Gone are the days of tedious console only configuration of Nagios. While it’s an excellent system monitoring tool, it can be a little daunting to configure and setup. Not to mention editing 5 or 6 configuration files when adding one host. In April 2008, Nagios Administrator was released, which promises to deliver an easy to use administration interface for configuring your Nagios installation with ease. The interface allows for adding contacts, contact groups, services, operating systems, and other settings....

We downloaded ours, have you? Today you’ll make history with Firefox Are you ready to make history? Are you ready to set a World Record? Today is Download Day. To become part of the official Guinness World Record you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008, or roughly 24 hours from now.

You may have some difficulty with Ubuntu Server and VMWare Tools. Here’s how we got it working in the end: start vm # sudo mount /cdrom # cd /cdrom # cp *.tgz /tmp # cd /tmp # apt-get install build-essentials # apt-get install linux-headers-\`uname -r\` # tar xzvf vmtools<yourversion.tgz> # cd vmtools<yourversion> # perl vmware-install.pl That’s it. You might want to modify your console settings so you can get 1024×768 from VMWare Workstation, but it’s not really required if you’re just SSH’ing to it....

We found this interesting service the other day called LoveDetect. We’re not sure how much you phone geeks will care about it, but it’s built upon technology we love – and provides a kind of cool service ontop of that, if nothing to ooh and ahh over the technology and speech recognition. Before you ask, we’ve already made some enquiries into the LoveDetect marketing department to see if this service is using Asterisk PBX or not, but we haven’t received confirmation on this, so for now we’re going with “unsure” 🙂...

I was looking at a couple local sites today while trying to find a place to trade my cellular phone for a different model.. and I came across this advertisement. I almost didn’t take a second look until I saw the little interac machine at the bottom. Interesting. Check it out. Now, I’m not complaining, I’m all about making things easier, but when was the last time you actually WENT out for pizza, instead of ordered in?...