My delicious links for January 24th from 14:07 to 14:07:

• How to Make a Heatmap – a Quick and Easy Solution – In case you don't know what a heatmap is, it's basically a table that has colors in place of numbers. Colors correspond to the level of the measurement.

My delicious links for January 18th from 09:44 to 09:44:

• Papersnake.de – Papier selbst drucken –

My delicious links for January 17th from 14:46 to 17:22:

• check_mk – Mathias Kettner – Check_mk adopts a new a approach for collecting data from operating systems and network components. It obsoletes NRPE, check_by_ssh, NSClient and check_snmp. It has many benefits, the most important of which are:

  Significant reduction of CPU usage on the Nagios host.
  Automatic inventory of items to be checked on hosts.
  The larger your Nagios installation is, the more important get these points. In fact check_mk enables you to implement a monitoring environment exceeding 20.000 checks/min on the first hand.

• From the Mule’s Mouth » Blog Archive » Tomcat Restarts: Is it a Big Deal? – We know that Apache Tomcat is a proven, rock-solid application server; however, as many have found out, restarting a Tomcat instance is not an exact science. Sometimes a shutdown will end up leaving the process running and holding onto the ports, causing subsequent starts to fail.

My delicious links for January 16th from 13:13 to 13:13:

• Operation “Aurora” Hit Google, Others – The world has changed. Everyone’s threat model now needs to be adapted to the new reality of these advanced persistent threats. In addition to worrying about Eastern European cybercriminals trying to siphon off credit card databases, you have to focus on protecting all of your core intellectual property, private nonfinancial customer information and anything else of intangible value. 

My delicious links for January 11th from 09:31 to 09:31:

• Why People Don’t Like Video Chatting – Maybe all the stuff we thought we wanted in the future sucks. Flying cars would block our light, food pills would make Gordon Ramsey's screaming even more preposterous, and those moving sidewalks just give me another reason to hate fat people at airports. Far better is to have control over our most valuable commodity: time. Sure, we complain about being busy, but that's pretty great as long as we get to choose when we do things.