Archive for August, 2007
GroundWork Open Source
Are you afraid of nagios because of the config files? Don’t worry you’re not alone. GroundWork to the resuce! GroundWork is a set of packages that takes the pain out of configuration for nagios. It’s a web based GUI that supports importing existing nagios configs, audo discovery of servers and much more. I hate for [...]
Google WiFi a failed experiment in Mountain View.
When I first moved to down town Mountain View the person at the leasing office spent about 15 minutes trying to convince me that DSL/Cable availability wasn’t an issue because Google was going to provide free internet to all of Mountain View. I tried to explain that WiFi wasn’t good enough because I routinely ssh [...]
tests and mysql-test sub directories
Recently I’ve been making more modifications to the MySQL source. Part of making modifications is testing them. For years I’ve been curious why there are both tests and mysql-test sub directories in the source tarballs. Arjen Lentz tells me that tests is old and that mysql-test is the current testing framework. This makes sense since [...]