Before you complain too much, try the app! It is free (thanks to the Google ads) from www.spiceworks.com -- and it rocks -- it automatically probes your network and finds all your computers -- lists all service packs and software installed, lists all hard drives and space remaining. The computer you install spiceworks on has to be Windows, but it will discover Linux, Win and OSX. All accessed via browser/Ajax app running locally (localhost:port). No... I don't work for them -- just found it very cool for my home network of 5 computers.
The tool requires no client on the remote systems and instead appears to use WMI for Windows boxes and SSH for Unix and other non-windows boxes. Because I only trusted it to query just the local Windows machine, it listed all the other windows boxes as "unknown". It did a respectable job with the local machine though -- hardware, software, hotfixes, all appeared accurate and complete. The two asset discovery tools I tried previously are now owned by big guys (Tally Census, now Novell Zen Asset manager, and Peregrine AssetCenter, now HP Openview Asset Management) so it is nice to see a new small fry giving it a try.
isn't it against adsense's TOS to do something like that? Isn't adsense only for public websites? (their crawler has to read your page to server relevant ads)
I think Spiceworks approach is wrong.I think that I as web surfer should be able to use a special developed web browser (firefox developers, are you listening?) that handles Your Google Ad-account and keywords in prefs. A Browser that filters all the ads on every visited page on the Internet and exchange them with ads after the keywords you enter in the special web browsers prefs. So each click on a Ad get you revenue And perhaps even point you to products you are interested in.
magicaltrevor2Jul 25, 2006
Honestly, how do websites and Google make money off of those?Who the hell clicks on them??
chompyJul 25, 2006
Nope; sorry, not dealing with banner ads on my network tools.
querenciaJul 25, 2006
Before you complain too much, try the app! It is free (thanks to the Google ads) from www.spiceworks.com -- and it rocks -- it automatically probes your network and finds all your computers -- lists all service packs and software installed, lists all hard drives and space remaining. The computer you install spiceworks on has to be Windows, but it will discover Linux, Win and OSX. All accessed via browser/Ajax app running locally (localhost:port). No... I don't work for them -- just found it very cool for my home network of 5 computers.
linkage155Jul 25, 2006
>>TweeksterThat is true, I have to say, if it was something I was looking for, I could give it a shot..
gorndogJul 25, 2006
The tool requires no client on the remote systems and instead appears to use WMI for Windows boxes and SSH for Unix and other non-windows boxes. Because I only trusted it to query just the local Windows machine, it listed all the other windows boxes as "unknown". It did a respectable job with the local machine though -- hardware, software, hotfixes, all appeared accurate and complete. The two asset discovery tools I tried previously are now owned by big guys (Tally Census, now Novell Zen Asset manager, and Peregrine AssetCenter, now HP Openview Asset Management) so it is nice to see a new small fry giving it a try.
alassiryJul 25, 2006
isn't it against adsense's TOS to do something like that? Isn't adsense only for public websites? (their crawler has to read your page to server relevant ads)
kenwouldJul 25, 2006
All I've got to say is... Helllllls No
carlhblomqvistJul 25, 2006
I think Spiceworks approach is wrong.I think that I as web surfer should be able to use a special developed web browser (firefox developers, are you listening?) that handles Your Google Ad-account and keywords in prefs. A Browser that filters all the ads on every visited page on the Internet and exchange them with ads after the keywords you enter in the special web browsers prefs. So each click on a Ad get you revenue And perhaps even point you to products you are interested in.