I don't mind your flawed logic, but dude. I had to friggin sit through Latin in school, the last year it was required (lucky me) so now I get to be a self-righteous poindexter grammar asshole on slashdot.
The plural of fetus is "fetuses". Not "feti", and sure as hell not "fetii".
Now get off my lawn and turn off that damn swing music, damn kids...
Not exactly what you were asking for, but once you have imaged the system with whatever tool you choose, you can use SVS to virtualize your software installs. There is a free personal edition, but it is also scalable to a full server deployment where you can create, push out and manage virtualized software packages.
Just pop on down to Spacely's sprockets. Or if you can wait till next week, Cogswell's Cogs has a 15% off sale...
Seriously though, you may want to check out www.emachineshop.com - they have a pretty interesting business model - download their cad program for free, design your widget, and then submit an order to have your thingamajig made out of anything from plastic to balsawood to steel.
lumenistan ---------------- my sig can beat up your sig
I hope that Yahoo will push for a Zimbra implementation when they show up - it's not clear from your query, but I hope that we're not talking about just the fee-based versions of the web offerings from these three outfits.
Zimbra is full-featured - mail, calendaring, presence, and more; including things that college kids would take advantage of: mobile options. It's also extensible and flexible enough that it can be tied into many existing and disparate backend systems:
-tie it into your admissions or financials database and give administrators more flexibiltiy in processing paperwork
-tie it into twitter and facebook and other web2.0ey things to make the college kids share stuff easily
-tie it into stuff like Blackboard or whatever edcational software they use, so that kids can easily share (drag and drop) files from/to their classmates and teachers.
Oh, and it's pretty much standards-based, so if you decide later to move to something else, there's not really the issue of lock-in. How would you export your data from Gmail or the others if you had to move a few years down the road?
Other random questions: If these are to be hosted by the provider rather than by your school, do you have assurance that they won't datamine you to serve ads or other such tomfoolery? How long will they retain your data if you change providers? As for protection of the innocent, will they sell you out at the drop of an unsubstantiated dcma notice? If your grad students email each other about some new groundbreaking project they're working on, will it screw up their potential to file a patent later? Who "owns" the content of the messages?
That's my 2 cents. Please post back and let us know what they end up deciding on.
"Mr Chase, who holds two undergraduate degrees in aerospace engineering and science and science fiction, is now visiting schools in south Wales to engage pupils in rap and science."
I think if you have a degree in Aerospace Engineering, you probably get to call yourself a scientist. Even if you follow that up with something as sensical as a degree in Science and Science Fiction (wtf? anything where L Ron Hubbard could be a professor is suspect).
Still, I think saying the guy is NOT a scientist is silly. Apparently you can be more than one thing at the same time.
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I don't mind your flawed logic, but dude. I had to friggin sit through Latin in school, the last year it was required (lucky me) so now I get to be a self-righteous poindexter grammar asshole on slashdot. The plural of fetus is "fetuses". Not "feti", and sure as hell not "fetii". Now get off my lawn and turn off that damn swing music, damn kids...
The old adage works here - never ascribe to malice that which can be easily explained by incompetence.
So... this has nothing at all to do with Tungsten then?
Not exactly what you were asking for, but once you have imaged the system with whatever tool you choose, you can use SVS to virtualize your software installs. There is a free personal edition, but it is also scalable to a full server deployment where you can create, push out and manage virtualized software packages.
Resources:
http://svsdownloads.com/
http://juice.altiris.com/ev
-lumenistan
If this really takes off and becomes as popular as these speculators think, I hope twitter has a better, more fair resolution method than does ICANN.
THOSE TWITS don't know SQUAT and need to have their power kept in check. (couldn't help it)
lumenistan
or did anyone else initially read this as "stellar scientologists"?
Just pop on down to Spacely's sprockets. Or if you can wait till next week, Cogswell's Cogs has a 15% off sale...
Seriously though, you may want to check out www.emachineshop.com - they have a pretty interesting business model - download their cad program for free, design your widget, and then submit an order to have your thingamajig made out of anything from plastic to balsawood to steel.
lumenistan
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my sig can beat up your sig
cduffy - I'd also be interested in how this turns out. Please post back with your results.
Agreed. Example: Hi, I'm Chef. I want to lay you down by the fire...
Actually, that's altogether another use of lay, nevermind.
I hope that Yahoo will push for a Zimbra implementation when they show up - it's not clear from your query, but I hope that we're not talking about just the fee-based versions of the web offerings from these three outfits.
Zimbra is full-featured - mail, calendaring, presence, and more; including things that college kids would take advantage of: mobile options. It's also extensible and flexible enough that it can be tied into many existing and disparate backend systems:
-tie it into your admissions or financials database and give administrators more flexibiltiy in processing paperwork
-tie it into twitter and facebook and other web2.0ey things to make the college kids share stuff easily
-tie it into stuff like Blackboard or whatever edcational software they use, so that kids can easily share (drag and drop) files from/to their classmates and teachers.
Oh, and it's pretty much standards-based, so if you decide later to move to something else, there's not really the issue of lock-in. How would you export your data from Gmail or the others if you had to move a few years down the road?
Other random questions: If these are to be hosted by the provider rather than by your school, do you have assurance that they won't datamine you to serve ads or other such tomfoolery? How long will they retain your data if you change providers? As for protection of the innocent, will they sell you out at the drop of an unsubstantiated dcma notice? If your grad students email each other about some new groundbreaking project they're working on, will it screw up their potential to file a patent later? Who "owns" the content of the messages?
That's my 2 cents. Please post back and let us know what they end up deciding on.
Actually, you're thinking of Chuck Norris, not Bruce Schneier. Don't feel bad though, people make that mistake ALL the time...
I think if you have a degree in Aerospace Engineering, you probably get to call yourself a scientist. Even if you follow that up with something as sensical as a degree in Science and Science Fiction (wtf? anything where L Ron Hubbard could be a professor is suspect). Still, I think saying the guy is NOT a scientist is silly. Apparently you can be more than one thing at the same time.
Well of course they're running out. Every time a giant lizard goes on a rampage in Tokyo...
OK sorry, but it needed to be said.