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The Evolution of Monitoring for IT

December 3, 2013 | Categories: Technical | Tags: cacti, monitor, monitoring, nagios, rrdtool No Comments ↓

Monitoring within IT is a necessity.  Let’s just get that out of the way now.  IT employees and management need it in order to survive.  Without it, the word “proactive” never enters in to the vocabulary, and a death spiral ensues as users and customers alike beat on IT for unexpected and unplanned outages. An

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Black Screen with sound – Vizio TV

August 21, 2013 | Categories: Technical | Tags: backlight, black, black screen, blank, blank screen, Vizio, with sound 1 Comment ↓

Does your Vizio TV screen go black? Do you still get sound? It could be related to the power saving techniques built in to the TV. I found this posting after spending some time searching. It took a bit to find the right search query because it is an odd problem. According to that posting,

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Dark screen or poor contrast on Fedora 17

June 4, 2013 | Categories: Linux, Technical | Tags: contrast, dark, dim, fedora, grub, linux, screen No Comments ↓

The problem isn’t directly related to Fedora 17, but it is related to Linux.  There have been reports of other distributions experiencing the same issue. The belief is that it is a GRUB issue, or some brightness/contrast problem with Xorg based upon what it is getting from GRUB.  One thing to try is to add:

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