Congrats to the NConf crew for reaching the 1.3.0 milestone! Two years in the making, but I’m excited to see the project continuing to move forward. It’s been over a year since I originally installed and configured Nagios and NConf 1.2.6 on my Lucid Lynx server. In the meantime, I’ve upgraded the hardware and moved [...]
As of December 2011, NConf has released version 1.3.0 which changes the deployment methods for configs. Take a look at my NConf 1.3.0 upgrade guide! Have you been wondering about how to get Nagios and NConf setup on your Ubuntu server? Well, I took some notes the last time around, and here they are, for [...]
I found myself needing to flash a BIOS today, which required a DOS or Windows 98 bootable floppy disk. Forget that. Let’s use a USB drive instead! Googling around returned methods that seemed way too involved for what I was trying to do. Here’s the three commands I ended up using: wget http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/autogen/FDOEM.144.gz gunzip FDOEM.144.gz [...]
So you you want the powerful Perl-based rename utility that comes with many Linux and *BSD distributions, but sadly not on Apple’s mighty OS X? Well so did I. (Go away you fanboys of all types. I hear not your rants about which operating system is for the win) Thinking about it for a moment, [...]