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Nagios 3.3.1 upgrade – nice

Had cause this week to upgrade a veritable old installation of Nagios running as a vm on Ubuntu. I had planned to create a brand new instance but I had some specialised tests that I was going to redo. So instead – after cloning the VM I decided to give the manual upgrade from 3.0.3 to […]


Xampp 1.7.4 upgrade issues :(

I was testing out an upgrade from a slightly lower revision and noted that there appear to be multiple issues with the upgrade. If you are not familiar – Xampp (available from http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html)and it is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. Xampp is available for Windows , Linux, Os/X and […]


Oops I killed my Kindle

Was unfortunately in the position  where my testing managed to stop the Kindle in its tracks. Happened during removal of some items that I no longer required. The Kindle stopped responding and a normal reboot left me with a spinning wheel in the top left corner. Despite leaving the device to settle after a few […]


Acronis 11 Virtual Edition arrives

The latest release of Acronis Backup and Recovery Virtual edition has arrived.  Great to have a tool supporting Vmware and HyperV. I’ve already had a run through the trial. The setup is pretty good at getting the appropriate bits installed in the correct order. Its great to see all your vms popping up with auto […]


New release for WebDrive

As reviewed before here Webdrive allows you to present an ftp as a mapped drive. Very useful in linking users or servers with remote data. The new release  – V10 –  available here builds on the already very functional current release. For me the native 64 bit support stands out. The developers summarise their product […]


Getting Analytical with your WordPress

A client asked about getting Google Analytics set up for their CMS before an upcoming trade event. If you don’t know Analytics it’s Googles tracking and analysis service for web sites.  as they put it Google Analytics shows you how people found your site, how they explored it and how you can enhance their visitor experience. […]