Back in my day, we walked bare-pegged, uphill both ways, in shattered-glass covered knee deep snow in the desert, to trade 300 lb. boxes of punchcards!
Looking at the text of the bill, it doesn't appear as though the institutions actually have to block p2p, but they "shall" [Must] develop a plans to explore options.
FTB:
SEC. 494. CAMPUS-BASED DIGITAL THEFT PREVENTION.
(a) In General- Each eligible institution participating in any program under this title shall to the extent practicable-- (1) make publicly available to their students and employees, the policies and procedures related to the illegal downloading and distribution of copyrighted materials required to be disclosed under section 485(a)(1)(P); and (2) develop a plan for offering alternatives to illegal downloading or peer-to-peer distribution of intellectual property as well as a plan to explore technology-based deterrents to prevent such illegal activity.
How "I'm the only god you are allowed to worship" turns into "I'm the only god" baffles me somewhat... aside from the usefulness of the emotionally potent oversimplification , that is.
Perhaps it was truncated when it was posted? Lameness filter?:)
IIRC, I created my account in about Feb or Mar of '99. I guess/. was only about 16 months old at that time, so the number of accounts must've grown quite quickly (since mine was already 6 digits at that point).
Install an RPM for MySQL that conflicts with the built-in version of every deployed OS known to Linuxkind. That's understandable, but it means you've left out a critical step: start with a clean box with no MySQL installed on it, because they can't be parallel installed and it *will* modify if not break your existing MySQL installation. And step away from ever being able to get security or bugfixes from the OS vendor by doiing so.
D'oh! I did forget to put that step in. I did have to start with a clean box without MySQL.
You must also have to grab the various perl modules from a third-party repository: OK, DAG's repositories have most of them, but that dependency is not documented by the ZenOSS authors or you. I know how to set up those, but the ZenOSS SRPM doesn't list those dependencies, does it?
The Zenoss SRPM does not list the dependencies for the Perl modules, but they are listed in the manual install instructions, as well as step 6 of the list I posted.
Notice then that you spend a lot of time talking about ZenWin. I didn't ask about ZenWin, I asked about ZenOSS. This is an irrelevant feature and distracts from the usefulness of your answer.
Yep - I did spend the last eight steps on ZenWin. I acknowledge that you did not ask about it, but thought I'd add that in just in case there may be other people who may be interested.
Please excuse me for being so harsh about this. The list of the steps you used is appreciated, but this sort of thing is quite typical in the Nagios community and is one of the things that really detracts from the use of these tools.
I'll have to agree with you there:) Zenoss was moderately easy to set up, but there really should be SRPMS and the dependencies should be "Automagically" installed with the Zenoss RPM.
Just to make sure that I'm clear: I am not defending Zenoss in any way. I just listed (admittedly a little briefly / incompletely) the steps I had to take to get it to work, not all of which were in the Zenoss documentation.
If you control all the servers you might be able to get away with that. Try working in a company where there are so many servers responsibilities are distributed between groups, then convince them they need to install python/pywin32 so you can monitor their systems. Good luck with that.
Fortunately, I am now in a smaller environment (~ 400 servers) where I can do just that if I need to. I do understand what you mean, though; where I last worked (> 5000 servers, several admin groups), I never would have been able to do such a thing because of all of the politics and territorialism (is that a word?). That is one of the main reasons that I no longer work there.
I was simply responding to somebody's question about if/how they got Zenoss up and working, from a technical perspective, not a political one.
I just finished getting Zenoss working on a test box two days ago (CentOS 4.3 VM -- not the Zenoss VM image, though). I'm currently testing it to monitor some Windows servers, as that is what we mostly have.
There were a few things missing from the manual installation docs. Here are the steps I used to get it up and running:
Add the path to the Python executable to the System PATH environment variable
Edit the Zenwin configuration files to point to the CentOS Zenoss host, and change the username/password in the config files to use the new admin password [WARNING - passwords stored in plain text]
Install Zenwin as a service, running under an account in the local admin group on the windows host.
Add the Zenwin service account username/password into to Zenoss web interface.
IIRC, that was the way I got it working. I had to fool around with it a little bit to get it work.
As for my opinion of it, it seems pretty cool so far, but I'm reserving my final opinion for when I've had a chance to play with it a little more.
I don't know if this would apply to your situation, but here's what happened to me a couple years ago...
I worked for a very large company, and they had several rounds of layoffs for about four years. During the fourth year, my "number came up." The layoff was handled very well, IMHO:
The company gave 2 month's notice (I believe they were required to by law due to the number of people being laid off at that time).
Everybody who was laid off did not have to show up to work during those two months, but were still on the payroll with full benefits, including medical and 401k with company match.
The severence package over and above the two months on the payroll was an additional month's pay in one lump sum.
Terminated employees had one year to exercise any stock options they had before the options expired.
The company contracted with an outplacement agency to hold a couple of job fairs for [former] employees and help them with their resumes. From one of the job fairs, I have my current job.
If they found a new job before the two months was finished, employees were allowed to start working at their new jobs without affecting their "employed" status with the company or their severence.
All in all, I'd have to say that I was treated much better by the company when I was being laid off than when I was actively working there;)
It seems to me that lots of people (both Democrats and Republicans) have formed some sort of image of John McCain based on what they see on the news and not on his actual voting record.
How true that is...
That so-called "liberal" media must be where some people get the idea that he is [far] left; his voting record indicates that he votes almost always along GOP party lines (when he's actually there to cast a vote, that is).
Theists always like to use the argument that atheists can't be moralistic because they don't believe in an afterlife, so there's no concept of punishment, right? Except they always forget that on the flip side, there's no concept of reward either.
You raise an interesting point here. IMHO, this is how the comparison works out[1]:
A religious person believes in reward/punishment after death (they can fuck up in this life, and they won't be punished as long as they pray) An athiest person believes in reward/punishment in this life. Fucking up, or doing good, means [usually] immediate consequences.
I know who I would rather have as a president.
[1] Note that this is a major generalization, and obviously does not apply to everybody. I am good friends with both a Christian and a Muslim, and they are both really good, ethical people.
Let's assume that all members of congress are intelligent.
If you listen to CSPAN for more than 5 minutes, you likely find that it's not necessary to make this assumption. What you hear could almost be considered empirical evidence of the extreme piousness of the members of congress;)
I don't know about voting for Daffy (Disney;). There is an alternative to Webb and Allen, thankfully. Her platform isn't really too clear, and, since she's not part of either major party, she has barely been mentioned in the major media at all. IMHO, she seems better than either of the other two clowns.
Although, I have to say that I'm not at all impressed with Webb, either. The Dems really seems to be consistant in that they nominate really, really lame candidates.
I'm with you on that one. I consider myself a liberal, and certainly enjoy my share of Bush/Repblican bashing. However, after looking at the voting records of many of the folks in the Senate/House, I have to say that I think they're just about all a bunch of crooks. This is no longer a left/right repub/dem issue... it's about corruption and hypocrisy, and representatives on both sides of the isle are peoblematic in this regard.
The way I see it it that we could reduce taxes and improve services and education if we were to eliminate most of the graft in the US government.
...and appears to be written by people who are desperately searching for some evidence of a link...
How can you accuse this reputable outlet of being partisan? Let's have a look at some of today's headlines:
ELECTION 2006 Congress
THE EDITORS: The last time Democrats captured the House, they held it for 40 years. "The Choice" 10/31 5:19 AM
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: Is Harold Ford Jr. just wearing a pro-life costume? "Ford Claims to Be a Model He's Not" 10/31 1:18 PM
MARK R. LEVIN: The Washington Post works for Jim Webb.
STEPHEN SPRUIELL: The media are playing a Garden State trick on you. "Culture of Corruption" 10/31 4:44 AM
AN NRO SYMPOSIUM: John Boehner, Mark Levin, Grover Norquist, Captain Ed & more on the scariest aspects of Democrats in control. "Control" 10/31 5:37 AM
ELIZABETH DOLE: Look the donkey -- and its agenda -- in the mouth. "Beware of Democrats Bearing Gifts" 10/31 4:36 AM
Clearly, these people are not biased in any way.;)
That means that all the little people take it in the shorts, while Al Gore and Ted Turner and Laurie David go on swanning about in private jets and eight-car motorcades.
...
Until we start confiscating Learjets from rich liberals, I'll spend money and consume energy as I please, and vote for politicians who will allow me to keep doing so.
It seems that it isn't just the liberals that are flying around in Lear Jets. Some administration officials (you know, those people who aren't those dammed liberals) are flying around in private jets on the taxpayer's dime. How's that for the little people taking it in the shorts?
Dude, you soooo don't get it. He said, "It's where most of the babies come from." when talking about marriage. Didn't know you know that? Having babies has nothing to do with sex, although in some cultures, a woman can get pregnent by kissing, and not by marriage.
Sheesh! What are they teaching kids these days!:P </sarcasm (for those who's detectors are turned off)>
Right, wrong, and "moral" are just as subjective as my or your opinion. What I might cosider a moral thing or issue, you might believe otherwise. While I may (and do) share the same opinion as the GGP and you, it is also not my place to try to push my views down the throats of others. Who's to say that what you (or I) view as moral really is moral? Who's to say that it is not? That is purely subjective.
But if that practice became widespread, the marketers would just start running HTTP servers on the IMAP/POP3/SMTP ports.
Even if they did that, the images still would not get through to the email client using the parent's suggestion (firewalling not just ports, but hosts too).
For example: The user has a software firewall on his/her machine, configured as the parent post indicated. This firewall only allows the email application to talk to the SMTP and POP ports on only their email provider's mail servers (say, for example, mail.provider.com), then the firewall would still block images from the spammer's host (e.g. mail.spammer.com).
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Back in my day, we walked bare-pegged, uphill both ways, in shattered-glass covered knee deep snow in the desert, to trade 300 lb. boxes of punchcards!
FTB:
See how your representative voted.
Even so... IMHO this still opens the door to more Orwellian legislation, and provides further evidence of how industry pwnes our government.
There... fixed that for you ;)
IIRC, I created my account in about Feb or Mar of '99. I guess /. was only about 16 months old at that time, so the number of accounts must've grown quite quickly (since mine was already 6 digits at that point).
Just to make sure that I'm clear: I am not defending Zenoss in any way. I just listed (admittedly a little briefly / incompletely) the steps I had to take to get it to work, not all of which were in the Zenoss documentation.
I was simply responding to somebody's question about if/how they got Zenoss up and working, from a technical perspective, not a political one.
There were a few things missing from the manual installation docs. Here are the steps I used to get it up and running:
- rpm -Uvh perl-Socket6-0.19-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
- rpm -Uvh perl-Crypt-DES-2.05-3.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
- rpm -Uvh perl-Net-SNMP-5.2.0-1.2.el4.rf.noarch.rpm
- rpm -Uvh MySQL-client-standard-5.0.24a-0.rhel4.i386.rpm
- r
p m -Uvh MySQL-server-standard-5.0.24a-0.rhel4.i386.rpm - y
u m -y install net-snmp net-snmp-utils perl-Digest-HMAC perl-DBI - rpm -Uvh zenoss-1.1.1-0.i386.rpm
- rpm -Uvh Zenoss-Plugins-1.1.1-1.py23.noarch.rpm
- /etc/init
. d/snmpd start - /etc/init.d/zenoss start
- Go to http://zenosshost:8080/ and login admin/zenoss; change admin password
- Install on a Windows host, version 2.4 of Python
- Install on same Windows host, pywin32
- Install Zenwin
- Add the path to the Python executable to the System PATH environment variable
- Edit the Zenwin configuration files to point to the CentOS Zenoss host, and change the username/password in the config files to use the new admin password [WARNING - passwords stored in plain text]
- Install Zenwin as a service, running under an account in the local admin group on the windows host.
- Add the Zenwin service account username/password into to Zenoss web interface.
IIRC, that was the way I got it working. I had to fool around with it a little bit to get it work.As for my opinion of it, it seems pretty cool so far, but I'm reserving my final opinion for when I've had a chance to play with it a little more.
I worked for a very large company, and they had several rounds of layoffs for about four years. During the fourth year, my "number came up." The layoff was handled very well, IMHO:
- The company gave 2 month's notice (I believe they were required to by law due to the number of people being laid off at that time).
- Everybody who was laid off did not have to show up to work during those two months, but were still on the payroll with full benefits, including medical and 401k with company match.
- The severence package over and above the two months on the payroll was an additional month's pay in one lump sum.
- Terminated employees had one year to exercise any stock options they had before the options expired.
- The company contracted with an outplacement agency to hold a couple of job fairs for [former] employees and help them with their resumes. From one of the job fairs, I have my current job.
- If they found a new job before the two months was finished, employees were allowed to start working at their new jobs without affecting their "employed" status with the company or their severence.
All in all, I'd have to say that I was treated much better by the company when I was being laid off than when I was actively working thereYMMV
That so-called "liberal" media must be where some people get the idea that he is [far] left; his voting record indicates that he votes almost always along GOP party lines (when he's actually there to cast a vote, that is).
A religious person believes in reward/punishment after death (they can fuck up in this life, and they won't be punished as long as they pray)
An athiest person believes in reward/punishment in this life. Fucking up, or doing good, means [usually] immediate consequences.
I know who I would rather have as a president.
[1] Note that this is a major generalization, and obviously does not apply to everybody. I am good friends with both a Christian and a Muslim, and they are both really good, ethical people.
If you have a boat or an aircraft within 3 - 5 meters of your power transmitting basestation, you have a bit more to worry about than just EMI ;)
I don't know about voting for Daffy (Disney ;). There is an alternative to Webb and Allen, thankfully. Her platform isn't really too clear, and, since she's not part of either major party, she has barely been mentioned in the major media at all. IMHO, she seems better than either of the other two clowns.
Although, I have to say that I'm not at all impressed with Webb, either. The Dems really seems to be consistant in that they nominate really, really lame candidates.
The way I see it it that we could reduce taxes and improve services and education if we were to eliminate most of the graft in the US government.
ELECTION 2006
Congress
- THE EDITORS: The last time Democrats captured the House, they held it for 40 years. "The Choice" 10/31 5:19 AM
- KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: Is Harold Ford Jr. just wearing a pro-life costume? "Ford Claims to Be a Model He's Not" 10/31 1:18 PM
- MARK R. LEVIN: The Washington Post works for Jim Webb.
- STEPHEN SPRUIELL: The media are playing a Garden State trick on you. "Culture of Corruption" 10/31 4:44 AM
- AN NRO SYMPOSIUM: John Boehner, Mark Levin, Grover Norquist, Captain Ed & more on the scariest aspects of Democrats in control. "Control" 10/31 5:37 AM
- ELIZABETH DOLE: Look the donkey -- and its agenda -- in the mouth. "Beware of Democrats Bearing Gifts" 10/31 4:36 AM
Clearly, these people are not biased in any way.Scary Stuff.
I, for one, welcome the rapture, for the simple reason that we'll have fewer nutcases on this planet to worry about ;)
It seems that it isn't just the liberals that are flying around in Lear Jets. Some administration officials (you know, those people who aren't those dammed liberals) are flying around in private jets on the taxpayer's dime. How's that for the little people taking it in the shorts?
Yep. He has now been learned on geography (he now knows where Iraq is), and his "No Child Left Behind" program has inproved the geography skills of children, too.
Sheesh! What are they teaching kids these days! :P </sarcasm (for those who's detectors are turned off)>
Right, wrong, and "moral" are just as subjective as my or your opinion. What I might cosider a moral thing or issue, you might believe otherwise. While I may (and do) share the same opinion as the GGP and you, it is also not my place to try to push my views down the throats of others. Who's to say that what you (or I) view as moral really is moral? Who's to say that it is not? That is purely subjective.
For example:
The user has a software firewall on his/her machine, configured as the parent post indicated. This firewall only allows the email application to talk to the SMTP and POP ports on only their email provider's mail servers (say, for example, mail.provider.com), then the firewall would still block images from the spammer's host (e.g. mail.spammer.com).