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Nagios Plugins for Linux v25 (Gentoo Release) The version 25 of the Nagios Plugins for Linux is available for download. The Nagios Plugins for Linux is a free and open source (license) set of plugins for monitoring the major system parameters of the Linux servers. The complete source code is available at GitHub (nagios-plugins-linux-25.tar.xz). You can find…
In this blog, we will provide a procedure for installing an all-in-one OpenStack Newton Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) on Linux (Fedora 27) and KVM hypervisor. We will make use of the image created by Matt Dorn for the really great book "Preparing for the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam" published by Packt Publishing in august 2017.…
In the near future when Artificial Intelligence (Intelligence displayed by machines) will start to spread out and autonomously make important decisions that will impact our daily lives, the issue of its accountability under the law will raise. AI systems are expected to justify their decisions without revealing all their internal secrets, to protect the commercial…
Continue reading ➞ AI Can Be Made Legally Accountable for Its Decisions
I'm delighted to announce the immediate, free availability of the version 22 of the the Nagios Plugins for Linux. The Nagios Plugins for Linux is a free and open source (license) set of plugins for monitoring the major system parameters of the Linux servers. As usual the complete source code is available at GitHub (nagios-plugins-linux-22.tar.xz). You can…
The Nagios Plugins for Linux version 21 is now available. The source is available at GitHub: nagios-plugins-linux-21.tar.xz You can find documentation on https://github.com/madrisan/nagios-plugins-linux What's new in this release Enhancements check_paging - the command-line option --swapping-only has been added for displaying only the swap reads and writes. The help message has been updated and improved by…
The SDB (Simple Data Base) interface is designed to store and retrieve data that, unlike pillars and grains, is not necessarily minion-specific. It is a generic database interface for SaltStack. We will show how we can make use of SDB for storing and retrieving passwords. SDB Configuration The SDB interface requires a profile to be…
SaltStack (or Salt, for short) is a Python-based open-source configuration management software and remote execution engine. It supports the "Infrastructure as Code" approach (the process of managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools) to deployment and cloud management. I'll describe in this short…
A Python module for writing Xymon external scripts I'm very happy to announce the immediate availability of PyXymon, release 3. PyXymon is a simple helper Python module that can help you write Xymon external scripts in Python. PyXymon provides some methods for rendering the messages you want to display in the Xymon web page and for…
Another pretty good step forward in Deep Neural Networks from DeepMind. They took inspiration from neurosciences-based theories about the consolidation of previously acquired skills and memories in mammalian and human brains: connections between neurons are less likely to be overwritten if they have been important in previously learnt tasks. This mechanism is known as "synaptic consolidation". The…
Continue reading ➞ Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks
Bruce Schneier on New Security Threats from the Internet of Things An article that's worth reading. The main point, that seems to me the original part of the speech, is the following equality: IoT (Internet of Things) == world-size distributed robot across the Internet. «Through the sensors, we're giving the Internet eyes and ears. Through…
