Archive for May, 2006

Peter Fäßler hat zwei Texte zum Einlesen in die Materie. Ausdrucken! (aber ODI in OID ändern )

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 at 19:26 | 0 comments
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FreeNAS is an open-source (BSD license) NAS(Networked Attached Storage) server supporting: CIFS (Samba), FTP(File Transfer Protocol), NFS(Network File System), and RSYNC protocols, local user authentication, and software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface which even allows backup of the configuration as an XML file (quite cool).
Download FreeNAS or simply pick a ready-to-run VMware [...]

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 at 17:36 | 0 comments
Categories: Hardware, Software, Vmware
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I need to be able to use the SASL EXTERNAL mechanism to bind to my LDAP directory server from a number of Perl programs (I've already written a bit about this mechanism before).
After installing packages perl-Digest-HMAC, perl-Digest-SHA1 and perl-Net-SSLeay on Centos 4.3 with yum, I downloaded Authen-SASL from CPAN and ran the typical perl Makefile.PL; [...]

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 at 12:38 | 0 comments
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Thank you all for your phone calls, emails and even blog entries!

Monday, May 29th, 2006 at 11:20 | 0 comments
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Vitello Tonato is a strange sounding dish: chilled veal in a tuna fish sauce. It is excellent, though.
Take a lean piece of veal cut from the rump (about 3/4 kg) and add a bayleaf and some rosemary to it. Wrap it firmly in a cloth and let it cook gently for an hour and a [...]

Saturday, May 27th, 2006 at 14:06 | 0 comments
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According to this posting on the CW Notizblog, 41% of all corporate users utilize the same password for all applications and Internet sign-ons, whereas only 14% use differing passwords.
Although we attempt to create a corporate single-password (which is not the same as a single-signon) environment, I do very strongly recommend to use very different [...]

Saturday, May 27th, 2006 at 10:53 | 0 comments
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I was pleased to receive a complimentary copy of James Turnbull's book Pro Nagios 2.0 (Apress). We use quite a bit of Nagios, and I'm always in search of new ideas.
On 360 odd pages, the author discusses Nagios in quite some detail. From installation of Nagios, through object configuration, Turnbull brings the ins and outs [...]

Saturday, May 27th, 2006 at 02:14 | 3 comments
Categories: Books, Nagios
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There are currently 70 odd appliances available for download on VMware's Virtual Appliances site.
The countdown for the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge ends in one day and seven hours (depending of course in which timezone you are located). I'm relaxed at the moment, because we've already submitted our mega applicance, which is in fact, an appliance [...]

Thursday, May 25th, 2006 at 16:10 | 0 comments
Categories: DAD/miniDAD, Vmware
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