I've become involved in setting up a media center in the library of an elementary school. The school has internet access but does not provide said access to the student population. There is some desire, however, to allow access to specific sites that the teachers feel complement topics being presented in the classroom.
What I have proposed is to block *ALL* general access to the internet except for those site that the teachers have added to an Access Control List. These lists may be dynamically updated and may be limited to very specific durations.
The idea is that the students will not have unfettered access to the internet. They will only be *shown* content that the teacher feels is relevant to what is being taught.
While this approach may not be appropriate for a public library we feel that it is for a public school setting. We feel that it sidesteps the issue of the 1st amendment because we are not limiting the general publics access. Furthermore the school has no obligation to provide students access to the internet. In fact the access is being provided to the teachers.
The Solaris Jumpstart Design Notes provide a fairly good outline of what would be needed to accomplish remote installation of linux boxes.
Here's the overview from that document: 1. Client sends a RARP for its IP address
2. The Boot Server responds via RARPD (in.rarpd) with the IP address in/etc/ethers or the ethers NIS/NIS+ map depending on the ethers setting in/etc/nsswitch.conf
3. The client sends a tftp request for a bootimage
4. The server starts in.tftp from inetd and sends the small net kernel image
5. The client then sends out a bootp request
6. The server responds with the clients entry from/etc/bootparams
7. The client NFS mount it's root partition from the install server
8. The client then mounts the configuration server (/jumpstart) and runs "sysidtool".
9. It then mounts the install image and runs Suninstall to begin the install process.
It seems that Kickstart provides one, but not all, of the key components that are needed.
Checking out the Kickstart Documentation it seems that no provisions are made for remote installations. You must insert a boot floppy and be at the console to handle special cases that will most assuredly arise.
VNC may meet the need for the remote console component. Of course you would need to get a basic kernel and IP running on the box before you could even start up VNC. That mght present a chicken and egg scenario.
There certainly would also be a fair amount of code required to glue it all together.
I know I kept coming back to check for the next post. I laughed my ass off more than a few times at both the stories and the posts. A number of the post didn't move me to laugh but its hard to knock `em all out of the park. All in all I liked it and hope it becomes a sucessful tradition.
I have found a simple game that you can play with your cat that will teach them to stay away from your keyboard. It's called wall kitty. Basically, when ever you find your cat stepping or about to step on the keys, you pick it up and fling it against a wall. The cat soon learns to avoid the keyboard altogether.
Yeah, I used the Learning Trough Osmosis Method for an entire semester in my Physics I class. This method involves placing the text book on a table and then firmly placing your forehead on the book. You can then take a nap and assimilate entire chapters a one period. I used this method exclusively and still got a C in the class.
Yeah, I've heard it thru the grapevine that the RIAA plans to target Google next. Teoma is hoping to do an endrun around them with a wholly different set of technology. It only stand to reason that Google is trying to put a good front on the whole issue in hope that they can instantiaite a new buisnes model that involves a micropayment system arrangment with paypal.
Personally I think this is getting way outta control.
One of the areas that I am interested in is using a DB FS with various "helper" apps. These helper apps would provide a way of managing your data. They could be integrated into another app directly or as a plugin or they could be standalone apps by themselves.
One could provide a helper app that allows you to look at the stored files in ways other than your typical file listing. To do this would require various metadata attributes to be associated with the data. Helper apps would be provided for all of the standard applications that read and write to data to the file.
For example, one app could set attributes to categorize data. One could then search for data on your system, and potentially others, much in the same way as you would search for stuff on Yahoo.
Say you are in a rush to finish your taxes but you need to put together an itemized list of business expenses. You have information on them stored in various places including text files, e-mail, spreadsheets, etc. You could use find and grep to go poking around looking for them or you could use a helper app that does a quick search of attributes and presents you with a list of candidates and ca even call up other apps or services to look at the data. Once you have identified the data another attribute can be set that your tax software uses to record it and pull it into your tax forms.
Lime Brokerage provides a system that provides what you are looking for. They even use all of the keywords you mention (Internet, security, api, programmable).
There Brokerage Service, however, seems to be geared more towards Order Placement through an ECN. Here are some screen shots of the GUI that is provided with the API.
I recall it said that in lieu of filing for a patent an individual could write his ideas down on paper and mail it to himself. The idea being that the date stamped envelope and it's contents could be used to indicate prior art.
Another tactic I've heard was to writee up your ideas and bring them to a notary public to have them notarize the document (being sure to stamp each page).
Perhaps these stories are akin to urban legend. I don't know. But it leads me to wonder what is the best way of recording your work so as to be able to prove prior art. Is publishing your work on SourceForge sufficient? Do you need to have your work recorded in a source control system? Even if you did this will you need to hire a high priced lawyer to prove it?
Here's another example. My wife was born left handed. When she started first grade she noticed that everyone else was right handed. So she forced herself to learn to do everything, including writing, with her right hand.
To this day if you ask her to raise her right hand she has to stop and think about it.
I don't generally have a problem with companies that store data about the transactions that I have with them. It's when they start correlating that data with other sources that I start to get concerned.
In this example data gathered by the Registry of Motor Vehicles (or whatever your state calls them) is being correlated with services and purchases at a Bar.
The article mentioned the scenario of how a fictitious bouncer could use that data to stalk women.
There are many scenrios of abuse that this could be used for. Basically the technology allows for your movments and habits to be monitored very easily. That information could be used by others to your harm and detriment. It could be used by governements, businesses, or individuals.
In todays society it is alomst unthinkable to live without a drivers license. That makes it very difficult to opt out. Sure you can stop going out to clubs and restaurants. Perhaps you can use only public transportation. You could even pay cash for everything so theres no need to provide your license when presenting a credit card. It seems that giving up your privacy is becoming the price you must pay to participate in the beinfits of todays society.
The use of these devices is bound to increase as business look to reduce risks and increase profits. It's a very slippery slope. Think about where it's all likely to lead.
I used to think that George Orwell wrote Science Fiction.
Isn't a hyperlink or any button on a web page by definition 1-click? Exactly how can this patent be upheld. IMHO Amazon's "1-click technology" amounts to nothing more than a marketing concept. There is no "technology" behind it that isn't already provided by existing HTML standards.
Certainly this lawsuit amounts to nothing more than a lot of posturing between to powerful rivals.
Based on all this Bad Press I just closed my PayPal account. Who needs this kind of heartache. It seems to happen often enough and be painful enough to be worth avoiding.
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Not April 1st. Are we sure this isn't 10 day old news? 'cause I'm having a hard time belevin' it ain't.
I've become involved in setting up a media center in the library of an elementary school. The school has internet access but does not provide said access to the student population. There is some desire, however, to allow access to specific sites that the teachers feel complement topics being presented in the classroom.
What I have proposed is to block *ALL* general access to the internet except for those site that the teachers have added to an Access Control List. These lists may be dynamically updated and may be limited to very specific durations.
The idea is that the students will not have unfettered access to the internet. They will only be *shown* content that the teacher feels is relevant to what is being taught.
While this approach may not be appropriate for a public library we feel that it is for a public school setting. We feel that it sidesteps the issue of the 1st amendment because we are not limiting the general publics access. Furthermore the school has no obligation to provide students access to the internet. In fact the access is being provided to the teachers.
I find it immensly useful to have the text of the book on the CD that accompanies it.
Everything else I prefer to have on a website. Of course if the website ever becomes defunct and I go to look for it I'm not a happy camper.
Here are the correct links. (Note to self: Drink more coffee, less vodka.)
Jumpstart Design Notes
Redhat Kickstart
Kickstart How-to
The Solaris Jumpstart Design Notes provide a fairly good outline of what would be needed to accomplish remote installation of linux boxes.
/etc/ethers or the ethers NIS/NIS+ map depending on the ethers setting in /etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/bootparams
Here's the overview from that document:
1. Client sends a RARP for its IP address
2. The Boot Server responds via RARPD (in.rarpd) with the IP address in
3. The client sends a tftp request for a bootimage
4. The server starts in.tftp from inetd and sends the small net kernel image
5. The client then sends out a bootp request
6. The server responds with the clients entry from
7. The client NFS mount it's root partition from the install server
8. The client then mounts the configuration server (/jumpstart) and runs "sysidtool".
9. It then mounts the install image and runs Suninstall to begin the install process.
It seems that Kickstart provides one, but not all, of the key components that are needed.
Checking out the Kickstart Documentation it seems that no provisions are made for remote installations. You must insert a boot floppy and be at the console to handle special cases that will most assuredly arise.
VNC may meet the need for the remote console component. Of course you would need to get a basic kernel and IP running on the box before you could even start up VNC. That mght present a chicken and egg scenario.
There certainly would also be a fair amount of code required to glue it all together.
I know I kept coming back to check for the next post. I laughed my ass off more than a few times at both the stories and the posts. A number of the post didn't move me to laugh but its hard to knock `em all out of the park. All in all I liked it and hope it becomes a sucessful tradition.
I think it was great!!
Heck, I racked up another 11 mod points without even having to put any thought or meaningful content into the effort.
I have found a simple game that you can play with your cat that will teach them to stay away from your keyboard. It's called wall kitty. Basically, when ever you find your cat stepping or about to step on the keys, you pick it up and fling it against a wall. The cat soon learns to avoid the keyboard altogether.
Yeah, I used the Learning Trough Osmosis Method for an entire semester in my Physics I class. This method involves placing the text book on a table and then firmly placing your forehead on the book. You can then take a nap and assimilate entire chapters a one period. I used this method exclusively and still got a C in the class.
Subliminal messages are already built into Windows XP. Micorsoft is great. Buy only Microsoft products. Give *ALL* of your money to Microsoft
Aren't they synonymns?
Yeah, I've heard it thru the grapevine that the RIAA plans to target Google next. Teoma is hoping to do an endrun around them with a wholly different set of technology. It only stand to reason that Google is trying to put a good front on the whole issue in hope that they can instantiaite a new buisnes model that involves a micropayment system arrangment with paypal.
Personally I think this is getting way outta control.
They now have "59 per cent of all blogging female arts graduates, many of whom are Virgos"
;-)
Now that's an audience I'd like to be closer to.
One of the areas that I am interested in is using a DB FS with various "helper" apps. These helper apps would provide a way of managing your data. They could be integrated into another app directly or as a plugin or they could be standalone apps by themselves.
One could provide a helper app that allows you to look at the stored files in ways other than your typical file listing. To do this would require various metadata attributes to be associated with the data. Helper apps would be provided for all of the standard applications that read and write to data to the file.
For example, one app could set attributes to categorize data. One could then search for data on your system, and potentially others, much in the same way as you would search for stuff on Yahoo.
Say you are in a rush to finish your taxes but you need to put together an itemized list of business expenses. You have information on them stored in various places including text files, e-mail, spreadsheets, etc. You could use find and grep to go poking around looking for them or you could use a helper app that does a quick search of attributes and presents you with a list of candidates and ca even call up other apps or services to look at the data. Once you have identified the data another attribute can be set that your tax software uses to record it and pull it into your tax forms.
I meant here!
I see here that their Brokerage Service provides order placement with multiple Eachanges and ECN's.
Lime Brokerage provides a system that provides what you are looking for. They even use all of the keywords you mention (Internet, security, api, programmable).
There Brokerage Service, however, seems to be geared more towards Order Placement through an ECN. Here are some screen shots of the GUI that is provided with the API.
Joel Avrunin & Philip Weiss, students at cornell, have already invented the "perfect" alarm clock.
Full details and plans can be found here.
I recall it said that in lieu of filing for a patent an individual could write his ideas down on paper and mail it to himself. The idea being that the date stamped envelope and it's contents could be used to indicate prior art.
Another tactic I've heard was to writee up your ideas and bring them to a notary public to have them notarize the document (being sure to stamp each page).
Perhaps these stories are akin to urban legend. I don't know. But it leads me to wonder what is the best way of recording your work so as to be able to prove prior art. Is publishing your work on SourceForge sufficient? Do you need to have your work recorded in a source control system? Even if you did this will you need to hire a high priced lawyer to prove it?
Here's another example. My wife was born left handed. When she started first grade she noticed that everyone else was right handed. So she forced herself to learn to do everything, including writing, with her right hand.
To this day if you ask her to raise her right hand she has to stop and think about it.
I don't generally have a problem with companies that store data about the transactions that I have with them. It's when they start correlating that data with other sources that I start to get concerned.
In this example data gathered by the Registry of Motor Vehicles (or whatever your state calls them) is being correlated with services and purchases at a Bar.
The article mentioned the scenario of how a fictitious bouncer could use that data to stalk women.
There are many scenrios of abuse that this could be used for. Basically the technology allows for your movments and habits to be monitored very easily. That information could be used by others to your harm and detriment. It could be used by governements, businesses, or individuals.
In todays society it is alomst unthinkable to live without a drivers license. That makes it very difficult to opt out. Sure you can stop going out to clubs and restaurants. Perhaps you can use only public transportation. You could even pay cash for everything so theres no need to provide your license when presenting a credit card. It seems that giving up your privacy is becoming the price you must pay to participate in the beinfits of todays society.
The use of these devices is bound to increase as business look to reduce risks and increase profits. It's a very slippery slope. Think about where it's all likely to lead.
I used to think that George Orwell wrote Science Fiction.
Isn't a hyperlink or any button on a web page by definition 1-click? Exactly how can this patent be upheld. IMHO Amazon's "1-click technology" amounts to nothing more than a marketing concept. There is no "technology" behind it that isn't already provided by existing HTML standards.
Certainly this lawsuit amounts to nothing more than a lot of posturing between to powerful rivals.
Based on all this Bad Press I just closed my PayPal account. Who needs this kind of heartache. It seems to happen often enough and be painful enough to be worth avoiding.
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Get Something Free
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Here's wishing you both many happy years together!