LastPass Security Incident


I received a mail from the LastPass team Today reporting that parts of its users’ data may have been stolen recently  It really scares me! As many people I know use LastPass to manage their personal password, like Email account, netbank account. There is definitely NO 100% safe place in the cyber world. Just a … Continue reading LastPass Security Incident →

Nagios: Synthetic Transaction


What is synthetic transaction? Simply speaking, it is a way to check the availability of an application across network. By definition, a synthetic transaction continues an automated, self-contained set of user operations that can be excuted against a service in the same way of a real cosumer of the service operates an application. For example, … Continue reading Nagios: Synthetic Transaction →

Unity 2D


I installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my DELL inspiron mini 10 last night. A message poped out saying ‘The hardware does not support Unity’ when the machine rebooted after the installation finished The reason is that the Unity (the new desktop UI adopted by Ubuntu in the latest version) can only run on the supported hardward … Continue reading Unity 2D →

Nagios XI: A restriction


One of the disadvantages of using Nagios XI is that it does not allow you directly modify the configuration file, like /usr/local/nagios/etc/services/*.cfg, /usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts/*.cfg. Well, let me make it more accurate. I should say that you are able to directly modify the configuration files, but your modifications will be overwritten by NagiosQL when you configured something … Continue reading Nagios XI: A restriction →