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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The latest PulseAudio on Ubuntu

If you want to install the latest and greatest PulseAudio (now on version 0.9.8) on Ubuntu — a worthwhile thing to do, because of the fixes in the latest version — here are some packages you can use.

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Amazingly cool Internet filter against stupidity!

If you ever had to undergo the horrible torture that is reading YouTube comments, you can now rest safe and sound, knowing that rampant stupidity will soon be a thing of the past, thanks to Bayesian probabilities.

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Corrupting data for fun and profit

I just stumbled across zzuf’s Web page. Odd name, isn’t it? zzuf is a program that corrupts data on purpose. But why?

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I changed to KUbuntu Feisty Fawn

Yes, I changed to KUbuntu a few hours ago.

And it’s surprisingly good. After a decade of using RPM-based distributions (first Red Hat 5.2, then Mandrake, then Red Hat 9, then Fedora), I’m now using a Debian-based distro.

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Quinn Storm personally discusses Beryl

Today, we interviewed Quinn Storm, the initiator of the Beryl project.

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Interview with the KTorrent developers

Today, Rudd-O.com talks with the KTorrent developers in an exclusive interview.

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Interview with Scott, Ubuntu and Upstart developer

Scott James Remnant, the Upstart developer, graces us with an interview. Read the rest »

CoComment: awesome!

Do you comment on blogs? If you do, you’ll love CoComment.

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