Nah, we picked Win98 and later 2000/ XP because they were good products. Now with Vista / Win7 we don't see any point in replacing the existing OS considering the time and costs involved.
I like to play online games, unfortunately with WINE there is too much work and there is always something missing. But I love Linux and I can't wait to start using it more often at home.
As for Win7, I won't waste my money on something I don't need, I will rather buy something else.
I like to play games and browse the web, I'm using both Linux and XP. But since I can't play games under Linux and I can't be arsed to dual-boot I stay in XP most of the time.
I saw some benchmark of Vista in games and I see no advantage over XP, now I'm checking Win7 and again XP is still ahead. DX10 could be a reason to upgrade, but then I'd have to waste even more money on the PC and game makers don't dare to drop dx9 support.
I say no thanks, XP is more then enough for me. And anyway I never install a M$ product before SP1.
Apple? I don't give a shit, games don't work and is over-priced.
Wireless mouse are heavier, and they have the added lag of the wireless signal, maybe it's not big enough for you to notice, but a hardcore user will see the difference.
And every now and then you lose the synchronization.
I don't believe in agents. I refuse to install anything not needed on the server. SNMP should be enough for all the information, unfortunately this is not the case. So I use WMI and netbios querying.
And I agree a spam of 100 warning in 1 minute doesn't help anybody. Luckily most of the monitoring solutions I have implemented allows you to filter this nonsense.
Will your solution need to support snmp v3? No, monitoring is inside the intranet, so there is no need for SNMP v3, besides they are configured for read only and access from 1 IP only.
Do the devices you talk to have published oids? Some do, some don't.
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It's not just the cost of the OS, you need also a new PC.
Nah, we picked Win98 and later 2000/ XP because they were good products. Now with Vista / Win7 we don't see any point in replacing the existing OS considering the time and costs involved.
Stop giving facts, no one gives a shit about them. /sarcasm off
The correct term is bloat-ware, of course you can choose advance install and avoid all the crap.
I like to play online games, unfortunately with WINE there is too much work and there is always something missing. But I love Linux and I can't wait to start using it more often at home.
As for Win7, I won't waste my money on something I don't need, I will rather buy something else.
How much RAM Win7 needs?
My XP with anti-virus needs 150MB.
As for the look, I always use no-detail. I hate interface lag.
Am I the only one who sees Win7 pointless?
I like to play games and browse the web, I'm using both Linux and XP. But since I can't play games under Linux and I can't be arsed to dual-boot I stay in XP most of the time.
I saw some benchmark of Vista in games and I see no advantage over XP, now I'm checking Win7 and again XP is still ahead. DX10 could be a reason to upgrade, but then I'd have to waste even more money on the PC and game makers don't dare to drop dx9 support.
I say no thanks, XP is more then enough for me. And anyway I never install a M$ product before SP1.
Apple? I don't give a shit, games don't work and is over-priced.
I won't argue with you on the 2nd and 3rd thing, since I don't have time or will to provide any proof.
But the weight is important to me, I always remove the artificial weight put into a mouse to make it extra light.
I fix the cord somewhere so it can't affect my mouse movements.
Wireless mouse are heavier, and they have the added lag of the wireless signal, maybe it's not big enough for you to notice, but a hardcore user will see the difference.
And every now and then you lose the synchronization.
Not a mayor issue for you, but big enough for me.
Logitech MX series.
Light, precise, lot of programmable buttons and lag free.
Do not use wireless if you need reliability.
The goal is to receive an SMS alert before the client notice a problem.
I do monitoring only inside the LAN and I use SNMP as much as I can, but sometimes you are out of options.
Good luck :)
I tried like 20 of them, the problem is you need 2-4 days to configure it, just to find out it doesn't provide that little detail you must have. :(
What do you need to tell me?
Thanks for the info.
So, what would you suggest I should use?
I don't believe in agents. I refuse to install anything not needed on the server. SNMP should be enough for all the information, unfortunately this is not the case. So I use WMI and netbios querying.
Me too, but the key here is to set polling interval to 5-10 sec.
This is solved by defining dependency.
And I agree a spam of 100 warning in 1 minute doesn't help anybody. Luckily most of the monitoring solutions I have implemented allows you to filter this nonsense.
I don't agree with you, when a customers calls in for a problem it is nice for a change to know what he is talking about.
I saw SCOM 1 year ago, the hardware requirement for just the client was higher then the whole Cacti server.
Unless they start to optimize the mess I'm not sure I want to use it.
Will your solution need to support snmp v3?
No, monitoring is inside the intranet, so there is no need for SNMP v3, besides they are configured for read only and access from 1 IP only.
Do the devices you talk to have published oids?
Some do, some don't.
I'll check OpenNms
I use Cacti for this and it's fantastic.