Replying to an earlier post

Yeah, and I bet not a single admin has ever used this feature. It’s obscure, barely works, arguably causes more problems than it solves, and there are many other tools that fulfill the same use case, better.

This is one of those things I learned about because it wss in a textbook then never used again. The two or three times I asked about using as part of a solution at work, I got either a confused look or a “good joke” reaction.

That was close to ten years ago. This is the first I’m hearing about them since then.

Replying to @⁨Dookieman12@piefed.social⁩

I have used it in scripts to build inventories of my employer’s computer system

It grabbed to following info:

  • Manufacturer
  • Model
  • Serial Number
  • RAM amount
  • Storage size
  • Used space of storage
  • OS version
  • BIOS version

I piped that data into an HTML report that we used as a dashboard

Edited ⁨⁨Aug⁩ ⁨17⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨16:01⁩⁩en