Nagios: Enable external commands
Here we are again, back witho ur old friend Nagios.
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Record Internet Radio Streams With Stream Harvester
Stream Harvester is a new program for Microsoft Windows devices to record Internet radio streams effortlessly to the local system.
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Google Chrome Bookmarks Manager
Google Chrome, like any other web browser, offers an option to save websites as bookmarks to open them again at a later point in time.
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Why You Should Use Userscripts And Not Extensions When Possible
If you want to add functionality to your web browser, you have the option to install extensions - or add-ons and plugins as some browsers call them - or userscr
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Configure alerts for email and contact groups in Nagios
If you have been following my latest entries, you know I have been covering the Nagios monitoring system (see my articles "Quickly install Nagios on Ubuntu", "E
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Digital Camera Photo Downloader
Camera Downloader is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices to transfer photos from cameras to the PC.
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Thunderbird Email Filtering Extension Quick Filter
Thunderbird 3 introduced several major changes to the popular email client including the option to perform global email searches, a feature that Thunderbird 2 d
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Miro Video Converter
The developers of the video player Miro have created a new software program that enables you to convert videos.
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Maxthon 3 Alpha Switches To Webkit
Maxthon is a web browser that not many Internet users know about or mention when they are asked which web browsers they know.
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Manage Google Chrome Sessions With Session Buddy
We took a look at a basic Google Chrome session manager back in January which allows you to save Chrome sessions, that is information about the open websites in
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Facebook Friends Checker
Keeping track of all your Facebook friends can be a problem if you have a lot of them.
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DTP in Linux with Pagestream
Remember Amiga? Well, if you're old enough to remember that platform, then you might remember the Pagestream desktop publishing system.
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Windows Startup Selector
Startup Selector is a free program for Microsoft Windows that allows you to load and save information about programs that run on system start.
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Disk Wipe Software Prevent Restore
Prevent Restore is a program for Microsoft Windows devices that provides you with the means to delete files permanently so that they cannot be restored anymore.
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Speed Up Your Windows Workflow with 7Plus
7Plus is an Open Source software for the Windows 7 operating system that adds many features to the system to speed up your workflow or improve certain features
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A few Ubuntu "power user" tips
I thought I would start off the month with a collection of "power user" tips I have collected over the years.
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Email Sender Verification for Thunderbird
Phishing emails have become quite common in past years and it has become increasingly important to verify the sender - or origin - of emails that are received.
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Avira Antivir Ads Remover
Update: The most recent versions of Avira don't display the popup advertisement anymore.
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Gimp for the kids: Debian Junior Art
If you've ever tried your hand at The GIMP, you know that, at first, The GIMP can be a bit challenging to learn.
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Mozilla Plugs The CSS History Leak
All web browsers are currently vulnerable to a CSS history leak which enables attackers to test if a particular site was visited by a user in the browser used t
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Download Websites With FireMirror
FireMirror is a Firefox add-on that adds functionality to the web browser to download entire websites to the local hard drive.
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Java JRE 6 Update 19 Security Update
Update: The article describes an old Java vulnerability.
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Internet Explorer Patch Released: Update Now
Microsoft has released an out-of-band security patch for Internet Explorer which fixes a security vulnerability that is actively exploited on the Internet.
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Google Integrates Adobe Flash Into Chrome
One of the first things that many users do after installing a web browser is to install Adobe Flash as it is needed to display many websites and most of the hos
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Fix Windows 7 Desktop Shortcuts Disappearing
If you run Windows 7 you may have noticed that desktop shortcuts disappear with no apparent reason whatsoever.
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Post-install configurations for osTicket
Recently I showed you how to get the open source osTicket up and running (see my article "Install osTicket for a free - open source - help desk tool").
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Why You Should Install Perspectives For Firefox Right Now
Maybe you have already read the news that it is possible to subvert SSL which encrypts the connection to sites supporting it.
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Extension.Fm Play Music Comfortably In Google Chrome
Update: The browser extension is no longer available.
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Install osTicket for a free (open source) help desk tool
The consulting firm I work for has tasked me with finding a good help desk system for us to use.
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Streamarmor Scans Your PC For Alternate Data Streams
Alternate data streams (ADS) are a feature of Microsoft's Windows NTFS file system that can be used to add data to existing files, for instance text to a text f
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Google Chrome: Disable Tab Previews In Windows 7
One of the recent additions to the Windows version of the Google Chrome web browser was support for the Windows 7 taskbar to show preview thumbnails of all open
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Configure hostgroups for Nagios
If you've been following my Nagios articles here on Ghacks (see "Easily extend Nagios' functionality" and "Quickly install Nagios on Ubuntu" for more informatio
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AquaSnap Brings Windows 7 Features To XP And Vista
AquaSnap is a free program for Microsoft Windows XP and Vista devices that brings some Windows 7 Aero functionality to those operating systems.
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Turn Off Solve PC Issues Notifications In Windows 7
If you run Microsoft's latest operating system Windows 7, you probably have noticed a white flag in the system tray that notifies about PC issues that the opera
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File Server OneHTTPD
OneHTTPD is a tiny file server for Windows and Linux devices that allows remote users to connect to a local directory over the Internet.
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NoVirusThanks Is A Virus Total Alternative
NoVirusThanks is a free service similar to VirusTotal that allows you to upload files to the service to have them scanned against multiple antivirus engines.
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Easily extend Nagios' functionality
My last article described how to "Quickly install Nagios on Ubunut".
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USB Flash Drive Guardian
USB Guardian is a free security program for the Windows operating system that can improve a system's protection against threats that use removable devices as an
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Google Chrome 5 Beta
Google Chrome 5's development has reached a new milestone with the release of Google Chrome 5 Beta for Windows operating systems today.
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RSS Feed To PDF Newspaper
Your Own News Maker is a free program for Windows and Linux that turns RSS news feed article into PDF or FB2 documents for offline reading.
