On Feb 10, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
On Feb 10, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Rick Carlson wrote:
You might also take a look at Dia which is an open source program that runs very much like Visio. It was developed to be easy for Visio users to switch.
Dia does an acceptable job mimicing Visio's basic diagramming capabilities, but that's about it. When you find yourself needing the hardcore features of Visio, there really isn't an acceptable substitute. Two of those features that I directly need and could make immediate use of are network discovery and mapping and directory schema and architecture design. The first takes a real-world snapshot and presents you with a visualization of it suitable for network design documentation. The second takes a visual layout of directory services and generates AD schema and configurations for you (though, having fiddled with it, it's reasonably usable for other directories, too.)
Now, I'm pretty darn sure that there is an open-source tool for this stuff. This is just *too useful* a tool not to have an open-source command line equivalent. Probably the command line equivalent came first.
However, my Googling skills are failing me. It's probably a perl script that calls nmap and ghostscript.
Side note, Google has been failing me a noticeable amount lately. About 1 in 10 times I just can't get the answer I want. I wish they had the old Altavista Javascript clustering stuff. It would pop up a cluster diagram with the keywords that would cut the space up the best. You could then click on it to drill down.
For example, you could do "paris hilton". Get 18 gazillion hits. Pop the diagram and do a negative keyword on "video" or "blowjob" and it would screen out 99.99% of all the "Paris Hilton" crud.
I miss that. Instead, we get stupid Javascript tricks. Bah.
-a
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