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We’ve changed the HotSpot SDK to use an in-proc DLL instead of out-proc for the core COM [...]

The Tech Teapot, or as it was originally called, the OPENXTRA Blog is one year old today. Ten categories, 186 posts, 156 comments & trackbacks and more tags than I care to count and we’re still going strong.
Thank you all for reading. A blog is nothing without readers and commenters. Extra special thanks to the [...]

If you aspire to the high priesthood of geekery, being a Star Trek fan, I recommend the U.S.S Enterprise NCC-1701 Putter. Perhaps the perfect fusion of Star Trek fandom and golf.

One of the side effects of the recent RackSpace outage in their Dallas/Fort Worth data centre has been finding out just how quickly their data centre heats up when the air conditioning system fails.
Our backup generators kicked in instantaneously, but the transfer to backup power triggered the chillers to stop cycling and then to begin [...]

Denis, a co-founder of OPENXTRA, was reading a story to his son last night. He was rather surprised to find a character in the book called Google.
The book is called Circus Days Again by Enid Blyton, the book is copyright 1942, though the version quoted is from a battered 1962 edition. The reference starts on [...]

As promised in the OpenNMS coming soon to Windows post, OpenNMS 1.3.8 has now been released with Windows support & an installer.
Tarus Balog announced the release and the developer too.
You can download the release from the OpenNMS site.

bug labs has come out of stealth mode at last. If you’ve got a gadget in you screaming to get out then I’ve got good news.
What is the BUG?
The basic concept behind Bug is that you have a basic gadget chassis called BUGbase which you program. You can then plug into the chassis [...]

One of the great things about sourceforge, apart from the cool services they provide free to open source projects, is that they provide statistics about the projects they host.
One of the stats that sourceforge provides is a history of project downloads. You can’t compare the stats though. So I thought it would be interesting to [...]

Intellipool has a large community of script writers. I thought it would be handy to offer a summary of what’s available:
INM Mobile dashboard
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1138
Voice alerts with INM we’ve already covered this here
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1120
Monitoring of Microsoft SQL Server
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1136
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1135
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1134
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1133
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1132
Detect un-authorized process running on a monitor machine
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1081
Monitoring of Veritas BackupExec job completion
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=802
Action to remove files older than X hours
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1041
Many of [...]

Googlebot has swallowed 47,846 pages in eight hours. Eek! The server’s getting a good thrashing this morning. Maybe it’s time to get that dual processor 4 core server our ISP offered us a month or two ago.