Our internal administrative links page has eight section divs in two columns holding 60 links to a diverse range of destinations such as telephony servers, KVM's, powerboards, dozens of custom-written internal tools, server admin, KB's etc.
It has grown naturally as we add capabilities & systems over time.
btw if the above comment seems useful please upvote. seems like a downvote got me stuck in bad karma land for years:/
I work at a small ISP. We're a decade past your point, but our wired-building model means we're still sitting on less than 5000 customers.
We run Ispconfig and use the commercial support while upgrading, that hosting server paid for itself many times over and continues to be great value to us.
For network monitoring we started with mrtg on a solaris box, manually configured *shudder*. Since moving to JFFNMS we've been very happy with the network-monitoring side of things.
I think you'd do well to follow other suggestions here looking for a suitable billing-system solution. Try not to focus on getting all these things in one, just make a internal webpage with links to all the respective systems.
> The new thing here is making such devices as one-offs for researchers, rather than in quantity.
This seems accurate, but I'd go a bit further: by having on-the-fly generation from digital source, labware design can respond to on-the-spot needs in ways that generic or prefab labware can not.
By having the digital source generated by a clever program (rather than just drawn up in CAD or what-have-you), new possibilities would emerge. Someone could fire up their reaction vessel program and print a vessel optimised for certain characteristics which are unique to the experiment they want to run at that time.
If you're talking, like most of the commenters above, about retrieving the data from the server through tm.exe, then this does become an exercise in scraping. wget has builtin recursive-fetching capabilities and if you can access a complete index that would be a logical starting point.
With my background, if at all possible I would bypass the exe and just look at importing the raw data into a relational database like mysql. I'd read the data file(s) looking for textual content in a linked structure, and the rest is just research and a bit of perl work (or php etc, if you prefer).
Once you figure out which table structure would contain the data, and you come up with a conversion which will put the data into an importable format, the job's almost done and you just need to bring in or write a CMS to access it.
I have source code which would go towards some individual bits of a project like this, contact me if you like. Good luck...
I think hostprince.com has been affected too - I keep a personal links page there and a fresh PC got infected last night, which is a very rare occurrence for me. They seem to have disabled cpanel access as well.
Kinkos PCs operate in a toxic environment. As a sub-sub-sub-contractor to them, every time I perform maintenance I'm surprised the machine doesnt have spyware oozing through the front grille.
To their credit, some customers do try to make this happen.
But really. Kinkos are a company who do printing. If you think they have better things to do than worry about IT in-house, you'd be right.
And if you took a wild guess and thought that perhaps the usual corporate most-bang-for-buck urges resulted in contracting to one of the
lower biggers, (I'm guessing) you'd be right.
And I have no shortage of anecdotes deriving from that train of thought..
The mechanics of it all? Keep trying, There Inc.
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Those who would like to create a virtual world in the image of Neal Stephenson's Metaverse would need to create something that is more like a pure geographical namespace than the entire world pictured here.
In the book, the featureless metaverse which was first populated by early-adopters was like a database for users to know what is close to them and which/how many of these objects to access based on what the hardware of the day allows.
Ownership of something like the Black Sun implies fair market rates (tiny at first up to substantial by the time the book takes place) for this virtual real estate, then equivalent land rights thereafter.
The company that owns the geographic-relational database should have no hosting control over the "Black Sun" that could let them, say, put a Nike logo on the door. Rather, land ownership would be more like today's domains, and coding and hosting these objects would be like today's web sites - either done personally by Geeks or commercially by third party systems like Geocities.
If my internet experience becomes a visit to this geographic namespace beginning in my *own* office, then I'll be happy to consider Neal Stepheson's vision realized and a new kind of usefulness and relevance brought to virtual existance.
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(referring, naturally, to the banner behind Bush on an aircraft carrier while making a speech about the Iraq war)
Yep.
Our internal administrative links page has eight section divs in two columns holding 60 links to a diverse range of destinations such as telephony servers, KVM's, powerboards, dozens of custom-written internal tools, server admin, KB's etc.
It has grown naturally as we add capabilities & systems over time.
btw if the above comment seems useful please upvote. seems like a downvote got me stuck in bad karma land for years :/
I work at a small ISP. We're a decade past your point, but our wired-building model means we're still sitting on less than 5000 customers. We run Ispconfig and use the commercial support while upgrading, that hosting server paid for itself many times over and continues to be great value to us. For network monitoring we started with mrtg on a solaris box, manually configured *shudder*. Since moving to JFFNMS we've been very happy with the network-monitoring side of things. I think you'd do well to follow other suggestions here looking for a suitable billing-system solution. Try not to focus on getting all these things in one, just make a internal webpage with links to all the respective systems.
yes, horrific. And yet, it's the first thing that popped into my mind as well LOL
> The new thing here is making such devices as one-offs for researchers, rather than in quantity.
This seems accurate, but I'd go a bit further: by having on-the-fly generation from digital source, labware design can respond to on-the-spot needs in ways that generic or prefab labware can not.
By having the digital source generated by a clever program (rather than just drawn up in CAD or what-have-you), new possibilities would emerge. Someone could fire up their reaction vessel program and print a vessel optimised for certain characteristics which are unique to the experiment they want to run at that time.
it'll be interesting to see what official uses such a secure infrastructure will be put to as time passes
That was my first thought too, though GITS explained the Japanese Miracle to be nanotechnology.
This is all a bit academic until the content owner either agrees to reopen web access to a conversion team, or releases the source data for analysis.
If you're talking, like most of the commenters above, about retrieving the data from the server through tm.exe, then this does become an exercise in scraping. wget has builtin recursive-fetching capabilities and if you can access a complete index that would be a logical starting point. With my background, if at all possible I would bypass the exe and just look at importing the raw data into a relational database like mysql. I'd read the data file(s) looking for textual content in a linked structure, and the rest is just research and a bit of perl work (or php etc, if you prefer). Once you figure out which table structure would contain the data, and you come up with a conversion which will put the data into an importable format, the job's almost done and you just need to bring in or write a CMS to access it. I have source code which would go towards some individual bits of a project like this, contact me if you like. Good luck...
I think hostprince.com has been affected too - I keep a personal links page there and a fresh PC got infected last night, which is a very rare occurrence for me. They seem to have disabled cpanel access as well.
Kinkos PCs operate in a toxic environment. As a sub-sub-sub-contractor to them, every time I perform maintenance I'm surprised the machine doesnt have spyware oozing through the front grille. To their credit, some customers do try to make this happen. But really. Kinkos are a company who do printing. If you think they have better things to do than worry about IT in-house, you'd be right. And if you took a wild guess and thought that perhaps the usual corporate most-bang-for-buck urges resulted in contracting to one of the lower biggers, (I'm guessing) you'd be right. And I have no shortage of anecdotes deriving from that train of thought..
Those who would like to create a virtual world in the image of Neal Stephenson's Metaverse would need to create something that is more like a pure geographical namespace than the entire world pictured here.
In the book, the featureless metaverse which was first populated by early-adopters was like a database for users to know what is close to them and which/how many of these objects to access based on what the hardware of the day allows.
Ownership of something like the Black Sun implies fair market rates (tiny at first up to substantial by the time the book takes place) for this virtual real estate, then equivalent land rights thereafter.
The company that owns the geographic-relational database should have no hosting control over the "Black Sun" that could let them, say, put a Nike logo on the door. Rather, land ownership would be more like today's domains, and coding and hosting these objects would be like today's web sites - either done personally by Geeks or commercially by third party systems like Geocities.
If my internet experience becomes a visit to this geographic namespace beginning in my *own* office, then I'll be happy to consider Neal Stepheson's vision realized and a new kind of usefulness and relevance brought to virtual existance.