5 Roguelike games

5 Roguelike games

Today i’ll present you some games of a classic genre: Rogue Rogue is a dungeon crawling video game first developed by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman around 1980. The roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by randomization for replayability, permanent death, and turn-based movement. Most roguelikes feature ASCII graphics, with newer ones […]

Guide to regular expressions with examples

The regular expression, or regexp, are the most powerful, versatile and hated tool used by programmers and system administrators. They allow to express with a few characters search for strings, characters or words, and if done well can lead to good results, but if they are wrong they can not give you any useful result, […]

Pidgin: your favourite Internet Messenger

Pidgin: your favourite Internet Messenger

Today i’m glad to have a Guest post from DarkDuck, i read frequently his blog where i’ve found a lot of well done reviews on many different Linux distributions. Pidgin: your favourite Internet Messenger or Power of Plugin Communications are very important nowadays. But sometimes there are so many ways to communicate that people lose […]

Pax Britannica

Pax Britannica

Pax Britannica it’s a One-button real-time strategy that puts you in control of a deep-sea “factory ship” that is immediately under attack. One button gives you the power to deploy an attack force of your own: Try to destroy your enemies before they destroy you. The game can be played with one player versus the […]

Why and how build a distributed monitoring solution with Nagios – Part 2

This is the second and last part of my article about building a distributed monitoring solution with Nagios, you can find part 1 here Central Configuration Now you know all you need to know to set up service checks on the slaves and send information from the slaves to the master. A benefit of a […]