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Dell and Napster Going Directly to Colleges
An Anonymous Reader writes "Forbes is reporting on the teaming of Dell and Napster to provide music directly to college campuses. The solution will alleviate network bottlenecks caused by illegal music downloads will enable colleges to use Dell blade servers on campus to store music from Napster's library locally. This will allow network processing speed to remain fast while hundreds of students simultaneously download digital music." From the article: "Campuses were 'shrinking the [available] bandwidth on the network to discourage' illegal downloading, says John Mullen, vice president of Dell's higher education business. He says schools want a way to minimize the impact of music downloads on their networks and encourage students to shift toward legal downloads."
Um, for those of us a little too busy with REAL work to keep up on the absolute latest toy or web framework or whatever, can someone explain what Dell is? Or Napster? The post didn't contain links to whatever they are. I'm too busy to look them up.
Think of a university as work place enviroment.
1) No Games allowed.
2) No IM allowed.
3) No p2p allowed.
You want to have fun on your time? Fine, buy an xbox or other gaming system. Leave the campus, go downtown, have fun there.
Too many school networks are being used for slackware purposes. If you are willing to pay for a private network that you can play games on, p2p, etc, do it !
The school network is for educational purposes. I am prety sure that playing EQ is not the reason you are attending school.
FLAME ON !
Guns are for wimps... Use a crossbow.. this way you can pin them to their chair when you go postal.