Archive for April, 2009
The company I work for has about 3,000 servers that need to be monitored in our Dallas datacenter. For the past few years we’ve been using a fairly standard Nagios setup. If you don’t take the time to really learn Nagios and tweak the config files it’ll run fairly well, until you are monitoring more [...]
I’ve been running Ubuntu 9.04 beta on my desktop at home for a few weeks now, so I decided it was time to upgrade my laptop. I hoped that by upgrading, I’d be able to signifigantly reduce the time it took for my laptop to boot up. Unfortunetly, disaster stuck halfway through. My laptop overheated [...]
Sometimes I like to stay late at work, I’ve got a nice desk, a decent computer, and a mini-fridge full of drinks right behind me. So even after I’m off work, I sometimes stay up here and work on side projects or just browse the web. Yesterday, I decided to do something a bit more [...]
A while back, we got an e-mail from a customer who was concerned that terrorists might be using her site to plan an attack on the space shuttle. Please note, this is a real ticket that was submitted to our security department by one of our customers. Identifying information has been removed and replaced with [...]