OCS Inventory NG is a client/server program with a web based management end used to inventory computer equipment. This guide assumes version 1.01 and also has a section demonstrating importing the OCS data into GLPI.

http://www.maxsworld.org/index.php/how-tos/ocs-inventory-ng-on-centos

Enjoy. As usual, feel free to correct me or point out anything that needs added.

Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco

http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/

I’m in the middle of deploying a system at work. I’ll be typing up a new how-to guide in case anyone cares to use it. I’ll post it as soon as it’s complete, and also I’ll add it to the CentOS wiki. I’m concentrating on version 1.01 of OCS instead of 1.02, because I tried out 1.02 and wasn’t able to get it working well. Perhaps it’s my doing, but 1.01 works nicely, so I’ll stick to that.

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/220/story_22001_1.html

Last time I checked, the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment clearly goes against anything of the sort.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

So according to McCain, the Constitution establishes a Christian nation even though the very first amendment states that no laws respecting establishment of religion can be passed. This guy is not right to lead this country, and is clearly another far right-wing zealot. I hope America doesn’t allow for a third term of Bush-likeness. I love his quote:

I just would–I just feel that that’s an important part of our qualifications to lead.

I guess you have to be Christian to qualify as a leader…

Down at the bottom of the page it stated that McCain contacted the website and stated he would vote for a Muslim if he or she were the best candidate. This would have been after his PR department asked him what he was doing saying things like he did.

Read the entire interview. There was a video on YouTube about it, but they only put the negative aspects in the video instead of the entire video. The transcript shows the entire interview.

This is absolutely no surprise, and honestly, I’m surprised they stayed open as long as they did. I’m 28 years old, and I remember arcades in my small home town disappearing even 15 years ago. Even my first video game systems, which included Nintendo, Sega, and Super Nintendo, started killing off the arcades even that long ago. I do remember going to arcades though and having a blast. RIP Arcade.

I live fairly close to Penn State main, so it’s more interesting to me I guess. Very neat.

I didn’t realize this before, but you can get an SELinux security context listing based on running processes with the Linux pstree command.

# pstree -n -p -Z

init(1,`system_u:system_r:init_t')
 ├─httpd(5396,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t')
 │  ├─httpd(5398,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t')
 │  ├─httpd(5399,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t')
 │  ├─httpd(5400,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t')
 │  ├─httpd(5401,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t')
 │  ├─httpd(5402,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t')
 │  ├─httpd(5403,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t')
 │  ├─httpd(5404,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t')
 │  └─httpd(5405,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t')
 ├─sunbird(7502,`user_u:system_r:unconfined_t')
 │  └─run-mozilla.sh(7516,`user_u:system_r:unconfined_t')
 │     └─sunbird-bin(7521,`user_u:system_r:unconfined_t')
 │        ├─{sunbird-bin}(7524,`user_u:system_r:unconfined_t')
 │        ├─{sunbird-bin}(7525,`user_u:system_r:unconfined_t')
 │        ├─{sunbird-bin}(7526,`user_u:system_r:unconfined_t')
 │        ├─{sunbird-bin}(7530,`user_u:system_r:unconfined_t')
 │        └─{sunbird-bin}(7531,`user_u:system_r:unconfined_t')

Obviously I snipped a ton output, but in that last command you’d get output sorted by PID, displayed with the process ID, and then the SELinux security context applied. Sweet. SELinux still makes me scratch my head sometimes.

Download from their website: InfraRecorder

Unpack the zip files to a place like C:\Program Files\InfraRecorder and then launch InfraRecorder.exe. That’s it, there’s no software to really “install” the Windows way. Enjoy.

Geek Squad Lawsuit filed

I refuse to even send a hard drive back to the manufacturer without first wiping it with DBAN. Call me paranoid, but it’s entirely too easy for others to get personal information from you.

As root:

# yum install xbindkeys

As your user:

# xbindkeys --defaults > $HOME/.xbindkeys

You can then open up the default file and read all the fun stuff in there. To add something custom, just put the lines in like below. I’ll show you adding my command to use amixer to mute the sound.

# vim $HOME/.xbindkeysrc

“amixer set Master mute”
Control + m
“amixer set Master unmute”
Control + n

Next, you’ll need to save the file and then actually start xbindkeys in the background for it to run. Check to make sure it’s running then.

# xbindkeys

# ps uxa | grep xbindkeys
500     16610     0.0   0.2     5720     2080   ?    S   15:21   0:00   xbindkeys

Whenever you make a change to the configuration file, you’ll have to kill this process and restart it.

# killall xbindkeys
# xbindkeys

Lastly, it’s a pain to have to start it from the command line every time you log into your session, so add it to the Gnome (find your KDE instructions if you use KDE) session manager.

Menu -> System -> Preferences -> Personal -> Sessions

Go to the Startup Programs tab and click Add.

Name: xbindkeys
Command: /usr/bin/xbindkeys
Comment: Custom key commands utility

Click OK and you’re ready to go.

In this example, when I hit CTRL + M it will mute my sound and when I hit CTRL + N it will unmute my sound. You can add whatever you want, it’s pretty cool. You can even add mouse click commands.

If you want to install on RHEL or CentOS, just download the source.

Xbindkeys

If you don’t know what the key code is for adding something like a number, from the command line do the following.

# xbindkeys -k

You’ll see a box popup asking you to press a key. Go ahead and hit something, I’ll hit the number 8 key and you can see what the output is.

# xbindkeys -k
Press combination of keys or/and click under the window.
You can use one of the two lines after "NoCommand"
in $HOME/.xbindkeysrc to bind a key.
"(Scheme function)"
     m:0x10 + c:17
     Mode2 + 8