Sony Ericsson’s Google phone demo shown in this video on Gizmodo is possibly the slickest UI I have seen yet on a mobile phone, possibly even more slick than the big-daddy of them all, the iPhone.
Google working on Chrome based OS
It’s been long rumored that Google were working on an OS, and maybe the launch of the Google phones through people of the scent slightly. But it was true, Google announced last night they are building a lightweight OS based on their Linux and their Chrome browser as the basis, supported by the raft of other apps/technologies they have been slowly rolling out.
The OS will be targeted to netbook type devices, and will run the majority of apps from the cloud, like Google Docs etc, rather than on the machine itself, but with Google Gears providing offline capability they’ve got their bases covered.
Funny how Microsoft has tried this approach twice and never managed to make it stick – first with the Hailstorm initiative, hosting apps and data online, and secondly with their half-hearted live.com attempt that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere right now.
More details here.
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Setting up Nagios system monitoring on Ubuntu8.1 server
Latest package is nagios3 – to install:
<code>sudo apt-get install nagios3
A good article on setup and config is here.
To restart the Nagios server after making config changes: sudo /etc/init.d/nagios3 restart
Resolving CGI auth issues
Part of the install instructions above told me to create a user ‘nagios’, but the default config is setup to allow ‘nagiosadmin’ access to monitor services. Accessing the wepages you get this:
<code>"It appears as though you do not have permission to view information for any of the hosts you requested... If you believe this is an error, check the HTTP server authentication requirements for accessing this CGI and check the authorization options in your CGI configuration file."</code>
To fix this, edit /etc/nagios3/cgi.cfg, and replace ‘nagiosadmin’ everywhere with ‘nagios’ (assuming the user you created was called ‘nagios’)