What do you do when your time capsule dies… well… I ripped mine open, replaced the power supply, made the fan always run, and upgraded the HDD to 2TB! :) Click through to the article for the full details and gory screenshots.

I just updated the CentOS RPMs and spec file in my repository for Zabbix 1.8. This is a minor version bump to 1.8.1 of Zabbix. See their changelog for changes to Zabbix. Also, I added some new features based on requests from users…

IPMI Support
Jabber support
NOTE (corrected): SSH did not make it into [...]

So, I tend to do a lot of lower-level stuff on OS-X such as compiling my own PostgreSQL server for development and testing purposes.  One of the things that tends to interrupt the process of actually trying to run postgres is that it cannot change to the postgres user and it cannot run it as [...]

Thanks to your feedback, and a patch (thanks Tom) I just updated the CentOS RPMs and spec file in my repository for Zabbix 1.8. Rev. 5 of the Zabbix RPMs adds…

Zabbix-Proxy RPM
LibCURL support (web scenarios work now)
Fixed x86_64 repo (was missing repodata)
Package upgrade issue (thanks Tom for catching this)
Fixed some file permissions (thanks ericgearhart)
Added [...]

A popular method of communicating to fellow team members that you committed data to a subversion repository is to send an automatic email out to all users of that repository. I developed a simple two-script method that is extensible and easy to implement [...]