Twitter Updates for 2009-05-06

• Google: Friend or Foe? Recommendations for Publishers and Editors of B2B Magazines and Websites: http://tinyurl.com/d77j8p #
• Downloading Windows 7 RC from http://tinyurl.com/dcp3qx It requires you to register and log in using your Windows Live ID #
• RT @kbhargava Why SMS is 160 characters – http://tinyurl.com/czcjrn #
• Google Contacts withoout Gmail: http://short.to/7fzu #
• Have an article on “Unified Communication” published in the Business World SME Whitebook 2009-2010. http://tinyurl.com/cnn6hk #
• @rahulsah Windows 7 RC: Changelog from the Beta http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/tags/Feedback/default.aspx in reply to rahulsah #
• Was trying to dwnload WIn 7 RC with Firefox on Linux. It showed as completed at 184 MB! Now using the nifty “wget” to download the 2.4GB ISO #
• Get started with writing a Twitter client in Java using the Netbeans IDE. Drag-n-drop-n-use Twitter’s REST API. http://tinyurl.com/dytnyc #
• @juhib http://tinyurl.com/ccgdl5 Dont know whether the vote campaign SMSes are commercial or not in reply to juhib #

Twitter Updates for 2009-04-18

• In a day long meeting. If anything urgent pls email/sms #

Simple script to alert about inaccessible servers

Following is a simple script, written in PHP, which will send an E-mail alert to you when one or more of your Web servers is inaccessible.

<?php
/* things to edit/change */

$fileToFetch = "isalive.txt";
$mailTo = "shekhar@it4enterprise.com";
$mailFrom  = "alert@it4enterprise.com";

$websites = array(
"Website 1" => "http://www.website1.com",
"Website 2" => "http://www.website2.com",
"Website 3" => "http://www.website3.com"
);

/* end of things to edit/change */

foreach($websites as $name=>$value)
  if(!($fp = @fopen($value."/".$fileToFetch,"r")))
    mail($mailTo,"WEBSITE DOWN: ".$name,"WEBSITE DOWN: ".$name,"From: ".$mailFrom);

?>

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