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Using external commands in Nagios
Author: Wojciech Kocjan
System monitoring tool Nagios offers a powerful mechanism for receiving events and commands from external applications. External commands are usually sent from...
Passive Checks and NSCA (Nagios Service Check Acceptor)
Author: JT Smith
Nagios is a very powerful platform because it is easy to extend. A great feature that Nagios offers is the ability for...
SoftMaker Office 2008 focuses on compatibility with Microsoft Office
Author: Mayank Sharma
The free and open source office suite OpenOffice.org might be a killer app for many, but its inability to properly display documents...
85% Of The Enterprises Use Open Source? Math Is Right But Needs To...
The Gartner numbers seem positive, and encouraging -- especially in light of the acknowledgement that the remaining 15% are planning to move toward more...
Boxee Media Center App Gets $4 Million in Funding
A few days ago, in a roundup of open source media center applications, I covered Boxee. It's an open source mashup of a sophisticated...
Mini-ITX board has HDMI port
Advantech has introduced a mini-ITX motherboard that targets embedded information and entertainment applications, such as information station kiosks and lottery machines. The AIMB-221 supports...
Linux-ready MILS kernel gains POSIX
LynuxWorks is shipping version 2.0 of its Linux-compatible separation kernel and hypervisor for high assurance systems. Aimed at multiple independent levels of security (MILS)...
Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers
With no other way to improve the performance of processors further, chip makers have staked their future on putting more and more processor cores...
Sun wrestles itself with StarOffice 9
Author: Bruce Byfield
StarOffice 9 reminds me of the classic Monty Python skit in which Graham Chapman wrestles himself. Although StarOffice is being aggressively presented...
Manage your music with ID3 tag editors
Author: Michael J. Hammel
The Linux desktop comes with a variety of multimedia players, such as Xine, MPlayer, and Amarok. Yet all digital media players...