It's been a long time since I sat in a network control slot, but I fell in love with MRTG.
First, make sure every device speaks SNMP.
Then, get MRTG up and running. By default, it'll discover devices and poll every interface every 5 minutes. If you want faster polling, you will need RRDTool. The intergration of both of these is well documented.
Next, configure some of the advanced options. Things like dropped packets, malformed packets, failed logins, mail spool sizes, temprature, CPU and Memory utilization can all be checked. The temp, CPU, and memory are great for showing if a router is too small for it's current tasking.
Finally, get one of the really cool web-based frontends for MRTG's data. Most of these show all the devices and allow you to click to drill down to specific interfaces on specific routers.
It took me about 3 months to get it all working right. Once it was in place, management was like 'ooh, graphs and charts'. Very nice stuff.
Then just don't allow them to earn experience for a 24 hour period. Take away their reason for 'powerleveling' and make them think twice before running into a group of 'mobs'.
I started with Debian in 1997. I moved to RedHat and later Mandrake before trying LFS and Gentoo. I've recently moved back to Debian and played with Slack a bit. I've got quiet a bit of experience with different distros. However, if a distro does something to piss me off, I'm gone.
That being said, I'd like to know if you've ever gotten a RH kernel recompile to work. The config file is fairly easy to find once you scour google to figure out where it is. Alternatively, you can grep your system for it...if you have an idea of what you are looking for. Oh, don't try to use the kernel from anywhere except RH; they have their own special kernel mods.
I like Gentoo and LFS because they, being built from the ground up, give you an idea of what is where and why. When you get a new device, you know if it's built in the kernel or not. If you need to recompile, you can do so with absolute confidince.
You don't have to force users. Just force the developers. KDE should not allow a non-QT app to even run. It should display a message directing the user to e-mail the developer and request that he release a QT version of the app.
Eventually, the devs will pick one or the other. Or they may choose to support both and select the widgets at compile time (ifdefs?).
Anyway, at some point, you have to make a decision. Do you want growth or choice. Pick one and be happy.
Selective benchmarking? You picked the biggest difference you could find.
NWN has less than a 10fps differnece.
FFXI is only about 1000 whatevers slower.
Wolf:ET is about 10fps slower.
UT2k4 is also about 10fps slower.
Also, all of these were run at 1280*1024. Running at the more common 1024*768 would close that 10fps gap quickly.
Yes, my card does have bumpmapping. I was just being an asshole about features like PixelShaders and "full Dx9 compatible" which seem to be artifically gimped on older generation cards.
We've been talking about this at my local LAN group. I just don't buy into it. In 6 months, the top of the line game will be optimized for UberPixelSlamin 3.75. Your card will only support 3.70. So, now you have a choice: spend more money to do SLI and still not have the features you want; scrap the card and buy one that does have features you want.
Look at it this way. I just bought a FX5900 in January. I can't remember what I paid, but I know I saved up for a while. Now they have these 68oo thingies. They are only about a cunt-hair faster than mine, but they support more cool stuff like pixel shaders and bump mapping. What good will two crappy cards do me?
So, the Uberhardcore will buy two right off the bat. In 10 months, they'll get 2 more of the next best thing. The semihardcore will always get the next best thing every 10 months. The hardcore will upgrade every 12 to 16 months; usually to one step below the next best thing. The casual gamers don't really give a shit.
No one will care about SLI except as a dream. It didn't work in 1997 and it won't work today.
Most, if not all, of the Win32 firewalls block based on the program name and location. If coolapp.exe tries to access the internet, it can't. It can try all the ports it wants; it won't get through.
Some of the better ones even recognise \myapp\iexplorer.exe as being different than \yourapp\iexplorer.exe. Even if someone tried to write an app named the same as one allowed to access the internet, they still couldn't get through.
I am worried, however, about an app using system calls to route itself through explorer.exe without actually launching it.
Or just get a rifle with a nice scope. My guess is that it'll be cheaper to filter the lines than to pay cops to guard thousands of miles of cables. Not to mention the overtime those poor linemen would be earning...
Japan is one place that could use a few less languages. As a gaijin, I'm dumbfounded by their what, four written languages. And don't even get me started on their three different numbering schemes...
The law will provide little cover for a student being critical of the faculty. Even if he is technicaly in the right in this case, he'll be hammered for the least little thing in the future.
Throw a cigiratte butt down: Busted for littering. Hanging out in the quad: Loitering. Talking to a friend outside the library: Disturbing the peace.
Face it, once you shit where you eat, you're fucked.
>One year of upgrades is your lot in life, after which you have a paper weight.
I think that's a little harsh. Your palmtop is not a PC. It's more like a cell phone. If you want new features, buy a new model. If not, keep the one you have. It's not a 'paperweight'. It will continue to have the same functionality as the day you bought it. Nothing today makes it worth less than every cent you paid for it yesterday.
Sorry you feel burned. I felt the same way about my i-Pod. But you know what? Mine plays music just like my friend's. He bought his 2 months after I got mine. He paid a lot less and got the 'new' model. I could feel ripped, but I got what I paid for....
But what happens when you graduate and they change the terms of the settlement? Starting out in life is hard enough when you have student loans. Add a stupid court settlement to that and it'll break you.
Honestly, with loan payments, I'd have been better off working at a convenience store. Hell, I could have been a manager at a fast food joint by now.
College is a big fucking joke. Your teachers tell you you make more. They never tell you that your debts grow in proportion.
OK, let's think about this. Why would a company with the marketshare of Valve ever make a deal with a publisher?
Valve does not need shelf space. They already have Steam. Why worry about printed manuals, boxes, CDs, and other crap? Just announce it on the major gamer sites and let everyone get it online for $20 vice $60 for a box. Their cut would still be the same no matter what.
Valve does not need advertising. Uuh, Half-Life. What's that? Everyone who will buy it already knows about it.
Valve does not need backers. They already have a license to print money in the form of Counter Strike.
In any event, something is happening in the background we can't see. No one would make a deal with a publisher unless they needed to. Both sides stand to gain from this. The question is: Who gains what?
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It's been a long time since I sat in a network control slot, but I fell in love with MRTG.
First, make sure every device speaks SNMP.
Then, get MRTG up and running. By default, it'll discover devices and poll every interface every 5 minutes. If you want faster polling, you will need RRDTool. The intergration of both of these is well documented.
Next, configure some of the advanced options. Things like dropped packets, malformed packets, failed logins, mail spool sizes, temprature, CPU and Memory utilization can all be checked. The temp, CPU, and memory are great for showing if a router is too small for it's current tasking.
Finally, get one of the really cool web-based frontends for MRTG's data. Most of these show all the devices and allow you to click to drill down to specific interfaces on specific routers.
It took me about 3 months to get it all working right. Once it was in place, management was like 'ooh, graphs and charts'. Very nice stuff.
Then just don't allow them to earn experience for a 24 hour period. Take away their reason for 'powerleveling' and make them think twice before running into a group of 'mobs'.
I think a better penalty would be to not allow the user to login for 24 hours after a death vice taking exp.
Funny, I already have that ability. It's called a remote control.
I started with Debian in 1997. I moved to RedHat and later Mandrake before trying LFS and Gentoo. I've recently moved back to Debian and played with Slack a bit. I've got quiet a bit of experience with different distros. However, if a distro does something to piss me off, I'm gone.
That being said, I'd like to know if you've ever gotten a RH kernel recompile to work. The config file is fairly easy to find once you scour google to figure out where it is. Alternatively, you can grep your system for it...if you have an idea of what you are looking for. Oh, don't try to use the kernel from anywhere except RH; they have their own special kernel mods.
I like Gentoo and LFS because they, being built from the ground up, give you an idea of what is where and why. When you get a new device, you know if it's built in the kernel or not. If you need to recompile, you can do so with absolute confidince.
You don't have to force users. Just force the developers. KDE should not allow a non-QT app to even run. It should display a message directing the user to e-mail the developer and request that he release a QT version of the app.
Eventually, the devs will pick one or the other. Or they may choose to support both and select the widgets at compile time (ifdefs?).
Anyway, at some point, you have to make a decision. Do you want growth or choice. Pick one and be happy.
Selective benchmarking? You picked the biggest difference you could find.
NWN has less than a 10fps differnece.
FFXI is only about 1000 whatevers slower.
Wolf:ET is about 10fps slower.
UT2k4 is also about 10fps slower.
Also, all of these were run at 1280*1024. Running at the more common 1024*768 would close that 10fps gap quickly.
Yes, my card does have bumpmapping. I was just being an asshole about features like PixelShaders and "full Dx9 compatible" which seem to be artifically gimped on older generation cards.
We've been talking about this at my local LAN group. I just don't buy into it. In 6 months, the top of the line game will be optimized for UberPixelSlamin 3.75. Your card will only support 3.70. So, now you have a choice: spend more money to do SLI and still not have the features you want; scrap the card and buy one that does have features you want.
Look at it this way. I just bought a FX5900 in January. I can't remember what I paid, but I know I saved up for a while. Now they have these 68oo thingies. They are only about a cunt-hair faster than mine, but they support more cool stuff like pixel shaders and bump mapping. What good will two crappy cards do me?
So, the Uberhardcore will buy two right off the bat. In 10 months, they'll get 2 more of the next best thing. The semihardcore will always get the next best thing every 10 months. The hardcore will upgrade every 12 to 16 months; usually to one step below the next best thing. The casual gamers don't really give a shit.
No one will care about SLI except as a dream. It didn't work in 1997 and it won't work today.
No, the problem is consumers who pay for products from these companies. Silly us! Wanting cheaper goods and the like...
That must be some monitor. I still have to type the old-fassioned way...on a keyboard. :/
Most, if not all, of the Win32 firewalls block based on the program name and location. If coolapp.exe tries to access the internet, it can't. It can try all the ports it wants; it won't get through.
Some of the better ones even recognise \myapp\iexplorer.exe as being different than \yourapp\iexplorer.exe. Even if someone tried to write an app named the same as one allowed to access the internet, they still couldn't get through.
I am worried, however, about an app using system calls to route itself through explorer.exe without actually launching it.
Or just get a rifle with a nice scope. My guess is that it'll be cheaper to filter the lines than to pay cops to guard thousands of miles of cables. Not to mention the overtime those poor linemen would be earning...
Just wait till we have to deal with greanpeice blocking the launch of ships designed to mine the asteroids...
Japan is one place that could use a few less languages. As a gaijin, I'm dumbfounded by their what, four written languages. And don't even get me started on their three different numbering schemes...
The law will provide little cover for a student being critical of the faculty. Even if he is technicaly in the right in this case, he'll be hammered for the least little thing in the future.
Throw a cigiratte butt down: Busted for littering.
Hanging out in the quad: Loitering.
Talking to a friend outside the library: Disturbing the peace.
Face it, once you shit where you eat, you're fucked.
1000 yen is roughly $10. I think the actual exchange rate varies from 100 yen to the dollar to 125 yen to the dollar.
Once it hit the 100yen point, the Government of Japan dropped to a 0% federal interest rate to try and stem the drop, so it shouldn't drop any lower.
So, let your 3-year-old neghbor install it. Let's see the publisher sue a minor who cannot be bound to a contract.
>One year of upgrades is your lot in life, after which you have a paper weight.
I think that's a little harsh. Your palmtop is not a PC. It's more like a cell phone. If you want new features, buy a new model. If not, keep the one you have. It's not a 'paperweight'. It will continue to have the same functionality as the day you bought it. Nothing today makes it worth less than every cent you paid for it yesterday.
Sorry you feel burned. I felt the same way about my i-Pod. But you know what? Mine plays music just like my friend's. He bought his 2 months after I got mine. He paid a lot less and got the 'new' model. I could feel ripped, but I got what I paid for....
I moderate simply. If the topic is serious, all funny posts get modded down. If the topic is strangeless, I leave them alone.
I try and give points to interesting, informative, or insightful vice the ???-->profit, soviet russia, etc type jokes.
Years ago, I moved from my back pocket to my front pocket. Great move. The only thing to watch out for is getting jeans with enough room up front.
And the occasional guy feeling my ass while trying to take my wallet...
I'd prefer that we just randomly select people to represent us for the term.
No way one stupid redneck could do more damage than 100 corporate puppets.
It's not very hard. Something like this would work nicely.
But what happens when you graduate and they change the terms of the settlement? Starting out in life is hard enough when you have student loans. Add a stupid court settlement to that and it'll break you.
Honestly, with loan payments, I'd have been better off working at a convenience store. Hell, I could have been a manager at a fast food joint by now.
College is a big fucking joke. Your teachers tell you you make more. They never tell you that your debts grow in proportion.
Did you ener RTF Blurb? It's a goddamn Lit Professor!
When I take certian classes, I expect outside work. But for Lit? WTF?
OK, let's think about this. Why would a company with the marketshare of Valve ever make a deal with a publisher?
Valve does not need shelf space. They already have Steam. Why worry about printed manuals, boxes, CDs, and other crap? Just announce it on the major gamer sites and let everyone get it online for $20 vice $60 for a box. Their cut would still be the same no matter what.
Valve does not need advertising. Uuh, Half-Life. What's that? Everyone who will buy it already knows about it.
Valve does not need backers. They already have a license to print money in the form of Counter Strike.
In any event, something is happening in the background we can't see. No one would make a deal with a publisher unless they needed to. Both sides stand to gain from this. The question is: Who gains what?