Category Archives: Open Source

Upgrade from zenoss 2.5.2 stack installer to zenoss 3.0 on Centos

Posted on July 19, 2010 by admin

Instructions from http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/zenoss/Documentation/zenoss-3.0.x-docs/zendocs-3.0.0/Zenoss_Core_Installation_04-072010-3.0-v01.pdf Get the ZenPacks.zenoss.PreUpgrade30-1.0-py2.4.egg wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/zenoss/zenpacks-3.0%20%28Latest%20Stable%29/zenpacks-3.0.0/ZenPacks.zenoss.PreUpgrade30-1.0-py2.4.egg?use_mirror=nchc&ts=1279596576 Change the permissions chown zenoss.zenoss ZenPacks.zenoss.PreUpgrade30-1.0-py2.4.egg chmod 777 ZenPacks.zenoss.PreUpgrade30-1.0-py2.4.egg Become the zenoss user su zenoss Run the install zenpack –install ZenPacks.zenoss.PreUpgrade30-1.0-py2.4.egg Restart zopectl zopectl stop zopectl start Start the zencatalog zencatalog start … Continue reading →

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Upgrade OTRS 2.3.4 to OTRS 2.4.1-01 using OTRS rpm’s on Centos

Posted on July 24, 2009 by admin

OTRS is an Open source Support Ticket System, its fairly easy to setup and has the ability to receive emails and add them automatically as tickets. Personally I like its flexibility and they have just released OTRS 2.4.1 (Aitutaki – … Continue reading →

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Google Releases Open Source NX Server for Remote Desktop

Posted on July 13, 2009 by admin

NoMachine developed NX technology to handle remote X window sessions and to make a remote graphical display usable over lower connection speeds. Google released a open source NX server called Neatx, looks pretty interesting, see it at – http://code.google.com/p/neatx/

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VLC Version 1.0 Released

Posted on July 9, 2009 by admin

Great news, they have released version 1.0 of VLC finally. In my opinion VLC is the best media player out there, it works! Get it here – http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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How to Install Tracks 1.7 on Centos 5.2

Posted on April 5, 2009 by admin

  Install Ruby on Rails – Use http://www.how-to-linux.com/2008/12/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-on-centos-52/ Create a database for Tracks mysql -u root -p create database tracks; exit Download Tracks from http://bsag.bingodisk.com/public/files/tracks-current.zip Unzip the Tracks archive unzip tracks-current.zip Put tracks into /opt mv tracks-1.7 /opt Edit /opt/tracks-1.7/config/database.yml … Continue reading →

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VLC – The Best Media Player For Linux

Posted on April 5, 2009 by admin

VLC media player is the best video player, it just about runs any type of media.  They have just released an update. VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, … Continue reading →

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A Good Centos System Administration Book

Posted on February 3, 2009 by admin

I have been a big fan of the unleashed guides every since I purchased Mac OS X Tiger Unleashed. I loved this book as it was both great for beginners but had some reallly good advanced sections that allowed me … Continue reading →

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Good Technology Twitters to Follow

Posted on February 1, 2009 by admin

This is a list of a few twitterers I follow who write about technology and Linux or are just plain useful. How To Linux – http://twitter.com/howtolinux Techcrunch – http://twitter.com/TechCrunch Chris DiBona, chief of open source at Google – http://twitter.com/cdibona Brian … Continue reading →

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Black Duck 10 Open Source Projects of the Year

Posted on January 21, 2009 by admin

Ostatic is running an article on Black Duck’s rookie of the year competition.  Worth a read to learn about some up and coming projects you might not be aware of. http://ostatic.com/blog/10-open-source-projects-make-the-cut-as-rookies-of-the-year

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