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News Travels Fast in Iran on Twitter

I remember when, a regime could wipe out half a country and kill literally thousands of people without the rest of the world even knowing. They could create a media blackout by shutting down the television and newspapers, which the regime usually already owns anyway, and no news would escape the country’s tight lips. Unfortunately (for them), things have changed. [Read more →]

Document Management has a New Name

OURDISK logoWe’ve had an interesting couple of weeks in the complex and tedious world of trademark ownership. We have had to change the name of our newly launched document management software, FileSight. Apparently FileSight is not as original as we thought. Apparently, FileSite is the same as FileSight.

Semantics!

With a looming deadline for some magazine advertising, we were forced to think of a new name … a good one … that is still available … and design a logo … a good one … that doesn’t look like anyone else’s … in two days … bugger. So, we did what any self-respecting business would do – we went to the pub.

Unfortunately, that produced a lot of names like Fileasaurus and DocuMentalCase, but nothing actually useful. Finally, Dan saved the day at the eleventh hour, with OURDISK™. We’ve registered it in every possible way that something can be registered and the logo is a vast improvement on the FileSight artwork. (Sorry Hawk. )

Existing FileSight users will be switched to the new name over the next few weeks. Don’t worry; nothing will change except the name.

And so, without further ado, we smash a bottle of something bubbly on her bow and shove her off down the slipway and back out into the wild blue yonder.

…Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange…
Shakespeare

Check out www.ourdisk.com for more info.

Installing Zabbix Agent (1.6.4) on Free BSD 7.1

Quick Introduction

This article is a HOWTO  to ease the pain of setting up a Zabbix Agent on Free BSD (7.1) Server.  Zabbix is a monitoring platform that has a server, proxy  and agent architecture. I really don’t want to get into an explanation of what Zabbix is or whether you should use it. Hopefully you should have already discovered its usefulness and just need to do a little installation. That said, you can read about it on their website http://www.zabbix.com.

This HOWTO covers the installation of the Zabbix Agent from source. Please note: I am keeping it fairly general so I am not discussing all the options that you can shove in the Zabbix Agent Config File. Zabbix do that pretty well themselves in their quick starts and configuration guides

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