I didn’t like a lot of the official background changers out there for Ubuntu + Gnome. The best one that I tried was Desktop Drapes and it just wasn’t stable for me. I also thought that having a program constantly running to change my desktop background was a little excessive. So I wrote a little [...]

Usage: alertwatch.pl /path/to/alert.log Info: alertwatch is a perl program to monitor your oracle alert log. No need to loop this with a cron, just start it in the background and let it run, the second an ORA- error is written to the alert.log it will be mailed to the DBA. Configuration: Make sure to change: [...]

Session stats is a nice little way to parse your Baan TIME.HIS file and displays useage statistics per session/object. It can display output by user or by session. usage: session_stat.pl [] [] Flags: -c output by company -u output by user -s output by session Download session_stats.pl.tgz v1.0

SLM Monitor connects to your SLM server retrieves the XML output and parses it for a nice rolled up display like below. Product Id: 10996 User Count: 29 gomartin xx.yy.73.34 23847 bsp752t 0.0.0.0 6317 bsp xx.yy.135.9 2794 jmterbor xx.yy.21.104 15657 hxjoshi xx.yy.72.144 29975 bsp xx.yy.72.101 4817 sdchen xx.yy.72.108 16926 jamcginn xx.yy.19.144 5311 bsp715t 0.0.0.0 3848 [...]

I once ran into an instance where the Unix admins didn’t believe me that i was running out of shared memory despite the errors, I was showing them. I wrote this perl script to allocate chunks of shared memory until it failed to prove to them that yes, regardless of what you have the global [...]