Latest Monitoring Dirvish backup servers using Nagios

Dirvish is an excellent disk-based rotating backup application. Nagios is a fabulous service monitor. Combine the two using this Nagios plugin and you will know, at all times, the status of your latest backup run:

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Thanks, Michael!

Those bug reports were my pleasure. Keep on doing great stuff like iogrind and your other projects! The community needs more efforts and people like you are a source of inspiration for newcomers and oldies alike.

How to divide and conquer a problem the UNIX way

If you’re one of our regular readers, you’ll remember reading the article and script I wrote on automating BitTorrent downloads with TorrentFlux and rsync. The script has come to be quite handy to me, but the process of writing it is much more fun and appealing. Here’s how I did it.

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Learn Python in 10 minutes

Yes, you too can learn Python in ten minutes. Well, at least the language. The Python standard library is… what’s the term? Ah, “batteries included”.

El software, los virus y las ropas del Emperador

Hace muy poco, un oficial del equipo de seguridad de Microsoft comentó que “el problema del phishing (engaño informático) es que no existe un parche para la estupidez humana”.

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Backwards compatibility: not backward at all

Ian Murdock had a few words to say on the subject. I want to complement his words in this article.

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Just invented a technique for a true home page in WordPress blogs

It lets you put any of your blog pages as a static home page, while maintaining a separate blog posts page. It’s ideal for turning WordPress into a CMS.

Read it on my Turbocharged blog: Building a true home page into your WordPress blog

Cómo superar las tareas imposibles

Rands In Repose: Trickle Theory tiene la información.

Después me agradecen ;-)

GTK+ and Qt should copy this urgently!

Task Dialogs. Yes, they’re on Vista. We should have them too, if anything because they seem to be a great idea. Huge action buttons (hard to miss with mouse pointers), clear and easy-to-read text, and an API that encourages sane usage.

Yes, I’m aware that we could do the same with (at least) GTK+ buttons with a few layout containers packed in. Now, where’s the easy-to-use implementation in a vein similar to the Response abstractions in GTK+?