My last article described how to “Quickly install Nagios on Ubunut“. That article had you up and running with the powerful open source network monitoring tool, but not much more. If you really want to make Nagios useful you have to do a bit of work. Some might see this work as too time consuming [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Software, Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic

Used to be, with GNOME it was simple to have multiple wallpapers configured so that each desktop would have its own wallpaper. But then Compiz came along and monkeyed with that option. But that option isn’t completely gone. You can still set it up, at the cost of desktop icons, with a little bit of [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

I’ve always loved the ease in which multiple desktops are accessible in Ubuntu (and other Linux OS’s as well I presume, I haven’t tried any) and find myself wishing for the same kind of functionality in Windows more and more. I really can’t see Microsoft adding it into Windows itself, not even for Windows 7, [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows