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Its not that easy. You need to learn a programming language. PHP, Perl, Ruby whatever. Its accessed differently in each language, and each one have its own quirks. There is no way someone can just make up a script to do what you need it to do.

Okay here we go. For SVIDEO or RCA connection types the Hauppage PVR-150,250 or 350 will do fine. If/when you get HDTV you will have to buy a pcHDTV capture card to record HDTV content. HDTV will also require a faster proc, more ram, and much more hard drive space. For standard TV (i.e...

You are limited to whats available in your area. Verizon's FIOS (the fiber to the curb) is still in test deployment areas. Im not sure SC is one of the states where they are rolling it out at. You could always go for DSL. Im not sure who your telco provider is (SBC?) but you can try that route

Slack is your friend. Always add 15-30 ft to what you think you will need. Unless you pull cable for a living its very easy to under-estimate the cable you need. You can always trim off excess cable if your to long, but you cant create cable out of thin air if you come up short. If you only...

Amp is not needed. All it really does is add 100ft. to your total distance from the CO. DSL typicall must be within 14000ft of the CO. Another factor to remember is the quality of the copper wire that is in your house and that is used by the telco. The latter you can't really help, but the...

I may just have to reload Enlightenment again. :D

ill second nagios. Its modular, has many different plugins and its free. There is a bit of a learning curve with it but it has some great documentation.

Well all you really need is a PC with a good graphics card. Also plasmas may not be the best option for the NOC. We actually use projectors for our TV and stats. The plasmas we used to use had horrid burn in from running all the time. As far as displaying stats, all you really need is MRTG...

Gentoo is for ricers :D Just a little fun, congrats on getting your system up and running

try going to a command prompt and ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew_all if you get an IP other than 168.254.x.x then you are probably good to go. If you dont you could try statically assigning an IP to your PC as a temporary solution, just be aware that if you are using an IP that...

I have one of the first WRT54G's that was released (before 802.11g was officially a standard, it was just a draft) and I have had 0 problems with it. If I remember correctly I think the WMP54Gx is an upgraded model. If you get the linksys you can get some hacked firmware called sveasoft which...

Right up my ally :D I work in a NOC right now. Granted I work for a multi-billion dollar company but I give you some advice. Plasmas - usually we have CNN and weather channel up on a couple of ours, to keep an eye out for any natural disasters that may impact service. We also have...

If I may also offer some advice. Having recently switched fields from Telco over to Data I know what its like to have to start at the bottom of the employment totem pole. Look for "newer" companies that need help. With newer companies there is not as much red tape to cut through if you want to...

XOR and draconius have got the right idea. Id suggest following XOR's advice. Ditch fedora, use CentOS or Debian, or Ubuntu. Fedora IMHO is a piece of shit. CentOS is based off of RHEL so maneuvering within CentOS is very similiar to Fedora. The follow draconius advice. use...