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Nagios Notifications via Twitter

At the request of a client, I looked into providing Nagios notifications via Twitter.
Most of the implementations (curl, Net::Twitter, and py-nag) use basic authentication to Twitter’s JSON-based update API without the benefit of SSL. Some of these implementations are more full-featured than others, such as allowing private messages instead of directed messages. There’s also talk [...]

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There are five distinct steps to be taken after hosting a party.

Hydrate
Send out thank you notes and emails
Clean up kitchen
Rinse and discard empties
Patch server

The first step is obvious.
The second step isn’t required, but it’s something I like to do. Especially for the folks that left early or I didn’t get a chance to talk to [...]

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