It's a little more effort to get going than Zenoss: compile from sources for the free version create your own account
actually, you can get packages for most of the distros, though for some it might be outdated.
as a zabbix user, i can only agree. i'd add that you can also receive snmp traps, use ipmi, add userparameters (basically, you can get in zabbix _any_ value that you can script) - and probably a zillion of other things i don't remember right now:)
from my (limited) experience, bacula is more streamlined and solid than amanda. i did not do too many tests when choosing, but when i did, bacula seemed to be the most solid solution available, so i settled with it. so far it is working very, very well. it is also progressing quite nicely, so i would definitely pick bacula for any new systems, if only because i'm familiar with it:)
thanks for the informative post. i guess your best hope for some time is to request vendors linux compatibility:) i've seen before several cases where developers of specialised software create linux version because of two reasons - customers ask about it often enough, and they are annoyed that their very expensive software is blamed for problenms caused by windows...
now that was a post from somebody involved. thanks.
i just wanted to suggest checking out kde-edu and related applications. kalzium hooked me on chemistry basics despite having an advanced chemistry course (and forgetting most of it). kanagram, khangman and klettres (and others) provide some basic language skill teaching. there are applications for plain mathematics, a bit more advanced algebra, geometry...
you get kgeography for, surprise, geography stuff - and even kturtle for very, very basic introduction to programming (hey, still advanced for me;> ).
things like kstars, marble and step are pretty darn advanced and should create interest in most students.
and i have just mentioned apps i have tried myself - i surely missed some other important ones, that one could find at http://edu.kde.org/
so, is there an area that is missing ? if that is a missing functionality in one of the existing apps, talk to the devs. it might just get implemented. a whole now application might be less likely to appear, but you never know until you rrreally talk about it:)
while in a way i appreciate your pick in the post 'subject', i feel it was not notable enough;) on other hand, try to google 'streisand'. weird, i get "Streisand effect" as the 3rd hit. hi, barbara. feel like being on the wrong slice of celebrities ?
darn. they can't read about sussex, england. and they can't register at hostels/hotels/conferences where sex has to be specified (this actually happened at my workplace where some admin had set overzealous filters on his own).
repeat this long enough, end you won't feel anything anymore. remove the device, and you will be able to tickle yourself for some time. hey, there surely is some money to be made here !
also, this reminded me about the case that people (and a bunch of other creatures) see image reversed, but brain turns it around. infants haven't this ability yet, so during some first days in this world they are quite... uncoordinated. and then there was an experiment where people would put on glasses that reversed everything. after some time, the brain adapted, and they saw everything correctly. remove the glasses, OOPS:)
hmm, so your proposal is charge, but do not fix the bug ?:) this doesn't work that way. only maybe if you are a total mopnopoly. fixing a bug means delivering better software -> more users -> more paying users -> more bugs reported -> more bugs fixed. as mentioned, there also will always be new features to add and new bugs to fix. from my experience, there's bigger demand for services than there is supply in some areas... your argument reminded me about this, though;) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
portknocking is well known, yes. maybe a bit less secure, but easier to implement and use - just set iptables to reject further connections to ssh port after some amount of connection attempts in a minute from single ip. for my low-usage systems that's few connects per minute, and then it's some 5-10 minutes of rejects. this alone drops password guessing from thousands a day to few dozens. most probes give up after first 5 minutes if being unable to connect. tune these values according to your system usage patterns if you want an easy way to get less of that crap in logfiles.
only gtk dialogs generate feelings similar to the ones you described, alongside the airports. and the airports still win. at some point i really start to feel hatred against some particularly non-bright airport employees (in their defence, they probably have been brainwashed).
how would this change anything ? kernel isn't the biggest part of a modern distribution. and even if we only consider kernel... there's still no difference. you'd still have to trust all drivers, everything that plugs, runs on top or alongside the kernel, be it micro or not.
for quite some time i've been using internet over gprs. yep, plain gprs, no edge, no 3g. and it's a darn crappy gprs at that - i rarely see constant speeds over few kbps. i tried to run some remote x apps over x forwarding - painful. enabled ssh compression - painful (a bit less). theni tried nx. ok, it was a bitch to setup, and i didn't get free client working - but darn the difference is... thunderbird now starts up in seconds instead of 15 minutes, and is actually somewhat usable.
that's a praise for nx in general;)
now for your wish to have attachable/detachable desktop. i can't find the document right now, but when i was struggling with nx installation, i found a description that urged running initial session as an nx sessio. this would allow connecting to it from anywhere, have windows resize to the actual resolution you have and whatnot other nice features.
my needs are very simple in this area, so i haven't yet gotten to such a usage pattern, but maybe you should revisit nx and try how well does this model work for you.
pretending that there's something in the agreement that actually isn't there wouldn't work quite well in courts or something...
if the isp sells 10 mbps, you can't blame user for using that. if isp can't handle that, they should sell 6 or whatever mbps connections.
they could specify in the agreement "we provide you 10mbps line, but you may only use half that bandwidth", but that would only lead to conflicts... hey, that's what is happening right now, except they don't have such things in agreements (and that would be a stupid idea anyway).
the citation of new memes shocks me slightly only because old ones are lost too easily. i mean, i don't have housemaid's knee !!!!!!!!!!11111~~~~
for the uninitiated:
I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch - hay fever, I fancy it was. I got down the book, and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves, and began to indolently study diseases, generally. I forget which was the first distemper I plunged into - some fearful, devastating scourge, I know - and, before I had glanced half down the list of "premonitory symptoms," it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it.
I sat for awhile, frozen with horror; and then, in the listlessness of despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever - read the symptoms - discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it - wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus's Dance - found, as I expected, that I had that too, - began to get interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so started alphabetically - read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight. Bright's disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
I felt rather hurt about this at first; it seemed somehow to be a sort of slight. Why hadn't I got housemaid's knee? Why this invidious reservation? After a while, however, less grasping feelings prevailed. I reflected that I had every other known malady in the pharmacology, and I grew less selfish, and determined to do without housemaid's knee. Gout, in its most malignant stage, it would appear, had seized me without my being aware of it; and zymosis I had evidently been suffering with from boyhood. There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
I sat and pondered. I thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view, what an acquisition I should be to a class! Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals," if they had me. I was a hospital in myself. All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma.
mockery inbetween friends is quite different from public humiliation (trust me, i'm far from a polite person). knowing where the line between these two is, that's a fine enough art, and not one i could claim to always master well enough.
public humiliation should be left only for cases when the person knew well what they were doing, and the resulting situation really warrants a harsh reaction - and a public one at that. i'd say that's true in way less situation than practised.
interesting, never had heard of this one. we are using Zabbix (URL:http://www.zabbix.com/), which might be another option for the author of the submission. architecture of zabbix seems to be similar - php frontend, server with agents.
that's quite an interesting idea. it seems to me also to be way better than post-acceptal busting. too bad usa patent office would the most useless place to suggest this:)
My laptop has a 250GB drive that's almost full with work files. I haven't had less than a few hundred GB of storage on a desktop for almost a decade.
that kinda depends on the work, doesn't it. i have 40 or 80 gb hdd at the work (see, i don't even remember the exact size), and only recently i managed to fill it up (and then i removed some obsolete server restoration images which should really not reside on workstations anyway). i know people who haven't filled up their 8gb drives, and a lot more who are using similar amounts of data on 40/80/200 gb drives. once 64 gb ssd costs ~ the same as 60 gb hdd, market share will already have been swapped for those.
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...and all that is not claimed is then taken away from them, i hope
It's a little more effort to get going than Zenoss: compile from sources for the free version create your own account
actually, you can get packages for most of the distros, though for some it might be outdated.
as a zabbix user, i can only agree. i'd add that you can also receive snmp traps, use ipmi, add userparameters (basically, you can get in zabbix _any_ value that you can script) - and probably a zillion of other things i don't remember right now :)
from my (limited) experience, bacula is more streamlined and solid than amanda. :)
i did not do too many tests when choosing, but when i did, bacula seemed to be the most solid solution available, so i settled with it. so far it is working very, very well. it is also progressing quite nicely, so i would definitely pick bacula for any new systems, if only because i'm familiar with it
thanks for the informative post. i guess your best hope for some time is to request vendors linux compatibility :)
i've seen before several cases where developers of specialised software create linux version because of two reasons - customers ask about it often enough, and they are annoyed that their very expensive software is blamed for problenms caused by windows...
now that was a post from somebody involved. thanks.
i just wanted to suggest checking out kde-edu and related applications. kalzium hooked me on chemistry basics despite having an advanced chemistry course (and forgetting most of it). kanagram, khangman and klettres (and others) provide some basic language skill teaching.
there are applications for plain mathematics, a bit more advanced algebra, geometry...
you get kgeography for, surprise, geography stuff - and even kturtle for very, very basic introduction to programming (hey, still advanced for me ;> ).
things like kstars, marble and step are pretty darn advanced and should create interest in most students.
and i have just mentioned apps i have tried myself - i surely missed some other important ones, that one could find at http://edu.kde.org/
so, is there an area that is missing ? if that is a missing functionality in one of the existing apps, talk to the devs. it might just get implemented. a whole now application might be less likely to appear, but you never know until you rrreally talk about it :)
report theft to the police ?
at least should provide a quite nice show...
while in a way i appreciate your pick in the post 'subject', i feel it was not notable enough ;)
on other hand, try to google 'streisand'. weird, i get "Streisand effect" as the 3rd hit. hi, barbara. feel like being on the wrong slice of celebrities ?
screw html mail. i'm annoyed they made 'reload every' menu hard to use since 9.5 - and haven't improved it since :>
i currently have only few major wishes for opera.
1. make the darn 'reload every' menu usable again ;>
2. add gssapi support (i have to use firefox for this);
3. add html copying support (i have to use firefox for this)
while printing also could be improved, i usually anyway copy stuff to writer (from firefox ;) )
darn. they can't read about sussex, england.
and they can't register at hostels/hotels/conferences where sex has to be specified (this actually happened at my workplace where some admin had set overzealous filters on his own).
repeat this long enough, end you won't feel anything anymore. remove the device, and you will be able to tickle yourself for some time.
hey, there surely is some money to be made here !
also, this reminded me about the case that people (and a bunch of other creatures) see image reversed, but brain turns it around. infants haven't this ability yet, so during some first days in this world they are quite... uncoordinated. :)
and then there was an experiment where people would put on glasses that reversed everything. after some time, the brain adapted, and they saw everything correctly. remove the glasses, OOPS
hmm, so your proposal is charge, but do not fix the bug ? :) ;) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
this doesn't work that way. only maybe if you are a total mopnopoly.
fixing a bug means delivering better software -> more users -> more paying users -> more bugs reported -> more bugs fixed.
as mentioned, there also will always be new features to add and new bugs to fix. from my experience, there's bigger demand for services than there is supply in some areas...
your argument reminded me about this, though
portknocking is well known, yes.
maybe a bit less secure, but easier to implement and use - just set iptables to reject further connections to ssh port after some amount of connection attempts in a minute from single ip.
for my low-usage systems that's few connects per minute, and then it's some 5-10 minutes of rejects.
this alone drops password guessing from thousands a day to few dozens. most probes give up after first 5 minutes if being unable to connect.
tune these values according to your system usage patterns if you want an easy way to get less of that crap in logfiles.
only gtk dialogs generate feelings similar to the ones you described, alongside the airports.
and the airports still win.
at some point i really start to feel hatred against some particularly non-bright airport employees (in their defence, they probably have been brainwashed).
how would this change anything ?
kernel isn't the biggest part of a modern distribution. and even if we only consider kernel... there's still no difference. you'd still have to trust all drivers, everything that plugs, runs on top or alongside the kernel, be it micro or not.
If maximum upward scalability from a PC host starting point was required, I'd go with Oracle.
i don't remember where did i read this, so sorry about not attributing the citation.
"Oracle does not scale well.
Financially."
best spoken out, with long enough pause.
what about hosted environments ?
for quite some time i've been using internet over gprs. yep, plain gprs, no edge, no 3g. and it's a darn crappy gprs at that - i rarely see constant speeds over few kbps.
i tried to run some remote x apps over x forwarding - painful. enabled ssh compression - painful (a bit less).
theni tried nx. ok, it was a bitch to setup, and i didn't get free client working - but darn the difference is...
thunderbird now starts up in seconds instead of 15 minutes, and is actually somewhat usable.
that's a praise for nx in general ;)
now for your wish to have attachable/detachable desktop. i can't find the document right now, but when i was struggling with nx installation, i found a description that urged running initial session as an nx sessio. this would allow connecting to it from anywhere, have windows resize to the actual resolution you have and whatnot other nice features.
my needs are very simple in this area, so i haven't yet gotten to such a usage pattern, but maybe you should revisit nx and try how well does this model work for you.
pretending that there's something in the agreement that actually isn't there wouldn't work quite well in courts or something...
if the isp sells 10 mbps, you can't blame user for using that. if isp can't handle that, they should sell 6 or whatever mbps connections.
they could specify in the agreement "we provide you 10mbps line, but you may only use half that bandwidth", but that would only lead to conflicts... hey, that's what is happening right now, except they don't have such things in agreements (and that would be a stupid idea anyway).
the citation of new memes shocks me slightly only because old ones are lost too easily.
i mean, i don't have housemaid's knee !!!!!!!!!!11111~~~~
for the uninitiated :
I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch - hay fever, I fancy it was. I got down the book, and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves, and began to indolently study diseases, generally. I forget which was the first distemper I plunged into - some fearful, devastating scourge, I know - and, before I had glanced half down the list of "premonitory symptoms," it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it.
I sat for awhile, frozen with horror; and then, in the listlessness of despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever - read the symptoms - discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it - wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus's Dance - found, as I expected, that I had that too, - began to get interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so started alphabetically - read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight. Bright's disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
I felt rather hurt about this at first; it seemed somehow to be a sort of slight. Why hadn't I got housemaid's knee? Why this invidious reservation? After a while, however, less grasping feelings prevailed. I reflected that I had every other known malady in the pharmacology, and I grew less selfish, and determined to do without housemaid's knee. Gout, in its most malignant stage, it would appear, had seized me without my being aware of it; and zymosis I had evidently been suffering with from boyhood. There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
I sat and pondered. I thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view, what an acquisition I should be to a class! Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals," if they had me. I was a hospital in myself. All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma.
all hail Jerome K. Jerome.
* if there really is somebody who has not read this book, do that tomorrow. citation from http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/jerome_k_jerome/three_men_in_a_boat/0/
mockery inbetween friends is quite different from public humiliation (trust me, i'm far from a polite person). knowing where the line between these two is, that's a fine enough art, and not one i could claim to always master well enough.
public humiliation should be left only for cases when the person knew well what they were doing, and the resulting situation really warrants a harsh reaction - and a public one at that.
i'd say that's true in way less situation than practised.
Sysadmins are often dicks to fools for a reason: it helps a lot in their work.
you could say that for any profession. doctors. rescue personnel. cops.
and you would so very wrong each time.
i did, i did, i did preview !!!1111one
http://www.zabbix.com/
interesting, never had heard of this one.
we are using Zabbix (URL:http://www.zabbix.com/), which might be another option for the author of the submission.
architecture of zabbix seems to be similar - php frontend, server with agents.
that's quite an interesting idea. it seems to me also to be way better than post-acceptal busting. :)
too bad usa patent office would the most useless place to suggest this
My laptop has a 250GB drive that's almost full with work files. I haven't had less than a few hundred GB of storage on a desktop for almost a decade.
that kinda depends on the work, doesn't it.
i have 40 or 80 gb hdd at the work (see, i don't even remember the exact size), and only recently i managed to fill it up (and then i removed some obsolete server restoration images which should really not reside on workstations anyway).
i know people who haven't filled up their 8gb drives, and a lot more who are using similar amounts of data on 40/80/200 gb drives.
once 64 gb ssd costs ~ the same as 60 gb hdd, market share will already have been swapped for those.