Reset Nagios timers

Linux - No Comments » - Posted on July, 2 at 15:31

In case you - just like me - unplugged your Nagios monitoring box from the network for some time, you will get strange statusses for some services, mentioning they’re OK for more than 300 days for example. You probably want to get rid of this. But how do you get this done?

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RedHat announces RHEL 5.4 beta

Linux - No Comments » - Posted on July, 2 at 12:00

Today Red Hat released the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Beta (kernel-2.6.18-155.el5), with versions for x86, x86/64, Itanium, IBM POWER and System z. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Beta release includes a variety of new features and capabilities, combined with enhancements in virtualization, storage/filesystem, security and developer tools. As with any Beta, our goal is to provide customers and partners with the opportunity to sample and test new features of the release before it’s finalized.

The full announcement can be read here.

Redhat releases EL5.3

Linux - No Comments » - Posted on January, 21 at 11:30

 Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of 5.3
(kernel-2.6.18-128.el5) for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 family of products including:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform for x86,

AMD64/Intel(r) 64, Itanium Processor Family, System p

and System z

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server for x86,

AMD64/Intel(r) 64, Itanium Processor Family, System p

and System z

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop for x86 and

AMD64/Intel(r)

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First look on Windows 7

Windows - No Comments » - Posted on November, 1 at 18:25

Okay so here we are again, this time with a look on the new Windows 7. Expected to be released in the second half of 2009, it was presented last week to developers on the 2008 PDC. As soon as I got my hands on it I installed it in a Virtual Machine and had a look.

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Fedora 10 beta announced

Linux - No Comments » - Posted on September, 30 at 23:14

Fedora 10 Beta: Cambridge’s foundations are laid

Just on the heels of the Fedora Project’s fifth anniversary, the Beta of Fedora Linux version 10 (code-named Cambridge) is now available:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

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