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If you have the same problem as we have, that most of your technical documentation has been input into Glasnost but that you want to move to Apache 2 and Glasnost doesn't support it, then you are likely to be looking into a way to convert these Glasnost articles to HTML to insert them in some other tool. This is a work in progress, so although we wanted to be able to do a one or two-parts script that extracts articles from Glasnost, converts them to HTML and inputs them into Drupal 6, we have been unable to do so (so far) because of the inadequacy of the Drupal solution (we looked into module

In this matter, which is rather vague and embraces many concerns, three types of tools are available:

• Services Monitoring Tools (and Outage Notification)
• Usage Graphing Tools
• Network Management Systems

Nagios is of the first kind, Cricket and MRTG are of the second. Both kinds may happily co-exist, and you often need both, if your network is important to you.

Nagios is a powerful network services monitoring tool. It was previously called NetSaint. It features a lot of agents to monitor a lot of service types and report it several ways, like SMS, web interface, e-mail, print, ….

There's some new stuff on the net in terms of code analysis.

This article was first written in January 2004 for 
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/101)

There's about time relatives of mine don't want to change their operating system to Linux because they fear to be lost, but commonly use a lot of softwares under "test periods" to assist them in Windows because there's a natural lack of some of these functionalities that you would want your computer to have. Here is a list that will become longer with time of tools from the Open Source Community that run under Win32 OSes like a road-runner would run just in

As I was looking into reducing the size of a video, I felt upon this wiki page, which proved super-useful:

HOWTO Convert video files

Note: As commented by one reader, xvid is not really divx though, but changing the title and the url of my post 6 months later would just add to the confusion. Sorry about that, I wasn't meaning to confuse anyone, and I thought in good fait it was the same (the results are the same for me though: very high volume loss for very little quality loss).

[digg=http://digg.com/programming/Generate_a_video_activity_report_of_your_OSS_project_code] There's a new cool tool around, in the likes of the ohloh website and the cia project, that lets one view the code activity of an open-source project (or any development project that uses SVN or a version control system, really) in video. The tool is called code_swarm, is available under the

It might seem kind of weird to mention it, but I had somewhat of a big scare when Secunia sent us an e-mail entitled "Security Patches in Dokeos 1.8.5". If my fears had been right, it would have meant that we would have needed to re-package 1.8.5 only two days after the official release.

[digg=http://digg.com/tech_news/Dokeos_1_8_5_released] Dokeos 1.8.5 has been released, after a long 8 months development! Check it out on http://www.dokeos.com/download.php There's a lot to say, so I won't comment about the release itself in this post. You can find out more about this release and what it brings you on the official website, by following the link on the right panel. We are sorry to have kept you waiting for so long for a new version, but we're sure you'll understand why when using it!