Internet is just telephone communications. No different. Treating it differently isn't wise. The employers are right though if the use gets out of hand.
Except I can't get a virus that infects the entire network from my phone. If I browse out to a site that drops some piece of malware on my computer, then my computer can spread the infection to the entire network.
Well, if the license says that "through inaction permit any human being to be harmed" then it could be argued that if compiling and running the software would prevent harm to individuals, say the Nazis carting tens of thousands of people off to the ovens, a person would be in violation of the license by not running it.
Which brings up the conundrum in the 3 laws:
A robot is in a situation where the only way to save 100 people is to kill 1 person. If the robot does nothing -- inaction -- 100 people die. The only way to prevent the deaths is to harm 1 person. What happens? Head explode? It's been too many decades since I've read the original Robot stories to remember if this was covered or not.
>>Find a way to make the average user patch software.
Preachin' to the choir there. We just started getting a new crop of students in our graduate college(so these are mostly people who spent at least the last 4 years as undergrads) and so far about 2 of the students were still on XP SP1 and the rest had about 3 reboots worth of updates to pull down on average. That's why we have classes where all we do is walk them through how to update Windows, anti-virus, and anti-spyware software. The number of students I see who don't have even a recent update of windows of AV software less than 6 months old is amazing.
Has anyone else tried using ghost with vista? I did an experiment this morning where I created a ghost image of a vista box and tried to restore it on another, identical computer. Vista wouldn't boot; it said that the selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt. Booting from the install cd and selecting repair fixed it though.
Haven't had a chance to google this yet, so it may be a known bug.
3/4 of the people will argue about their misunderstanding of the problems involved, the other won't even know what the problems are but think they do. The very few people who actually do understand the problems and the underlying issues will eventually stop trying to explain what the real issue is.
without ssh, how exactly would you propose enabling access to it?
Restrict the ip addresses of the computers that can access the ssh connection. Ah, you'll say, then all the attacker has to do is get access to the computer that is on the allowed ip address list. True, but let's say you are a company with the web server www.verigon.com. That's a nice public target running apache, mysql, php, etc. All the things a good lamp server should run. That's going to be the public target.
If I want to ssh in, I first have to connect to a different box. The thing here is that this ssh box (I'll just call it that to save typing) doesn't have to run anything but the os and ssh, thus lowering the number of software packages that can open a vulnerability. Remember, every daemon you run, every piece of software you install, every service that's enabled is another potential whole. The second part to this is that the ssh box is not a big target. It's dns name may be something like comp-1.it.verigon.com or ideally its name isn't even registered in dns. Either way, the bullseye is going to be on www.verigon.com for the casual cracker. Only someone who is specifically interested in my company is going to try to find a way in. The script kiddies will just see that ssh doesn't respond and go on to the next webserver.
Answering the question as you put it isn't really possible.
First, you need to have a good understanding of what these computers need to do. You mention educational software and wine. Does that mean there are specific applications that the computers must run or just that there are just things the computers should be able to do. A requirement that the computers run Oregon Trail 2005 (or whatever) probably means that you must stay with Windows or attempt to run it slowly in wine. But if the requirement is a typing tutor program, an astronomy program and a basic word processor, that's different.
What other things do the computers need to do? Do they have to maintain a print server? Sharing an attached printer is pretty easy with windows, but slightly more complicated with linux. If you are the only tech person and you aren't available when the printer goes down, you might have a problem.
Do they need to acces the internet? How? Direct connection for each box or through a proxy? Will you be replacing the proxy? Are they running any monitoring software to stop the porn? Some of the older kids will definitely be after that and while I'm against censorship in principle, I can certainly understand that you don't need a 13 year old surfing porn in class.
Sure, if you set it up correctly Ubuntu will not be hard for the kids to use and the teachers should be able to learn how to use it. But you need to answer the question, "will it do what I need it to do?"
Heh. I live in a college town. The students would step in front of a jumbo jet with full power to the engines. They don't care who they walk in front of and because there are so many of them crossing the streets between classes, for the 10 minutes between classes traffic pretty much comes to a standstill.
Besides, there's a difference between not wanting someone to hit me and not caring if I hit someone.;)
!"increasing as much as planned" != "cutting back"
Pretend the following:
Your job is to provide 1 apple to every student each day. It is 2005 and apples cost 50 cents. You have 200 students. The 2005 government budget has given you $100 dollars a day to do the job. You can do your job and have no problems. You serve 100% of the students.
The government forecasts that in 2006, apples will cost 60 cents and increases in enrollment will give you 220 students. Because it knows that these are just projections, the government projects a 2006 budget for you of $140 a day, 40% increase in budget, but you should be able to do your job with a little money to spare. You still serve 100% of the students.
When it comes time to actually pass the budget, the government gives you a budget of $125 a day budget, a 25% increase over this year's budget. However, government projections of prices and enrollments were on target. Apples now cost 60 cents and you have to provide apples for 220 students each day.
You can only purchase 208 applies, which means that 12 students are no longer covered.
Did your budget increase? Yes. Did you cut back on the percentage of students you can serve and the services you offer? Yes.
Thus not increasing by as much as planned does equal cutting back.
It depends on whether or not the partial file is usable or not. It would be every different if you got 10 viewable minutes of a movie each visit and after 9 visits you'd have accumulated the whole movie. Or as part of a promotion to keep people coming back over a period of time, do it like they do limited edition toys: a different part each week to keep customers coming back each week.
Visit McDonalds once a week for 2 months and you'll get the whole movie viewable at once. Miss a week and you'll have to view each part individually and miss the middle part.
Or get a different level of a game each week so that you have to keep coming back to level up. First you beat the level, then you have to go to McD's to get the next level.
Plus this is for a complete business process, which would be different than merely file spanning.
Anyone remember that episode of Cheers where Coach uses song to pass a geography test?
Albania, Albania, you border on the Asiatic . . .
Sung to the tune of "When the saints go marching in." Who can complete it without Google?;)
I haven't watched Cheers in decades but I can still remember that (&*^ song. I've used similar song based mnemonics for passwords and other rote, just have to memorize it type of things and it works for me.
Heh. I thought it was funny that someone would say that bling bling is bad and then choose Enlightenment, which I've always thought of as having cutting edge graphics effects. E17 is especially cool looking when everything is working. If you don't know, E17 is the latest, not even beta yet version.
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I think you can do all of these things since you can have javascript in a while loop/sleep or whatever and then every x number of seconds have the javascript call the function to update the page. I don't do a lot of client side programming, precisely because I can't guarantee what's on the client, but javascript should be able to do that.
The examples you have here though can also be handled by a meta-refresh. Unless you wanted different sections of the page to update at different intervals. So that the stock is updated every second, the news every 30 minutes, the weather every 15. Then unless you set the meta-refresh to the lower time, ajax would work for these things.
You could also be really old school and use frames with meta-refresh.
Although I will confess that I have only started with ajax, it seems to me that it is better suited to apps that are also passing client side input or changes.
I guess it depends on how often the 20 items or so change. I just completed my first ajax app today and it's got a similar type of very simple interface and I thought the ajax method worked better and faster than the post/reload page method or create multiple javascript array variables. My app let's secretaries select a faculty member from a drop down list and then the courses taught by the faculty appear so the secretary can select the course.
Yes, it' simple (but I wanted something simple to get the hang of it) and at 50 faculty teaching an average of 3 courses, it wouldn't have been a huge chore to build the arrays from a one time database query. But this way I learned a new tool for the toolbox and I'll have some base code I can steal when I want to do something more complicated..
For my next trick I'd like to do something cool with seating charts and interactive photos that users can drag around the screen, all web based.
More than once I've had issues with users stalking up behind me and reading my screen before I even knew they were there.
Get a privacy screen for the monitor. They blur the screen to anyone more than a foot or so away from the monitor and they work. Drives me nuts to work on a computer with one on it because if I move my head to far I think I'm having eye problems.
The Robertsons and Dobsons of the USA are protesting the HPV vaccine because they think that if women could get a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, they'd have more sex. That's not that different.
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Internet is just telephone communications. No different. Treating it differently isn't wise. The employers are right though if the use gets out of hand.
Except I can't get a virus that infects the entire network from my phone. If I browse out to a site that drops some piece of malware on my computer, then my computer can spread the infection to the entire network.
Well, if the license says that "through inaction permit any human being to be harmed" then it could be argued that if compiling and running the software would prevent harm to individuals, say the Nazis carting tens of thousands of people off to the ovens, a person would be in violation of the license by not running it.
Which brings up the conundrum in the 3 laws:
A robot is in a situation where the only way to save 100 people is to kill 1 person. If the robot does nothing -- inaction -- 100 people die. The only way to prevent the deaths is to harm 1 person. What happens? Head explode? It's been too many decades since I've read the original Robot stories to remember if this was covered or not.
>>Find a way to make the average user patch software.
Preachin' to the choir there. We just started getting a new crop of students in our graduate college(so these are mostly people who spent at least the last 4 years as undergrads) and so far about 2 of the students were still on XP SP1 and the rest had about 3 reboots worth of updates to pull down on average. That's why we have classes where all we do is walk them through how to update Windows, anti-virus, and anti-spyware software. The number of students I see who don't have even a recent update of windows of AV software less than 6 months old is amazing.
Has anyone else tried using ghost with vista? I did an experiment this morning where I created a ghost image of a vista box and tried to restore it on another, identical computer. Vista wouldn't boot; it said that the selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt. Booting from the install cd and selecting repair fixed it though.
Haven't had a chance to google this yet, so it may be a known bug.
3/4 of the people will argue about their misunderstanding of the problems involved, the other won't even know what the problems are but think they do. The very few people who actually do understand the problems and the underlying issues will eventually stop trying to explain what the real issue is.
without ssh, how exactly would you propose enabling access to it?
Restrict the ip addresses of the computers that can access the ssh connection. Ah, you'll say, then all the attacker has to do is get access to the computer that is on the allowed ip address list. True, but let's say you are a company with the web server www.verigon.com. That's a nice public target running apache, mysql, php, etc. All the things a good lamp server should run. That's going to be the public target.
If I want to ssh in, I first have to connect to a different box. The thing here is that this ssh box (I'll just call it that to save typing) doesn't have to run anything but the os and ssh, thus lowering the number of software packages that can open a vulnerability. Remember, every daemon you run, every piece of software you install, every service that's enabled is another potential whole. The second part to this is that the ssh box is not a big target. It's dns name may be something like comp-1.it.verigon.com or ideally its name isn't even registered in dns. Either way, the bullseye is going to be on www.verigon.com for the casual cracker. Only someone who is specifically interested in my company is going to try to find a way in. The script kiddies will just see that ssh doesn't respond and go on to the next webserver.
Answering the question as you put it isn't really possible.
First, you need to have a good understanding of what these computers need to do. You mention educational software and wine. Does that mean there are specific applications that the computers must run or just that there are just things the computers should be able to do. A requirement that the computers run Oregon Trail 2005 (or whatever) probably means that you must stay with Windows or attempt to run it slowly in wine. But if the requirement is a typing tutor program, an astronomy program and a basic word processor, that's different.
What other things do the computers need to do? Do they have to maintain a print server? Sharing an attached printer is pretty easy with windows, but slightly more complicated with linux. If you are the only tech person and you aren't available when the printer goes down, you might have a problem.
Do they need to acces the internet? How? Direct connection for each box or through a proxy? Will you be replacing the proxy? Are they running any monitoring software to stop the porn? Some of the older kids will definitely be after that and while I'm against censorship in principle, I can certainly understand that you don't need a 13 year old surfing porn in class.
Sure, if you set it up correctly Ubuntu will not be hard for the kids to use and the teachers should be able to learn how to use it. But you need to answer the question, "will it do what I need it to do?"
Heh. I live in a college town. The students would step in front of a jumbo jet with full power to the engines. They don't care who they walk in front of and because there are so many of them crossing the streets between classes, for the 10 minutes between classes traffic pretty much comes to a standstill.
;)
Besides, there's a difference between not wanting someone to hit me and not caring if I hit someone.
Who wants a silent car? We want a car with a soundtrack to be noticed by.
;)
I want a silent car. I don't want or need to be noticed by everyone, just as long as I'm not literally invisible so they run in to me.
I feel no need to impress people on the street with the sound of my car's motor. Don't care what they think.
No, Web 4.0 is Web 2.0 squared. And of course Web 8.0 where it's really at: Web 2.0 cubed.
We've been deploying images with Ghost 8, AV 8, 9, and now 10 with SpyBot for at least a year and a half now and have never had any problems.
I know, I know, anecdotal evidence and all that, but still we've never had a corrupt ghost image in all that time.
I call bs on the no sata support w/o a driver disk. Windows XP has detected the sata drives in every computer I've tried it on.
Yes, it's possible that it doesn't detect some sata controllers, but that is not the same as saying it has no support w/o a driver disk.
!"increasing as much as planned" != "cutting back"
Pretend the following:
Your job is to provide 1 apple to every student each day. It is 2005 and apples cost 50 cents. You have 200 students. The 2005 government budget has given you $100 dollars a day to do the job. You can do your job and have no problems. You serve 100% of the students.
The government forecasts that in 2006, apples will cost 60 cents and increases in enrollment will give you 220 students. Because it knows that these are just projections, the government projects a 2006 budget for you of $140 a day, 40% increase in budget, but you should be able to do your job with a little money to spare. You still serve 100% of the students.
When it comes time to actually pass the budget, the government gives you a budget of $125 a day budget, a 25% increase over this year's budget. However, government projections of prices and enrollments were on target. Apples now cost 60 cents and you have to provide apples for 220 students each day.
You can only purchase 208 applies, which means that 12 students are no longer covered.
Did your budget increase? Yes.
Did you cut back on the percentage of students you can serve and the services you offer? Yes.
Thus not increasing by as much as planned does equal cutting back.
And even more confusing, can someone tell me without looking what are the executable names for Excel, Outlook, Word, and Access?
Answer
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(At least I think I'm correct from memory)
excel.exe
outlook.exe
winword.exe
msaccess.exe
Note the lack of a consistent naming conventions. Is the executable just the name of the program, the program prepended with ms or prepended with win?
Just like *nix, there are historical reasons for the names. For example, winword was the windows version of the dos word.exe program.
But just because other programs in the MS world do things stupidly is no excuse for not doing it right.
I'll second this. I have no problem with the chase credit card web site with Firefox for windows and Firefox for linux.
My small town local bank actually looks good in lynx!
It depends on whether or not the partial file is usable or not. It would be every different if you got 10 viewable minutes of a movie each visit and after 9 visits you'd have accumulated the whole movie. Or as part of a promotion to keep people coming back over a period of time, do it like they do limited edition toys: a different part each week to keep customers coming back each week.
Visit McDonalds once a week for 2 months and you'll get the whole movie viewable at once. Miss a week and you'll have to view each part individually and miss the middle part.
Or get a different level of a game each week so that you have to keep coming back to level up. First you beat the level, then you have to go to McD's to get the next level.
Plus this is for a complete business process, which would be different than merely file spanning.
Anyone remember that episode of Cheers where Coach uses song to pass a geography test?
;)
Albania, Albania, you border on the Asiatic . . .
Sung to the tune of "When the saints go marching in." Who can complete it without Google?
I haven't watched Cheers in decades but I can still remember that (&*^ song. I've used similar song based mnemonics for passwords and other rote, just have to memorize it type of things and it works for me.
Heh. I thought it was funny that someone would say that bling bling is bad and then choose Enlightenment, which I've always thought of as having cutting edge graphics effects. E17 is especially cool looking when everything is working. If you don't know, E17 is the latest, not even beta yet version.
I think you can do all of these things since you can have javascript in a while loop/sleep or whatever and then every x number of seconds have the javascript call the function to update the page. I don't do a lot of client side programming, precisely because I can't guarantee what's on the client, but javascript should be able to do that.
The examples you have here though can also be handled by a meta-refresh. Unless you wanted different sections of the page to update at different intervals. So that the stock is updated every second, the news every 30 minutes, the weather every 15. Then unless you set the meta-refresh to the lower time, ajax would work for these things.
You could also be really old school and use frames with meta-refresh.
Although I will confess that I have only started with ajax, it seems to me that it is better suited to apps that are also passing client side input or changes.
But I could easily be wrong.
Oh, I don't know. That's exactly what I had to do with the cassette deck in my first car.
I guess it depends on how often the 20 items or so change. I just completed my first ajax app today and it's got a similar type of very simple interface and I thought the ajax method worked better and faster than the post/reload page method or create multiple javascript array variables. My app let's secretaries select a faculty member from a drop down list and then the courses taught by the faculty appear so the secretary can select the course.
Yes, it' simple (but I wanted something simple to get the hang of it) and at 50 faculty teaching an average of 3 courses, it wouldn't have been a huge chore to build the arrays from a one time database query. But this way I learned a new tool for the toolbox and I'll have some base code I can steal when I want to do something more complicated..
For my next trick I'd like to do something cool with seating charts and interactive photos that users can drag around the screen, all web based.
More than once I've had issues with users stalking up behind me and reading my screen before I even knew they were there.
Get a privacy screen for the monitor. They blur the screen to anyone more than a foot or so away from the monitor and they work. Drives me nuts to work on a computer with one on it because if I move my head to far I think I'm having eye problems.
The Robertsons and Dobsons of the USA are protesting the HPV vaccine because they think that if women could get a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, they'd have more sex. That's not that different.
They don't have full access to the local machine, they only have the user's access to the local machine. There's an important difference.
I always figured that was an anit-huffing message. Canned air is not "pure air" what ever the heck that means.
You also should try to ignite it or use it to freeze things.