Here’s a big shout out to TRS80 a.k.a James who installed Zenoss on Debian recently and then published the build instructions to the Zenoss forums. James writes:
“So I saw Zenoss linked from slashdot, and thought I’d give it a shot, having recently tried Zabbix and OpenNMS and finding neither was much good. So I downloaded [...]

Today was a big day here at Zenoss. We were the recipient of the Slashdot effect. Which is great because it allowed a lot of people find out about Zenoss which we think is one of the coolest things to happen to systems management in a long time. However, that’s not good enough for me, [...]

Sean Reifschneider of tummy.com (Twisted and PyCon sponsor) started up Front Range Pythoneers here in Colorado about a million years ago. Last year at PyCon 2006 Jim Baker talked about breathing life back into it… and he has. Today was not only proof of this (and my first meeting) but yet more validation of the [...]

MIT Gets It
I’m going to piss some geeks off with the following statement, and part of this is because way too many people in the technology industry wrongly equate Marketing with Spin, but alas, this is a topic for another time and place.  Here’s the statement:  Open Source has as much to do with marketing [...]

Not once — ever — have I been tempted to get a PDA. I’ve used friends’ devices and they make me nuts. Too small, too time-consuming to sync, etc. I’m generally a tech-head, but PDAs don’t do it for me.
However! Thanks to dried on #twisted (IRC) providing a link today (admittedly old, 2004), I may [...]