Category Archives: Open source

HTTPS in RHEL and PHP in less than 5 minutes !

Enabling HTTPS will give your application an added layer of security. The SSL layer will encrypt all communication that happens between the customer’s browser and your application. In this article, I am not describing things in detail about each security … Continue reading

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Weekend Project with OpenSource

Here’s another story about how open source helped me. I have a USB disk at home where I store all my photos, videos, movies, songs etc.  The disk is connected to a desktop computer at home and shared across the … Continue reading

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Firefox 4 Released

Firefox 4 is now available for download. Click here to see what’s new. I installed it on my laptop. It has improved a lot. Specially the way tabs are organized and the visual layout overall has been totally streamlined. It … Continue reading

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Libre Office – Free Yourself.

The Document Foundation is an independent self-governing meritocratic Foundation, created by leading members of the OpenOffice.org Community. After Oracle’s takeover of Sun, there has been a lot of discussion going on as to what would be the future of the … Continue reading

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SNMP Monitoring using Nagios

Nagios is very good and commonly used monitoring tool for systems and network equipments. It can monitor and report availability statistics as well as provide alerts in case of host or service incidents. I am going to discuss on how … Continue reading

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