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How to Monitor a Device with Nagios

http://beginlinux.com

So you have your Nagios server installed...now what. Monitoring devices on your network is typically a three step process. Once you get used to following these steps you will begin setting many new devices to monitor with this great tool Nagios.

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Created by muffinman 14 years 25 weeks ago
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Systemd presented as SysV-Init and Upstart alternative

http://www.h-online.com

Systemd is intended to get around the design weaknesses of other Init systems for Linux and is partly inspired by Mac OS X's launchd

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Created by gurner 14 years 25 weeks ago
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Set up virt-install to work with Xen 4.0 guests on top of Ubuntu 10.04 Server

http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com

First of all i thanks Lozz for his negative score, which has stirred up my mind.Set up Xen 4.0 Dom0 with pvops kernel 2.6.32.12 on top of Ubuntu 10.04 Server ([2]) . Install packages
# apt-get install virtinst python-virtinst virt-viewer

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Created by dbaxps 14 years 25 weeks ago
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KDevelop 4.0 Stable Released into the Wild

http://www.kdenews.org

The KDevelop Hackers are proud and happy to announce that KDevelop 4.0 is finally available as a stable release. Released together is the first version of KDevelop PHP plugins, which make KDevelop a very interesting option for PHP developers.

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Created by noodly appendage 14 years 25 weeks ago
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Some Linux Hardware Statistics From Phoronix Global

http://www.phoronix.com

On Phoronix Global we have more than 25,000 benchmark result submissions from independent users around the world since launching the public version of the Phoronix Test Suite back in early 2008.

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Created by zarkovic 14 years 25 weeks ago
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Howto install Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

http://www.ubuntugeek.com

Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java applications are compiled to bytecode, which at runtime is either interpreted or compiled to native machine code for execution.

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Created by pravat 14 years 25 weeks ago
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Linux File Security Training at the ACLU

http://www.linux-mag.com

If user and group management has you in a quandary, it's time to take the advanced filesystem security class at the ACLU.

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Created by fossfreak 14 years 25 weeks ago
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Rethinking PID 1

http://0pointer.de

This blog story is long, so even though I can only recommend reading the long story, here's the one sentence summary: we are experimenting with a new init system and it is fun.

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Created by HeresJohnny 14 years 25 weeks ago
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diffutils-3.0 released

http://lists.gnu.org

"This is to announce diffutils-3.0, a stable release, with only three
items in NEWS and 30 change-sets (most build/test/maintenance-related). There have been hundreds of improvements in gnulib, but that should have little effect on diffutils, unless your system is old or unusual..."

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Created by can.axis 14 years 25 weeks ago
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The Beginnings of TECO by Dan Murphy (IEEE Annals of the History of Computing - PDF)

http://tenex.opost.com

[PDF] Dan Murphy: «...TECO continued to be heavily used and enhanced by the hackers in Minsky’s AI lab, eventually including Richard Stallman.In the early to mid-1970s, Stallman would make some key enhancements to TECO that allowed it to become a fully interactive, WYSIWYG-style onscreen editor [...] This became the origina

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Created by can.axis 14 years 25 weeks ago
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Introducing the Fedora Kiosk Spin

http://danwalsh.livejournal.com

Imagine a machine sitting at a library, that had no operating system on it, except a livedvd. The livedvd has a disabled root account, and the only user account is xguest. The xguest account can only talk to web ports and when you logout all files and processes get destroyed.

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Created by ItalianPenguin 14 years 25 weeks ago
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Getting virt-install to work with Xen 4.0 guests on top of Ubuntu 10.04 Server

http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com

Schema worked so nicely on Ubuntu Karmic Koala doesn’t help any longer. Virt-install crashes right away attempting to launch VNC console. Set up Xen 4.0 Dom0 with pvops kernel 2.6.32.12 on top of Ubuntu 10.04 Server. Install just two packages virtinst and python-virtinst.

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Created by dbaxps 14 years 25 weeks ago
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Grml 2010.04 Live Linux adds VNC mode and detects host RAID devices

http://grml.org

The Grml project has released version 2010.04 of its Debian-based Live Linux distribution for administrators. Key new features are a VNC mode and automatic configuration of host RAID devices

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Created by StayPuff 14 years 25 weeks ago
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Sun Java moved to the Partner repository in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)

http://www.ubuntugeek.com

For Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, the sun-java6  packages have been dropped from the Multiverse section of the Ubuntu archive. It is recommended that you use openjdk-6 instead.

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Created by vjknair 14 years 25 weeks ago
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The Loser In Our Windows vs. Linux Tests: Intel Graphics

http://www.phoronix.com

We are still working on the first part of our Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS benchmarks that are set to be published early next week, but so far there is one easy conclusion to draw from the completed tests:

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Created by gumbi lives 14 years 25 weeks ago
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