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5 Roguelike games

Sep 032011

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 increasingly offering tile-based graphics. Games are typically dungeon crawls, with many monsters, items, and environmental features.

Guide to regular expressions with examples

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Sep 032011

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, and the worst thing is that often it is difficult to understand whether or not a regepx it is written with a correct syntax to cover all the possibility.

But now as first thing let’s see what is a regular expression:

From WIkipedia ”

In computing, a regular expression, also referred to as regex or regexp, provides a concise and flexible means for matching strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. A regular expression is written in a formal language that can be interpreted by a regular expression processor, a program that either serves as a parser generator or examines text and identifies parts that match the provided specification.

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Pidgin: your favourite Internet Messenger

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Sep 012011

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 tracks: what, where and how.

If we look at the world of instant messaging, there are 1001 protocol in the world: ICQ, QQ, GTalk, MSN to name a few. Most of them have their own clients which you can use standalone. But soon you’ll get lost between them. Isn’t it easier to use single messaging client which supports multiple messaging systems and protocols? Of course it is!

That’s time for our today’s hero to come on stage. Please meet! Pidgin!

Pidgin is multi protocol instant messenger developed by open source community.
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Pax Britannica

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Aug 312011

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 computer, or choose the best option and play it with 3 friends head-to-head.
It’s an open source game, developed with Lua and it’s fun with highly atmospheric sounds and music.
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Why and how build a distributed monitoring solution with Nagios – Part 2

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Aug 312011

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 master/slave configuration is the ability to centrally configure all the Nagios nodes, both master and slaves. There are many ways to do this.

One of my favorite ways to manage distributed Nagios configuration is to use a version control system (VCS) such as Subversion. In this setup you store all the configurations under the VCS (which is a good practice anyway, to keep your configuration file with a version number and a change history). The various Nagios sites each have their own directories where they can put their files; I suggest a setup like this:
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