In a previous article about 2 programs that you can use to collect network statistics: iptstate and pktstat, on the article I’ve received comments on nethogs and iptraf, and so I’ve tested them. The goal of both applications is to give to the user information of the actual state of the network, so how much […]
In this article i’ll show you how to select the best mirror for your favorite distribution. Debian Netselect-apt is very helpful to find which Debian mirror is the fastest one to download the latest packages or to install ones very quickly. To install it : root@localhost:~# apt-get install netselect-apt This package needs netselect to work […]
Yesterday I’ve attended the Nagios World Conference Europe hosted in Bozen (Italy) by Wurth-Phoenix, so as first thing thanks to Wurst-Phoenix for the organization this meeting, for the free access provided to the event , and for the good meal that we have enjoyed. These are some notes I’ve took during the meeting.
While i was surfing the net i’ve found this article By Matteo Ferrone about Linux signals, that i want to repost: A signal is an event sent by the kernel to a running program. The signals can arrive at any time and software can choose what to do when it arrives: it can decide to […]
The news today is that Microsoft seem to be in the process of buying has bought Skype for something around $8.5 billion. So what will happen to Linux support for Skype ? No one knows it at the moment but I can imagine nothing too good, in the best scenario, that I can imagine at […]