Step 1) Map the network both logically (which networks, what is the routing, etc.) and physically... the "tug test". Label everything, and put it all in a spreadsheet. Tools are nmap, pen and paper, and a label printer. Access to the routers, or being friendly the the router admin is a must.
Step 2) Isolate the problem protocols and hosts. Be on the lookout for appletalk, IPX, or old netbios. All very chatty protocols. Look for old hubs and replace them with switches. Look for comprimised boxen. Try to VLAN things logically (by department, or usage which ever is best for the environment). Tools are snort, ethereal, ntop, and syslog (any managed switches should be sending to a syslog server (I've used syslog-ng))
Step 3) Trend as much as you can. Even before the network is cleaned up, start to collect statistics from the switches, and/or hosts on your network. Any gateways should be monitored as well. This will let you see if there are problems corelated to a particular time of day, if your're going over your bandwidth etc. Tools are MRTG, or for more in depth try Cacti http://www.cacti.net/
There is much more after you get to this point, but people will be much happier the faster you get here.
Even if the AOL email is webmail only, someone may have a tool to get the email and put it into mbox format. A quick google shows that web2pop http://www.jmasoftware.com/english/ might be helpful.
What ever way you go, it'll probably be held together with spit and duct tape, but it's only a one time thing.
At work we use the sh2+ from http://www.uptimedevices.com/. I coded a custom plugin for BigBrother, and we now have temperature and relative humidity with paging and trending.
The one thing I'd tell you to do is the trending. It's great to be able to look at the RRD plots and say, "I see the temperature goes up 3 degrees at night, I'll have to talk to the facilities people".
I've been working as a Solaris/Linux sysadmin since '99 and I can definatly say that over the long haul, packages are way better. However, I tend to custom build, or at least tweak, my own packages and create a local repository to store them in. Then create a local blog about what is installed where and anything special you had to do.
Best of both worlds with documentation for the next admins.
Oh yeah, -Os often gives better performance on modern processors than -O2 (IME) because more of the loop fits in cache.
The linux kernel is GPL'd with the added provision that you are allowed to write a binary moduled to be loaded at runtime without having to release your code under the GPL.
In addition, there are certain restrictions beyond that. IIRC the kernel exports some symbols that are GPL only, and some that for everyone.
So if linksys had not statically linked their code into the kernel, but had made modules instead, everything whould be fine. Since they didn't they need to pay the licensing fee (show us the source).
You can see how UNIX people think by looking at shell, sed, awk, and perl scripts. Why not look for MVS/JCL, RPG (aka Rotten Piles of Garbage), Cobol tutorials and examples. You may also come across the problems people were trying to find solutions for. FWIW, my impression is that mainfraim world is *much* more regimented than the most locked down UNIX box.
I suggest poking around http://99-bottles-of-beer.ls-la.net/, even has s/390 and s/370 assembler.
Ever one of his books (Sci-Fi) that I've read is distopian.
The Feelies - distopian cyberpunk
Mars The Red Planet - distopian Space Cowboy
Their Masters War - ok, not quite so distopian
The Last Stand of the DNA Cowboys - Far future distopian
The Armageddon Crazy - USA in a distopian theocracy
Mind you I've kind of been bored by distopian lit. latly, most of the recent stuff has been unorigional IMHO.
The defendants are settling because the owner of petswarehouse is defending himself, and filing lawsuits is his "hobby". Also, most (all?) of the defendants are out of state and had to hire a NY lawyer. When you are right, but it would cost you $50,000 to prove it and the plaintaif is basically sueing you for free...
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The Nikon D200 does allow this. And you can have a couple of different settings in different shooting banks as well.
Step 1) Map the network both logically (which networks, what is the routing, etc.) and physically... the "tug test". Label everything, and put it all in a spreadsheet. Tools are nmap, pen and paper, and a label printer. Access to the routers, or being friendly the the router admin is a must.
Step 2) Isolate the problem protocols and hosts. Be on the lookout for appletalk, IPX, or old netbios. All very chatty protocols. Look for old hubs and replace them with switches. Look for comprimised boxen. Try to VLAN things logically (by department, or usage which ever is best for the environment). Tools are snort, ethereal, ntop, and syslog (any managed switches should be sending to a syslog server (I've used syslog-ng))
Step 3) Trend as much as you can. Even before the network is cleaned up, start to collect statistics from the switches, and/or hosts on your network. Any gateways should be monitored as well. This will let you see if there are problems corelated to a particular time of day, if your're going over your bandwidth etc. Tools are MRTG, or for more in depth try Cacti http://www.cacti.net/
There is much more after you get to this point, but people will be much happier the faster you get here.
Good luck
PJ over at http://groklaw.net/ might be able to help, or point you to peolple who are doing this. I think she is planning a Linux LiveCD for lawyers.
Can you download the email from AOL, or is it webmail only? I would look at a combination of fetchmail http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ to get the mail and gmail loader http://www.marklyon.org/gmail/ to load it to gmail.
Even if the AOL email is webmail only, someone may have a tool to get the email and put it into mbox format. A quick google shows that web2pop http://www.jmasoftware.com/english/ might be helpful.
What ever way you go, it'll probably be held together with spit and duct tape, but it's only a one time thing.
Good luck.
At work we use the sh2+ from http://www.uptimedevices.com/. I coded a custom plugin for BigBrother, and we now have temperature and relative humidity with paging and trending.
The one thing I'd tell you to do is the trending. It's great to be able to look at the RRD plots and say, "I see the temperature goes up 3 degrees at night, I'll have to talk to the facilities people".
I've been working as a Solaris/Linux sysadmin since '99 and I can definatly say that over the long haul, packages are way better. However, I tend to custom build, or at least tweak, my own packages and create a local repository to store them in. Then create a local blog about what is installed where and anything special you had to do.
Best of both worlds with documentation for the next admins.
Oh yeah, -Os often gives better performance on modern processors than -O2 (IME) because more of the loop fits in cache.
*BZZT*
The linux kernel is GPL'd with the added provision that you are allowed to write a binary moduled to be loaded at runtime without having to release your code under the GPL.
In addition, there are certain restrictions beyond that. IIRC the kernel exports some symbols that are GPL only, and some that for everyone.
So if linksys had not statically linked their code into the kernel, but had made modules instead, everything whould be fine. Since they didn't they need to pay the licensing fee (show us the source).
You can see how UNIX people think by looking at shell, sed, awk, and perl scripts. Why not look for MVS/JCL, RPG (aka Rotten Piles of Garbage), Cobol tutorials and examples. You may also come across the problems people were trying to find solutions for. FWIW, my impression is that mainfraim world is *much* more regimented than the most locked down UNIX box.
I suggest poking around http://99-bottles-of-beer.ls-la.net/, even has s/390 and s/370 assembler.
The Feelies - distopian cyberpunk
Mars The Red Planet - distopian Space Cowboy
Their Masters War - ok, not quite so distopian
The Last Stand of the DNA Cowboys - Far future distopian
The Armageddon Crazy - USA in a distopian theocracy
Mind you I've kind of been bored by distopian lit. latly, most of the recent stuff has been unorigional IMHO.
The mailing list is unmoderated. He (the plaintaif) simply could not figure out how to send plain text e-mail with out attachments.
He (the plaintaif) is now a regular SPAMMER^H^H^H^H^H^H^H poster to the list. Too bad he has never posted anything about aquatic plants to the list.
The defendants are settling because the owner of petswarehouse is defending himself, and filing lawsuits is his "hobby". Also, most (all?) of the defendants are out of state and had to hire a NY lawyer. When you are right, but it would cost you $50,000 to prove it and the plaintaif is basically sueing you for free...
well settling looks good after a while.