The most enjoyable part of my job at AppDynamics is to witness and evangelize customer success. What’s slightly strange is that for this to happen, an application has to slow down or crash. It’s a bittersweet feeling when End Users, Operations, Developers and many Businesse...

A heavy book! What would you rather carry on your back — textbooks or lighter than air apps and data? When I went to school (six miles each way in the snow and rain, LOL), every year the books got heavier. Now, students can look forward to easy trips home with courses online — br...

This time it comes from prolific plug-in makers collectd – a daemon that collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files. collectd also has over 90 plugins which range from standard cases to ...

When you’re thinking about deploying an application it would be good to remember Yoda’s words regarding the Sith: Always two there are, a master and an apprentice.

ALWAYS TWO THERE ARE

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For one thing XP is extremely widespread and your clients and/or users probably have it installed on theirs PCs. In fact, most PCs come with XP pre-installed. And makers of peripheral devices and high-speed Internet providers adapt their products and services to work with XP. In most c...

Linux' popularity makes it an attractive target for application developers, but it's not always easy to write software that runs without modification on a wide variety of distributions. Both open source and commercial developers often find that their resources are not sufficient to sup...

It's been several years since information appliances came and went. Devices like 3Com's Audrey and the Netpliance I-Opener were simplified computers, designed for Internet access.

Rekall is a multiplatform, database-centric RAD (Rapid Application Development) IDE (Integrated Development Environment), similar in intention to Microsoft Access or Paradox. Rekall uses the popular Python scripting language to script objects, instead of something like AccessBasic. It ...

MCNC is a nonprofit organization located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. It was founded by the state General Assembly in 1980 to drive technology-based economic development in North Carolina by partnering with universities, businesses, and government.

If you want to maximize the powerful capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora Linux, you'll want to check out Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora Edition: The Complete Reference, by Richard Petersen and Ibrahim Haddad. In this Q&A, Kevin Bedell asks these experts a few questions a...

So you know your Beatles from your Beach Boys, do you? And Elvis from Elvis Costello? Do you pontificate on the fine differences between Bebop and Hard Bop? Tired of DJs that don't know anything about the music they are playing and who never play the songs you want to hear?

I am one of those people that just love to get their hands on new operating systems, distributions of operating systems, anything about operating systems just simply fascinates me. . . . Out of all the programs, applications, gadgets, and peripherals that abound for computers, operatin...

Welcome to the Admin Corner - covering a different aspect of Linux System Administration every month. Whether you use Linux on your home network or at work, at some point you'll need to do something to administer your machine . . . even if you use Linux at work and have a system admini...

I called my local Staples Store and asked when they were expecting delivery of the New Red Hat Linux 7.3. I was put on hold, as usual, and waited a minute. When a sales representative came on line, I repeated the question, and was placed back on hold. Again, about another minute. Don't...

Have you ever received offers by mail, e-mail, or phone to the point you just wanted to scream? I have. It got to the point where no matter what I received I would set it aside for later. (Later being the next day or the next Millennium). I appreciated receiving all the CDs and product...

Real Linux geeks do everything from the command line. Run programs, manage files, administer networks-all that fun stuff. We don't need no stinkin' mouse clicks.

When 'LinDows' first appeared I had signed up for the mailing notifications. I kept hearing and reading about all the great things it would do. A Linux operating system with the ability to run Windows programs. - in my mind this was taking the best of both worlds and merging them. But ...

In a previous article I wrote entitled: 'Trial & Error: Mandrake Installation' I described the various events I encountered during my attempt to load Mandrake Linux 8.1 on my Main Box, which had Windows 2000 Professional loaded previously. Everything was fine with the exception of Mand...

In a land far, far away distant sounds of electrodes danced through the air. Echoes of powerful bolts of lightening cracked through the voidless vacuum of nothingness. Thundering fingers plunged against the keyboards of desperation; seeking, wanting, desiring the fastest mainway to the...

How many of us sit down with a steaming cup of coffee and a smile on our face ready to tackle the next feature or download for our computer that will, as they say; 'Make things easier?'. I can't count how many times this has happened to me.

If you're still using Windows on your desktop, it's pretty likely that you also gather your e-mail with Microsoft Outlook. Perhaps you also let Outlook control your life, with appointments, to-do lists and the other doo-dads Outlook comes with. You may not like everything about it, but...