Well thats a shame on their part. Would be the only way Vista would ever get near a computer in my house. Oh well I've begun forcibly moving the roomates off of XP and onto Ubuntu anyways.
Heh. Its not like Universities will pay attention until they get hit where it hurts, their wallet. Ive been bitching at my university (Ohio State) for years about their lax policies. Profs will even be so naieve as to leave grades posted on the walls with SSNs (OSU's ONLY student identifier) becide them. Until someone finds a case against them and sues them though, there wont be any motivation to change the system.
While I could see them get away with the CD players, I doubt PDA's/Laptop's would fly for a "safe" form type thing. Not only do people have their personal data on their personal electronics devices (notes, papers, docs, specialized apps, games, etc) but alot of the flying businessmen/sales types wouldnt be able to use it anyways, as alot of companies forbid the use of anything but personalized "secured" machines.
I have to agree with this. Ive had one issue with my C800 (laptop wouldnt charge the battery). I looked on dells site, and came up with nothing becides their number (they've got a cool troubleshooting map to find out if the issue is fixable or not too). Called dell, took about 2 minutes to get a human, who went through a few quick tests, and then sent out a new mb overnight.. the next day the dell guy came out and fixed the laptop on the spot.
So yea, i concider the "nameplate" to be not always a bad thing. With certain systems you know your going to have better quality, and unlike buying a offbrand, if it breaks, your going to have a heck of alot easier time to fix it and quicker. Its all a matter of VAR
This reminds me of Fight Club, where hes describing the insurance process for recalls:)
From a logical view it seems silly, sense its just a waste of energy and money that could be applied to something useful, oh say like mabye actually innovating?
In the midwest, there is the Dayton Ohio Hamfest. Which is a huge (as in takes all day to walk around literally) place to buy/sell/trade all forms of geek gear. If you know your stuff, you can find some computers and parts that havent been seen for years.
Another possible option is to give a zip code close to you without actually giving your own zip code. That way you can keep a certain level on anonymity (what city would be the finest level they could track) while keeping targetted ads.
Personally i would love to see ads targeted to my tastes more. Even with broadband about the 10th time i see some Pepsi/Coke or Tide ad i get a bit tired of it.
A month or so from now:
RIAA Sues gracenote for cddb use. They are using RIAA song names and artists in their database.. SO why not?
Geez.. Its a sue everyone world these days.. I want my peice!
Is it just me, or is anyone else getting an error message from the first link (the MCV link) saying you are not premitted to visit in a javascript window? *looks dazed and confused*
Well... sense this is for the freedom of mp3s, everyone with a mic should use them to make a mp3 of them saying that they support it, and email it to the rep.... it would solve the whole "effort" thing.
It looks like the slashdot effect is already beginning to take hold of this site....
Why would someone make a product that utilizes a service that someone else runs that would not be ameniable to the new product and thus try to shut it down? And doesnt this go against some form of law or another with the GNU licence?
There was one they missed (although you might cover it under the expert... but Its a bit diffrent).... They need a zealot...
Zealot: A user who believes the product they support is always better and will throw meaningless benchmarks out onto the newsgroup in order to confuse and win people over to his/her particular product. When two zealots with opposing views enter a war they suck everyone in with them.
It seems like a really cool concept, especially as fast as it goes... But what would they do if one of the sails got hit by some space debris like a rock or something? It would really suck if all that time and effort went to waste because of a hole in the sail.
I'm confused on one thing here.... How can M$ claim that they copyrighted this? isnt it nothing more than the use of the empty field in kerebos's header? thats definatly prior art..... no copyright == no legal ground
Well yes it would be nice for everyone to contribute, but sometimes people dont have the knowledge base to release the patch. So what they can do is point out the problems, just they tend to come across as whining or complaining.
So remember that when you email a bug or problem BE POLITE. Who knows, you could be on the other end of it some day.
Correction on that one... Even if not connected to the net the machine isnt secure if its out in the middle of say a public square. I had this debate with some friends awhile back, and we decided that the only safe data is one that doesent exist.
However that isnt really useful;) So the only safe functional machine was one that involved mountains, bunkers, UNIX, and gillotines (dont ask). Oh yea and a an administrator who knew what he was doing.
Hopefully someone will get the twisted humor in that;)
Actually No.... Where the use of harddrive space comes in is applications. Particually games. For instance, I bought Bauldurs Gate, which wants 2 gigs for ya to run it without swapping CD's every hour or so. Ultima 9 took like a gig to run at all. And Office 2k is huge, I dont even know how much.
Well they do have one other option... Wait another year or so and watch their server code be rewritten. Its allready occuring. http://www.hackersquest.gomp.ch/ and with no signs of slowing. If verant would release the code such a cool game could be created, becuase they have good ideas, just they're too darn busy working on bugs and whatnot to really develop the game too far.
Our school is currently offering Cisco classes. Two semesters of which is the equivelant to 4 courses of CCNA traning. And if you get a 75% or above on the finals they pay for your CCNA certification test.
The students in the class handle the course wonderfully. They're absorbing the material and slamming the tests.
And they're not the upper cut of the school either. Theres a odd mix of just about every type of student in there. So dont believe these ppl cant handle it, they can.
Atopian Head systems administrator Briggs High School
Ok. This is a little rant, a little info, and alot of junk all in one little thing.
First of all. Linux IS possible in a high school enviroment. I've proven it by doing it. It takes a little luck though. In order to have any success your going to need either a computer science teacher or a administrator on your side (either network or prinipal type). Then do some form of proof of concept. This will gain their trust. At which point it can start being mainstream.
I got somewhat lucky in my own experience of this. The CS teacher at my school has a policy of giving students the responcibility, and I was lucky enough to start attending when we got a t1 line. We started out with a NT server to do login (dang thing went down every two weeks or less). But I managed to get a linux firewall/router installed along with a proxy server. After much Proof of concepts that the nt box could be replaced, I managed to convert it over to linux to.
At the beginning of this year we were running a full blown linux network. Firewall/router, proxy, dialup, file/print sharing (smb ugh), intranet, and a few other misc services that I put up for various reasons.
Unfortunatly this isnt lasting. The district spent $300 million dollars (the actual figure is higher... but they wont give it out yet) to install a bunch of windows 98 boxes and nt servers district wide. The day they were implemented, the problems came right back, along with some more. (I'm up to about 10 pages of document with the larger of these blunders... and I'm not even done yet).
So it can be done, just is going to take alot of work. And alot of luck to be able to do it. Just gain their trust and show them how well it works on somethign non-mission critical. Then you might get a chance to implement it with somethign important. Any questions feel free to email me (especially if your someone I dont know from Columbus Public Schools then I could have alot of words;) )
Atopian Head Systems Administrator Briggs High School
As other people have said with the magnetic chips, what about getting it near other magnetic interference? It would be kinda nice to be able to shut your computer off at any time and have it come back to the same state, although does that mean windows will crash once and stay that way?:)
One thing did bug me about this article though, which is the lack of many numbers. They gave the # of transistors they could fit into a certain space, but what about the speed, heat, and actual electricity usage (even rough estimates would be nice).
Oh well.. Something else to put in the pile of knowledge of stuff that might be cool a few years from now (can anyone say new PDA's?:) )
I know that many people might find this quesiton stupid, but anyways, how would a magnetic material be anti-static? (I slept through most of my basic science classes in hs;) )
One already exists for personal use... The problem with the hardware firewalls are they cost thousands of dollars. I saw a personal firewall in the news awhile back for LINUX at http://www.progressive-systems.com/
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Well thats a shame on their part. Would be the only way Vista would ever get near a computer in my house. Oh well I've begun forcibly moving the roomates off of XP and onto Ubuntu anyways.
Heh. Its not like Universities will pay attention until they get hit where it hurts, their wallet. Ive been bitching at my university (Ohio State) for years about their lax policies. Profs will even be so naieve as to leave grades posted on the walls with SSNs (OSU's ONLY student identifier) becide them. Until someone finds a case against them and sues them though, there wont be any motivation to change the system.
While I could see them get away with the CD players, I doubt PDA's/Laptop's would fly for a "safe" form type thing. Not only do people have their personal data on their personal electronics devices (notes, papers, docs, specialized apps, games, etc) but alot of the flying businessmen/sales types wouldnt be able to use it anyways, as alot of companies forbid the use of anything but personalized "secured" machines.
I have to agree with this. Ive had one issue with my C800 (laptop wouldnt charge the battery). I looked on dells site, and came up with nothing becides their number (they've got a cool troubleshooting map to find out if the issue is fixable or not too). Called dell, took about 2 minutes to get a human, who went through a few quick tests, and then sent out a new mb overnight.. the next day the dell guy came out and fixed the laptop on the spot.
So yea, i concider the "nameplate" to be not always a bad thing. With certain systems you know your going to have better quality, and unlike buying a offbrand, if it breaks, your going to have a heck of alot easier time to fix it and quicker. Its all a matter of VAR
This reminds me of Fight Club, where hes describing the insurance process for recalls :)
From a logical view it seems silly, sense its just a waste of energy and money that could be applied to something useful, oh say like mabye actually innovating?
In the midwest, there is the Dayton Ohio Hamfest. Which is a huge (as in takes all day to walk around literally) place to buy/sell/trade all forms of geek gear. If you know your stuff, you can find some computers and parts that havent been seen for years.
Another possible option is to give a zip code close to you without actually giving your own zip code. That way you can keep a certain level on anonymity (what city would be the finest level they could track) while keeping targetted ads.
Personally i would love to see ads targeted to my tastes more. Even with broadband about the 10th time i see some Pepsi/Coke or Tide ad i get a bit tired of it.
A month or so from now: RIAA Sues gracenote for cddb use. They are using RIAA song names and artists in their database.. SO why not? Geez.. Its a sue everyone world these days.. I want my peice!
Is it just me, or is anyone else getting an error message from the first link (the MCV link) saying you are not premitted to visit in a javascript window? *looks dazed and confused*
Well... sense this is for the freedom of mp3s, everyone with a mic should use them to make a mp3 of them saying that they support it, and email it to the rep.... it would solve the whole "effort" thing.
It looks like the slashdot effect is already beginning to take hold of this site....
Why would someone make a product that utilizes a service that someone else runs that would not be ameniable to the new product and thus try to shut it down? And doesnt this go against some form of law or another with the GNU licence?
Cool.... If they're working on Mars that would give Geeks in space a new meaning ;)
There was one they missed (although you might cover it under the expert... but Its a bit diffrent).... They need a zealot...
Zealot: A user who believes the product they support is always better and will throw meaningless benchmarks out onto the newsgroup in order to confuse and win people over to his/her particular product. When two zealots with opposing views enter a war they suck everyone in with them.
just my $0.02
It seems like a really cool concept, especially as fast as it goes... But what would they do if one of the sails got hit by some space debris like a rock or something? It would really suck if all that time and effort went to waste because of a hole in the sail.
I'm confused on one thing here.... How can M$ claim that they copyrighted this? isnt it nothing more than the use of the empty field in kerebos's header? thats definatly prior art..... no copyright == no legal ground
Well yes it would be nice for everyone to contribute, but sometimes people dont have the knowledge base to release the patch. So what they can do is point out the problems, just they tend to come across as whining or complaining.
So remember that when you email a bug or problem BE POLITE. Who knows, you could be on the other end of it some day.
Correction on that one... Even if not connected to the net the machine isnt secure if its out in the middle of say a public square. I had this debate with some friends awhile back, and we decided that the only safe data is one that doesent exist.
;) So the only safe functional machine was one that involved mountains, bunkers, UNIX, and gillotines (dont ask). Oh yea and a an administrator who knew what he was doing.
;)
However that isnt really useful
Hopefully someone will get the twisted humor in that
Actually No.... Where the use of harddrive space comes in is applications. Particually games. For instance, I bought Bauldurs Gate, which wants 2 gigs for ya to run it without swapping CD's every hour or so. Ultima 9 took like a gig to run at all. And Office 2k is huge, I dont even know how much.
Well they do have one other option... Wait another year or so and watch their server code be rewritten. Its allready occuring. http://www.hackersquest.gomp.ch/ and with no signs of slowing. If verant would release the code such a cool game could be created, becuase they have good ideas, just they're too darn busy working on bugs and whatnot to really develop the game too far.
:(
shame tho
Hardly...
Our school is currently offering Cisco classes. Two semesters of which is the equivelant to 4 courses of CCNA traning. And if you get a 75% or above on the finals they pay for your CCNA certification test.
The students in the class handle the course wonderfully. They're absorbing the material and slamming the tests.
And they're not the upper cut of the school either. Theres a odd mix of just about every type of student in there. So dont believe these ppl cant handle it, they can.
Atopian
Head systems administrator
Briggs High School
Ok. This is a little rant, a little info, and alot of junk all in one little thing.
;) )
First of all. Linux IS possible in a high school enviroment. I've proven it by doing it. It takes a little luck though. In order to have any success your going to need either a computer science teacher or a administrator on your side (either network or prinipal type). Then do some form of proof of concept. This will gain their trust. At which point it can start being mainstream.
I got somewhat lucky in my own experience of this. The CS teacher at my school has a policy of giving students the responcibility, and I was lucky enough to start attending when we got a t1 line. We started out with a NT server to do login (dang thing went down every two weeks or less). But I managed to get a linux firewall/router installed along with a proxy server. After much Proof of concepts that the nt box could be replaced, I managed to convert it over to linux to.
At the beginning of this year we were running a full blown linux network. Firewall/router, proxy, dialup, file/print sharing (smb ugh), intranet, and a few other misc services that I put up for various reasons.
Unfortunatly this isnt lasting. The district spent $300 million dollars (the actual figure is higher... but they wont give it out yet) to install a bunch of windows 98 boxes and nt servers district wide. The day they were implemented, the problems came right back, along with some more. (I'm up to about 10 pages of document with the larger of these blunders... and I'm not even done yet).
So it can be done, just is going to take alot of work. And alot of luck to be able to do it. Just gain their trust and show them how well it works on somethign non-mission critical. Then you might get a chance to implement it with somethign important. Any questions feel free to email me (especially if your someone I dont know from Columbus Public Schools then I could have alot of words
Atopian
Head Systems Administrator
Briggs High School
As other people have said with the magnetic chips, what about getting it near other magnetic interference? It would be kinda nice to be able to shut your computer off at any time and have it come back to the same state, although does that mean windows will crash once and stay that way? :)
:) )
One thing did bug me about this article though, which is the lack of many numbers. They gave the # of transistors they could fit into a certain space, but what about the speed, heat, and actual electricity usage (even rough estimates would be nice).
Oh well.. Something else to put in the pile of knowledge of stuff that might be cool a few years from now (can anyone say new PDA's?
I know that many people might find this quesiton stupid, but anyways, how would a magnetic material be anti-static? (I slept through most of my basic science classes in hs ;) )
One already exists for personal use... The problem with the hardware firewalls are they cost thousands of dollars. I saw a personal firewall in the news awhile back for LINUX at http://www.progressive-systems.com/
oh and ignore my sigfile i accidently screwed it up :)