Category: Technology

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Parsing Nagios4 status.dat to JSON

By Michael Palmer |  Aug 20, 2022  | #programming, #python, #django | 1 min read
Background I have a django app that shows host links to internal employees, wanted to grab status from Nagios without having to go to a bunch of trouble screen scraping. Found this quick script from Alex Wright, and modified it to work where I can call it from a Django function, then I just loop through my models and match the json object to the model. Steps to deploy Upload file: status2json.
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The Microsoft/Android war: Which patents are at stake?

By Michael Palmer |  Oct 27, 2011  | #android, #microsoft | 1 min read
Good article over at Network World about Patents Microsoft has claimed to hold. I’ve blogged about the silliness of patents like this in the past. People at the patent offices must be not tech savvy. I would NEVER have let such vague patents be allowed through. Check some of them out: The Microsoft/Android war: Which patents are at stake?
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