A walk through of the Cacti Flowview plugin by thewitness (Larry Adams)

This plugin allows you to see reports based off the data in your Netflow flows.

View the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb-wPg_kpjc

Walmart lost interest in GNU/Linux on netbooks for some reason but welcomes it again on tablets. Funny how that works, eh? Small cheap computers and GNU/Linux go together well, that other OS does not fit and M$ cannot justify tinkering with the market. Chuckle.

Read the full thing at http://pogson.6k.ca/2011/01/03/gnulinux-returns-to-walmart/

A video walk through of the Cacti Aggregate Plugin Version 1.0 Beta.

This plugin aggregates graphs from Graph Management. All data you want to see must already be present on any existing graphs.

View the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAp9rGeu-hw

A series of videos that walks you through using VIM.

View them at http://ontwik.com/tools/vim-from-novice-to-professional-by-derek-wyatt-p1/

You had to wait a long time, far too long already. But now the time has come, WoP, in version 1.5, is available for download - for Windows and Linux. The Mac users have to wait a little bit longer unfortunately, but, rest assured, we haven't forgotten you!

We had planned to publish WoP 1.5 within this year and had to work on it until the very last second.

Read the full thing at http://padworld.myexp.de/index.php?news&update_id=255

After a long year of changes in the kde-www land, ranging from looks to scm switches, a final last coup:

KDE is running its own pastebin service now!

Read the full thing at http://neverendingo.blogspot.com/2010/12/news-from-kde-www-pastebin.html

I don’t normally comment on other people’s software… but… a little while ago, opensuse was wondering whether KDE apps would work with these Gnome Shell requirements. Last time I checked, their “Activities” sounded like virtual desktops, but now they’ve returned to an application-based shell. This in sharp contrast to Plasma Desktop’s increasingly Activity-oriented workspace.

So what does that mean? Well, in gnome-shell, windows are organized by application – by the binary that spawns them. All your firefox windows are grouped together, all your okular windows grouped together, etc. You can still group windows on virtual desktops, but alt-tab is application-based, so as soon as you’ve got more windows than screen space you may as well have everything on one desktop.

Read the full thing at http://chani.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/activity-oriented-vs-application-oriented-workspaces/

With holiday season right in front of us it's about time to draw a line between 2010 and 2011 and have a look at most important events of this year. We carefully selected most important things that happened or haven't happened.

Read the full thing at http://libregraphicsworld.org/articles.php?article_id=26

Please welcome the Mandriva 2010.2 release, which is coming to a mirror nearby you right now!

As announced previously, Mandriva 2010.2 is an incremental update on top of Mandriva 2010.1, incorporating all the security and bugfix updates since its release.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mandriva.com/2010/12/23/mandriva-2010-2-is-out/

Once upon a time, I used to not care about the health of my servers. And while some still suffer in relative silence, for the most part I have changed course on the matter, and there’s just no excuse NOT to monitor things up the wazoo, just in case.

But, monitoring can be complex. There are services out there that’ll do it for you, Open source software packages and commercial solutions alike. But, all of that is TOO MUCH EFFORT for the lazy admin. Nagios, for example, is powerful and flexible. But it takes time to get comfortable with it. And a commercial solution based on nagios, groundworks, which is meant to make things easy, is downright bloated and clunky to work with.

Read the full thing at http://qdork.com/2010/12/system-monitoring-for-the-lazy-admin-part-1/