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 [...]
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 [...]
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<yourver> # perl vmware-install.pl [...]
If you’re running debian or ubuntu, your ssh keys are vulnerable. Follow these steps to regenerate them and secure your box back up. apt-get update apt-get upgrade cd /etc/ssh/ rm ssh_host_dsa_key rm ssh_host_dsa_key.pub rm ssh_host_rsa_key rm ssh_host_rsa_key.pub ssh-keygen -t dsa (filename as /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key) ssh-keygen -t rsa (filename as /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key) /etc/init.d/ssh restart
Many of you are project managers, and may be using Activecollab or ProjectPier. We were tired of their lame editor, so we decided to add TinyMCE into our installed version, both for ease of client use, and internal use. The instructions are very simple. 1. Go to ProjectPier, grab the latest version (or svn) 2. [...]
