Archive for the 'apps' Category

Munin - Awesome server monitoring software

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

I’ve used MRTG in the past. It’s cool, but it’s hell to configure. I just need something simple for a single server that just works.
Munin rules.. especially if you’re on Ubuntu/Debian. It’s good for monitoring multiple servers or just one. Here’s a demo.
Install is pretty much:
sudo apt-get install munin munin-node
Pretty much [...]

WinTabber - Create tabbed windows for anything

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

This is incredible. There are so many apps that you need tabs for. WinTabber will let you create them for any that you want. On top of that it has opacity settings and such. Check out the demo.
I wanted tabbed putty windows. Now I have them!

Plesk, Samba, Linux.. Hamachi

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

I’ve always wanted to be able to share files easily between my server and my workstations at home.. FTP/SFTP is fine, but it would be nice to be able to just use windows explorer and make things work just like that.. unfortunately I’ve had a billion and one problems trying to do so and I [...]


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