Theres always EDirectory... it runs on sles9 now (as of version 7). All the joy of NDS, but it runs under Linux (and windows, and netware if you want).
I'm going to a Zenworks 7 thingy on Wednesday.. if you want more information about running edirectory under linux, email me and i'll pass along what I find out.
it's not just about OSS and Windows.. there are other products there. NDS is far superior to AD, so consider it as well.
there are LOTS of network management tools out there. I realize HP Openview might be outside the budget of a school, but I've used it and it does exactly what you want. It will automatically colour code your ports to show you wants in use and whats not, which ports are having problems, etc.
There are a couple opensource replacements which I'm sure yo ucan find with google pretty easily.
If you've got good hardware (ie: something SNMP manageable) then you're set. If you're using home/small business hardware (ie: linksys, smc, etc) then you might not be able to use the management tools.
If you're stuck, feel free drop me a line. I've done a lot of the network management stuff before, in my past life as a network monkey and can help you out.
I have a manager thats HIGHLY technical, but his management skills suck. He's a YES man to every other department because he doesn't have any balls. He won't back us up and if you go into a meeting with him, you know you're in trouble. He doesn't do evaluations and unless you're asking him a technical question, won't make a decisive answer.
I think I'd rather have your boss... you don't necessarily need to be highly technical to be a good manager, but if you're a shitty manager you're stuck. Technical skills can be learned, but good people skills are hard to come by.
I dunno... I guess it's a toss up. My bosses boss is a great manager, but HIGHLY untechnical. Has a hard time shutting down her computer. It's annoying, sure, having to explain things twice, but at least we can trust her to manage stuff and cover our backs and get stuff done.
I'm sorry, but thats just a short sighted, trollish comment.
Are you saying that you'd rather pay $X for a lightbulb, and $Y/hour to use it, when you can get the exact same amount of light for $X and pay $Y-50% to run the bulb? You get the same end result, but save boat loads of energy. Thats conservation on the easy level. Ditto using say, a toaster, instead of turning on the oven to make your breakfast. Or getting a diesel powered car... the end result is exactly the same, the method of doing it is almost exactly the same, you simply use less energy along the way.
We're not talking about you having to install a windmill and ride to work... but if everyone cut their energy use by 10% (EASY! to do) there would be billions of dollars saved, and much less environmental damage.
But people like you are going to ruin it for the rest of us. You're content to idle in your SUV, blast your AC, leave all your lights on, throw away all your recycleables (yes, thats conservation as well), and generally pollute the world until it's useless to other people.
YOU are the problem and YOU are the reason we're having these discussions. If my parents generation wasn't so obnoxious about energy use and was a little nicer to the environment, we wouldn't be in the predicament we're in now.
Look - no ones asking you to pocket mulch. Just turn off you lights when you're not home. Unless you go offroading every day, turf the SUV for something smaller. Aim for the blue box instead of the black one. These aren't difficult things for your life. So pull your arrogent head out of your ass and realize that you're part of a group of people... if everyone thinks like you, we are doomed.
They can SAY all that, but is it legally enforcable?
IANAL, so I have no idea. But it seems to me that it probably isn't, and is there as a protection scheme in case someone creates a business that duplicates their handy tool, or makes a billion bucks by using their tool. They wouldn't bother enforcing it for every day people, but for the big bucks, they're come out swinging.
But, I'm guessing. I know that when it comes to contracts and waivers that contain things like 'if you sign this you give up all rights to sue us' or 'by riding this ride you give up all your legal rights as a citizen' aren't strictly true - they try, but by simply signing something that says you're giving up your rights, you aren't really.
Having been the tech guy before, doing all the setup, do yourself a favour and document everything you do. Setup a linux box somewhere and install wiki, and whenever you do something/install a system/change the network, just record it. don't worry about formatting etc, just keep it somewhere. Then, when things quiet down, go back and clean it up. Then you'll know in a couple years why it was important that cable X ran to Y after Y has been moved and you go 'wtf was I thinking'.
Or, if you happen to leave, you're leaving a good legacy for the next guy.
I know documentation is the bane of everyones existance, but when you're designing a new network from the ground up (including servers, workstations, etc) a little pain == lots of gain.
Additionally, create (and document) some quick policies and procedures now - things like passwords/external access/storage locations/naming conventions... going back to fix these things is a pain in the ass later, but is easy to do from the start.
I'm reading about the API (which I know nothing about, because I don't know anything more than an API is an interface to a program) and thought while reading about including their code in yours, 'how do you know that their code is safe?'
They obviously don't release the code for the api.. how you know that when you call a function? from the api, it's not doing something malicious? how do you know they aren't using it to track users, send malicious code, etc? granted - it's Google, but still?
Is there built-in protection? Is it safe to blindly use someone elses api? If you call GBrowserIsCompatible() and it calls GDeleteEverythingOnHarddrive, is there something to stop that?
Just curious. I'd like to learn how to do play with these things, but it seems like a pretty steep learning curve.
As much as everyone hates testing, this is one thing that should have been caught in QA before the patch/update was released. Come on - you just dropped a major version into how many machines? You mean you didn't catch something like frequent crashes and office breaking in your QA Cycle? In your pilot?
As much as I hate doing QA and Pilots, they work. For little stuff, screw change management and just change it. But for something like a major release or update, you need to do some testing before you dump the code out to users.
It just makes sense in a CYA way, and makes the weekends yours again.
I had the same space issues with my Toshiba notebook... Until someone pointed out USB 2.0 drive cages.
I snared 2 ($25 a piece) and put my 2 120gig drives in. Plug em in, Windows (I know you have a Mac, but it should be similar I'd hope) detects them and I've got 240gig of space on top of the 20gig that my laptop has. easy as that.
There are also firewire cages out there if you're hooked on that.
Cheap and easy. The only downside I've found so far is that, be cause the drives are in cages and independantly powered, they never stop spinning until you unplug them. I don't see the need to have my drives spinning all the time, especially when my laptop isn't even there, so I put them on a power bar to make turning them off easy when it's time to take the laptop on the road.
I have to agree - especially about the icons. I know it's stupid, but when I go to fire up OO I have to think, which icon loads what on my button bar. It's a small thing, but every time I launch OO I curse the icons.
If they were to spend some time cleaning up the interface it would go a long way. I love OO, but it is ugly and could use refining.
I'd suggest your local hardware store/Canadian tire... buy a furnace filter (About $5) and cut chunks out of it to the right size. maybe get some strips of velcro at the same hardware store. put a bit in each corner of the fan and a bit on the filter and voila.. easy to change and secure for about $6. And given the size of furance air filters, one should last you a year or more.
Things are not, sadly, like this in real life. Even the happiest employee will steal if theres motivation. Motivation includes money, ego, boredom, whatever. Some people, as illogical as it seems, steal because they can. Some like the challenge. Those people aren't going to be hampered by an open office with lots of floppys and burners and internet connections.
If you don't lock the doors, sooner or later someone is going to break in. You ahve to do what you can to stop it.
4) Tax rebates for people who buy fuel efficient vehicles.
The cutoff would be a challenge, but I'd say any car that gets 10% better than the average fuel economy of cars in its class should count.
Granted, us people driving fuel efficient cars are saving more (by spending less), it generally costs more money to buy one than a regular gas car. A tax writeoff might help nudge people to buy more fuel efficiency.
And you're proud of this? You're a fucking idiot. The publication ban was there because the judge didn't want the horrible, horrible details of the girls deaths to be made public. They were tortured, sexually assualted repeatedly and then dismembered up by a depraved man and his equally disgusting girlfriend. And you feel PROUD that you published those details to people? You think it makes you a fucking freedom fighter by exploiting those girls pain so you can be cool?
How would you like the details of your graphic sexual abuse, torture and death published for the whole world to see? How would your family feel?
You are a sick, sick person.
I'm not even going to post this AC... screw my Karma..
This is the same argument I use with my current car - a TDI (Turbo-Direct-Injection) Dieel Jetta.
It costs about $1,800 more to get the Diesel. I've started keeping track of my KM travelled and how much it costs vs. a gasoline car and so far I've saved myself $126.42 with my diesel... in 1 month. At that rate, I'll have paid off the difference in 14.3 months.
But, even better and more important to me is that I'm using less fuel, and using less fuel more efficiently, which is producing less pollutants and emissions. Not to mention the fact that making diesel uses less energy (less refining needed) than gasoline.
So, even though it costs more money to buy a diesel, I was willing (And continue to be willing) to pay a little more to make a little less pollution.
Reading life after the oil crash really helped change my mentality about fuel and energy use. Shifting my energy use to more electricity and less fossil fuels means that, while I'm still using energy, I'm using a cleaner source of it. A lot of the power in SW Ontario comes from either Hydroelectricty or Nuclear power which is considerably cleaner than burning fossil fuels.
I guess it all comes down to how much you'd change your lifestyle to help cut back on energy use, and how much of your own money you'd spend to do it.
At my place of employment, the IT department is considered nothing more than a necessary evil on a good day, and a giant anchor around the business on a bad day. We are looked down on as something that funnels money off the bottom line and slows down all the nifty things that 'the business' wants.
'the business' has become a dirty word in IT.. 'the business' dictates what they want, how soon they want it, and what they'll pay for it, and if you disagree, management over rules you and forges ahead until someone below them has to take the blame for the failure.
at first, back in the day, I didnt' really understand Dilbert and how his projects kept getting cancelled/changed midstream, how management made horrible decisions.. but lately, I've seen it first hand.
For example, i had a massive database project due today.. the business wants inventory and configuration management so we can do all the ITIL crap. Fine and dandy... I find out yesterday, after 2 weeks of 12-15 hour days, that they've changed the deadline, and want it end of MAY now. Oh, and I'm not allowed to work anymore overtime on it, because thats costing too much money. Oh, and the specs have changed. Oh, and I can't have the database server I wanted because it costs too much.
IT doesn't get the respect it deserves a lot of the time... a lot of businesses forget that without IT they wouldn't be able to handle the volume of business they do... they wouldn't have their sales databases, their registers, their servers, their spreadsheets and powerpoint files... they'd have pens and papers and filing cabinets.
Theres a reason for IT, but a lot of businesses have forgotten it. We enable businesses to be more effective, more efficient and do more work with less people and faster. Sure, we cost money - it costs money to do business. But with the right technolgoy, and the right IT people, that money is minimized and helps keep the business rolling.
We are in the middle of a large scale Linux project.. replacing 900 SCO Unix servers with Linux. We are wondering the same thing.. what monitoring tools can be put in to watch these servers?
Our big hitch comes from the fact that we only have a satellite connection to each of the remote sites, so we can't do real time monitoring, so things like HP Openview NNM are out of the question - they use too much bandwidth.
Our solution (And the reason I'm working late right now) is to build a custom suite of tools that does batch reporting every night by polling logs and custom programs, then sends it back in a handy xml file. We take that file, dump it into a large informix database, and then we can do whatever we want to create reports.
It's a little more work than just installing a package, but we're getting EXACTLY what we want out of the product. It works with our very unique communications and configuration, and it's modular so I can add whatever monitoring/checks I want by writing a new ksh script. All the output is standardized and all the parsing is done at the office by a very clever xml parser one of the db guys wrote.
I think for whaty ou're looking for, theres things like Big Brother, MRTG, HP Openvie umm... the IBM equivalant (A Tivoli product I think?). No need to reinvent the wheel.
But I'd love some feedback for people who are working in a bandwidth sparse shop like me... how do you balance your need to know everything about every box all the time (well, the business and management want to know at least) vs the tiny amount of data you can push without interfering with mission critical applications running over that same link?
In theory, you could use Audioscrobbler to keep track of that information.
You'd need to build something to act on the data collected, but it's an easy start.
I use the audioscrobbler data to realize I'm listening to one group too much and expand my collection. I only have a limited amount of space at work for music, so once I find myself listening to the same thing day in day out, I rip a couple more CD's and keep going. Otherwise I end up getting whole cd's stuck in my head and then I burn out on them.
I agree - a plugin that would make educated guesses about what music you'd like to listen to would be great. just load your whole list into it, and it, after training, would play appropriate music for that day/time of day. Would be very cool in fact./wishes he could program in more than just ksh
I think webmin has full filesystem management stuff built in.. it can tie into the passwd file for users, and you can set it so users can only use the one filesystem module.
Answer: Majority NDP Federal government. No bias in the news here, move along...
Go figure, when you watch their news and satire programming, they're generally liberal leaning. They go a long way to crush anything conservative (listen to The Current sometime and see) or extreme...
I suspect that your research is pulled out of someones ass. The fact that a lot of CBC is unionized might have biased the poll, but I think it's as accurate as me saying that if only geeks were allowed to vote, the largest breated woman would win.
It's all conjecture, and to try and swing your argument by listing research that can't even be name is poor./cbcfanboy.
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Theres always EDirectory ... it runs on sles9 now (as of version 7). All the joy of NDS, but it runs under Linux (and windows, and netware if you want).
.. if you want more information about running edirectory under linux, email me and i'll pass along what I find out.
.. there are other products there. NDS is far superior to AD, so consider it as well.
I'm going to a Zenworks 7 thingy on Wednesday
it's not just about OSS and Windows
Hear hear.
there are LOTS of network management tools out there. I realize HP Openview might be outside the budget of a school, but I've used it and it does exactly what you want. It will automatically colour code your ports to show you wants in use and whats not, which ports are having problems, etc.
There are a couple opensource replacements which I'm sure yo ucan find with google pretty easily.
If you've got good hardware (ie: something SNMP manageable) then you're set. If you're using home/small business hardware (ie: linksys, smc, etc) then you might not be able to use the management tools.
If you're stuck, feel free drop me a line. I've done a lot of the network management stuff before, in my past life as a network monkey and can help you out.
good luck!
See, now, I read this and I go 'hey, I use return codes for everything I do' ... so I have to ask, what are the exceptions you speak of?
/dumb.
I'm not a programmer, I'm just a lowly admin type, so don't abuse me. I'm not up on my programming techniques.
haven't you ever noticed that the marketing/sales department never actually reflect what the technical people are doing and what they can deliver.
Don't judge a product by it's marketing hype - it's normally all horseshit anyways.
thank you - I've been on /. for a number of years, and this if the first story that I didn't understand one bit of.
gobblety gook
I have a manager thats HIGHLY technical, but his management skills suck. He's a YES man to every other department because he doesn't have any balls. He won't back us up and if you go into a meeting with him, you know you're in trouble. He doesn't do evaluations and unless you're asking him a technical question, won't make a decisive answer.
... you don't necessarily need to be highly technical to be a good manager, but if you're a shitty manager you're stuck. Technical skills can be learned, but good people skills are hard to come by.
... I guess it's a toss up. My bosses boss is a great manager, but HIGHLY untechnical. Has a hard time shutting down her computer. It's annoying, sure, having to explain things twice, but at least we can trust her to manage stuff and cover our backs and get stuff done.
I think I'd rather have your boss
I dunno
I'm sorry, but thats just a short sighted, trollish comment.
... the end result is exactly the same, the method of doing it is almost exactly the same, you simply use less energy along the way.
... but if everyone cut their energy use by 10% (EASY! to do) there would be billions of dollars saved, and much less environmental damage.
... if everyone thinks like you, we are doomed.
Are you saying that you'd rather pay $X for a lightbulb, and $Y/hour to use it, when you can get the exact same amount of light for $X and pay $Y-50% to run the bulb? You get the same end result, but save boat loads of energy. Thats conservation on the easy level. Ditto using say, a toaster, instead of turning on the oven to make your breakfast. Or getting a diesel powered car
We're not talking about you having to install a windmill and ride to work
But people like you are going to ruin it for the rest of us. You're content to idle in your SUV, blast your AC, leave all your lights on, throw away all your recycleables (yes, thats conservation as well), and generally pollute the world until it's useless to other people.
YOU are the problem and YOU are the reason we're having these discussions. If my parents generation wasn't so obnoxious about energy use and was a little nicer to the environment, we wouldn't be in the predicament we're in now.
Look - no ones asking you to pocket mulch. Just turn off you lights when you're not home. Unless you go offroading every day, turf the SUV for something smaller. Aim for the blue box instead of the black one. These aren't difficult things for your life. So pull your arrogent head out of your ass and realize that you're part of a group of people
So grow up, and play nice.
They can SAY all that, but is it legally enforcable?
IANAL, so I have no idea. But it seems to me that it probably isn't, and is there as a protection scheme in case someone creates a business that duplicates their handy tool, or makes a billion bucks by using their tool. They wouldn't bother enforcing it for every day people, but for the big bucks, they're come out swinging.
But, I'm guessing. I know that when it comes to contracts and waivers that contain things like 'if you sign this you give up all rights to sue us' or 'by riding this ride you give up all your legal rights as a citizen' aren't strictly true - they try, but by simply signing something that says you're giving up your rights, you aren't really.
Sounds like mostly bluster to me.
Having been the tech guy before, doing all the setup, do yourself a favour and document everything you do. Setup a linux box somewhere and install wiki, and whenever you do something/install a system/change the network, just record it. don't worry about formatting etc, just keep it somewhere. Then, when things quiet down, go back and clean it up. Then you'll know in a couple years why it was important that cable X ran to Y after Y has been moved and you go 'wtf was I thinking'.
... going back to fix these things is a pain in the ass later, but is easy to do from the start.
Or, if you happen to leave, you're leaving a good legacy for the next guy.
I know documentation is the bane of everyones existance, but when you're designing a new network from the ground up (including servers, workstations, etc) a little pain == lots of gain.
Additionally, create (and document) some quick policies and procedures now - things like passwords/external access/storage locations/naming conventions
Good luck.
I'm reading about the API (which I know nothing about, because I don't know anything more than an API is an interface to a program) and thought while reading about including their code in yours, 'how do you know that their code is safe?'
.. how you know that when you call a function? from the api, it's not doing something malicious? how do you know they aren't using it to track users, send malicious code, etc? granted - it's Google, but still?
They obviously don't release the code for the api
Is there built-in protection? Is it safe to blindly use someone elses api? If you call GBrowserIsCompatible() and it calls GDeleteEverythingOnHarddrive, is there something to stop that?
Just curious. I'd like to learn how to do play with these things, but it seems like a pretty steep learning curve.
Thanks!
As much as everyone hates testing, this is one thing that should have been caught in QA before the patch/update was released. Come on - you just dropped a major version into how many machines? You mean you didn't catch something like frequent crashes and office breaking in your QA Cycle? In your pilot?
As much as I hate doing QA and Pilots, they work. For little stuff, screw change management and just change it. But for something like a major release or update, you need to do some testing before you dump the code out to users.
It just makes sense in a CYA way, and makes the weekends yours again.
I had the same space issues with my Toshiba notebook ... Until someone pointed out USB 2.0 drive cages.
I snared 2 ($25 a piece) and put my 2 120gig drives in. Plug em in, Windows (I know you have a Mac, but it should be similar I'd hope) detects them and I've got 240gig of space on top of the 20gig that my laptop has. easy as that.
There are also firewire cages out there if you're hooked on that.
Cheap and easy. The only downside I've found so far is that, be cause the drives are in cages and independantly powered, they never stop spinning until you unplug them. I don't see the need to have my drives spinning all the time, especially when my laptop isn't even there, so I put them on a power bar to make turning them off easy when it's time to take the laptop on the road.
$0.02 CDN.
I have to agree - especially about the icons. I know it's stupid, but when I go to fire up OO I have to think, which icon loads what on my button bar. It's a small thing, but every time I launch OO I curse the icons.
If they were to spend some time cleaning up the interface it would go a long way. I love OO, but it is ugly and could use refining.
I'd suggest your local hardware store/Canadian tire ... buy a furnace filter (About $5) and cut chunks out of it to the right size. maybe get some strips of velcro at the same hardware store. put a bit in each corner of the fan and a bit on the filter and voila .. easy to change and secure for about $6. And given the size of furance air filters, one should last you a year or more.
Me too! /aol
Things are not, sadly, like this in real life. Even the happiest employee will steal if theres motivation. Motivation includes money, ego, boredom, whatever. Some people, as illogical as it seems, steal because they can. Some like the challenge. Those people aren't going to be hampered by an open office with lots of floppys and burners and internet connections.
If you don't lock the doors, sooner or later someone is going to break in. You ahve to do what you can to stop it.
4) Tax rebates for people who buy fuel efficient vehicles.
The cutoff would be a challenge, but I'd say any car that gets 10% better than the average fuel economy of cars in its class should count.
Granted, us people driving fuel efficient cars are saving more (by spending less), it generally costs more money to buy one than a regular gas car. A tax writeoff might help nudge people to buy more fuel efficiency.
And of course, ban SUVs
And you're proud of this? You're a fucking idiot. The publication ban was there because the judge didn't want the horrible, horrible details of the girls deaths to be made public. They were tortured, sexually assualted repeatedly and then dismembered up by a depraved man and his equally disgusting girlfriend. And you feel PROUD that you published those details to people? You think it makes you a fucking freedom fighter by exploiting those girls pain so you can be cool?
... screw my Karma ..
How would you like the details of your graphic sexual abuse, torture and death published for the whole world to see? How would your family feel?
You are a sick, sick person.
I'm not even going to post this AC
This is the same argument I use with my current car - a TDI (Turbo-Direct-Injection) Dieel Jetta.
... in 1 month. At that rate, I'll have paid off the difference in 14.3 months.
It costs about $1,800 more to get the Diesel. I've started keeping track of my KM travelled and how much it costs vs. a gasoline car and so far I've saved myself $126.42 with my diesel
But, even better and more important to me is that I'm using less fuel, and using less fuel more efficiently, which is producing less pollutants and emissions. Not to mention the fact that making diesel uses less energy (less refining needed) than gasoline.
So, even though it costs more money to buy a diesel, I was willing (And continue to be willing) to pay a little more to make a little less pollution.
Reading life after the oil crash really helped change my mentality about fuel and energy use. Shifting my energy use to more electricity and less fossil fuels means that, while I'm still using energy, I'm using a cleaner source of it. A lot of the power in SW Ontario comes from either Hydroelectricty or Nuclear power which is considerably cleaner than burning fossil fuels.
I guess it all comes down to how much you'd change your lifestyle to help cut back on energy use, and how much of your own money you'd spend to do it.
At my place of employment, the IT department is considered nothing more than a necessary evil on a good day, and a giant anchor around the business on a bad day. We are looked down on as something that funnels money off the bottom line and slows down all the nifty things that 'the business' wants.
.. 'the business' dictates what they want, how soon they want it, and what they'll pay for it, and if you disagree, management over rules you and forges ahead until someone below them has to take the blame for the failure.
.. but lately, I've seen it first hand.
.. the business wants inventory and configuration management so we can do all the ITIL crap. Fine and dandy ... I find out yesterday, after 2 weeks of 12-15 hour days, that they've changed the deadline, and want it end of MAY now. Oh, and I'm not allowed to work anymore overtime on it, because thats costing too much money. Oh, and the specs have changed. Oh, and I can't have the database server I wanted because it costs too much.
... a lot of businesses forget that without IT they wouldn't be able to handle the volume of business they do ... they wouldn't have their sales databases, their registers, their servers, their spreadsheets and powerpoint files ... they'd have pens and papers and filing cabinets.
'the business' has become a dirty word in IT
at first, back in the day, I didnt' really understand Dilbert and how his projects kept getting cancelled/changed midstream, how management made horrible decisions
For example, i had a massive database project due today
IT doesn't get the respect it deserves a lot of the time
Theres a reason for IT, but a lot of businesses have forgotten it. We enable businesses to be more effective, more efficient and do more work with less people and faster. Sure, we cost money - it costs money to do business. But with the right technolgoy, and the right IT people, that money is minimized and helps keep the business rolling.
drop me an email ... would like to find out s'more
canadaboy (at) gmail (dot) calm
We are in the middle of a large scale Linux project .. replacing 900 SCO Unix servers with Linux. We are wondering the same thing .. what monitoring tools can be put in to watch these servers?
... the IBM equivalant (A Tivoli product I think?). No need to reinvent the wheel.
... how do you balance your need to know everything about every box all the time (well, the business and management want to know at least) vs the tiny amount of data you can push without interfering with mission critical applications running over that same link?
Our big hitch comes from the fact that we only have a satellite connection to each of the remote sites, so we can't do real time monitoring, so things like HP Openview NNM are out of the question - they use too much bandwidth.
Our solution (And the reason I'm working late right now) is to build a custom suite of tools that does batch reporting every night by polling logs and custom programs, then sends it back in a handy xml file. We take that file, dump it into a large informix database, and then we can do whatever we want to create reports.
It's a little more work than just installing a package, but we're getting EXACTLY what we want out of the product. It works with our very unique communications and configuration, and it's modular so I can add whatever monitoring/checks I want by writing a new ksh script. All the output is standardized and all the parsing is done at the office by a very clever xml parser one of the db guys wrote.
I think for whaty ou're looking for, theres things like Big Brother, MRTG, HP Openvie umm
But I'd love some feedback for people who are working in a bandwidth sparse shop like me
In theory, you could use Audioscrobbler to keep track of that information.
/wishes he could program in more than just ksh
You'd need to build something to act on the data collected, but it's an easy start.
I use the audioscrobbler data to realize I'm listening to one group too much and expand my collection. I only have a limited amount of space at work for music, so once I find myself listening to the same thing day in day out, I rip a couple more CD's and keep going. Otherwise I end up getting whole cd's stuck in my head and then I burn out on them.
I agree - a plugin that would make educated guesses about what music you'd like to listen to would be great. just load your whole list into it, and it, after training, would play appropriate music for that day/time of day. Would be very cool in fact.
I think webmin has full filesystem management stuff built in .. it can tie into the passwd file for users, and you can set it so users can only use the one filesystem module.
easy as pie.
Answer: Majority NDP Federal government. No bias in the news here, move along...
...
/cbcfanboy.
Go figure, when you watch their news and satire programming, they're generally liberal leaning. They go a long way to crush anything conservative (listen to The Current sometime and see) or extreme
I suspect that your research is pulled out of someones ass. The fact that a lot of CBC is unionized might have biased the poll, but I think it's as accurate as me saying that if only geeks were allowed to vote, the largest breated woman would win.
It's all conjecture, and to try and swing your argument by listing research that can't even be name is poor.