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Working in the server room and busting for a pee? You need to install a toilet where it’s convenient…yes folks somebody installed a server room so that you’ve got to go through the women’s toilet in order to enter the server room.
Just think of all of the time you’d save not having to walk all [...]

Wish I had an equivalent to the strangely compelling EyeOnWiner …

Attribute / Project
OpenNMS
Nagios
Zenoss [1]
Hyperic [2]
Zabbix

Platform

Linux

Windows

OSX

Solaris

*BSD

Hardware Appliance

Virtual Appliance

[3]

[4]

[1] Zenoss Core is used for the purpose of this comparison.
[2] Hyperic HQ is used for the purpose of this comparison.
[3] Nagios doesn’t offer a virtual appliance though a number are available through the community.
[4] Zabbix doesn’t offer a virtual appliance though a number are available through [...]

Firefox now has full enhanced SSL certificate support at last with the arrival of version 3. Enhanced SSL certificates verify that a website is owned by whomever claims to own it. Very useful in the largely anonymous Internet.
Expand the image above to see what it looks like. In the secure part of a site, for [...]

PowerTime is now available on Google Code. You can even browse the code without having to download anything.
The only problem I ran into was the size of the ECAD data set exceeded the quota given to new projects. I’ve now split the ECAD data set so that it is available for download but isn’t versioned [...]

Whilst I’m busy trying to upload PowerTime into Google Code the hairy issue of which software licence to use cropped up.
Open source licences scare the living daylights out of me especially the GNU ones.
I like copyleft licences because whatever rights I grant to the user have to be provided by anybody else further down the [...]

Just rung up direct line for business to get a quote for our compulsory Employers’ Liability Insurance and was refused because we have dealings with companies in the USA! Weird…I’m really surprised because Direct Line is a pretty big insurer. I’d love to know what the problem is with having dealings with the USA?
Suffice it [...]

Roberto Galoppini posted an interview with Mark Hinkle, the community VP over at Zenoss. Interesting…

Release early, release often is a mantra of open source software development. In that vein I am releasing a very early alpha of PowerTime, an end-to-end .NET time series database.
PowerTime supports Windows PowerShell out of the box and can also generate graphs too. PowerTime depends upon a number of third party libraries, namely the excellent [...]