I was browsing our web logs this week and realized that a lot of other open source (and some proprietary) monitoring companies spend a great deal of time on our web site trying to figure out what we are up to. So today’s post is dedicated to saving them time so they can focus on [...]

I got this as part of the Zenoss comment spam today and it was too funny. Note the highlighted portion of his pitch.
“hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments , I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of spammers [...]

When you work in technology it’s hard to explain to your non-technical friends and family members (especially when you work in open source) what you do. Conversations with your elder family members go something like this:
Me: I went to work for an open source software company.
Grandma: Oh that’s nice….what’s open source software?
Me: It’s software that’s [...]

Today’s news has been peppered with the outage of the Windows Genuine Advantage servers today. Now we aren’t endorsing DRM rights by any means but if you are running mission critical servers you need to look beyond availability monitoring. If the system is customer facing you probably will know by the inquiries from angry customers [...]

Today is SysAdmin Day. in honor of all the underpaid, overworked, answering your pager in the middle of the night guys and girls working hard to keep things running this one goes out to you.

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