I have recently bought VPS server for my personal use. And I also have installed Teamspeak 3 server to it so I can use it with my friends. However, TS3 server uses almost none of CPU power and the bandwidth isn’t even close to the limit, so why not make it public?

• Free to use
• 32 Slots
• Low latency (Eu server, uk)
• You can create private channels with passwords
• Stable connection and system. (I haven’t lost connection never, even with 8hour long connection and server has over 25d uptime so far)
• IP: 109.169.27.109
• Port: 9987 (default)

Servers page is here: vps.pelikoira.net

And direct link to the Teamspeak server.

Uptime. Simple value that tells how long something has been running.

It is is way to see stability of the system/app, but It is very accurate way to check it.

Mostly uptime is used to show that someone has better uptime than someone else. With servers it is much easier to get hundreds days of uptimes, but with personal computer it is little harder.(?) There is more power outages and system is usually used daily, so changes that something goes wrong and screws up system. Updates are also very popular reason to reboot computer.

Most of computer owners shut downs the system for night. This is the most popular way to ruin uptime. I personally have to close my computer, because my hard-disc is bit noisy and I can’t sleep well while my computer is running…

I have currently 2 systems where I have semi-good uptimes. (imo)

• Irssi 70d uptime and counting| last reason to close: server reboots
• iPod Touch 18d uptime and counting| Last reason to boot: battery outage

IPods uptime may not be great, but the irssi uptime is one of the highest that I have seen. If you have seen better uptime, please tell me Mostly I only try to beat my own uptimes.

Istat is a iPod touch/iPhone app developed by bjango. With istat you can remotely monitor ram/mem/disk usage of your home computers or remote servers.

Istat server is available for mac and Linux. Linux version must be compiled manually, but it isn’t very difficult task if you have compiled stuff before. One difference on Linux version is that you can’t track temperatures. There is no support for windows.

You can track:

• Mem usage
• CPU usage
• Disk usage
• Net usage
• Uptime
• Load
• Temperatures

You can also view information from your iPod/iPhone. One cool feature is “free memory”. With free memory command you can clear iPods/iPhones memory and make it run faster. (?) You also find id number and mac address.

There is also good traceroute and ping tools. Only thing I would like to have is pinging range of ip:s.

This app is now on sale 1.5e and it is worth of that 1.5e

In this tutorial you will learn how to do very simple twitter bot. Requirements is Linux/Mac system, but it should be possible to get this on windows.

Install python-twitter

First, you need to install python-twitter package. Installion is simple. Just download package from python-twitter’s website and follow instructions.

Lets get started

In this code we import libraries needed to get this working. First library is the twitter-python package and another is time-library for creating simple timer. We need timer for doing a loop. Commands library is needed to get output from external command. (In this case, uptime)

#!/usr/bin/python
import twitter
import time
import commands


Intializing api


api = twitter.Api(username='username', password='password')

This will intialize twitter api and create new class, api. Change username and password to your accounts details.

Tweeting something


while 1 == 1:
api.PostUpdate(getoutput('uptime'))
print(getoutput('uptime'))
time.sleep(3600)


This will generate infinite loop that will send twitter update every hour. Tweet contains output of uptime command. This also prints output to console so its easier to see what is tweeted.

I run this command inside screen, so it will run 24/7 tweeting uptime of my vps.

If you want to learn more about python-twitter I recommend to read docs on python-twitters website.

Download source code of this tutorial: twitter_bot.py