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Zabbix – The Enterprise-class Monitoring Solution

Zabbix is the ultimate open source availability and performance monitoring solution. Zabbix offers advanced monitoring, alerting, and visualization features today which are missing in other monitoring systems, even some of the best commercial ones. Below is a short list of features available in Zabbix:

auto-discovery of servers and network devices

low-level discovery

distributed monitoring with centralized web administration

support for both polling and trapping mechanisms

server software for Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS X

native high performance agents (client software for Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS X, Tru64/OSF1, Windows NT4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista)

agent-less monitoring

secure user authentication

flexible user permissions

web-based interface

flexible e-mail notification of predefined events

high-level (business) view of monitored resources

audit log

Bash Redirections Cheat Sheet

Even the experienced bash users will probably find a couple of new things in this cheat sheet.

Color Bash Prompt

This wiki page is quite extensive, covering, among other things:

256 color terminals
Regular, bold, underline fonts
High and low intensity
Prompt escape codes
Cursor positioning!
Return value visualization and error output
Shortening of current work path to N characters

How GitHub Works

Things like these, give me hope again in the human race, happiness, and work place.

We want to foster a creative environment. We love it when employees hack on side projects. It gets people excited. Excitement is contagious, and spreads easily from one project to another. Even if we’ll never make money on that side project, the excitement generated from it can bleed into things that will make us money.

Police can film people without consent under certain circumstances

POLICE may film or take photographs or people without consent under conditions to be specified by the attorney-general, justice minister Loucas Louca said yesterday.

“Following a meeting with the commissioner for the protection of personal data, the attorney-general, the police chief and I, it was decided that the police may video-record people under certain circumstances,” Louca said.