I’m a big fan of the Nagios network monitoring system and rely on it to tell me if something goes wrong with the systems for which I am responsible. I have made a large investment in time configuring Nagios to monitor exactly what I am interested in, and this effort would be wasted if Nagios detected a problem, but failed to communicate that problem to me.
Introducing Linux Journal's penguin gallery contest. That's right -- penguins. Real, virtual, 2D, 3D, with fish, without fish, etc., etc. Submit your penguin photo or artwork and be entered to win some pretty cool LJ goodies.
I'm always on the lookout for original projects, and this particular application really took me by surprise. According to its Web site, “Flinks is a text-mode flashing word Web browser. It is intended for speed reading and/or skimming Web pages and text.”
When grep and sed aren't enough, gawk may provide
the extra horsepower that you need.
The following tip contains a sampling of some of the
things one might do with gawk.
Even with all of the high quality software available, sometimes you just have to break down and write a custom application, and usually you don't have a lot of time to devote to it. This is the situation I found myself in when my wife started a new business and needed a simple means of tracking sales leads.
Working on a little script the other day I had the need to determine
if the input to the script was coming from a pipe or from the terminal.
Seems like a simple enough thing to determine but nothing jumped immediately
to mind and a quick internet search didn't help much either.
After a bit of pondering I came up with two solutions: the stat command
and using information from the proc file system.
You may have noticed something different about LinuxJournal.com today.
I am very pleased to share our newly redesigned site with you, and I'd like to tell you a little bit about some of the new features. I hope you'll take the time to register, if you have not already, so that you may take advantage of all of the new features we have added and will continue to add.
Every few weeks, I like to browse the OpenOffice.org Extensions site to see what is available, and what people are using.
New extensions that are both useful and well-designed seem to be getting few and far between. However, if you search patiently, you can still find extensions worth trying.
Some time back I wrote about creating a number of
konsoles automatically using dcop.
Although we were at the time well into the KDE4 era I had
not yet upgraded since there were still things
that weren't quite working with KDE4, most of these have now
been fixed so I've upgraded some of my systems to KDE4,
which means it's time to update the original code to
now use dbus.
I don't usually write book reviews, but this one is special. My friend and colleague Daniel James has written an introduction to the world of media production with Linux, or as the subtitle describes it, "A manual for creative media on a modest budget". I'll put the spoiler right up front: This book is wonderful and is an essential read for all artistically-inclined Linux users. Read on to find out why I think so.
