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Monitoring Network Services with Nagios 3 on Ubuntu – Part 1 of 2
Nagios is a popular and powerful open-source network monitoring system that can be used to monitor network servers and devices. It can send notification messages when network servers go offline by...
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Watch Star Wars on command line via telnet
The other day while I was looking for cool Darth Vader wallpapers I came across an interesting article on how you can watch Star Wars Episode IV on command line via telnet. This is a must watch. The...
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Running a shell script as root without password prompt
Recently I had a rather daunting task of writing a bash script to update a remote linux box (Ubuntu) via ftp. The person with the linux box needed to execute the script via a desktop launcher. After...
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gcc configure error: C compiler cannot create executables
While doing an installation of PNP4Nagios from source on an Ubuntu Intrepid box I came across the following error while trying to compile it by doing a “./configure” configure:2825: error: C compiler...
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perl: warning: setting locale failed error solution
I have been getting this error while restarting Nagios and I have quite ignored it for some time until when I needed to install some nagios plugins which made me to look for a solution out there for...
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How to download and play your favourite flash game offline
Recently I’ve been digging casual gaming (my college days are over). Though I dont get much of a chance to play these games during weekdays. Weekends is when I get the time to do some casual gaming....
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How to install Git on Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)
I’m sure there are tons of blogs out there on the same subject. This is just like a reference for me and others out there who might stumble upon this post. Note that what I have documented here is what...
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Deploying multiple rails apps on Apache using Phusion Passenger
Phusion Passenger (a.k.a mod_rails) is an open-source Apache module that makes deploying rails apps as easy as falling off a log. Its got cool features like deploying multiple rails applications on a...
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Using Gedit as a Ruby IDE
For a long time I have been a Netbeans ‘person’ when it comes to Ruby IDEs. However when Oracle announced that they will discontinue Ruby support for Netbeans, I decided to start looking for...
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Demystifying Rails Render
I have seen quite a number of rails programmers getting confused when they use render with :action. For instance your typical edit and update actions, def edit @post = Post.find(params[:id]) @tags =...
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