One thing that bugs the hell out of me is when a seemingly simple task isn’t so, especially on the Mac. For example, I use VMWare Fusion on my Mac and I can’t add a raw partition or disk to any of my VMs. So, for example I can’t plug up a USB hard drive to my Mac with a partition formatted with Reiser-FS and directly mount that partition in a virtual machine. But, through some googling around and some trial and error I figured out how to do it. This tutorial isn’t for the faint of heart, but if you’re comfortable with a terminal in OS-X you’ll be fine. [...]

I tend to build RPMs, packages and/or spec files for recent versions of various linux packages for my preferred operating systems (CentOS, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and OS-X). The first package inside is Zabbix 1.8 packaged for CentOS 5, but the RPMs should work on any RHEL-compatible linux.
My repository can be found at http://repo.andrewfarley.com
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Recently Zabbix, a server monitoring utility released version 1.8 with a brand spanking new API! This means that finally, the world can begin to write software the digests the Zabbix API to pull data into various other portals, services, and platforms. My first foray into embedding Zabbix into various other portals required me to first start with a simple class to access Zabbix. And… ::drum roll please:: here it is! This is a fully open-sourced project of mine. [...]