Actually, the question of whether they're a 'public figure' as that term of art is used in publicity and privacy law is a question for a court, not one of opinion.
While I personally think that police acting in the course of their duties are subject to higher public scrutiny than the general public, I think the case is less clear once they take off their uniform.
(Disclaimer: If you think this is legal advice, you and Slashdot deserve each other.)
the part of Sum of All Fears where we almost *do it to ourselves*: a major plot point hinges on one Good Guy mis-hearing "fifteen kt" as "one fifty kt" from another Good Guy -- the first being a potential terrorist nuke, while the second "would have to be" the Russians.
There's followup as to how hard it is to push the *clean* data down the pipe afterwards as well.
If that's not a sufficiently cautionary tale as to just how loose and messy things would actually be in a first-strike-response situation for you... then you're not imaginative enough, and probably much happier.
It's amazing how hard it is to think when you think someone's about to nuke your country.
It's somewhat analogous to the traditional election supervisor's prayer: "Please, dear Ghod, let it be a landslide".
of sites for suggested packages is below. It will take me about a week to go through them all, but I'll try to get a posting up here next weekend closing the loop; thanks y'all.
And a couple of them look interetsing, notably AudIT, and maybe Spiceworks, though both it and GLPI want to also do my ticketing for me, and you know how hard switching ticketing systems is...
But the thing that seems critical to me, that I'm not sure any of these systems actually do, is that machine serials, license, even IP addresses -- these are each *separate* inventories, not attributes of some other inventory item.
No one of them is the primary key: each is -- in its own table; this is how you avoid IP collisions, software double installs, and the like: if the license key has been installed, you can *see* that; even if it hasn't, it's *still there in the inventory*.
Assignment of an IP to a machine, or installation of a key on a machine, those processes should be *associations* of inventory rows already in separate tables, not the assignment of a value to the attribute "Office License Key" on a specific machine serial number record.
That's what I'll be looking for while I evaluate; if none of them work that way, I too may have to break down and write one...
As noted above, smartass, those are the executive, management, and utility workstations. That doesn't count the 499 workstations at which (ahem) actual work gets done.
And we've drawn down, on reflection; it's down to about 30 active servers now.
20:1 isn't too bad a ratio, for what we do.
And, no, after 18 months, I've gotten 2 raises and a bonus, and I'm making about twice what they hired me at.
My approach is to use static addresses for servers and network switch management consoles, and fixed-lease DHCP for everything else, personally.
We're big enough that I've ripped off 10.10/16 and 10.11/16 for our 2 campuses, and I block certain categories of stuff into specific class-Cs. I'm not fond of overloading semantics on addresses, but sometimes you just have to...
So, no, I'm not trying to use Nagios for inventory; merely pointing out that I already use it for monitoring, so integrated inventory/monitor software needs to be enough better to make ditching it worthwhile.
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OV-519 JPEG based cams are a bit of a bitch to get working; no one wants to put JPEG code in the kernel.
Someone does RPM it for SuSE, but the hunt took me almost 2 hours.
But, really, the problem here is that you're going to the wrong Best Buy stores.
Heh.
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Clearly, you should wait 2 weeks after you post the issue on Slashdot; that's enough notice. ;-)
Soldiers and spies are on the public payroll: are you suggesting that the general public should be privy to their operational details as well?
Contempt of Cop is a problem, certainly, and there are also lots of cops you'd prefer weren't..
Actually, the question of whether they're a 'public figure' as that term of art is used in publicity and privacy law is a question for a court, not one of opinion.
While I personally think that police acting in the course of their duties are subject to higher public scrutiny than the general public, I think the case is less clear once they take off their uniform.
(Disclaimer: If you think this is legal advice, you and Slashdot deserve each other.)
that the comments on this posting would be all meta FTW.
After all, I *am* in New York City.
Funny spot, which amazingly, I hadn't already seen.
But, y'know: if you're a young Mafioso on your first date, it's probably actually pretty cool if someone tries to kill you.
Spelling flames always contain misspellings.
"Elicit".
MAD assumes rationality.
Wars are not started by rational people.
the part of Sum of All Fears where we almost *do it to ourselves*: a major plot point hinges on one Good Guy mis-hearing "fifteen kt" as "one fifty kt" from another Good Guy -- the first being a potential terrorist nuke, while the second "would have to be" the Russians.
There's followup as to how hard it is to push the *clean* data down the pipe afterwards as well.
If that's not a sufficiently cautionary tale as to just how loose and messy things would actually be in a first-strike-response situation for you... then you're not imaginative enough, and probably much happier.
It's amazing how hard it is to think when you think someone's about to nuke your country.
It's somewhat analogous to the traditional election supervisor's prayer: "Please, dear Ghod, let it be a landslide".
Only, um, in reverse.
of sites for suggested packages is below. It will take me about a week to go through them all, but I'll try to get a posting up here next weekend closing the loop; thanks y'all.
http://opennms.org/
http://www.lanrev.com/
http://www.glpi-project.org/?lang=en
http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/
http://www.open-audit.org/
http://www.kwoksys.com/
http://www.symantec.com/business/theme.jsp?themeid=altiris
http://www.spiceworks.com
http://www.belarc.com
http://www.i-doit.org/
http://opennetadmin.com/
http://www.zenoss.com/community/open-source-network-monitoring-software
http://www.komodolabs.com/
http://netdisco.org/
http://racktables.org/
http://www.staffandline.com/
http://www.invgate.com/
http://www.kiwisyslog.com/kiwi-cattools-overview/
http://pulse2.mandriva.org/
https://www.versiera.com/
http://www.netcraftcommunications.com/
http://openerp.com/
Sure I would.
But my userbase doesn't know from filePro, and isn't going to tolerate a greenscreen app, and I am *not* a web toolset programmer.
IE: suck it. :-)
And a couple of them look interetsing, notably AudIT, and maybe Spiceworks, though both it and GLPI want to also do my ticketing for me, and you know how hard switching ticketing systems is...
But the thing that seems critical to me, that I'm not sure any of these systems actually do, is that machine serials, license, even IP addresses -- these are each *separate* inventories, not attributes of some other inventory item.
No one of them is the primary key: each is -- in its own table; this is how you avoid IP collisions, software double installs, and the like: if the license key has been installed, you can *see* that; even if it hasn't, it's *still there in the inventory*.
Assignment of an IP to a machine, or installation of a key on a machine, those processes should be *associations* of inventory rows already in separate tables, not the assignment of a value to the attribute "Office License Key" on a specific machine serial number record.
That's what I'll be looking for while I evaluate; if none of them work that way, I too may have to break down and write one...
This got modded down to zero, but there was actually a fair amount of useful information in the 2s and 1s, and I thought this one deserved an answer:
The person who cares is me: when my boss asks "so, *why* do we need to buy more workstations on top of those 70 we bought last August?"
If I don't have an answer, I won't have too happy a life.
No, actually we tend to do 4-6 MACs a month.
But I've been a database programmer for 20 years. Data doesn't belong in (30 different copies of) a spreadsheet; it belongs in a database.
As noted above, smartass, those are the executive, management, and utility workstations. That doesn't count the 499 workstations at which (ahem) actual work gets done.
And we've drawn down, on reflection; it's down to about 30 active servers now.
20:1 isn't too bad a ratio, for what we do.
And, no, after 18 months, I've gotten 2 raises and a bonus, and I'm making about twice what they hired me at.
It was indeed.
And yes, I do.
You're welcome. :-)
In fact, I'm getting a lot of useful answers out of the responses (even if some of them amount to "please! Add me to your block list! :-).
And, like you, it does make "reading Slashdot" a more defensible addition to my daily task list.
My approach is to use static addresses for servers and network switch management consoles, and fixed-lease DHCP for everything else, personally.
We're big enough that I've ripped off 10.10/16 and 10.11/16 for our 2 campuses, and I block certain categories of stuff into specific class-Cs. I'm not fond of overloading semantics on addresses, but sometimes you just have to...
The auto-discovery sounds interesting to me, and you're the 4th or 5th person who's mentioned GLPI...
Not if you don't know it.
So, no, I'm not trying to use Nagios for inventory; merely pointing out that I already use it for monitoring, so integrated inventory/monitor software needs to be enough better to make ditching it worthwhile.
Google doesn't really know *what actual users think of the program*, generally, which I thought it was obvious was the point.
IE: "LMGTFY" isn't a particularly helpful response.
And his 4-digit number is even lower than mine. :-)
Yes, I prefer open source, though I guess that wasn't necessarily discoverable from the "I'd like to be able to hack on it" comment.
I hadn't realized OpenNMS did that much inventoryish work; a dedicated server is no problem. I'll add that to my list.