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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? If possible, would you consider buying OS X for a non Mac computer? Post 302275305 by reborg on Friday 9th of January 2009 06:00:03 PM

01-09-2009

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I voted no. But in order to make sense of my vote I should explain.

I personally don't like the Mac OS interface, and I am not a big fan of many of the implementation of many of the administrative tools. Yes, I could install tools to do things those things way I want but as someone who works mostly from the command line it makes more sense for me to use something which behaves in a more traditional way such Solaris, GNU/Linux or BSD. Also I don't use any of the software for which Macs are the ideal platform.

Having said that, from a business perspective if there was a truly legitimate (not ambiguous) way to do this and people reporting to me wanted to use OS X and it would run on the standard hardware provided to them I wouldn't have a problem approving it on the condition that they could perform all of their work without needing to use another paid-license OS.

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hp-search-mac

HP-SEARCH-MAC(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  HP-SEARCH-MAC(1)

NAME

       hp-search-mac  -- HP switch search tool.

DESCRIPTION

	HP-search-MAC is an util that can query HP switches for their
	connection table. It then allow you to search for a MAC address and tell you
	where it is physically connected (best match first).
	.
	The functionality is similar to traceroute but on Ethernet level and only
	for HP switches.

USAGE

       hp-search-mac [options] [MAC] [...]

OPTIONS

       hp-search-mac [options] mac [ [options] mac ] [...]

       options:
	 --dl n 	  Set debug level to n.
	 --help 	  Print this help.
	 --hostname host[=>community] | -h host[=>community]	       Set a switch name to search. You can also set this in
		       /etc/hp-search-mac.conf or ~/.hp-search-mac.conf.	    The hash to set is \%switches.

       Mac:
	 You can use some different formats:	  ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (hex)      ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff (hex)

	       0.123.0.12.0.12.0 (dec)

       CONFIGURATION:

       \%switches:	This is a normal perl hash of the form	    \%switches = ("host" => "community", ...);

AUTHOR

       Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com>

SEE ALSO

       snmp-walk(1) snmp-get(1)

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