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• 5.7.07 Nagios: Sysadmin’s Best Friend posted in Geekery

  Nagios is one of those “I can’t believe it’s not butter” discoveries of mine. Except replace butter with commercial and add “and that I didn’t find it sooner”. It’s opensource server\service monitoring software with notification features and plugins and it’s flippin’ awesome. I slept better last night than I have in a long time…

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• 4.23.07 TextMate Fonts posted in Geekery

  Admittedly, I’ve never played much with monospaced fonts. As a graphic designer, I’ve put my time into my art and let my code rest on Monaco. No more, however, as a couple of fonts were just brought to my attention via the TextMate list that have sparked a new interest in monospace fonts for me…

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• 3.16.07 Actiontastic Updated posted in Geekery

  I just noticed there’s a new release of Actiontastic out that fixes a couple of my major interface gripes, including the broken tab stops on the date input in the anti-drawer. And it’s a non-expiring beta with no nag screen, and, perhaps most exciting of all, the author has decided to make Actiontastic free and open-source.

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• 8.22.06 Choosing an appropriate CMS posted in Web Design

  Here’s a quick soliloquy on the virtues and values of various open-source CMS software packages, along with their downsides. This is not intended as a final say, or a one-size-fits-all guide to CMS’s. This is simply my experience and my personal choices. But I was explaining them to someone else the […]

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• 7.24.06 Back to the geekiness posted in General

  Okay, I got obsessed with the gallery thing for a bit. I’m looking forward to adding it to my sister’s wedding website as well. But back to the geekiness. It took me a while to perfect this command in Linux, but I thought I’d share it, just in case it served […]

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