I’m getting kind of tired of some people’s philosophies in OpenSource. Tonight I spent well over an hour trawling through Sourceforge, looking for something very simple. A time tracker. Nothing more complicated that being able to click a button showing I am doing something, and another to say I’m done… and add [...]

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Having a little free time on my hand, well not really but I didn’t want to work, I decided to do an upgrade of WP to version 2. So far… so good…

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I guess I’ve been using Gentoo now for just a little over a year. It’s quite nice in my opinion, and have multiple servers running it. I’ve not really had any issues with it until recently.

Gentoo uses a packaging system called Portage, it’s basically a bundle of files with details for the emerge [...]

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So for the last few days I’ve been battling with our internal monitoring server. It’s running Zabbix on a Gentoo server and does quite well. As far as I could tell, it was checking fine. In fact I could see it updating results, however when I went to check graphs and what [...]

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For some reason, despite the fact that work is going like hell at the moment, with all kinds of crazy stuff happening, my out of work projects are thriving.

Take SquirrelMail for example. Cor Bosman from XS4ALL released SquirrelMail 1.4.5 to their user base after extensive testing, and internal enhancements. This has generated [...]

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