all posts on March 20th, 2006


“You are a donkey, Mr. Bush!”

Heh quite funny news from Reuters today: “You are a donkey, Mr. Bush,” said Chavez, speaking in English on his weekly Sunday broadcast. “You’re an alcoholic Mr. Danger, or rather, you’re a drunkard,” Chavez said, referring to Bush by a nickname he frequently uses to describe the U.S. president. A White House report released last [...]

HOWTO: Extracting SNMP data from an Alcatel Speed Touch Home without SNMP support

My ISP gave me this crappy modem, an Alcatel Speed Touch Home. Additionally, I recently started playing around with Zabbix, which nicely supports SNMP. I can create nice statistics from the machines in my network, including nice graphs and stuff. Well, almost all. Not the modem, because it does not support SNMP. So, I needed [...]

Utilities: alcatell

I just created the page about ‘alcatell‘ — a utility born out of necessity. This utility enables one to easily extract information from the Alcatel Speed Touch Home modem — a piece of crap hardware that doesn’t support SNMP. I created this utility so I could configure a UNIX host to act as a ‘proxy’ [...]




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