Since I needed a good Javascript library to ease some of the daily Javascript stuff one has to fight with I decided to start with jQuery.

I used mootools already in another project, but the discussion with my co-workers lead us to jQuery finally.

I haven't used it in depth so far, but at a first glance it looks quite usable to me and the number of availible extensions is quite huge. However you have to have an in depth look about the age of the plugin as usual.

I already wrote about my Meizu M6 and Rhythmbox and how to get them working together. This time HAL, the hardware abtraction layer in recent Linux systems is involved.

As I already explained I use the eAccelerator packages from Andrew McMillan.

Unfortunately he didn't compile new packages for Debian Lenny. Therefore I took his work as starting point and compiled the packages for the latest Lenny updates for the amd64. The i386 packages will follow soon.

You can find the packages at my repository or add it to your sources.list

On Sourceforge the nomination for the "Community Choice Award" has begun and I'd like to ask you to support us nominating Zero RRD Framework for the categories "Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins" and "Best Project for the Enterprise".

Click on the image below to do the actual nomination and help us to spread the word.

If you're running Nagios as you monitoring and alerting software and Zero RRD at the same time you surely would like to integrate them.

Holger wrote some words on Zero in Nagios.

I work on the front-end part of Zero RRD framework again. It was a very basic interface and the usability wasn't, well isn't that good.

The new stuff is mostly JavaScript and I needed to check if a variable is an array or not. I found the snippet at bram.us, but it isn't fully working for me.

I updated my pretty old Eclipse Europa installation to Ganymede today. OK, the restart you have to do quite often were really annoying, but besides that everything worked quite well.

Found at Ryan Cartwright's column at FSM.

As I already told you I wanted to give Conkeror a try and I kept my promise.

I downloaded the Ubuntu Jaunty packages and built them for my box running Intrepid. This ran quite smooth and even the installation went flawlessly.

A couple of days ago Holger released a zerod appliance for Virtualbox and VMWare which you can download easily.

After downloading and unpacking you find a helpful readme file explaining how to run the appliance. The zerod and zero-agent are already installed and preconfigured, so that you can start looking at it straight away.