Aug 302011
 

This is an article of mine first published on Openlogic/Wazi

With Nagios, the leading open source infrastructure monitoring application, you can monitor your whole enterprise by using a distributed monitoring scheme in which local slave instances of Nagios perform monitoring tasks and report the results back to a single master. You manage all configuration, notification, and reporting from the master, while the slaves do all the work.

This design takes advantage of Nagios’s ability to utilize passive checks – that is, external applications or processes that send results back to Nagios. In a distributed configuration, these external applications are other instances of Nagios.

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Aug 292011
 

Thanks to James for his guest post regarding the development of Web sites with open source tools.

The web today is a hugely diverse environment. Much of this diversity and exponential growth is underpinned by software that has been developed by the open source community and is available free of charge in many cases. Take the website design industry. The vast majority of web servers house a Linux platform running Apache server and a MySql database. Web designers can be very grateful for having an alternative to the Microsoft platform, which had higher costs associated with its use especially in the earlier days as many may remember.

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Aug 292011
 

Today I’m glad to present you an article by James Hawkins.

As the heading of this article suggests, either you are a windows or a Linux user, you aren’t safe online. We (Linux users) were happy in the past thinking that running Ubuntu or Fedora would have saved us from an “infection”, but that is not the case anymore, today any Operating System whether Mac, Linux or windows, has his own weakness,related to his vulnerabilities. We know that windows pc’s had more vulnerabilities in comparison to any other O.S in the past, but the point is that every computer over the Internet could have its own exploits, its only a matter of finding those vulnerabilities and exploiting them.

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Aug 282011
 

nfuploader Back from vacation? now you’ll have probably a lot of photos and video to show to friends on facebook, but loading them by hand from the web interface is not exactly the easiest thing to do.

There is a small program that can help you: NFuploader, which allows you to load one or more images from Nautilus, but some are also used by Thunar the XFCE file manager, directly to Facebook.
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Aug 272011
 

0.10-planetsStar Gazing has always been an authentic hobby of many people around the globe and it is indeed one of the oldest hobbies known to man. We all must love gazing stars at night, most of them don’t make it as their hobby, but many of us still try hard to look out for the constellation, or even spot out a planet or a galaxy, and for amateur’s like me it is even difficult to spot a planet in the night sky.
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