Dibbler's Net

Amazon.com now has this book in stock and available (finally they have the cover image). Please use the link to the right if you would like to order

I am one of the co-author’s of this book and it is my first published item. Quite a learning process for me but something that I would like to do again. Overall working with the author team and with Syngress was a real pleasure and a true team effort.

Look inside for many of my well kept Nagios secrets and some of my insight on how a NOC really does work. If your interested my company provides contract consulting.

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Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring: Including Plug-Ins and Hardware Devices by Max Schubert, Derrick Bennett, Jonathan Gines, Andrew Hay, John Strand

We have been working with the publisher regarding the book being published before the website was updated. At this time there is a delay as Syngress’s website was recently stopped as their parent company Elsevier http://www.elsevierdirect.com/index.jsp is centralizing the websites.

Because of this the companion website and vmware image have not been placed online yet. This is something we are very concerned about and we are pushing the publisher as hard as we can to try and get this resolved.

*Update*
Until Syngress is able to bring the full companion site online they have given us permission to put the source files online. Please visit http://www.elsevierdirect.com/index.jsp is centralizing the websites.  Because of this the companion website and vmware image have not been placed online yet. This is something we are very concerned about and we are pushing the publisher as hard as we can to try and get this resolved.  *Update* Until Syngress is able to bring the full companion site online they have given us permission to put the source files online. Please visit http://www.semintelligent.com/nagios/book/ for all the source files seen in the book.  D~ ” title=“http://www.nagios3book.com/”>http://www.nagios3book.com/ for all the source files seen in the book.

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Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

Over the weekend I was traveling and had some time. Wandered into the local book store in the airport and found a book by Both Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle called “Oath of Fealty”. I have always been a fan of both authors and have met them several times when I was much younger and attended sci-fi conventions. Looking at the back the paragraph summary interested me. More interesting was a Chicago Sun-Times quote about how the books demands being read in one sitting.

Well I started the book on the flight back even skipping some prime podcast watching. Then I found I couldn’t stop reading the book. The story is incredible and captivating keeping me up till very late hours just trying to finish one more chapter before setting the book down. While the book covers interesting ideas about society and a possible near future of single building cities, it also does a great job of telling a good story. It’s been a while since I read either of these two authors and this was a great book that any fan of more realistic Sci-Fi would really enjoy.

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Okay so found this on the Dvorak blog. All I can say is wow, a theme song can make a big difference in a show. Makes you wonder what the show would have been like or how long it would have lasted if they kept to the pilot setup. :D

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