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   From: Me@Not-there.com   
      
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   >"Lawrence D'Oliveiro"  wrote in message   
   >news:in8vd8$ee7$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
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   >In message , Ezekiel wrote:   
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   >>>> At my house for example I have a domain controller with various   
   >>>> power-on   
   >>>> and log-on scripts that run automatically whenever a computer boots up   
   >>>> or a user logs into the network.I've automated these scripts to the   
   >>>> point where my Postgres database gets populated automatically with   
   >>>> exactly this sort of data.   
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   >>>Linux distros offer features like “KickStart” or “AutoYAST” to save   
   you   
   >>>the trouble.   
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   >> Huh???  Save me the trouble of what exactly?????   
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   >All that nonsense you had to go through.   
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   >> How in the world are KickStart and AutoYAST even close to what I just   
   >> described?   
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   >They scale up to thousands, even tens of thousands of machines, which your   
   >Windows scripts will not.   
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   You're not very bright. For starters there is no reason why my scripts   
   wouldn't scale to thousands of users but that's not the point.   
      
   What my scripts do (from my earlier post) is:   
      
      
   Things that get recorded are:   
      
     the hardware inventory   
     free disk space   
     any hardware or system errors, etc.   
      
      
   If a hardware configuration changes - I get notified.   
   If a new device driver is installed - I get notified.   
   If a computer starts getting low on disk space,   
   is having hardware errors, system errors or is missing   
   service packs or is running an old version of Flash... I get notified.   
      
      
   So do tell me *exactly* how AutoYast or KickStart would automatically record   
   the hardware inventory in a database. Or notify me if the hardware in a   
   machine changes. How would AutoYast or Kickstart tell me if a machine is low   
   on diskspace or if a machine is having hardware errors or system errors.   
      
   And don't make up shit either... the way you did when you made an idiotic   
   claim of how embedded Python only supports a limited subset of regular   
   Python.   
      
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