I was in grade school... home from the day for some reason (sick maybe?)
I was also home sick that day, from first grade. I had become very interested in the space program and it was the first time I would see a shuttle launch on television. Actually, I don't recall seeing another until at least my teenage years. Watched on the television in my parents bedroom, and couldn't think of what to do when it exploded. I went downstairs and told my mother, and she in turn could not think of what to say back to me. It remains one of the most vivid memories of childhood.
I fail to see why it's relevant that an individual end user had only 18 emails when he receives hundreds daily. I would love to have this individual in my organization, less chance of corrupt Outlook.pst files and less to backup from the workstation. Retention policies should have nothing whatsoever to do with what recipients retain in their local mail stores. Retention, compliance, and backup policies are enforced at the server.
Fast railways are great for distances like 400-600km (they are too big to comfortably drive by car and too small for planes).
Yes. I live in Minneapolis, and must frequently travel to Detroit, via Chicago. Here you have a string of three large cities separated by 250-300mi each. Driving the distance takes a full day which is very difficult with small children, and air travel is monopolized by Delta/NWA with sky-high prices. Even if rail travel gains us back only 25% of the time it takes to drive, we will at least have the freedom to move around a little in transit, visit a dining car, and not have to keep little ones strapped into car seats.
Currently, Amtrak takes around 14 hours to go that distance and driving is a little less than 12 hours. I would be happy with a 9 hour rail trip, and the geography is just right for high-speed lines if it continues east to Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and joins to the more obvious east coast lines.
As another librarian I can confirm that we would start with a lengthy meeting, but that would be followed by prolific blogging and tweeting at other librarians. And/that/ would be followed by much mutual congratulatory back-patting for being soooo 2.0.
Lots of points to anyone who can write the regular expression which returns the useful patterns from all these comments while filtering all the other chatter.
Apologies. I did say ignoring most though. I'll assume you're part of the insightful minority since you read this on Slashdot and went to the trouble to take offense.
Yes. I like it much better then forums for support.
For programmers, Usenet is can be more valuable for expert help than any forum I've encountered. This seems to be because a majority of people who still using Usenet (ignoring most of the posting via Google Groups) carry lots of collective experience in their fields. The barrier to entry is sufficiently high, scary as that may be, that a lot less bad information gets distributed. And if a bad answer is given, a dozen other experts will correct it within minutes.
That's funny -- not two seconds before I glanced over at my RSS feed to see this Slashdot post slide in, I had been catching up at comp.lang.php. Death comes so suddenly.
I have a Palm T|X and occasionally have to use TuSSH to administer my servers. The big problem is that certain characters are not readily accessible on the handheld. The most serious one for sysadmin work is the backquote` which I've never found a way to produce in PalmOS 5.2
That was my thought the second I saw the headline. I am stunned that more readers didn't have the same response. I live in a major US city with tends of thousands of residents living well below the poverty line, and for most, a basic level of technology literacy is entirely unattainable. Fortunately, we have a thriving public library system here which recognized the need early and provided many public Internet terminals years ago.
We have around 30% of users on Firefox these days, mainly out of user preference. We switched our full department back in the Firefox 0.9 days when IE6 had slipped completely out of control, and have gradually moved back onto IE as security has improved. Software updates were a significant problem for us until recently. Because we don't have critical web applications with the potential to break, we can allow it to update on its own. Recently, our workstation support manager was sufficiently fed up with visiting every desk to update FF as an administrator, and so he started pushing down a logon script to modify registry and file permissions. Such is also the case with applications like Quicktime, Java runtimes (very problematic), and others all of which are necessary for our users.
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I was in grade school... home from the day for some reason (sick maybe?)
I was also home sick that day, from first grade. I had become very interested in the space program and it was the first time I would see a shuttle launch on television. Actually, I don't recall seeing another until at least my teenage years. Watched on the television in my parents bedroom, and couldn't think of what to do when it exploded. I went downstairs and told my mother, and she in turn could not think of what to say back to me. It remains one of the most vivid memories of childhood.
I fail to see why it's relevant that an individual end user had only 18 emails when he receives hundreds daily. I would love to have this individual in my organization, less chance of corrupt Outlook .pst files and less to backup from the workstation. Retention policies should have nothing whatsoever to do with what recipients retain in their local mail stores. Retention, compliance, and backup policies are enforced at the server.
That was my first thought, too. Mediatrons are finally coming.
And it's probably a good time to start avoiding Hong Kong and the South China Sea. :)
I think I read about this somewhere before... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
Fast railways are great for distances like 400-600km (they are too big to comfortably drive by car and too small for planes).
Yes. I live in Minneapolis, and must frequently travel to Detroit, via Chicago. Here you have a string of three large cities separated by 250-300mi each. Driving the distance takes a full day which is very difficult with small children, and air travel is monopolized by Delta/NWA with sky-high prices. Even if rail travel gains us back only 25% of the time it takes to drive, we will at least have the freedom to move around a little in transit, visit a dining car, and not have to keep little ones strapped into car seats. Currently, Amtrak takes around 14 hours to go that distance and driving is a little less than 12 hours. I would be happy with a 9 hour rail trip, and the geography is just right for high-speed lines if it continues east to Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and joins to the more obvious east coast lines.
This was our course as well. Donation will help someone somewhere, and costs you nothing. Please consider donating instead.
At best we have a long meeting about it.
As another librarian I can confirm that we would start with a lengthy meeting, but that would be followed by prolific blogging and tweeting at other librarians. And /that/ would be followed by much mutual congratulatory back-patting for being soooo 2.0.
Lots of points to anyone who can write the regular expression which returns the useful patterns from all these comments while filtering all the other chatter.
I post via Google Groups, you insensitive clod!
Apologies. I did say ignoring most though. I'll assume you're part of the insightful minority since you read this on Slashdot and went to the trouble to take offense.
Yes. I like it much better then forums for support.
For programmers, Usenet is can be more valuable for expert help than any forum I've encountered. This seems to be because a majority of people who still using Usenet (ignoring most of the posting via Google Groups) carry lots of collective experience in their fields. The barrier to entry is sufficiently high, scary as that may be, that a lot less bad information gets distributed. And if a bad answer is given, a dozen other experts will correct it within minutes.
Users, or registered spambots?
That's funny -- not two seconds before I glanced over at my RSS feed to see this Slashdot post slide in, I had been catching up at comp.lang.php. Death comes so suddenly.
I have a Palm T|X and occasionally have to use TuSSH to administer my servers. The big problem is that certain characters are not readily accessible on the handheld. The most serious one for sysadmin work is the backquote` which I've never found a way to produce in PalmOS 5.2
That was my thought the second I saw the headline. I am stunned that more readers didn't have the same response. I live in a major US city with tends of thousands of residents living well below the poverty line, and for most, a basic level of technology literacy is entirely unattainable. Fortunately, we have a thriving public library system here which recognized the need early and provided many public Internet terminals years ago.
We have around 30% of users on Firefox these days, mainly out of user preference. We switched our full department back in the Firefox 0.9 days when IE6 had slipped completely out of control, and have gradually moved back onto IE as security has improved. Software updates were a significant problem for us until recently. Because we don't have critical web applications with the potential to break, we can allow it to update on its own. Recently, our workstation support manager was sufficiently fed up with visiting every desk to update FF as an administrator, and so he started pushing down a logon script to modify registry and file permissions. Such is also the case with applications like Quicktime, Java runtimes (very problematic), and others all of which are necessary for our users.