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But, how did you post the above message?

TCP/SS, TCP/BDor TCP/AC

TCP/IP over bongo drums

You are teh late my friend :)

Hm, but there's always the bongo project . Although i'm not sure if there's a rfc about it...

In an interview after the speech, Gelsinger said there's typically a one- to two-year lag between the release of the specification and the availability of the technology,

In today's news, vendors worldwide urged one another to move quickly and get IPv6 deployed by the year 2025. When asked about the one or two year lag between the release of specs and the availability of the technology, vendors quickly pointed out the timeframe it took to implement Packet Over Bongo and IPv6 for Refrigerators. "It's been a long time in the making (IPv6) but we've finally succeeded in getting console connectivity to the fridge. We can now via a command prompt: finger lettuce" stated the happy refrigerator engineer. We never even knew of the existence of IPv4 for refrigerators. Engineers estimate another 20-80 year wait for IPv6.

TCP/IP over Bongo Drums

All that is way too sofisticated, my ehternet contingency plan involves drums:

http://eagle.auc.ca/~dreid/

Maybe they want to implement TCP/IP over bongo drums ?

For those who don't get the joke, TCP/IP via bongo drums.

Bongo drums are pretty low frequency, don't you think?

TCP/IP over Bongo!

Is it already April 1st somewhere?

That may well be the case, but stranger things have happened.

I wonder if the Bongo Drums could compete

Now... how exactly are you going to get on the net? Satellite? Pigeon?

He should prolly stick to the tried-and-true bongo drum method. They've got better range than wireless, low power consumption (well, other than mechanized sticks, but he could just operate them manually on cloudy days), and complement the decor marvelously!

Forget high tech shmy tech... Just xmit over Bongos your neighbors will love you for it. Install VoIP over BoIP and make MoIP (Music over IP) while you speak... Now you can serenade your chick(x) at the same time!. Isn't that geek romantic or what?

I'm stuck with a 5 year old computer:
* Pentium 3/450 MHz
* 576 MB RAM
* Diamond Viper V550 (TNT) PCI 16 MB

Plus a 32 MB AGB TNT2 card purchased 2 months ago. If my other half didn't have a shoe fettish or jewellery obsession, I would be running with more clicks. Beat this -- I'm connecting to slashdot via Bongo drum. Beat that! So there! HA!

You missed a few important words: "and may also include access to proprietary content" - *may* include. Any isp is covered, regardless of whether they have proprietary content. I read the provision of not including telecommunications services as meaning the people who provide the actual cables. So if someone uses AOL dial-up, AOL qualifies as an access service, but their phone company doesn't. If the phone company also provides internet services, then they would qualify. If the phone company qualified as a de facto 'access service' simply because their products can be used to send and receive tcp/ip, then manufacturers of bongos could also sue spammers, I would think. Well, maybe not, but wouldn't that be fun?

PGPFone or... VoIP with tunneling... Or... Smoke Signals over SSL and Bongo packets Yes $4000 saved is $4000 more worth of starbux cappucinos

Algoma University College in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. It's got what's called "Accelerated Second Degree Programs in Computer Science and Information Technology." It is 12 months long, from April 30 to April 30 the following year. You can find the program's website here.
Basically, the program requires that you have a 3 or 4 year degree in anything BUT Comp. Sci. or I.T.
Apparently this program is pretty popular and really good. I don't know much about it, however. I never attented AUC, it's just in my home town. If you ever decide to attend the program, look me up ;)
BTW, I'm assuming you're in the US, and with the value of your dollar, it's like 50% off every day in Canada ;) Sault Ste. Marie is also a border town, with a twin city located 5 minutes away in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

Algoma University College in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. It's got what's called "Accelerated Second Degree Programs in Computer Science and Information Technology." It is 12 months long, from April 30 to April 30 the following year. You can find the program's website here.
Basically, the program requires that you have a 3 or 4 year degree in anything BUT Comp. Sci. or I.T.
Apparently this program is pretty popular and really good. I don't know much about it, however. I never attented AUC, it's just in my home town. If you ever decide to attend the program, look me up ;)
BTW, I'm assuming you're in the US, and with the value of your dollar, it's like 50% off every day in Canada ;) Sault Ste. Marie is also a border town, with a twin city located 5 minutes away in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

Algoma University is fully accredited and affiliated with Laurentian University in Canada. (Yes, I work for them. ;)

Jason.

Algoma University is fully accredited and affiliated with Laurentian University in Canada. (Yes, I work for them. ;)

Jason.

Even though our scale is (much) smaller, I'm sure we face the same types of problems. So, I do have some advice:

• Stable network: A stable network is totally crucial. This time last year our residences were wired with thinnet, using transceivers in every room which students plugged directly into their AUI ports on the network cards we provided them. This was an absolute nightmare. It didn't help that the network was cabled out of spec (we didn't do it! It was passed down to us from the previous staff in the department), but the network cards were arcane, and Windows 2000 stopped supporting some of them. So, perpetual physical network problems gave us nothing but grief, and inevitably as students moved in they would put additional stress on the badly cabled network and cause endless brokenness that would take usually weeks to get fixed. It's a wonder the students put up with us. Since then we have wired the residences with CAT5E using managed switches. We made sure professionals certified the cabling as CAT5E compliant. The difference in reliability and time spent in supporting the network is night and day.
• Faculty still need help: The faculty procrastinate just like the rest of us, and they're frantically trying to prepare for their courses that are going to start in a few days. They always have last minute problems, or come to us and say, "Oh, we need this software XYZ available in all the labs for next week. Didn't I tell you?" It helps to be proactive before the beginning of the term to determine their requirements. But even still, their requests are going to tax your resources while you're busy helping students get connected to the campus network.
• Delegate as much as possible: We give all our network cards to student services, and the student services staff handle assigning NICs to the new students, and give them instruction sheets on how to setup their systems. A lot of the new students are computer science students, so they can usually handle a basic NIC setup. For those students that can't, we have residence advisors (some of whom are co-op students in our department) and will help out in setup. Only when there are non-trivial problems do they reach the full-time staff for troubleshooting. Of course, this is the way it should be.
• Students are your customers: Let's face it, anyone who works in this type of support role knows you get stupid questions, stupid problems, and stupid people. But the students are your customers. They are the people who ultimately pay your cheques. Be courteous and helpful. If you can't solve their problem as quick as they want, tell them politely they may have to wait a day or two because their problem is complicated, but do not forget about them! Remind them they can use the labs for all their computing needs while their PC is out of commission. Remember, they're your customers.

  In my experience, the first point is the most important one. The more stable your infrastructure is, the less problems you'll have. Use reliable network cards, switches, and cabling. Unless you're professionally trained, contract out your cabling, or at the very least, get it professionally certified. You do not want to spend 2 days troubleshooting a network problem a single student is having only to find out it's because their wire is running beside a BX cable in the wall somewhere.

  Cheers,
  Jason.

When a new IT related position opens up in our organization we don't have a shortage of applicants. But very rarely do we get an applicant that impresses me. In fact, some of the applicants barely reach what I'd consider to be competent.

For the last 5-7 years parents and guidance counsellors have been telling their kids, "go into the computers, it's the 'wave of the future'!" And this whole IT shortage thing making the headlines over the last couple of years has made a lot of students enter computer science and IT related programs in school. (I ought to know, I work for one.) Unfortunately, just because these people get a degree, doesn't mean they're particularly good or even competent. (Yes, the occasional incompetent student manages to get a degree. It happens.) As a result, we now have tons and tons of students in or graduating from IT and computer science. So it may seem like there's no shortage, but really try interviewing a random selection of this pool and you'll see that the shortage is in the truly skilled.

Jason.