Entropy is not what it used to be.
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nnscfgmaker.sh: a nagios/nsclient++ cfg maker
Dear all, We are in the process of changing the monitoring system on part of our network from Zenoss to Nagios. This is not a Zenoss vs. Nagios debate, as both products are awesome and do the things they are designed for very well. We (Christian and myself) use a combination of Cacti for bandwith…
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Dot the I, why QA is important with license agreements
Granted, as many others, I don’t read each and every license user agreement when installing software, but the following tops it all. Having an extra pair of eyes doesn’t hurt before you put your creation to market: Yes, this is a real screenshot.
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Team collaboration, or competing?
When reading about social media strategies today, I stumbled across follow excerpt: In most big companies, IT, digital, marketing and sales not only don’t work together, they compete with each other. Until they start collaborating as a team, you will not succeed in social media. If you’d change the last two words from “social media”…
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Running lean IT environments
In the current economic slowdown, many face a semi burnout feeling as jobs seem less challenged and less changes seem to be happening in the short term. Here are a few things that I believe will increase the team spirit in an IT environment. 1. Destroy boundaries My team (systems and applications) and the network…
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CSS Background not showing in IE
I searched for a while, and could not find out why places.ae wasn’t showing it’s background in IE, but it was showing it in Firefox (didn’t check other browsers). Apparently, I had a “mistake” in my CSS files, and IE seem to trap more on this than firefox. I had the following line: #city{ background:url(http://img.places.ae/p2bg.jpg)repeat-x…
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7days bashes on Linux, should stick to normal gossip
7days recently published an article about Valerie Singleton who created a PC for the elderly. It was a well written, objective article until statements were made which wasn’t researched enough: The computer runs on Linux – an operating system of such bewildering complexity to anyone outside its inner circle that trained IT experts have been…
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Ban Ki Moon is now into 419 scams
It seems that the United Nations is reserving 500.000 USD and I’m one of the 10 lucky ones to receive it. 😉 It’s the all old 419 scams, all over again. Just wrapped into a JPG image, and using trusted names. Some things will never change,
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Your mobile number has been awarded 430,000.00 Pounds
—— SMS —— From: +22996713827 Sent: Nov 5, 2009 9:54 PM Subject: (NOKIA PROMO) (NOKIA PROMO) Your mobile number has been awarded 430,000.00 Pounds. Your REF Number is ML10002BN. To claim, email: info@nokiapromo.in and call +447024084530 The only cool thing is that this SMS was sent from a number in Benin, which has a TLD…
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Dubai Twestival 2009 #2
Hi all, Just got back from the second Dubai Twestival that took place today at 8 PM. Organized by a wonderful team (PK, Woo, esperanca, Stephanie and Baher and Abhamalpani – please let me know who I missed), it was a success. Thanks all, Michael
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Find “similar things” in Ruby
For several Ruby on Rails projects I had to come up with “similar” results. These are often results (video’s, products,places, hobbies, etc) with the greatest number of tags. Say, you are tagging car pictures on a website, and have the following: image1.jpg -> [“honda”,”s2000″,”convertible”,”black”] image2.jpg -> [“honda”,”civic”,”blue”] image3.jpg -> [“lexus”,”is300″,”blue”] image4.jpg -> [“s2000″,”honda”,”convertible”,”silver”] image5.jpg ->…
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