As this is Slashdot, I expected the article to be about an ATA over Ethernet switch that would let you build an array of drives to rival fibre-channel.
Now that would be interesting.
Unfortunately it was just another article meant more for digg.com
If I have many OSs and filesystems in my box, I would want to have access to everything from any OS. Linux supports NTFS, Windows supports ext3(after installing a driver).
This mod is pointless. You need 2 drives that you can only use one at a time. The amount of power you save negligible. And you would extend the life of your drives way more if you put on them a fan you got from free from the garbage dump.
My advice is, do not go with thin clients. If budget is an issue go with Asus Eee boxes or a Shuttle SSF PC. They can come down in price to a level comparable with a thin client. Yet they are poweful enough for school purposes.IF necessary they can act as thin clients anyways.
Some departments yes, will need more powerful computers. The students who will do any work on autocad, photoshop, video editing will need more juice. If you are going with Windows, I doubt you can still license XP. But you can look into Windows FLP (for legacy PCs). If you go this way, one interesting thing you can do is put a Linux box in every class (or every compsci class) with several different distros that students can play around with ( ubuntu desktop, slackware, CentOS server).
I am not sure about handing out tablets. Do the students really need mobility. Having a few laptops and tablets(only 10 or 20) that can be borrowed when needed is good,i.e. students working on programming a small robot; but expecting everyone, students, staff and school-board, to take advantage of the opportunity if every student has a tablet is unrealistic.
Buy laptop with cash.
Buy a tiny 4gb+ usb thumbdrive with it.
Wipe hard-drive using any linux live-cd.
Make 2 or more partitions on the hard drive.
On the last partition setup Windows XP so that authorities have something to work with if they check your computer.
Setup your preferred linux distro on the first partition.
If option is offered encrypt your home directory.
If not use truecrypt and encrypt your entire linux partition. Leave Windows XP naked.
Setup GRUB so that:
-WinXP boots by default
-Grub doesn't show up at all unless desired combination is pressed upon bootup.
Label the linux partition as Recovery or Backup, be creative.
Do all your deemed illegal things on linux, and your "civilized" things on windows.
Use TrueCrypt hidden volumes for storing sensitive information, in case you are extorted.
Use HotspotShield VPN or Ultrasurf proxy for browsing the web.
If you can get a hold of a linux box in europe set-up openvpn with it.
Have a bootable livelinux on your thumbdrive just in case, along with portable truecrypt and stored hidden volumes if necessary.
Don't ever backup the same thing twice.
Use sneakernet or snailmail for sharing information with friends.
GnuPG is your best friend.
If there's one thing that you really can't control today is the flow of information.
Constructing an Orwellian society is impossible because geeks are always going to be many steps ahead.
Sadly though, the mentallity of many governments is still stuck in the past and most politicians have no clue what PGP is.
I appreciate your rappin',
Dat win dose's still crapin',
N' all the bloggers yappin',
Then watchin' pr0n n' fappin'.
Looks like Microsoft has grown a pair,
Taken on to torrents outa despair,
Thus the new OS' come to be,
The great Windows 7 conspiracy.
Some say 't looks similar to KDE,
N' other things based on BSD.
But I really dun give a shiz,
'Bout Aero, Aqua OR Compiz.
Just wanna have all my apps,
Run smooth as ass on x86.
Its level of addictiveness is next door to crack.
I remember many weekends I've wasted with the previous games in the series. Once clocked in 20hours of continuous play. Looks like I might finally be able to break my record once this gets released.
The good thing though is that Online gameplay is not it's "major" component so you wont be quitting your job/school for this.
It looks like Digg has invaded slashdot.
Anyways,
The fact that 2 millennia ago some were able to make a calculator to predict eclipses is astounding, taking into consideration the religious beliefs and the gullibility of the masses on those times.
It's true, qemu works excellently, the only reason that it is not as popular as VMWare, virtual box or virtual PC is because of the crappy mouse support.
The choppy mouse can be annoying, but it's not a problem at all if you're not running X.
Who in the right mind would turn on SLI while on battery power? You would not even have enough time to save whatever game you're playing. But if you need to run a dictionary attack in order to break into some access point it would be great ( if we had NVIDIA CUDA APPs that did that).
I think there's quite a market for these types of laptops. While the the disadvantages are that they are huge, weight a ton and toast your lap, they pack quite a bit of portable power. But the battery life should be pretty good when you're running with just the integrated graphics. First they would be ideal for people who go to LAN parties. Second, if you are a serious designer working in 3D animation this may be the only PC you need. Thirdly, NVIDIA CUDA has shown a lot of promise so far, with time we will have more applications that make heavy use of the GPU (hopefully a lot of cryptography applications).
And that quad-core cpu should also be really good for running several virtual machines in VMWare (or virtual box or qemu). This laptop can fulfill the heavy computer needs of most users. The only problem is whether you are ready to pay 3 times the price for a bit more portability.
Why not? What's the point of moving ahead if we keep forgetting what we knew before, or for how much longer CAN we move ahead if we keep forgetting what we knew? The answer is the same as the reason why we keep track of human history and teach it to our kids at school. There might be a bit of nostalgia involved in taking on a project like this, but it fulfills our basic need to archive knowledge.
I'm Canadian and an NDP supporter but truth be told, it doesn't really matter in Canada who wins our election (which is on Tuesday by the way). Us the regular people tend to always get our way. Besides, our Conservative party is more left wing than the Democrats in U.S.
What we know for sure about this election is that it is going to be another minority government, and the beauty of that is that no one can pass up any legislation that is too controversial(i.e. war on Iraq).
Does this mean that things do not get done?
No not really. It's Canada anyways, compared to many other countries around the world we do not have a huge urge to get things done at the moment and our economy seems to be surprisingly capable right now on weathering out this worldwide financial storm.
Back on the main subject.A short time ago, the Conservatives tried to quietly pass up a Canadian version of the DMCA and that didn't go too well for them. Again that's the beauty of the minority government.
Right now in Canada we pay a tax for blank media(CD/DVD-Rs) and that's about it. We are allowed to download music and movies as long as we keep it personal and do not use it to make profit. I've asked police officers, lawyers about this and they've told me it's ok, they know their kids download music too. Heck an executive of an ISP even told me he downloads torrents himself when I met him at the Toronto wireless conference.
A problem that we do have is that our market is almost a monopoly. It's all only Bell and Rogers with their third parties and these two companies are stifling advancement in our communications industry and tightening their leash on us customers. We have 60Gb bandwidth caps and very expensive 3g access. But there are legal ways to get around this. You can change to a third party ISP, pay a bit more but no caps or if your neighbour's are not what you can call/.readers then their wireless is probably open anyways.
I hope I gave a little insight to non-Canadians about the state of copyright in Canada. As you can see, it's not too bad.
Hey, I'm planning on doing an internship in Europe too, (probably UK or Germany). Can you tell me a bit more about your experience there. Like which country did you go to, did they pay OK, how did you apply and what kind of work did you do?
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As this is Slashdot, I expected the article to be about an ATA over Ethernet switch that would let you build an array of drives to rival fibre-channel.
Now that would be interesting.
Unfortunately it was just another article meant more for digg.com
If I have many OSs and filesystems in my box, I would want to have access to everything from any OS. Linux supports NTFS, Windows supports ext3(after installing a driver).
This mod is pointless. You need 2 drives that you can only use one at a time. The amount of power you save negligible. And you would extend the life of your drives way more if you put on them a fan you got from free from the garbage dump.
My advice is, do not go with thin clients. If budget is an issue go with Asus Eee boxes or a Shuttle SSF PC. They can come down in price to a level comparable with a thin client. Yet they are poweful enough for school purposes.IF necessary they can act as thin clients anyways.
Some departments yes, will need more powerful computers. The students who will do any work on autocad, photoshop, video editing will need more juice. If you are going with Windows, I doubt you can still license XP. But you can look into Windows FLP (for legacy PCs). If you go this way, one interesting thing you can do is put a Linux box in every class (or every compsci class) with several different distros that students can play around with ( ubuntu desktop, slackware, CentOS server). I am not sure about handing out tablets. Do the students really need mobility. Having a few laptops and tablets(only 10 or 20) that can be borrowed when needed is good,i.e. students working on programming a small robot; but expecting everyone, students, staff and school-board, to take advantage of the opportunity if every student has a tablet is unrealistic.
+5 Informative?!
:P
Thanks guys
Apu's quick guide to cyber-anonymity:
Buy laptop with cash.
Buy a tiny 4gb+ usb thumbdrive with it.
Wipe hard-drive using any linux live-cd.
Make 2 or more partitions on the hard drive.
On the last partition setup Windows XP so that authorities have something to work with if they check your computer.
Setup your preferred linux distro on the first partition.
If option is offered encrypt your home directory.
If not use truecrypt and encrypt your entire linux partition. Leave Windows XP naked.
Setup GRUB so that:
-WinXP boots by default
-Grub doesn't show up at all unless desired combination is pressed upon bootup.
Label the linux partition as Recovery or Backup, be creative.
Do all your deemed illegal things on linux, and your "civilized" things on windows.
Use TrueCrypt hidden volumes for storing sensitive information, in case you are extorted.
Use HotspotShield VPN or Ultrasurf proxy for browsing the web.
If you can get a hold of a linux box in europe set-up openvpn with it.
Have a bootable livelinux on your thumbdrive just in case, along with portable truecrypt and stored hidden volumes if necessary.
Don't ever backup the same thing twice.
Use sneakernet or snailmail for sharing information with friends.
GnuPG is your best friend.
????
Profit!
If there's one thing that you really can't control today is the flow of information.
Constructing an Orwellian society is impossible because geeks are always going to be many steps ahead.
Sadly though, the mentallity of many governments is still stuck in the past and most politicians have no clue what PGP is.
I appreciate your rappin',
Dat win dose's still crapin',
N' all the bloggers yappin',
Then watchin' pr0n n' fappin'.
Looks like Microsoft has grown a pair,
Taken on to torrents outa despair,
Thus the new OS' come to be,
The great Windows 7 conspiracy.
Some say 't looks similar to KDE,
N' other things based on BSD.
But I really dun give a shiz,
'Bout Aero, Aqua OR Compiz.
Just wanna have all my apps,
Run smooth as ass on x86.
peace
It bothers me,
How this guy actually made the discovery.
He must have let off quite a bit of steam towards that rack.
Its level of addictiveness is next door to crack.
I remember many weekends I've wasted with the previous games in the series. Once clocked in 20hours of continuous play. Looks like I might finally be able to break my record once this gets released.
The good thing though is that Online gameplay is not it's "major" component so you wont be quitting your job/school for this.
It looks like Digg has invaded slashdot. Anyways, The fact that 2 millennia ago some were able to make a calculator to predict eclipses is astounding, taking into consideration the religious beliefs and the gullibility of the masses on those times.
sales of lead-lined suitcases have increased heavily.
It becomes firefox.
It's true, qemu works excellently, the only reason that it is not as popular as VMWare, virtual box or virtual PC is because of the crappy mouse support. The choppy mouse can be annoying, but it's not a problem at all if you're not running X.
as a young geek, the internet has taught me that security through obscurity is pointless.
I'm a high-school student and I know that most people here can't even pronounce his name.
As long as don't use it as swap.
What happens when the read-write cycles on this run out?
Here's a sexier one:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tlosborne/Osborne/Osbornehistory/Adamosborne/osbornecomputerspecsheet.jpg
It's called a luggable.
Who in the right mind would turn on SLI while on battery power? You would not even have enough time to save whatever game you're playing.
But if you need to run a dictionary attack in order to break into some access point it would be great ( if we had NVIDIA CUDA APPs that did that).
I think there's quite a market for these types of laptops. While the the disadvantages are that they are huge, weight a ton and toast your lap, they pack quite a bit of portable power. But the battery life should be pretty good when you're running with just the integrated graphics.
First they would be ideal for people who go to LAN parties.
Second, if you are a serious designer working in 3D animation this may be the only PC you need.
Thirdly, NVIDIA CUDA has shown a lot of promise so far, with time we will have more applications that make heavy use of the GPU (hopefully a lot of cryptography applications).
And that quad-core cpu should also be really good for running several virtual machines in VMWare (or virtual box or qemu). This laptop can fulfill the heavy computer needs of most users. The only problem is whether you are ready to pay 3 times the price for a bit more portability.
Why not?
What's the point of moving ahead if we keep forgetting what we knew before, or for how much longer CAN we move ahead if we keep forgetting what we knew?
The answer is the same as the reason why we keep track of human history and teach it to our kids at school.
There might be a bit of nostalgia involved in taking on a project like this, but it fulfills our basic need to archive knowledge.
I'm Canadian and an NDP supporter but truth be told, it doesn't really matter in Canada who wins our election (which is on Tuesday by the way). Us the regular people tend to always get our way. Besides, our Conservative party is more left wing than the Democrats in U.S. What we know for sure about this election is that it is going to be another minority government, and the beauty of that is that no one can pass up any legislation that is too controversial(i.e. war on Iraq). Does this mean that things do not get done? No not really. It's Canada anyways, compared to many other countries around the world we do not have a huge urge to get things done at the moment and our economy seems to be surprisingly capable right now on weathering out this worldwide financial storm. Back on the main subject.A short time ago, the Conservatives tried to quietly pass up a Canadian version of the DMCA and that didn't go too well for them. Again that's the beauty of the minority government. Right now in Canada we pay a tax for blank media(CD/DVD-Rs) and that's about it. We are allowed to download music and movies as long as we keep it personal and do not use it to make profit. I've asked police officers, lawyers about this and they've told me it's ok, they know their kids download music too. Heck an executive of an ISP even told me he downloads torrents himself when I met him at the Toronto wireless conference. A problem that we do have is that our market is almost a monopoly. It's all only Bell and Rogers with their third parties and these two companies are stifling advancement in our communications industry and tightening their leash on us customers. We have 60Gb bandwidth caps and very expensive 3g access. But there are legal ways to get around this. You can change to a third party ISP, pay a bit more but no caps or if your neighbour's are not what you can call /.readers then their wireless is probably open anyways.
I hope I gave a little insight to non-Canadians about the state of copyright in Canada. As you can see, it's not too bad.
This voltage...never seen it before...IT'S OVER 9000.
...probably the best place to ask this... Hey what happened to the year 2038 bug? Does this mean linux is supposed to die at menopause or something?
Hey, I'm planning on doing an internship in Europe too, (probably UK or Germany). Can you tell me a bit more about your experience there. Like which country did you go to, did they pay OK, how did you apply and what kind of work did you do?