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#9: Open Source Publishing
Issue 9: Download Now
- Creating Newsletters with OpenOffice
- Open Source Publishing with Scribus
- Collaborative Document Editing
- GIMP created graphics for Publishing
More issues to come, so keep your eyes open!
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Project Dakota: is a CD that contains all the Windows XP updates found on the Windows Update Network. It includes a small program that runs the updates in order specified by Microsoft.
This will definitely save bandwidth costs, especially for people in Africa. Lets just hope that the install script is good enough and does not cause more issues.
One more question, does the program know if patches are installed? Which patch needs to be applied? or does it just try install everything?
Anyways, it’s a step in the right direction!
Go to theatticnetwork.net
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Nagios is a free, as in Open Source, network and service monitor designed to pro actively inform on network problems.
Some features from nagios.org;
- Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.).
- Monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, log files, etc.).
- Monitoring of environmental factors such as temperature.
- Simple plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own host and service checks.
- Ability to define network host hierarchy, allowing detection of and distinction between hosts that are down and those that are unreachable.
- Contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or other user-defined method).
- Optional escalation of host and service notifications to different contact groups.
- Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution.
- Support for implementing redundant and distributed monitoring servers.
- External command interface that allows on-the-fly modifications to be made to the monitoring and notification behavior through the use of event handlers, the web interface, and third-party applications.
- Retention of host and service status across program restarts.
- Scheduled downtime for suppressing host and service notifications during periods of planned outages.
- Ability to acknowledge problems via the web interface.
- Web interface for viewing current network status, notification and problem history, log file, etc.
- Simple authorization scheme that allows you restrict what users can see and do from the web interface.
Nagios also offer an Enterprise option that includes professional support at nagios.com.
Links:
Nagios.org
Nagios.com
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“The Term BLACKOUTS is politically offensive and will no longer be used. Please refer to them as Previously Lit Areas!”
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Are you looking for an Operating system for a Laptop, Desktop or Server?
Look no further, Ubuntu offers a great solution - Ubuntu Linux.
Ubuntu is free of charge, easy to install and included in the installation is an office package and all standard applications, so you can start working straight away. You can download or request an Ubuntu CD, so getting started is easy!
Ubuntu.com is the place to be.
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