Nagios is a free opensource enterprise-class monitoring system released under GPL License. It allows you to gain insight into your network and fix problems before customers know they even exist. It’s stable, scalable, supported, and extensible. Nagios is Stable, Reliable, and Respected Platform with 10 years in development scaling to 100,000+ nodes. From my personal [...]
Recently I posted “Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux” and received a few messages asking what other tools I use. To save me time with answering email messages that essentially contain the same information, and to help the maximum number of readers, I thought it would be a [...]
For those of you who follow my other blog, you’ll know that my last Windows PC had a major failure again. You can read some of the specifics in the “When Disaster Strikes – Again” post. At that point I decided to install Ubuntu (effectively removing Windows based PC’s from the network). In some ways [...]
DiscWrapper is a simple cover designer for your home made CDs and DVDs. It is simple and very easy to install and use without too many menus and menu items. It has template covers and depending on… Read more at Suse Geek
Adobe Flashplayer 10 is out now and is available for Linux x86 platforms (64 bit support is not officially available yet). Features and enhancements include Creative Expression Custom Filters and Effects 3D Effects New Text Engine Text Layout Components Drawing API Enhancements Color Management Visual Performance Improvements GPU Compositing GPU Blitting Anti-Aliasing Engine (Saffron 3.1) [...]
When I wrote about GNOME-Do here, one of our readers “James D” suggested Katapult application launcher for KDE. Inspired by QuickSilver for Mac OS X, Katapult is an application launcher for KDE designed to allow faster access to applications, bookmarks, and other items. It is plugin-based, so it can launch anything that is has a [...]
QVideoConverter is a simple video converter to convert Video files or DVDs to Divx Videos. QVideoConverter is a simple frontend GUI for mencoder which converts the videos to DivX format. QVideoConverter can auto detect the the Real Video Area and can Normalize video. QVideoConverter allows you to set the Bitrate, file size (MB), Framerate etc [...]