Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 21:10:29 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Antony Mawer" <fbsd-questions@mawer.org> Cc: Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0608031910i20bcd350pf554e9eb7e6c3b0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44D2A9BF.7070007@mawer.org> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <20060802203604.A6529@ganymede.hub.org> <44D153D0.9000304@webanoide.org> <87wt9qzh2i.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> <20060803011653.G6529@ganymede.hub.org> <44D1A866.2030206@mawer.org> <20060803154705.X6529@ganymede.hub.org> <44D29220.1000807@mawer.org> <ef10de9a0608031844r16ddb122k2c480aeeb9b97a7b@mail.gmail.com> <44D2A9BF.7070007@mawer.org>
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On 8/3/06, Antony Mawer <fbsd-questions@mawer.org> wrote: > On 4/08/2006 11:44 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > 899 bytes * (10^7) = 8.37258995 gigabytes... Remember... Once this > > code is pushed out to hosts you can't change it. 10 years from now > > we'll still have hosts sending in old data.... What was wrong with my > > netcat idea? > > > > uname -mr | nc statistics.freebsd.org 1234 > > > > It's one, short, line of code and you know exactly what it's doing. > > Simple, Easy, Done. > > Part of the idea I mentioned earlier was using a hash of this > information... so the first time you send it through, you generate a > hash and store it... then in future you can iterate over the hardware > list, hash it, compare it against your stored hash, and only send if the > hardware inventory has changed... > > Not everywhere has unrestricted access out to the Internet via whatever > port they want... I know of many sites that only allow HTTP, and only > via a proxy... > Ok how about: uname -mr | nc statistics.freebsd.org 80 Wow, that was easy! :-) -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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