it somewhere else.

Let me demonstrate (And yes, you probably do want to click and view the larger version of this)

Team Fortress OpsMgr

Stay Tuned…. Video coming soon.

Oct 222009
 

Alas, it seems those Danes are just as goofy as I am. And I’m happy to hear it!

Jakob Svendsen over at CoreTech released a management pack today. That management pack will alert you when the coffee in your coffee pot gets low. I’ll go ahead and embed the video below, but you’ll have to go to their site to download it.

Now, I return to my dank and dark office, where I shall create a SUPERIOR coffee pot monitor!
I’m actually waiting on an order from SparkFun and Jameco to get here as we speak.