It Works On Linux

System administration, automation, and monitoring

November 6, 2007

Trending monitoring information with Cacti

Cacti is a monitoring tool that creates historical graphs of network and server metrics such as bandwidth utilization or load average. While utilities such as MRTG have been doing this for decades, I’ve found that Cacti really sets itself apart from the pack with it’s template based administration that can make it easy
Quick installation […]

October 27, 2007

New Catalyst drivers from ATI

It looks like there is reason to hope that AMD is serious about improving Linux support for ATI video drivers. The just released Catalyst drivers include the some of the advanced tools and options that you’ve all grown to expect from that -other- video company (including AIGLX support). Unfortunately, they’re not planning to […]

October 6, 2007

Security Awareness: It works on Linux (too)

While it is common knowledge that the vast majority of compromised computer systems in the world run windows, this article discussing details of an anti-phishing investigation done by eBay shed interesting light on the importance of compromised Linux machines.
What eBay discovered was that a large portion of the web servers running phishing sites turned out […]

September 30, 2007

Compiz-Fusion to simplify configuration (finally)

In case you haven’t seen last week’s Compiz-Fusion Community News update, there was a new alternative to the CCSM (CompizConfig Settings Manager) that they’re calling Simple-CCSM. This has the potential to solve 50% of my current complaints about Compiz-Fusion.
Don’t get me wrong, I too think Compiz-Fusion is one of the greatest things to happen to […]