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> Any implementation is fine really. |
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> There have been many stats projects in the past that have failed due to |
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> various reasons. A simple question is: How are you planning on making |
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> your idea/proposal not fail? ;) |
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As Dylan Hunt would say: "By making it right : )" ( with the smile ). |
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The simple answer : |
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The server: |
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- will wait for clients to send information about the system |
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- will tell about the statistics they want |
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- will print an overall statistic if nothing specified |
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- register clients, the registration will be optionally set with an |
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expire value, or by default |
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one month ( the expiration timer is reseted on every update by the client ) |
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The client ( a daemon on the client machine ): |
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- periodically will check different kind of interesting things |
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- in cases of device checks, the daemon will check on start up, as |
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it is added as init |
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script to default level |
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- arch - again on start up |
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- in case of installed packages, the daemon will check them |
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periodically. default will be |
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one week or user defined ( no more than the defined expiration |
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date by the server ) |
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- will choose, from a list of activated modules, what information to send |
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Optional: |
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- GUI interface to configure the daemon on the client machine using GTK. |
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I don't have anything specific in mind for the server configuration, |
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but it could be via a |
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simple text file. |
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I have been exposed to the MVC idea, so of course I intend to separate |
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logic, presentation, |
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and storage of information. |
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Some information about me: |
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I'm from Bulgaria ( GMT+2 ). First year in Informatics at an |
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university. I'm using gentoo |
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since 2007 and of course I intend to continue using it : ) |
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I have experience with Perl and C/C++ ( I still haven't read the |
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second vol of Thinking in C++, but I feel ready for it ). |
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No experience with open source/ and free/ projects. |
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Ah, my name is ( by id card ) Ivaylo Ilionov and I'm 21 years old : ) |
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Any questions or suggestions are welcomed. If I annoyed you with |
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something - sorry. |
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