The SAGE-AU Victorian regional chapter will hold it’s third annual IT Symposium on April 28th, 2006 at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Melbourne. This one day symposium, covering topics of interest to systems administrators, is sponsored by TRT with lucky door prizes from Apple, TAS, and Payam for those who register before the [...]
linux.conf.au is the annual Australian Linux technical conference, and is one of the largest gatherings of users and developers of Free and Open Source Software in the Southern Hemisphere.
It is an opportunity for developers and groups to present their ideas amongst peers, and for the Free Software and Open Source communities to gather in general.
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A friend of mine asked me to troubleshoot a problem he was having with authenticating to an SSH server. Like most problems, the answer could be found buried in logs, or in this case, debug output. For those who use SSH and don’t know about -v, it time you learnt about this wonderful switch. In [...]
Thanks to all that attended my presentation on Monitoring with Nagios at the OSDC 2005 conference. You can download the slides from “Monitoring Anything and Everything with Nagios” here.
I’ve also just uploaded my first pre-release copy of a new free eBook called “The Nagios Book”. The book walks through setting up a Nagios server from [...]
There are now devices (or at least more of them) that provide native OS X drivers, so this document is now slightly redundant. See http://keyspan.com:16080/products/usa19hs/ for example.
After purchasing the Targus USB to Serial (PA088) Adapter, I found that the driver included was for Windows only. I needed this to work under OS X 10.4. [...]
The Open Source Developers’ Conference (OSDC) is back! OSDC will showcase over 160 delegates, including lots of local talent along with speakers from interstate and overseas.
The conference will be held on Monday, December the 5th to Wednesday December the 7th, 2005 at Monash University’s Caulfield campus. If you can make it, I highly recommend attending. [...]
BSD Hacks
As an O’Reilly “Hacks” fan, I got myself a copy of BSD Hacks hoping to learn only a few tips and tricks. If that was the case it would have been worth it, however I greatly underestimated this title. Not only did I learn the tips and tricks one would expect from a “Hacks” [...]
I recently wrote an article for Macromedia’s The Edge newsletter briefly summarising the benefit of using alternative web browsers, in particular Firefox.
Far from a complete look at the importance of web standards, it will hopefully expose many web designers and developers to the many resources that the Internet has to offer. The article should also [...]
I’ve just started taking bookings for a 1 day training course on the topic of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). I decided to offer this after several calls from people asking if I’d heard of anything in Melbourne I could recommend. The course will mainly cover SEO and the technologies used by various search engines, however [...]
If the Windows XP Bootloader gets erased or corrupted, you can repair it without a complete reinstall. Below describes how to do this. More useful Windows tips can be found at WindowsInternals.com.
Disclaimer: Attempt this at your own risk, I assume no responsibility for any data lost.
Boot from the Windows XP CDROM in to the “Recovery” [...]
