Yahoo Toolbar is the worst software on the planet….

….even worse than iTunes. A friend of mine is rather sick and will be spending a lot of time in bed over the next while. She knows I’m in the IT business and asked me to get her a laptop so she could keep in touch with family and friends using Skype/MSN/Yahoo Messenger. I installed [...]

Posted at 1pm on 9/13/10 | no comments; | Filed Under: Internet, Software, Technology, Windows | Tagged: , , , , | read on

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 is just too fragile. It’s also nice having monitoring and charting built into one easy to configure web application as opposed to drowning in config [...]

Posted at 3pm on 5/31/10 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Internet, Linux, Software, Technology | read on

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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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