The Open Source Convention, or OSCON as it's more readily known, is an annual confluence of all things open source that has taken place since 1998. From its origins as an informal get together of Perl ...
When the story about Microsoft shelling out $100,000 to Apache for ASF sponsorship broke across my radar it rather tickled my funny bone and my curiosity. When ASF Chairman Jim Jagielski declared that ...
I just heard about the proposed ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) over at Free Software Daily and from the Free Software Foundation. Right now the governments of the United States, the Europe ...
A report by the Standish Group indicates that adoption of 'open source' has caused a drop in revenue to the proprietary software industry by about $60 billion per year. That's not a huge amount of mon ...
In a recent article, Ryan Cartwright argued that free software isn't playing the "same game" as proprietary software is. He's right—but that begs the question: what game _is_ GNU/Linux playing? Thirty ...
It's not always true that the neatest, most advanced technology ends up winning most of the market share. There are other reasons which get in the way. Sometimes, the less advanced solutions end up wi ...
The EeePC started as a niche product aimed at children. It was a huge hit, which surprised everybody -- even Asus. Microsoft noticed it, and started putting pressure on Asus . While reading around, I ...
Steve Ballmer has recently sent a memo to every Microsoft employee. Ballmer's memo leaked really quickly (I wonder if he expected it). After swallowing the corporate-madness part (but that's allowed: ...
My wife and I have been using (and collecting) computers for years, and we've shared this interest very effectively with our children. Now I am the victim of my own success: my household now has four ...
Some people seem to challenge the idea that most (if not all) free software projects need a benevolent dictator--that is, somebody who has the last say on every decision. They are quick to point out L ...
The Blender Foundation's second free-content movie, **Big Buck Bunny**, is the product of the foundation's "Peach Open Movie" project, and the results are impressive. Like the previous **Elephants Dre ...
I've described using Zenoss for a very small network here, and that's as far as I plan to go. However, you should realize that Zenoss was designed with very large corporate networks in mind, so it is ...
Zenoss is extremely configurable, so it can probably be set up to tell you just about anything you want to know about the computers you are monitoring. I'm just going to go through some of the things ...
A really sharp admin would probably be able to set up SNMP on my virtual server and keep it secure. _I_, however, have no confidence in my ability to do this, so I at first despaired of using Zenoss t ...
Now that I have some of my LAN computers running SNMP, I can set Zenoss up to monitor them by "modelling" them. To do this, I start by going to the "Add Device" option on the left-hand menu (this menu ...
The hardest part of the learning curve for me, was learning about SNMP, the "Simple Network Management Protocol". Zenoss, like most network monitoring services relies heavily on this technology, which ...
Ryan Cartwright wrote an excellent article, Don't compare GNU/Linux with Windows or MacOS – they are not in the same game. I ran across the same blog he is referring to, while gathering potential stor ...
Zenoss is pretty new, and there is no ready-made Debian package of it (or wasn't at the time of this writing, anyway), so installation will have to be from source. Given that Zenoss is a Python/Zope p ...
The person who invented the concept of shared libraries should be given a raise... and a bonus. The person who decided that shared library management and naming conventions should be left to the imple ...
From http://bear454.blogspot.com : Jimmac announced today on the Tango Mailing List that thanks to about a bazillion requests and the negotiation skills of Michael Meeks, the Tango Icon Library will b ...