Why and how build a distributed monitoring solution with Nagios – Part 1

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 […]

Linux or Windows, make sure that you’re safe Online.

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 […]

NFuploader, upload your photo to Facebook from Nautilus

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 […]

Stellarium: setting up your very own Planetarium at home.

Star 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 […]

3 Live Linux distribution for system administrators

Sometimes bad things happen, and you must recover your desktop or server from an error. For this delicate work there are some specialised Linux Live Distributions that once booted allow you to make a lot of tasks, like mounting and repairing disk partitions and file system, for this it’s important that the live Distro has […]