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Archive for November, 2009

QComicBook 0.5.0 released

Today (*) a new version of QComicBook was released – 0.5.0. The release announcement can be read on freshmeat.
I submitted a new SlackBuild script to SlackBuilds.org. The previous one, for version 0.4.4, won’t work as the author has changed to using cmake.
If you can’t wait for the SlackBuild to be approved, you can download complete [...]

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Monitoring your network and servers

I’ve been busy over the last few weeks evaluating some software to monitor servers, network utilization, etc. I have tested several programs and ended up using three: nagios, cacti, and ntop.
All of these are free & open software. For nagios and cacti you can download SlackBuild scripts from slackbuilds.org maintained by me. For cacti, if [...]

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