PHP Nagios plugin for checking the status of supervisord processes June 3, 2014 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment If you have never used it before, supervisor is an application that runs on your server to monitor a number of different applications. With supervisord, you get all of the benefits of turning long-running applications into daemons without all the extra code required to make that happen natively. The configuration for supervisord is extremely flexible, […] Read more » Linux supervisord
Computers Linux Got my new computer! July 9, 2009 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Well, I finally got all (but one…) of the parts of my new computer. My new case, the Cooler Master COSMOS “S” is in one word: absolutely awesome. I love the fact that all of the drives can be pushed in, and with one press of a button, the drive will lock in. This comes […] Read more » Chenbro computer Cooler Master Linux
Experimental Linux Getting Synergy working propperly on Windows XP / Ubuntu June 11, 2009 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment At Digital Pacific, where I work, I do all my work on three computers. It’s a nice life looking at three monitors all the time, however, it is not the coolest thing in the world when you have three keyboards in front of you. When I moved here, I already knew about Synergy, it’s great […] Read more » hints Linux Synergy Windows
Linux Misc Random Thoughts Speed of photo transfers in Linux… May 4, 2009 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Ever since I have started using KDE with Linux/FreeBSD as my desktop replacing Windows, there has been just one thing that has really annoyed me about both of these desktops, and that is using Kodak cameras. Yes – I know, such a simple device, but you will be amazed at how many headaches it used […] Read more » c813 kodak Linux photos speed tips and tricks transfersm usb
Linux Random Thoughts St. George really needs to update their webpay client library for Linux November 21, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment My development environment is CentOS 5. Running a library that is two and a half years old really sucks on a new Linux box, especially because I had to install three compat libraries. The software is called “webpay”, and the actual library itself is distributed as a binary library; which would be alright apart from […] Read more » Banking binary libraries Linux Software
Humor Linux What Linux needs… October 27, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Today I was working on MyBanco when the thought came to me of what Linux needs to get a better market share (our ultimate goal, 100%). Then it occured to me! We need a promo, of course, not just any promo, a Li-Li-Li-Li-Linux 2.6.3 🙂 See 2:36 🙂 Read more » ads advertising Humor Linux promotion Windows
Linux No, I will *not* call it GNU/Linux. Ever. October 5, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Recently, a good friend of mine sent an email to the Free Software Foundation, the FSF, which was founded by Richard Stallman History Lesson time! Richard M. Stallman is a hacker and software freedom activist. He wished to create a free operating system called GNU (which is a recursive acronym for GNU’s Not Unix). Stallman […] Read more » GNU Linux open source rants
Random Thoughts Adobe for Linux August 31, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | 2 Comments on Adobe for Linux I am disappointed,as a user of both Linux *and* After Effects that After Effects refuses to run on Linux. Let’s face it; After Effects, and other applications in the Creative Suite are the most requested applications to be supported by Adobe on Linux. With a growing market share, and many companies putting in quite a […] Read more » Adobe After Effects Linux Open Letter Software Video Windows
MyBanco MyBanco v0.05 is coming August 9, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment The new version of MyBanco will be out within the next few hours, boasting a few new handy features, such as: An installer, which will insert the SQL dump into MySQL automatically. A few minor bugs fixed. Patches for SMF to enable the ability for people people to gain money for posting on a forum. […] Read more » anounce coming soon excitement Linux MyBanco MyInfo updates
Experimental My Xen experience August 8, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment No! When I Xen, I am not talking about a relationship to foreign material. Well, that is – not exactly. Xen is an open source hypervisor. Think: VMware, but much, much cooler. I was talking to Tim Post, about a project that I was completing for ShareSource2. Basically, the conversation came to the point where […] Read more » Debian Linux OpenVZ Ubuntu xen