A long standing Nagios install (Ubuntu 8.10) has been tasking me over the last few days as although it has run without a blip for many years (probably being rebooted about once a year) it has no doubt reached its EOL (End OF Life). Given the lack of problems I hadn’t bother to upgrade the […]
I experienced this problem recently with a long standing instance of Nagios which had recently been updated. The is was that Error: Could not open command file ‘/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd’ for update! was displayed when trying to change the properties for a host – such as enabling alerts or acknowledging alerts. The solution was to check and […]
Connectify – software that allows you to share a wireless internet connection as an Access Point or Hotspot has gone PRO. The two versions – Pro and Lite are differentiated by the functionality they provide. You can get it here The developers describe it as Connectify is an easy to use software router for Windows […]
At a recent social gathering – the subject of Steve Jobs and Apple came up. Interesting to see how far Apple and Steve have penetrated the general population rather than just the IT crowd. The topics ranged over the Apple approach to products and “innovation” through the previous history of Apple and some of the […]
A client reported a problem with wireless dhcp clients losing connections after a short period. After investigation it was found that all the affected devices were running Apple IOS – Ipads and Iphone 4 handsets. Researching the problem brought up a well documented experience of the issue by an American University here. What surprised me […]
I have a client with Terminal Services and Open Office installed on it. Recently they rolled out a new template document with embedded excel files inside of word documents. The users were reporting that the documents were opening read only but what they actually meant was that when they tried to update the embedded spreadsheet. […]
Co-ordinating many different things is the job for a Director. In this case Input Director and the job is allowing multiple machines and in the case with multiple monitors – to be easily controlled with one keyboard and mouse. A software KVM. I hear you say but we can do this with lots of different […]
Personal diaries and journals seem to have fallen out of favour these days. The idea of writing on a regular basis in a book has been long since replaced by blogging or micro blogging. What if you wanted a private journal to record thoughts , experiences, information that you want to review later – and […]
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