If you are looking for an easy to install, configure, and use systems monitor, look no further. The Munin is a network/systems monitor that presents all its data is easy to read graphs. Munin is setup as a server/client (or node) which makes this system very flexible. Munin also offers an extensive plugins library that [...]

Tags: Network Monitoring, system monitoring, ubuntu, web monitoring
Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Basic, software

If you are one of those that depends upon a scanner for your daily work, and you want to handle this task using the Linux operating system, you are in luck. In the past, Linux has had some serious issues with scanning tools. When USB scanners replaced the old parallel port scanners it seemed nothing [...]

Tags: Espon, flatbed scanners, linux scanning, scanning, usb scanners
Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

The Xbox Media Center arrived in 2004 and became popular so quickly that it became clear more ports would be needed. So the XBMC team allowed this tool to evolve into a cross platform media center that would run on just about anything you can think of.  But, of course, the purpose of this article [...]

Tags: media center, multimedia, video playback
Categories: Hardware, Linux, Music and Video, Tutorials Advanced, software

I have longed for an ebook reader for some time, but the most popular one – the Amazon Kindle – has long been reserved solely for the US market. Whilst it has many competitors, like the Sony Reader, I had to wonder about how many titles were available for such platforms. I used to use [...]

Tags: 3g, amazon, amazon kindle, e ink, ebook, ebook reader, kindle, mobile internet
Categories: Amazon, Hardware

Recently I finally managed to get rid of my iPhone for a much more Linux-geek friendly mobile – the HTC Hero. One of my issues with the iPhone was that, in order to do ANY syncing, you had to use iTunes, which I really didn’t like. And although the HTC Hero has yet to be [...]

Tags: android, Banshee, HTC Hero, music management software
Categories: Google, Google Android, Hardware, Linux, Mobiles, Music and Video, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Apple has finally launched the new Macs, and as expected, the world is going crazy over comparisons and everything. Apple’s Phil Schiller has been vocal about Microsoft’s Windows 7 not having any negative effects on Apple’s sales whatsoever. In fact, he said that it would actually drive people towards Apple with the complicated upgrading procedure. [...]

Tags: apple, mac mini, macbook white, magic mouse, quad core imac
Categories: Apple, Gadgets, Hardware, Mac, Misc, Notebooks

How many times have you had networking issues and not known exactly where to start? With Linux there are so many tools you can choose from. Add to that the choice between console and GUI and you have the making for a rather confusing start. Most new Linux users (and many of those who have [...]

Tags: finger, lookup, netstat, ping, port scan, traceroute, whois
Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Basic, software, troubleshooting