Starvin’ Marvin

The LUG (Linux User Group) I used to belong is organizing a series of talks about Open Source technologies. The final objective is to aproximate users, developers, professionals, designers, teachers and students making them share experiences related with the open source world.The event will take place in University of Aveiro in 8th of November. The registration is free. Find out more in the official site.

PS: Portuguese spoken event.

I’ve setup a simple and reliable monitoring mechanism on VPS. Basically i’m using:

• Monit:  as stated in the site, monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. So basically I’m using it to monitor (and restart if necessary) the daemons I consider important.
• Munin: well it generates a ton of graphs and stats that allows me to check up how everything is going.

I like these tools, they are simple and nice. So what do you guys use?

First of all, I would like to point out that Benfica did a pretty good in the Champions League, obtaining 0-0 against what I think it is one of the best teams in the world. I’m glad that I went to Estádio da Luz to see the match. Overcoming Barcelona is going to be very difficult, but at least it is still possible. Ah, those who don’t like him, Moretto rules!

News from the open source world: check prism54g project if you own a wireless card based on Conexant chipset. The goal is to write a completly open source firmware in such way that it will be possible to run your wireless station on 100%-free software.

It seems that Apple has sued Apple. The fuss is all about, as you can imagine, the bitten or not bitten apple. Apple Corp, the record label that protects the Beatles music heritage, is sueing Apple Computer for the misusage of the apple trademark in music business. Funny story, check details here.