My diabetic cat has an off-again-on-again pancreas, so his insulin needs vary. I asked my vet about home monitoring using a glucometer. The vet said no one she knows who's tried it with a cat has succeeded. I tried it following this excellent video and found it was a piece of cake. Now we adjust his insulin based on twice-a-day readings, just as humans do (three times a day). I'm considering offering free home-monitoring training to owners of diabetic pets in my community who might benefit from home testing, as a public service. Do you think this would be useful?
posted by markcmyers on Jul 29, 2009 - 7 answers

Boss wants me to find an online reputation monitor. [more inside]
posted by Mastercheddaar on Apr 29, 2009 - 17 answers

In search of website, blogs, etc that keep up with federal and state (specifically NC) policies that affect families with children with developmental and physical disabilities? [more inside]
posted by greta simone on Mar 20, 2009 - 0 answers

Is there an iPhone app (jailbroken or legit) that simply outputs the sound from the microphone directly to the headphones with no delay, as if it were an amp? I tried searching google and the iPhone store with no success.
posted by helios on Nov 24, 2008 - 11 answers

I am having a debate with someone about privacy whilst using a work laptop at home, using your own internet connection. Help settle this! [more inside]
posted by smalls on Nov 4, 2008 - 14 answers

How can I monitor my babies without a baby monitor? [more inside]
posted by orsonet on Oct 14, 2008 - 11 answers

What are the (sensors, recorders?) things that look like metal cake covers (short, wide cylinders) sitting on fence-posts, mostly in rangeland in the Western USA? [more inside]
posted by dolface on Sep 4, 2008 - 9 answers

Can FaceTime IM monitoring read the traffic on googletalk when it's being run via the browser? [more inside]
posted by Jase on Aug 28, 2008 - 5 answers

There has to be a program that does this - user configurable Service Level monitoring of other systems, with 'actionable' events [more inside]
posted by dyerfr on Aug 26, 2008 - 7 answers

I want to monitor a running program on an XP box to make sure it stays running. If the program should quit for whatever reason, I'd like a way to attempt to restart the program after xx - minutes/seconds, for xx - attempts. [more inside]
posted by SparkyPine on Apr 9, 2008 - 5 answers

I'm currently running a business where I monitor computers for people. I use custom made software that gets by all the anti-malware scanners and through the firewalls. I have been charging $40/hr for the first hour, and $45 for each hour after that. Since most of work may only take 1-4 hours per client I've been told that I'm charging too little. Figures have been thrown at me by friends, family and even clients that I should charge $60, $75 or even $100. What is a fair amount in this business. Yes this involves spying on people at the workplace, churches and spouses. My first question. I've searched mefi for similar stuff and came up empty.
posted by Jack Feschuk on Mar 10, 2008 - 15 answers

Hi-tech key and datalogging: What crazy methods for remotely monitoring datastreams have you heard of? [more inside]
posted by disillusioned on Jan 20, 2008 - 9 answers

What's the best software to monitor internet usage on specific desktop computers? [more inside]
posted by miqueltegler on Jan 9, 2008 - 8 answers

I have a work PC and a home PC, both running XP. It's fairly important that my work PC stays connected, as the router has a habit of sometimes locking up. Since I'm away from the office for the next two weeks, I need to keep an eye on the computer to make sure it stays connected, or at least lets me know if it isn't so I can go in and power cycle the router. I am thinking maybe automatic emailing on the hour? [more inside]
posted by tomble on Dec 20, 2007 - 13 answers

Bandwidth monitoring per IP device? [more inside]
posted by doomtop on Dec 4, 2007 - 8 answers

What is a cool-looking realtime pluggable visualization program for Linux? [more inside]
posted by bkudria on Oct 22, 2007 - 7 answers

We need to turn off the internet! What is the best program for temporarily disabling our access? We need one solution for a Mac and one for Windows. Ideally we'd like something with a timer (where the internet is turned off for x number of hours) or something that requires a difficult process to unlock it. [more inside]
posted by barnone on Sep 19, 2007 - 10 answers

Is there a freeware or light weight tool (e.g. perl script) we can use to show us that the SNMP traps are received successfully? [more inside]
posted by kaydo on Jul 30, 2007 - 4 answers

looking for Online real time webbased share monitoring services specifically for the footise [more inside]
posted by complience on Jun 14, 2007 - 1 answer

Anyone know popular/easy tools for monitoring JBoss server performance? [more inside]
posted by gsteff on Jun 11, 2007 - 3 answers

When a corporation says they're monitoring email and internet access, what does that mean? [more inside]
posted by papercake on Apr 23, 2007 - 45 answers

I want to keep an eye on out of hours printer usage. [more inside]
posted by tomble on Mar 22, 2007 - 5 answers

For a variety of reasons, I've decided to look into a credit monitoring service. Help me find a reputable one. [more inside]
posted by drstein on Feb 9, 2007 - 4 answers

Is there a way to monitor internal (i.e. behind the firewall) web pages for changes? I’m looking for a piece of software that works like WatchThatPage, but running from my PC (which is on the corporate LAN via VPN) instead of as an external service. [more inside]
posted by JParker on Jan 3, 2007 - 7 answers

Can anyone recommend easy to install, cross platform monitoring software for Mac OS X - that is, something that would allow a parent, employer or teacher to, from their PC, monitor the screen of a Macintosh? Will remote desktop do this? Is it relatively easy to install?
posted by luriete on Dec 28, 2006 - 13 answers

How do I figure out what user/usage monitoring software is running on my work laptop? [more inside]
posted by orthogonality on Dec 11, 2006 - 17 answers

I'm writing a program that uses lots of memory. I'd like a utility that can show me what it's using the memory for. For example, one part of the program processes an XML file, creates an object and loads a WebBrowser .NET control. I'd like to see how much memory was required to parse the XML file, how much memory my object is using, and how much memory the WebBrowser control uses. [more inside]
posted by matthewr on Sep 14, 2006 - 3 answers

Looking for a simple application to monitor the time a user has spent logged in in Windows XP. [more inside]
posted by bluefrog on Aug 19, 2006 - 3 answers

Are there any studies which show a correlation between office productivity and website monitoring/blocking that have not been funded or produced by a website monitoring/blocking company?
posted by Jairus on Jul 13, 2006 - 7 answers

Are there any Systems Monitoring / Data Integrity conferences in the bay area this year? [more inside]
posted by queue_strategy on Jul 5, 2006 - 0 answers

What are the legal implications of a university monitoring, storing, and cataloging all incoming and outgoing email into a searchable database? What if I have first hand knowledge of a university doing this? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on May 21, 2006 - 15 answers

I'm having troubles with my ISP (UK) and I need to prove the times when my internet connection is out. How can I record if my connection is up or down when I’m not there to check? [more inside]
posted by lagavulin on May 17, 2006 - 6 answers

How can web usage monitors measure times spent on the internet? [more inside]
posted by eas98 on Feb 27, 2006 - 9 answers

Are there any other free services similar to GrabPERF? It's a great site, but is unfortunately shutting down, so I need an alternative.
posted by jedro on Nov 20, 2005 - 1 answer

Perfect Keylogger - I have some reason to believe that this product, made by Blazing Tools, has been installed on one of my computers. [more inside]
posted by megatherium on Oct 25, 2005 - 10 answers

My company has recently started internet monitoring. I believe they have set up some kind of proxy server. Unfortunately, they have blocked sites that I use for productivity. Is there any way of easily getting around the proxy server. I'm not sure if I'm right, but there must be a setting in Internet Explorer that can route my websites through another server? How do I do this and who do I use. I don't mind paying, but would perfer free. The owner of my company has become big brother and it's unfortunate because now sites can only be "work related" which can be widely (or narrowly defined) I would also like to know how to find out what they are using to do this (for curiosity purposes). Where can I look on my computer to see this. Also, I think they may have set up remote viewing. Is there any way to detect this?
posted by ieatwords on Oct 12, 2005 - 18 answers

Can anybody recommend an open source 'external' site monitoring utility for *nix? By external, I mean the tool should sit on a server that's separate to the one the site being monitored is sitting on. The tool should make regular requests to the monitored site and should send an alert if the page is not returned within a specified time.
posted by jedro on Sep 8, 2005 - 18 answers

I am trying to implement SQL mail fonctionnality for monitoring purpose under win2k / sql2k, only problem is to be configurer properly it must first obtain its parameter from Microsoft Mail API (MAPI) thru an already configured mail account, these are production servers and i don't feel too good about installing Outlook or Outlook express just to get an account configured so i can use this fonctionnnality. is there a way around this ? I am aware of several monitoring solution offered by third parties and i accept proposition (please no astroturfin') but I want to get that build in feature to work first.. anyone ? Thanks Selfsck
posted by selfsck on Mar 15, 2005 - 4 answers

I am looking for a way to monitor the disk space remaining on several of our windows servers. [more inside]
posted by viama on Mar 9, 2005 - 10 answers

I've always thought of myself as somewhat computer savvy, but apaprently I'm not, considering how clueless I am with the following question. Somewhat on the same vein as this previous thread, short of raising any suspicions by directly asking our IT guys, how can i tell if my internet browsing on my work computer is being monitored? And if it is, are there any steps I can take to counter the software, so that I may continue to waste away unproductively, with confidence? [more inside]
posted by lotsofno on Dec 19, 2003 - 12 answers