I implemented Zenoss for Application, Systems and Network monitoring of close to 1000 devices. We have the collectors distributed across each colocation, and multiple in some colo. My project was so successful that my companie's CTO committee implemented it across all of our other business units, and none of them have found anything that it cannot monitor. If there's something that you can't do, a plug-in can be written. It's replaced our inventory system, IPAM solution (lightly), application, network and systems monitoring systems, and due to the "device class" architecture we've simplified deployment time for monitoring, and inforced consistency in monitoring across the board. We do pay for support, which we've found to be a requirement.
I could not agree more. I attend the University of Texas in Austin (which has a pretty good rating for CS, good enough for Dijkstra to teach there until his passing two years ago) and one of my professors last semester, while ranting about over seas outsourcing, spent twenty minutes lecturing us about how lucky we are to attend a school that focuses more on theory than application. I am a senior, graduating this upcoming Christmas, and the great majority of my completed courses have had almost no practical use to me for coding. On the other hand, they have taught me to think about and logically break down problems, understand how programs actually interacts with the computer, and the theories on which computation is founded. A techincal school or small college CS program would teach me the complete opposite of what I have learned. My professor believes that the ability to think, not just to program, is what will keep our asses fed in the upcoming years, instead of some family in Banglapore Tipikaka ( - does not exist, but you get the picture).
I have a SA 3250HD and mine has component *and* DVI.
Check out: http://www.twalbany.com/pdf/userguides/userguide_s a3250HD.pdf
Page 6 has the info about the DVI connector.
I imagine it is the same for all Time Warner Cable subscribers, but here in Austin, HDTV has enough channels to make it worth while. Half of our local broadcast stations are up {CBS,ABC}, 2 iNHD channels (movies, sports, etc), Discovery HD Theatre, Fox HD, HDNet, HDMovie, HBO HD and Showtime HD.
Most of the programming is good, the box outputs any format you would want, up to 1080i. The HD Decoder box is the same price as the regular digital box. I haven't checked out the Firewire capability, but the port is there, I just don't own a cable.
If you remember way back when the Matrox Millenium reigned supreme, the retail version had a 220Mhz DAC but the OEM version was always 175Mhz... I had the guys at ChipSmart realing when I took that expensive card back to get the retail version. Guess those OEM discounts count against something.
-Jordan
My friend's brother worked at Dell back before the tech bubble burst and his job for 5 years was to optimize units to the 9's before they went out for review... He spent weeks on a single machine to figure out how to tweak it to the max; How's that for random selection?
-Jordan
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I implemented Zenoss for Application, Systems and Network monitoring of close to 1000 devices. We have the collectors distributed across each colocation, and multiple in some colo. My project was so successful that my companie's CTO committee implemented it across all of our other business units, and none of them have found anything that it cannot monitor. If there's something that you can't do, a plug-in can be written. It's replaced our inventory system, IPAM solution (lightly), application, network and systems monitoring systems, and due to the "device class" architecture we've simplified deployment time for monitoring, and inforced consistency in monitoring across the board. We do pay for support, which we've found to be a requirement.
I hope you let him (or her?) have it. I would have responded in a stream of techobabble "the truth" with extreme prejudice.
I could not agree more. I attend the University of Texas in Austin (which has a pretty good rating for CS, good enough for Dijkstra to teach there until his passing two years ago) and one of my professors last semester, while ranting about over seas outsourcing, spent twenty minutes lecturing us about how lucky we are to attend a school that focuses more on theory than application. I am a senior, graduating this upcoming Christmas, and the great majority of my completed courses have had almost no practical use to me for coding. On the other hand, they have taught me to think about and logically break down problems, understand how programs actually interacts with the computer, and the theories on which computation is founded. A techincal school or small college CS program would teach me the complete opposite of what I have learned. My professor believes that the ability to think, not just to program, is what will keep our asses fed in the upcoming years, instead of some family in Banglapore Tipikaka ( - does not exist, but you get the picture).
I have a SA 3250HD and mine has component *and* DVI. Check out: http://www.twalbany.com/pdf/userguides/userguide_s a3250HD.pdf
Page 6 has the info about the DVI connector.
I imagine it is the same for all Time Warner Cable subscribers, but here in Austin, HDTV has enough channels to make it worth while. Half of our local broadcast stations are up {CBS,ABC}, 2 iNHD channels (movies, sports, etc), Discovery HD Theatre, Fox HD, HDNet, HDMovie, HBO HD and Showtime HD. Most of the programming is good, the box outputs any format you would want, up to 1080i. The HD Decoder box is the same price as the regular digital box. I haven't checked out the Firewire capability, but the port is there, I just don't own a cable.
If you remember way back when the Matrox Millenium reigned supreme, the retail version had a 220Mhz DAC but the OEM version was always 175Mhz... I had the guys at ChipSmart realing when I took that expensive card back to get the retail version. Guess those OEM discounts count against something. -Jordan
My friend's brother worked at Dell back before the tech bubble burst and his job for 5 years was to optimize units to the 9's before they went out for review... He spent weeks on a single machine to figure out how to tweak it to the max; How's that for random selection? -Jordan