Linux Installing NRPE for Nagios Monitoring January 12, 2010 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment When you have more then three servers to monitor, automating the installation of NRPE is a must! At Digital Pacific, the configurations that I have written are very versatile, there is about ten main lines, and adding or removing a server from that line determines what services will be monitored and how. I have built […] Read more »
Random Thoughts Happy New Year! January 7, 2010 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment To all my friends that I have never met in real life – Happy New Year! This year is going to present some fun times. My code for autodeploying servers with predefined settings on them (eg, MySQL clusters, HTTP clusters) should be released some time soon. Also, ShareSource’s compile farm will go live. Another exciting […] Read more »
Linux Updating my Arch system December 11, 2009 by Tim Groeneveld | 1 Comment on Updating my Arch system This is the bad thing about running a distro that releases up to date software. Eventually you will get 276 package updates. Read more »
Clustering Computers Linux Clustering 101: Choosing the right web server December 11, 2009 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment When I faced with a decision of what web server I am going to roll out with, I usually end up picking between two web servers: Apache and Cherokee. Apache is like your grandfather. He is 80 years old, and He has been around for a while. He is not always the guy you go […] Read more »
PHP Virtuozzo module for WHMCS December 2, 2009 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment I have written a module for WHMCS for Virtuozzo. If you have any Virtuozzo servers that you would love to have integrated with WHMCS, read the instructions I have posted on the WHMCS forum and download the module. Read more »
Random Thoughts New books in my library November 21, 2009 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Today was 32°C. I decided to go to McDonald’s and buy a nice cold frozen Fanta. A few days after I moved to Sydney I found this very awesome book store near Central Station called Basement Books. Seriously, WOW. Basement Books, conveniently located in central Sydney, offers 8kms and over 10,000 titles of discounted books […] Read more »
Linux Installing NoMachine’s free Terminal Server on ArchLinux November 20, 2009 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment If you have never used NoMachine before, it is a fantastic technology that allows you to have a Terminal Server for X on Linux, similar to XenApp for Windows. It is a very powerful application. I used to install FreeNX back in the day when it was released, but I have since learnt that it […] Read more »
Apple Computers Linux Random Thoughts NoMachine’s GUI for OS X requires Rosetta? November 20, 2009 by Tim Groeneveld | 2 Comments on NoMachine’s GUI for OS X requires Rosetta? I was just booting up my Mac to take some nice pretty screenshots of my cluster install process, and I realised that NoMachine’s client for OS X does not even properly support Intel CPU’s -.-” Anyways, unlike Adobe porting Creative Suite to Linux, at least NoMachine are actually working on it. Read more » Apple Intel NoMachine NX OS X
Experimental Linux Cluster 101: Building your first dumb cluster November 12, 2009 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment I would like to introduce you tonight to a x-part series (I don’t know how many parts there are at the moment, we will see as time progresses) entitled “How to build a www cluster in x days“. In this series, we will be looking at a wide variety of different techniques that can be […] Read more » build cluster diy hosting web www
Humor Is the United States becoming too paranoid? November 6, 2009 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment I will admit that usually, I do not really discuss anything that is political, however, I think that this is worth a posting. A college at work was going through the process of installing Dell IT Assistant, and the US Government wanted immediate answers to a few questions. Here is the screenshot: Please click to […] Read more »