Woe is me

Upgrading with yum

To upgrade with yum

1	Login to the op5 Monitor server via ssh as the root user.

2	Check what packages that is pending for upgrade by execute: yum check-update

3	If you want to apply the upgraded packages execute: yum update

These are instructions from a commercial product we have. They provide repositories for the software to provide easier upgrade.

As a note this is definitely not the way to do it. This will update your entire system. I queried how to do this, and they effectively didn't know. The only method they have is to install the new version over the top. Wicked.

Commercial vs Opensource Contd...

My fight with the commercialised Nagios continues.

Though they've managed to fix a number of bugs, they seem quite capable of introducing more. Documentation is still poor (one of the support techs actually having to write an upgrade guide for me specifically).

In addition they have committed a most foul heinous crime: changing the architecture mid version.

version x.2 to x.3 totally changes the distribution/load balancing model. In fact in x.2 there was no such thing as load-balancing. beforehand. To me this is a major change in the system, and requires work to accommodate, and should only be done as a new version.

I can see how this is happening, RAD + opensource mentality means, fix the bugs add new features, release it into the wild. Not really what I would expect from a commercial product though. I need stability and bug fixes. New features are great, but I'd prefer to take those as a separate option

Android woes

I've now had my android phone for a while now, and I think it's top. I've had the odd crash, but mainly when I've tried to work past it's capabilities. The device I have is an entry model, and sometimes I expect the response I get from my laptop.

Smartphones are probably the future. However, one thing to note: Smartphones are not really phones. They're handheld computers with voice capability, treat them as such.

As to Android itself, it's great. Plenty of apps both free and commercial, all pretty much of high quality. I keep meaning to produce a few myself.