Install, configure, and extend open source Ganglia to effectively monitor a data center

Speaking from the standpoint of a developer, the number of tools, utilities and programs available under open source licensing continues to be very exciting. But it is also true that confusions still persist about what it is and, in particular, about its costs. "Open source" and "free" are not synonymous -- though there is a relationship between the two terms.

Okay: what rock have I been living under? Why have I not been introduced to this amazing game before? I'm serious: this game cannot be simply read about; you must download a copy and try it out for yourself. But maybe I'm getting too far ahead of myself.

There are some devs out there that don't like PHP, then there are those that do. A new survey from Evans Data of over 500 developers, asked questions in 12 different categories to see which dynamic languages they like best.

The RC1 release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (code name pomerol) is now available. This RC1 version provides some updates on major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2.1, GNOME 2.25.92, Xfce 4.6, X.org server 1.6, OpenOffice.Org 3.0.1, qt 4.5.0.

The package libcanberra installed by default in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) is version 0.6 , it seems to be obsolete and causes the system sound to work ineffectively, the following three steps will solve this problem.

Everyone takes digital photographs. The explosion of digital photography, ranging from cell phone cameras to simple point-and-shoot units has created an burst of photographic content. It also means that more and more of us are editing our photos on our PCs.

If you look at the enterprise server operating system market, there's Microsoft's Windows server platform, there's the UNIX platform and there's Linux. What's needed is good strong competition between the platforms, resulting in robust systems with the features that enterprises want.