• Hacking The Reboot With Nagios Magic
• A long overdue report of DevopsDays
• Slow Bandwidth? Remove Unused Protocols to Improve Speed
• Cynical Cloud Computing
• Lina Software’s Cross-platform Port of Zenoss 2.5
• Sending Notifications from PRTG to iPhones With Prowl For Free
• Meet the Community Installment 4 – Joerg Linge (pnp4nagios)
• Book Review: “The myths of Security” by John Viega
• Quick tips and checklists for common admin tasks
• City of Motors
• Pandemic Planning – The Dilbert Way

• Hockey Night in the Data Center
• Simple Network Management with Syslog
• The Kindness of Strangers – Tarus Balog (of OpenNMS) gives a talk at the Open Source Monitoring conference in Germany
• RRDtool 1.4 – higher Performance and cool Features
• Zenoss 2.5 is Now Available!
• Quadruple whammy for IT as a startup grows
• Wireshark 1.2.3, 1.0.10, and 1.3.1 Released
• The Re-Education of NetFlow
• Get Your Network Management Checklist Here!
• Has your MOM seen better days?
• Teasers, for future Web-UI – some screenshots of the new Icinga interface
• Please schedule your unplanned emergencies at a more opportune time

A great example of the talibanisation of software is the reaction of parts of the open source community towards the Mono project. Why does Mono get the goat of the software taliban? Well, Mono is an open source implementation of a standard originally developed by the great satan Microsoft.

Whilst the software taliban’s fixation with Mono is unfortunate, their targeting of applications written using Mono is far worse. Many developers have chosen to use C# as their preferred language for application development on Linux. And a number of high quality applications have been the result. Why should the developers’ perfectly reasonable language choice result in the Mono uninstall fest that greets every new version of Ubuntu for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of the application itself?

But the software taliban, being the purest of the pure, aren’t satisfied with high quality apps written for the one true operating system written under an open source licence. Mono, to the software taliban, has the whiff of being a Microsoft technology. And woe betide anybody who has the temerity to even think of using a Microsoft technology, even when the technology is completely open source and based upon published standards. If you do transgress you’ll have the software police descend upon your application in order to help the observant maintain a pure machine.

I’ve long harboured a suspicion that many liberals hide a strong streak of iliberalism, as exemplified by the Politically Correct brigade. The open source community, a community supposedly founded on the ideals of software freedom, seems to have developed a similar streak of iliberalism towards honest developers work.

Does anybody have any photos of the dry contact status points on their server room air conditioning units that I could use as an illustration on a guide I am currently updating? A picture saves a thousand words as they say and I’ve got 40 pages already…

If you could contact me I’d appreciate it.

• Microsoft “Patch Tuesday” – The Aftermath
• A Preview of the New User Interface in Opsview 3.5.0
• A Peek into the Developer Environment – a look into the typical Zenoss developer development environment
• The Blue Screen of Deathly Hallows – some good feedback for Microsoft on the Windows 7 release
• The limits of some anti-spam precautions
• Sysadmins and Egos: Great in pairs!
• Windows 7 releases!
• How to waste lots of CPU time checking for module updates
• What Windows 7 means for network administrators
• Scotty Time: A guilty indulgence?

• Is SPAN Port really so bad?
• Ethereal is Dead! – time to move on folks, Wireshark keeps on getting better
• Open Source, Open Core, Open ScoreCards
• Review of Wireshark and CACE Pilot
• GWOS Slashes Pricing For Introduction to Enterprise Edition
• The Five Phases of Losing a Job
• A tale of network horror, or at least excitement
• Maintenance, Downtime and Outages

• Using Real-time Events to drive your Network Scans
• Conclusion: KPIs and Application Monitoring
• IT Hiring Improving? There may be signs that the IT jobs market is improving, in the States anyway. Not before time if you ask me.
• QuickTip: Managing Columns in Wireshark
• KPIs Continued: Systems Management

• GroundWork Joins Microsoft System Center Alliance
• Download WUG 14.1 or WhatsConfigured? Want a $100 Gift Card? – What’s Up Gold 14.1 is now out
• The Many Uses of Net-SNMP
• The Business of Open Source is Not Software
• Three Chances to Win a $50 Amazon Gift Certificate – Nagios want to know what you think!
• Best Practices, KPIs for Network Management
• What to Do When PING Sensors Show Astronomical or Negative Request Times in PRTG
• 3 Key Steps to Actively Monitoring HSRP…
• User driven verses technology driven UI design
• Network Diagramming Resouce
• Book Review “Practical Intrusion Analysis: Prevention and Detection for the Twenty-First Century”
• What does the new Power over Ethernet standard mean for IT pros?
• The importance of community

• Practical Packet Analysis, 2nd Edition – Coming in 2010! – an update is coming soon to my favourite blood ‘n guts networking book
• Zenoss 2.5 Beta 3 is Now Available
• Nessus 4.2 – Video Preview Of The New Client Interface
• MonitoringForge – a perspective on monitoringforge, a community driven open source network management portal
• Automatic rotation of dashboards
• Logs of Our Fathers – the first syslog!
• Performance Management – a commentary on the NetQoS acquisition by CA
• Pre-Release of dopplerVUE 2.0 Now Available
• Three Easy Techniques for Cutting Alarm Clutter
• Monitoringforge.org – Tarus Balog’s commentary on the new open source portal by Groundwork Open Source
• Opsview Enterprise 3.2.1 released!
• Icinga 0.8.4 is out – bugfixes and updates for IDOUtils and Docu
• Nagios Event Handlers – Love them
• Sep.23, 2009: 11 new Cisco critical vulnerabilities!!
• FCoE Discussion
• The internet is just getting started

Great news for gadget fans in Europe. Bug Labs have announced the availability of their amazing gadget making kit in Europe with all of the appropriate approvals like RoHS and CE.

In addition Bug Labs have announced the availability of a WiFi and Bluetooth base module called BUGbase WiFi.

All you need is a Windows, Linux or Mac PC with the DragonFly SDK installed and buy a Bugbase module, which can now have WiFi and Bluetooth on board, and then choose the add-on modules you need like BUGbee, BUGsound, BUGvonHippel, BUGview, BUGlocate and BUGmotion.

Then get coding!