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Web Sites – Cacti
WebSite: www.cacti.net Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box.
Read moreWeb Sites – eyeOS
WebSite: www.eyeos.org eyeOS is an Open Source Web Desktop Environment, commonly known as Web Operating System or Web Office. With eyeOS you can be organized, work and have fun anywhere, using your own personalized Web Desktop.
Read moreWeb Sites – ProtoPage
WebSite: www.protopage.com Dynamic Web Page with graphical feeds and movable windows (like postit notes)
Read moreWeb Sites – RRDtool
WebSite: oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/ The industry standard data logging and graphing application. Use it to write your custom monitoring shell scripts or create whole applications using its Perl, Python or PHP bindings.
Read moreWeb Sites – Nagios
WebSite: www.nagios.org Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well.
Read moreWeb Sites – Thumbshots
WebSite: www.thumbshots.org This site enables you to embed a thumbnail image of a website. Rather cool, except there must be some level of caching for new website requests. This page at the time of saving doesn’t show the thumbshot of the official site.
Read moreLinux One Liner – Erasing Stuff
Don’t try this at home unless you understand what it’s going to do. sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1
Read moreEclipse CVS Tutorial 1
Repository Management Start Eclipse Window | Open Perspective | CVS Repository Exploring This will add an icon to the quick dock option. See Point 1 This should open the CVS Repositories View.
Read moreWhat is a BLOB?
If your answer was Binary Large Object, then you would be wrong. Check out Mike’s comments on History of Database Blobs from the man that created the BLOB, Mr Jim Starkey.
Read moreMercurial Version Control Software
I got asked (being a Java developer) about what was involved in creating an Eclipse Plugin for Mercurial. Well in true Google style, why invent when somebody probably already has. A quick check finds Mercurial Eclipse by VecTrace.
Read moreWhat is software quality?
Greg Lehey wrote today Is MySQL getting buggier?. The underlying question of his comments is a more fundamental and passionate topic, and especially for me. That is “Software Quality”. The quintessential question is this.
Read moreGenerating an internal SSL Certificate (for tomcat)
How to Generate an internal SSL certificate Create the self-signed keystore $ su - $ URL="your.url.here";export URL $ cd /opt/tomcat/conf $ keytool -genkey -alias ${URL} -keyalg RSA -keystore ${URL}.keystore Enter keystore password: changeit What is your first and last name?
Read moreDifferences in syntax between mysql and mysqltest
As I wrote earlier in Using the MySQL Test Suite I found an issue with using the current MySQL Sakila Sample Database as a test with mysqltest. I was running an older version of 5.
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