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I’m a 30 something Irish guy that works in the IT business. Inside the trade I’m interested in Linux, Internet technologies and mobile hardware and services. Outside, I enjoy a good book, a nice beer and decent game of rugby……

P.S. This is a personal blog, and while I do have a professional involvement in a lot of the technical topics I mention in some of my posts, they do not reflect company policy or ethos.

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How to add a timeout to a Zabbix alert trigger

I’ve replaced Cacti and Nagios with Zabbix to monitor the company infrastructure. Nagios is nice but there are some things you can only monitor using agents as Linux’s SNMP support

It looks like my data snuck up into the cloud without telling me…

It looks like my data snuck up into the cloud without telling me...

I bought a new laptop recently. This isn’t my first PC upgrade. I think I’m on my 9th laptop at this stage. It’s always been a dreadful chore, exporting, packaging,

We’re being told to “embrace knowledge & risk”

We’re being told to “embrace knowledge & risk”

Prof. Martin Curley has got together with some other eminent economists and has written a book called “Knowledge-Driven Entrepreneurship – The Key to Social and Economic Transformation”. The core argument

Result! I’ve got DivX working on Moblin 2.1

Barky posted an easy to follow set of instructions as a comment on moblin.org. It’s bound to get lost as the old comments get purged so I’ve reproduced it below

A pleasant surprise from Adobe

I bought Macromedia Homesite 5.5 from Macromedia’s web store back in 2005, just after Adobe bought Macromedia. They’ve long since killed off Homesite but it’s never been beaten in my