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Configure Twitter alerts from Zenoss

This is a repost of a blog post from the Zenoss blog -- http://community.zenoss.org/blogs/zenossblog/2010/05/25/zenoss-tip-of-th...

This month's tip comes from Zenoss Community member Stacy Uden that shows how to take advantage of the flexibility of Event Commands within Zenoss. Event Commands allow the system to run arbitrary shell commands when events occur that match pre-configured criteria. This allows almost any action to be taken in response to events that occur. Common uses of event commands include:

Iron Man 2 Review

I was a huge fan of the first Iron Man movie, and after reading some preliminary reviews of the sequel I was pretty iffy on going to this movie in the theater.   Last night I was like,  I can't just not go to this movie just because everyone says it sucks.   Needless to say I'm glad I went to the movie.   I felt that it was well put together and for a non-comic book person I felt like I got a pretty decent look at the whole "Iron Man" story

2 weeks with Dropbox

I've been using Dropbox for a couple weeks now for decentralized document sharing.  Currently I'm just using the free trial account that allows you to have 2GB of space, so far it's been more than enough to work with for my documents and ad-hoc file sharing.

Blackberry Desktop Manager error 4238 while running a intellisync operation

Blackberry Desktop Manager error 4238 while running a intellisync operation

The issue is generally caused by a communication issue with the Blackberry desktop manager software and Microsoft Outlook.

The first troubleshooting step that should be taken is the following:

  1. Close Microsoft Outlook
  2. Close Desktop Manager and Desktop Redirector
  3. Open Outlook
  4. Open Desktop Redirector
  5. Open Desktop Manager
  6. Attempt the Intellisync operation again


If the sync fails do the following:

Virustotal.com scan any file with 20+ antivirus engines for free


I stumbled on this site that you can verify if any file contains a virus or a trojan that could potentially be harmful to your computer.   It's a free service and contains antivirus engine support from basically every software vendor that you can think of and many that you've never heard of.   Really how useful is this site?  Not very, to me, but to some I think it could be useful.  It would be awesome if there was a web service API that you could tie into and could leverage it in a SPAM / AV appliance for a mail server which in my opinion this would be the only useful place for this type

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