People, I have a predicament.

There’s a need for OS9 running on Leopard.

I’ve searched for answers and so far I was able to find 3 emulators: SheepShaver, Basilisk, and ViMac.

I’ve tried both SheepShaver and Basilisk. But until now I am not successful. Maybe it’s because of the ROM I used although I took it from an eMac with classic OS. Although, while typing this posting, it crossed my mind that the classic OS might have been 9.2 and based on the capability of SheepShaver, it can only support 9.0.

Anyway, that’s only an idea, not yet a fact.

That’s why I’m using this blog to seek help from those who were successful. If somebody could give me a ROM, I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks everyone!!

Jah!

I’ve been wanting to use Nagios for monitoring services that run in the network.

What services are these?

These are http, https httpd among others.

That’s why I installed Nagios first on a linux box running on Centos 5.3. Unfortunately, I had to reformat that box for something else.

So when I finally had a machine that can handle my needs for multiple virtual machines, I started playing around with more distributions.

One of them is OpenSuse 11.1.

And now, how to install Nagios eh?

Run terminal
type in:
zypper install nagios nagios-www

That’s all!

All you need to do is to check if apache is already installed. If not:
zypper install apache2

Then start nagios:
rcnagios start && insserv nagios

and start apache:
rcapache2 start

lastly, to access nagios via browser, we have to add user and password by:
htpasswd2 -c /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

You should be able to navigate nagios via http://yourhost/nagios

In line to my internet hiatus during weekends, watching several tv series and japanese anime is keeping me busy.

I just finished watching Leverage Season 1.
It’s really fascinating. whoosh!

I’m still waiting for Wednesdays to come for new episodes of Bleach. It’s just that last 3 consecutive episodes are fillers. ugh!

I’m currently watching House MD Season 1. Yeah, I’m a late bloomer on this one. Even on Chuck, hehe.

Anyway, a not so old japanese anime caught my eye. This is ‘Full Metal Alchemist.’

I only saw very little of its new season, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, via Animax but as anyone would want, I’d like to see it from the beginning.

Therefore, Mr Shot of Life, don’t forget the DVDs okay?

For some reason, I really like watching Nat Geo. And recently, I saw one of their episodes on Air Craft Investigation. So even though I was already sleepy, I tried keeping myself awake just for it.

The episode was about de-icing mechanism of the air craft. And the story revolved around the capability of that device that might have caused the death of 64 people, including cabin crew and pilots.

Anyway, I find it cool on how they were able to isolate the problem and how they come up with conclusions. Another is how fast they were able to gather data, really fascinating.

Nothing, just want to share that not everything I do is Linux related. hehe

VBox specs:

RAM 256MB

Disk Space 15GB

Installation

Installation in general is easy. There are already pre-defined options. You just have to choose if you really want them included. And, there’s also an option on how your Sabayon experience would be, like you can choose if you want it plain and simple or hard core linux user cause it’ll be on commandline all the way.

Bootup

It’s good enough. Quick enough for me.

Add/Remove Packages

At first I didn’t notice which one is it because launcher is way beyond what I expected it to be called. Here goes, it’s called Sulfur. Anyway, it quickly loaded available and installed packages.

Bundled Applications

1. Firefox 3

2. Pidgin 2.5.7

3. OpenOffice 3.1

4. Gnome Do

5. Entropy Repository Manager

What I like

I instantly noticed its theme, I like it! I can go nuts over such simple yet brilliant (for me) theme. It’s sophisticated looking if I may say so.

It’s easy to install.

What I don’t like

Having a transparent background for terminal set by default.

Final Words

There are many things that I am yet to discover about Sabayon Linux. This is actually the first time I ever used a Gentoo based Distribution so I’m a little excited. Actually, I’m dying to see if this distro can handle my laptop’s devices. Good thing its installer comes with LiveDVD. Yay!