I will be running a demo of op5 products at thursday April 23:th 16:00 CET. The demo is hosted by Collax a op5 partner in Germany. If you want to attend, register at: http://www.collax.com/de/ueber-collax/events-collax-live/webcast-collax-monitoring-solution.html
op5 is proud to arrange Nordic Meet on Nagios 2009 June 3-4th in Stockholm. —cut’n paste— Welcome to Nordic Meet on Nagios 2009 (NMN2009) June 3-4th, the largest Nagios Meet in Scandinavia. The 2008 Meet was a great success! The event was filled to the last seat and a great atmosphere in great summer weather […]
I will be one of the speakers at the Open Source in Schools conference 2009 in London March 6th, If you are interested take a peak at: http://www.opensourceinschools.org.uk/ Fusis arranges the conference and op5 is a partner to Fusis.
Background My blog that uses MySQL as the database backend suddenly got real performance issues. The symptoms where: All my Nagios test failed from time to time with NRPE timeout The performence of my dynamic webpages was terrible slow. The load on the system showed very heavy load, more then 10 for 1, 5, and […]
Sometimes I ask myself why does not person X living in country Y not answer the phone or email. When I try the switchboard nobody answer. Maybe they have a holiday in that part of the world. A tool to find that out is “Earth Calendar” http://www.earthcalendar.net/ So mabe the reason that my blog dropped […]
Anyone producing documents should try LaTeX. It creates documents with a professional look and it forces the author to focus on the content instead of the look. A very good guide is Tobi Oetikers “The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2ε“, btw the same guy that has created RRDtools. Of course my CV is […]
A hint how to generate your own wordpress theme http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/
In some cases the "Normal" way of running checks does not work, passive checks might do the job. I have a script the runs every night that backup my MySQL database. If this script fails I would like op5 Monitor or Nagios to send a notification. An active check will not work in this case […]
A hint for unix or linux gurus is to take a peak at Unix Guru Universe: http://www.ugu.com. I really like the UGU tip of the day with handy tips, howto, do not and so on… Subscribe today and learn more and more everyday
I found a nerd test http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php I did the test and I got a rather good score: 2% scored higher (more nerdy), 1% scored the same, and 97% scored lower (less nerdy). And a nice picture to put on my homepage:
