Automation Adventures

I’ve recently set up Nagios on one of our test servers, and the Windows client for Nagios allows you to monitor services (whether they started, stopped, etc.). However, the name of the service to monitor isn’t always the same as the name in the Services application in Administrative Tools. To find out the name of [...]

Over the Christmas break I’ve installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my main machine. The installation was not upgradeable without some serious wizardry (the /boot partition was too small, and increasing that on a full disk is not easy), so I decided to do a fresh install. After going through all the installation steps, and booting up [...]

Skype announced the release of a beta version of Skype 2.0 for Linux. The new version supports video, so Linux Skype users can now put the webcam to good use. The Linux beta can be downloaded here. Hardware requirements are: Processor: 1GHz or faster RAM: 256MB Hard disk: 20MB free space Microphone and speakers, or [...]

On November 3rd, 2007, Sixth Floor Labs LLC announced that they launched their business. The press release can be found here. They also released the first release of Project Alexandria, an Asteroids-like arcade game. This is downloadable for free here. Although it’s commendable that a company decides to make Linux games, this game’s graphics look [...]

Recently our systems administrator asked me if it was possible to run MXP under Linux. “I don’t think there is a client of Progress for Linux, at least not graphical”, was my first response. But I got intrigued, and started digging (or rather, googling) around. And it is possible. I’ll describe what I did under [...]