Maybe it’s just me, but I found it incredibly hard to find how to NIC Teaming in linux similar to compaq network card teaming.

Now I’m fully aware that hp provide an official “pack” (Google Search Results Here), but what if you don’t have a supported server ? - Like me ! I’ve actually got an old hp netserver lp1000r.

Well after an age of searching, I found redhat’s page on the issue. , it was the usual scenario, if you don’t know the right word, how can the search engine find it ?

News on googleblog a new version of google desktop search.

Now the screen shot has been irritating my mind all morning…

Where have I seen this before ? Oh yeah, Gnome Dashboard !

Now I know the concept of sidebars isn’t exactly new but still google shame on you !

.. or nagios is great, I use it a lot.

In my continuing quest to cure command line phobia I’ve written a small (& Basic) php script that can generate some sample configs. Simply type in the IP of what you want to monitor , tick a couple of boxes, and copy & paste what you get into the end of your config files - nice

There’s a Demo Site here : http://www.linickx.com/index.php?content=nagios
and the Source here: http://www.linickx.com/files/php/nagios-simple-gen_php.txt

UPDATE:
Also available at nagiosexchange.org: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Configuration.20.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=327

This post on Slashdot.org has prompted me to make a long awaited 1st update to my security section.

You can now see the current INFOCon status on my security page

So I’ve been clearing out some stuff and I found another thing of use.

When I had a Sony Vaio, I remember the most annoying thing to get working was X11, specifically finding the right Fedora Core xorg.conf. I’ve uploaded my working xorg.conf here , now if you’re a really newbie and need some steps read-on, else you’re probably done

Firstly, if you boot the PCG-C1F from the CD-ROM, and just hit enter at the install prompt, anaconda will try and start X, and when it does it can’t set the resolution right. So, the best thing to do is install in text mode. Text mode is started at the install prompt with:

A while ago I put some effort into getting SSL support working with XMMS on Fedora Core 3, unfortunatley I didn’t get very far

Ages a go Dustin Kirkland was kind enough to help me out (he wrote an SSL patch for XMMS), but I never got a change to finish, Since this message has been flagged for follow up for soooooo long now, I thought it only fair to share what Dustin sent me, when (& if) I get this finished I’ll publish an rpm good luck !