Tag: CentOS
Getting Started with SystemTap
If programming is an art, then debugging is even more so. To be a good programmer, one must master debugging. We have seen some...
Cyber Attacks Explained: Packet Spoofing
Last month, we started this series to cover the important cyber attacks that impact critical IT infrastructure in organisations. The first was the denial-of-service...
Supercharge Your Self-Hosted WordPress Blog with Nginx & FastCGI
If you are running WordPress on a VPS, you've got all the power in the world to run the site exactly the way you...
GNU Binutils: A Collection of Binary Tools
With years of experience as a systems programming engineer, I've realised that to be a great artist of programming, you must understand the basics...
Kerala State Electricity Board Saves a Whopping Rs 8 Crore, Using...
Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) switched to open source solutions only a few years back, and now, not only manages the accounting and billing...
The Nagios Setup Explained
In this article, we shall discuss Nagios, an open source software that is deployed in most data centres to monitor various system and network...
Quick Setup Guide to Network Monitoring using Zenoss Core
Today's businesses demand 24x7 uptime of IT infrastructure. To meet this need, a number of technologies are used, which include failover, clustering, redundant devices...
DeleGate — A Multi-platform, Multipurpose Proxy Server
A proxy server works as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. There are various types of proxy servers. In...
Puppet Data Centre Automation Solution, Part 3: Resource Types & Example...
The previous article in this series focused on creating users, groups and files (based on home directories). Let's now look at the various types...
Getting Started with RTLinux
This article deals with installing RTLinux, and creating a sample real-time module that can be loaded in it.
An operating system is responsible for managing,...
