Archive for June, 2008

Multics goes open source


June 25th, 2008

It’s kinda like seeing your grand father naked…if you’re Linux anyway. Multics sources in all its PL1 glory is now available for your perusal. Surprisingly for a system conceived in 1965, the last Multics system was shut down only in 2000. Impressive.
Popularity: 28% [?]

Popularity: 28% [?]

Handy server room toilet facilities


June 24th, 2008

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 [...]

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To wish upon a star


June 20th, 2008

Wish I had an equivalent to the strangely compelling EyeOnWiner …
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Open source network management comparison: Platform


June 19th, 2008

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 [...]

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Firefox 3 enhanced SSL certificate support


June 18th, 2008

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 [...]

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PowerTime now on Google Code


June 10th, 2008

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 [...]

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PowerTime licence issues


June 9th, 2008

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 [...]

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Odd insurance bar to dealing with USA


June 9th, 2008

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 [...]

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Mark Hinkle of Zenoss interview


June 5th, 2008

Roberto Galoppini posted an interview with Mark Hinkle, the community VP over at Zenoss. Interesting…
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Announcing PowerTime 1.0


June 4th, 2008

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 [...]

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