Monthly Archives: February 2010

Some jRRD news

Posted by on 17 February 2010 No comments

Some (old) news about jRRD, a pure java library that allows you to read Round Robin Database files created by rrdtool.

The project has been “mavenized” and moved to SVN (ok, maybe we should have switched directly to Git, please don’t tell Linus we are still using SVN).

A version 0.3 has been released, a full changelog can be found here. The main changes are:

  • a patch to fix the case of multiple datasources has been applied (initialy provided by Juraj Sucik).
  • supports version 3 rrd files (jRRD v0.1 only had support for version 1 rrd files)
  • x86_64 files (only tested on linux 64bits plateform, if you have access to other 64bits plateform, please contact us)



The project is not really active because in its current state, it fits our needs, so fill free to wake it up and send us your feature requests.

Cygwin rxvt under windows Seven

Posted by on 17 February 2010 No comments

Ok, you’ve not been blessed by the MacOS Spirit so you don’t have a MBP but you’d like to have a decent *nix term under windows Seven. You tried the same shortcut that worked previously under XP:

C:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -g 120×70+75+-1  -sl 1500 -fn courier -bg black -fg grey -sr -e bash –login -i

but all you get is big window with strange spacing between chars:

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Ok, it’s time to customize some stuff. Open a cygwin shell (or an ugly uncustomized rxvt), go to your home directory, and create/edit your .Xdefaults file to fit this one:

#Rxvt.reverseVideo:      true
Rxvt.scrollBar_right:   false
Rxvt.saveLines:         2048
Rxvt.font:              "Lucida Console-12"

Then edit your shortcut to something similar to this one:

C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -display :0 -bg black -fg grey -tn rxvt -sr -sl 1500 -g "140x60+1+-1" -e /usr/bin/bash --login -i

If you need to adjust the size of the window, you can change the -g “140×60+1+-1″ values.

You should now get something much more like that:



Enjoy!