CCA (Cisco Clean Access) if implemented well is a very useful tool. We mainly enforced it on the dorm networks since most students never update their computers, or when they call and ask about problems they lie and say they are updated. We're all human and lie to the tech or whoever is on the phone so we can get our issues resolved. CCA can do alot of the update work for you as far as getting those updates out and such. Sure the student still has to do some work but if they ignore it, off goes their internet.
I concur with the Blackboard nay sayers, although I never had direct issues with the package it was very unwieldy and I knew plenty of folks who had issues with it.
Back to the poster, you would have to give a little more background into what your current strategy/setup is. Are you wanting to work on remote/distance classwork? Is the campus wanting to go wireless? Are you using only windows and want to explore other options? Linux is nice but if it doesn't have a nice desktop and user friendly environment then there's no point in using it for someone walking into the lab wanting to write a paper. With that said some linux installs are perfect for that, most people wouldn't even know the difference unless they asked where the Windows XP logo went to.
If you're looking at going forward options, then you need to lay down what the current issues are with the current infrastructure. Some universities have made mistakes with setups that others have done superb jobs with. Using CCA to require downloads but not making those downloads available on local servers seemed to me like a bad implementation of the utility. Granted the infrastructure might not have been in place to support internal traffic and large amounts of storage, they shouldn't have half assed it.
What it comes down to is money. When I was working at the help desk, we had a new Director of IT get hired. He got turned the help desk into a student repair center and got us new PCs with dual monitors, which really does help when troubleshooting some stuff while working on a machine. Not one year later he was gone. He seemed to have shaken too many trees and in reality, spent money, which I guess was a ghastly thing to behold.
So keep that in mind when coming up with ideas, if you're going to spend money be ready to show some possible positive impacts from the spending.
Correct, assuming we are the only life forms in this corner of space. And if there are others out there they aren't experimenting on stars by causing them to go supernova.
They most likely will have to splice each and every fiber, they pretty much line them up and then glue them together...that of course is a very basic idea of what they do, I don't work with the installers, I've just seen them do it, pretty neat.
I think you meant "diminished", unless dimensioning is something I haven't heard of.
You do have to look at some of the benefits and the mentality of some people who go into the military. Could they do CS, are they even smart enough to do CS? I know I'm not cut out for CS that's for sure, I've met some of the women who have gone into the armed services, some were pretty smart but some weren't, same goes for the men of course...
But yeah there is a pretty big gender gap in the CS field, except where I work it seems. I've seen some of the application developers and programmer types, not too shabby if I do say so myself. Then again, they may not have been "CS" majors in college, but they got CS type jobs nonetheless.
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Maybe it's the fact that I really don't have any religious beliefs so that's why I miss all these religious value links to his books, I don't know.
It didn't seem to jump out at me as preaching anything or glorifying anything, they just seemed like fairly good books about humans fighting bugs.
I try not to look that deep into something I suppose, I enjoy it much more for it I imagine.
No, he'll come to your city, walk around with a smile on his face, then blow a sticky load all over the citizens that have gathered around to greet him, didn't you watch Ghostbusters?
You have to look at it as if Fallout had come out as an FPS RPG game, instead of 3rd person rpg strategy game.
If Fallout 3 came out as Fallout 1, I don't think it would inspire such joy as the originals did, mainly because of the lack of being able to do whatever the hell you want. The game didn't care about someone's frail sensibilities. If you had them you just stopped playing, if you were mentally harmed by it, then you probably won't survive in the real world long anyhow.
You are right, the game isn't Fallout but it's pretty darn close imo. It does have an Oblivion feel but really, it's the same engine, that should be expected , but when interacting with most things/people I feel like I just walked out of a Vault where the world has gone to shit and I'm here to save or screw it depending on my mood, not trying to rescuing Patrick Stewart from a dungeon:P
"There is too great an incentive for companies to dream up potentially damaging and idiotic ideas in order to secure lucrative government contracts to carry them out. The company then makes a large profit from screwing with the environment in a big way."
Not that it hasn't been done before, coal mining and every other resource gathering is/was done in a half assed manner.
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While I agree we do some rather eff'd up stuff, we aren't "everything" that is wrong with the world, we just help it along.
CCA (Cisco Clean Access) if implemented well is a very useful tool. We mainly enforced it on the dorm networks since most students never update their computers, or when they call and ask about problems they lie and say they are updated. We're all human and lie to the tech or whoever is on the phone so we can get our issues resolved. CCA can do alot of the update work for you as far as getting those updates out and such. Sure the student still has to do some work but if they ignore it, off goes their internet. I concur with the Blackboard nay sayers, although I never had direct issues with the package it was very unwieldy and I knew plenty of folks who had issues with it. Back to the poster, you would have to give a little more background into what your current strategy/setup is. Are you wanting to work on remote/distance classwork? Is the campus wanting to go wireless? Are you using only windows and want to explore other options? Linux is nice but if it doesn't have a nice desktop and user friendly environment then there's no point in using it for someone walking into the lab wanting to write a paper. With that said some linux installs are perfect for that, most people wouldn't even know the difference unless they asked where the Windows XP logo went to. If you're looking at going forward options, then you need to lay down what the current issues are with the current infrastructure. Some universities have made mistakes with setups that others have done superb jobs with. Using CCA to require downloads but not making those downloads available on local servers seemed to me like a bad implementation of the utility. Granted the infrastructure might not have been in place to support internal traffic and large amounts of storage, they shouldn't have half assed it. What it comes down to is money. When I was working at the help desk, we had a new Director of IT get hired. He got turned the help desk into a student repair center and got us new PCs with dual monitors, which really does help when troubleshooting some stuff while working on a machine. Not one year later he was gone. He seemed to have shaken too many trees and in reality, spent money, which I guess was a ghastly thing to behold. So keep that in mind when coming up with ideas, if you're going to spend money be ready to show some possible positive impacts from the spending.
You're comparing technology that is used mainly for aircraft that fly very low to the ground versus a passenger craft that flies 35k feet in the air?
Correct, assuming we are the only life forms in this corner of space. And if there are others out there they aren't experimenting on stars by causing them to go supernova.
No no, "Damn kids and their newfangled gizmotronics!"
Wings was a pretty good show, gotta love the cab driver too.
They most likely will have to splice each and every fiber, they pretty much line them up and then glue them together...that of course is a very basic idea of what they do, I don't work with the installers, I've just seen them do it, pretty neat.
How exactly do you output the audio to your system, from what device?
I see what you did there.
Even if it runs smoothly, shit still stinks.
Yea, that's not a bug, that's a feature.
Am I the only one that cringed when reading the part about taking off the collar bone and shoulder blade?
When the ATM says F U you know it's all over.
Video card? The whole boob would light my router on fire.
Indeed, but they won't believe, they'll believe when they're dangling from the rafters in their web cocoon.
No, just trying to eat you, and me, since we seem to share the same fear...
After reading that headline, it really REALLY looks wrong. I won't even go into what I came up with for EVA and how it concerns losing a tool...
I think you meant "diminished", unless dimensioning is something I haven't heard of. You do have to look at some of the benefits and the mentality of some people who go into the military. Could they do CS, are they even smart enough to do CS? I know I'm not cut out for CS that's for sure, I've met some of the women who have gone into the armed services, some were pretty smart but some weren't, same goes for the men of course... But yeah there is a pretty big gender gap in the CS field, except where I work it seems. I've seen some of the application developers and programmer types, not too shabby if I do say so myself. Then again, they may not have been "CS" majors in college, but they got CS type jobs nonetheless.
Maybe it's the fact that I really don't have any religious beliefs so that's why I miss all these religious value links to his books, I don't know. It didn't seem to jump out at me as preaching anything or glorifying anything, they just seemed like fairly good books about humans fighting bugs. I try not to look that deep into something I suppose, I enjoy it much more for it I imagine.
No, it wouldn't be called a boat, it's be called a "watercraft" :)
Screw Canadia! Nah just kidding, I like Canada, would be nice if we could actually help a country out, and not like we're helping out Iraq.
Then developers should be going after Gamestop.
No, he'll come to your city, walk around with a smile on his face, then blow a sticky load all over the citizens that have gathered around to greet him, didn't you watch Ghostbusters?
You have to look at it as if Fallout had come out as an FPS RPG game, instead of 3rd person rpg strategy game. If Fallout 3 came out as Fallout 1, I don't think it would inspire such joy as the originals did, mainly because of the lack of being able to do whatever the hell you want. The game didn't care about someone's frail sensibilities. If you had them you just stopped playing, if you were mentally harmed by it, then you probably won't survive in the real world long anyhow. You are right, the game isn't Fallout but it's pretty darn close imo. It does have an Oblivion feel but really, it's the same engine, that should be expected , but when interacting with most things/people I feel like I just walked out of a Vault where the world has gone to shit and I'm here to save or screw it depending on my mood, not trying to rescuing Patrick Stewart from a dungeon :P
"There is too great an incentive for companies to dream up potentially damaging and idiotic ideas in order to secure lucrative government contracts to carry them out. The company then makes a large profit from screwing with the environment in a big way." Not that it hasn't been done before, coal mining and every other resource gathering is/was done in a half assed manner.