Zenoss was written with the intention of making it easy to monitor and manage tens of thousands of network devices remotely. By using templates and device classes, once you have a single machine monitored the way you like, you can apply that to thousands of other devices, making individual changes as necessary. Zenoss handles network hardware, servers (Linux, Unix and Windows), databases, applications and just about anything else you need to monitor. There's a network map and a Google map mashup for mapping. No need to start from scratch, there's already an Open Source (GPLv2) Python-based solution with a large community and installers for Linux and OSX and a VMware image to get started (plus source for everything else). Lots of documentation and frequent releases, with commercial support available. If you're coming from Nagios or Cactii, you can reuse any custom plugins you've developed.
I'm the Community Manager for Zenoss, an open source enterprise network monitoring application. We have thousands of installations and even more users, and we see a lot of the same participation percentages seen by Linux and Wikipedia. There's a great article call Participation Inequality, pointing out that about 90% of users are never heard from again and 10% participate in forums, mailing lists and other indirect ways. We see similar numbers ourselves, and we get really great contributions from hundreds of users from enterprise IT staffs. Extensions, patches, testing and documentation are all provided by our community, you just have to work with them to lower the barriers to entry.
I just started wearing glasses exclusively for computer use. 20/20 vision and I have to wear glasses for eye strain. Too much working in the dark in front of 3 monitors, so now I have glasses and a whole lot of lighting (but still no glares). My opthamologist said it definitely can't hurt to get rid of CRT's in favor of LCDs also. Prio.com has lots of tips for needing to avoid using their products, and for finding a opthamologist who can get you glasses.
Tivo shows you conflicts when you manually pick a show. The Season passes are weighted by priority as well, so you choose which shows you prefer. Often with cable shows, they're on many times so you can give them lower priorities and a recording will be found (The Daily Show is on 4 times a day). If you go in the Todo list for the Tivo, you can see shows not recorded and why. You can pad the beginning and ending of shows, but you can't have them start late and end early, which is what they really need.
They could save a bit of room by ditching the disk drive. I haven't had one of those in my last 5 or 6 computers. Everything installs by CDROM these days as long as we're trying to make a small system. Unless you need it for flashing the BIOS, but it seems there should be a way to do that with the CD as well.
Anyone in Austin Texas want to be owned by a pair of Sparc 5s? 2 working machines, one cannibalized for the other. Debian is on one of them, haven't turned them on in months. Email me at matthewhray at yahoo dot com. If you actually develop for a free OS I might give them to you for free.
Possibly because we all had Apple laptops that weren't burning our laps? Seriously, my wife's Toshiba burned itself out when it failed to go to sleep properly. And laptops with fans? Why don't people just use a full size machine if they need the computing power that would require fans? You can get far with SSH and VLC.
We might have worked at the same company, but XP wasn't out when I dealt with Diebold. They were running NT 3.x on ATMs and when I asked about securing the machines from tampering, they said "nobody would do that, it's a federal crime". I dropped the phone I was so dumbfounded.
If anyone in Austin Texas wants a pair of working Sparc 5s, respond to matthewhray at yahoo com and you can have them for $30. 2 working harddrives and 192 megs of RAM between them. One's been cannibalized for the other, but last I checked they both work fine (Debian is installed on it). Plus a Sun->VGA adapter.
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There's a Zenoss/Puppet integration here: http://github.com/mamba/puppet-zenoss/tree/master
Bias alert, I'm the Zenoss Community Manager.
Zenoss was written with the intention of making it easy to monitor and manage tens of thousands of network devices remotely. By using templates and device classes, once you have a single machine monitored the way you like, you can apply that to thousands of other devices, making individual changes as necessary. Zenoss handles network hardware, servers (Linux, Unix and Windows), databases, applications and just about anything else you need to monitor. There's a network map and a Google map mashup for mapping. No need to start from scratch, there's already an Open Source (GPLv2) Python-based solution with a large community and installers for Linux and OSX and a VMware image to get started (plus source for everything else). Lots of documentation and frequent releases, with commercial support available. If you're coming from Nagios or Cactii, you can reuse any custom plugins you've developed.
I'm the Community Manager for Zenoss, an open source enterprise network monitoring application. We have thousands of installations and even more users, and we see a lot of the same participation percentages seen by Linux and Wikipedia. There's a great article call Participation Inequality, pointing out that about 90% of users are never heard from again and 10% participate in forums, mailing lists and other indirect ways. We see similar numbers ourselves, and we get really great contributions from hundreds of users from enterprise IT staffs. Extensions, patches, testing and documentation are all provided by our community, you just have to work with them to lower the barriers to entry.
Sports. Tell me how I can get live HD sports and I'm listening. Everything else can get downloaded, ripped or scraped from another source.
Actually Tivo switched to PPC with the Series 2. Not sure what's in the new Series 3 yet.
I just started wearing glasses exclusively for computer use. 20/20 vision and I have to wear glasses for eye strain. Too much working in the dark in front of 3 monitors, so now I have glasses and a whole lot of lighting (but still no glares). My opthamologist said it definitely can't hurt to get rid of CRT's in favor of LCDs also. Prio.com has lots of tips for needing to avoid using their products, and for finding a opthamologist who can get you glasses.
Tivo shows you conflicts when you manually pick a show. The Season passes are weighted by priority as well, so you choose which shows you prefer. Often with cable shows, they're on many times so you can give them lower priorities and a recording will be found (The Daily Show is on 4 times a day). If you go in the Todo list for the Tivo, you can see shows not recorded and why. You can pad the beginning and ending of shows, but you can't have them start late and end early, which is what they really need.
Tivo has changed my life forever,
F.O.Dobbs
This seems like a logical candidate for an RSS feed. Maybe once or twice a week there could be an update (ie. "Configuring Network").
What are these "pop-ups" you speak of?
F.O.Dobbs
They could save a bit of room by ditching the disk drive. I haven't had one of those in my last 5 or 6 computers. Everything installs by CDROM these days as long as we're trying to make a small system. Unless you need it for flashing the BIOS, but it seems there should be a way to do that with the CD as well.
F.O.Dobbs
Anyone in Austin Texas want to be owned by a pair of Sparc 5s? 2 working machines, one cannibalized for the other. Debian is on one of them, haven't turned them on in months. Email me at matthewhray at yahoo dot com. If you actually develop for a free OS I might give them to you for free.
F.O.Dobbs
http://itconversations.com/ is exactly what you're looking for.
Enjoy,
F.O. Dobbs
DEY TOOK ARR JAHBS!!!
Possibly because we all had Apple laptops that weren't burning our laps? Seriously, my wife's Toshiba burned itself out when it failed to go to sleep properly. And laptops with fans? Why don't people just use a full size machine if they need the computing power that would require fans? You can get far with SSH and VLC.
A frustrated former hot laptop owner,
F.O. Dobbs
surfing on lave is too the EXTREME!!!
what a joke.
Straight into the ground. Let's see what this baby can do!
Also note that because the first generation Tivo was on Linux, the 2nd generation moved to MIPS with no problems.
F.O.Dobbs
Or maybe you'd prefer FreeXFree?
F.O.Dobbs
Anyone got a torrent?
We might have worked at the same company, but XP wasn't out when I dealt with Diebold. They were running NT 3.x on ATMs and when I asked about securing the machines from tampering, they said "nobody would do that, it's a federal crime". I dropped the phone I was so dumbfounded.
F.O.Dobbs
Is this going to get stuck in RC-limbo or are they going to finally release it?
Thanks,
F.O.Dobbs
If anyone in Austin Texas wants a pair of working Sparc 5s, respond to matthewhray at yahoo com and you can have them for $30. 2 working harddrives and 192 megs of RAM between them. One's been cannibalized for the other, but last I checked they both work fine (Debian is installed on it). Plus a Sun->VGA adapter.
Too lazy for ebay,
F.O.Dobbs
Once I heard it was pissing them off, I had to make sure I got as many as possible and share them with as many people as possible.
F.O.Dobbs
Lies, damned lies and benchmarks.
You know... Nostradamus predicted all of this.