the best solution is to have maybe 4-10 depending on number of students in a class, computers in each room, and having wifi throughout. I believe strongly that everycomputer shouldnt be the same, and that to save costs and not suckel your students on the teets of microsoft, the vast majority should be FOSS. Students should be allowed to bring in their own devices and hook up, and get the majority of the internet through it, most operating systems can work with a samba-based network, and kerebos etc can be logged into from any operating systems.'
Although you dont really need that form of centralized storrrage as much these days, you could just give everyone a flash drive.
Computers should be quick to flash and have little security, the network should have solid security instead.
labs are dead, and thin clients and labs do not go together unless you can distribute the load over all servers in the building it will be a slllllow disaster whenever a class uses a thin-based lab.
Save yourself money and skip the microsoft thing, there really is no reason to do it anymore. Linux is very secure, and students have no roblem with it, the only people that might need microsoft are teachers or administrators that dont know anything else, but dont make your tax[ayers and students suffer for that.
while xfce might be faster on memory-constrained systems it still uses xlib and is therefore as slow as gnome or kde on cpu-constrained, SMP environments.
I find awesome WM's default key bindings quite wrong, but once you use it you realize how much faster window managers can be--everything is so much more responsive. It does this through using Xcb, which unlike xlib is asynchronous.
but it happens to be the only thing microsoft has ever sold that is worth its weight. I dont like microsoft, bu flight simulator is a really good similar and nothing else will beat it for quite a while even if it isnt being maintained.
Im not saying that microsoft created something great, they did get flight simulator through a buy out, but this just shows how microsoft will only work on things that they have an unfair advantage at selling crap or wiping out competitors rather than working on something that is actually good.
it is differnt because apple actively attacks jailbreakers while google will suppor the os even if unoffcial apps are installed. In the car world apple's type of tactics were deemed illegal.
and yes some fundamentalists will find out, but IMHO it makes them not care nearly as much if these things have to be sought out.
the is why googles model (android) is so good. the conservatives can buy only from the store while anybody else can get their apps from anywhere. no whining from either side
you can, at least for debian there is the alien package--however this does not mean there is binary compadibility--something that is unlikely to ever happen. A rpm installed in debian has to be compiled for debian.
The solution is to compile from source, and most distros provide really easy way to package the compiled program (such as checkinstall) so you can manage it. The distro that fixes this whole problem is gentoo, as it does away with binary packages totally.
What you dont realize is that, even if the binary driver makes their computer work now, it hampers progress and creates endless problems. The kernel developers will not support any kernel that has proprietary code not for any ideological reason, but simply because if they cant view the code, and therefore cant debug it or test it.
If someone has a proprietary module loaded that module can fuck up anything and its really impossible to know without a huge fucking effort of (illegal) reverse engineering.
This is why the kernel wont touch proprietary drivers and why people should shun them, they create vastly more bugs then they fix. This is why Intel needs to move forward and create a better graphics card so developers can properly debug and fix problems for everybody.
Yeah it really is the only option until Intel releases a more powerful graphics chipset, sadly. Of course if you are running a server, or in a VM then this is irrelevant, and as ubuntu cant touch Debian in stability of a server OS this swerves the statistics.
ubuntu has a penchant for BREAKING things in the name of usability, and making a gazillion changes to debian so that must be no easy task to maintain. If you are going to use Debian (and thats what Ubuntu mainly is) then use the real one, one that doesn't have huge gaping bugs in things they ship as stable.
The problem is that a mail message has a real high quality attached to it and a authenticity. a random html page is hard because there is no signature and it could always be argued that you changed it. Until banks cryptographically sign their online statements they are practically useless.
yes you shouldnt rely on them to keep it, but guess what, they are keeping it weather they let you access it or not, what are they going to look at when backing up their claim of your indebtedness to them? What it comes down to is that if they have data about you you deserve to know what threat data is and be able to access it weather you are their customer or not. Its simply common sense.
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we need a more distributed model like git or something
it is possible to fork wikipedia but it would not be easy, especially with the way google works. And it probably wouldnt produce anything useful
also not logged in users should not se the amboxes that say "this article is crap", etc..
this breaks the entire reason that wikipedia worked!!!!
the best solution is to have maybe 4-10 depending on number of students in a class, computers in each room, and having wifi throughout. I believe strongly that everycomputer shouldnt be the same, and that to save costs and not suckel your students on the teets of microsoft, the vast majority should be FOSS. Students should be allowed to bring in their own devices and hook up, and get the majority of the internet through it, most operating systems can work with a samba-based network, and kerebos etc can be logged into from any operating systems.'
Although you dont really need that form of centralized storrrage as much these days, you could just give everyone a flash drive.
Computers should be quick to flash and have little security, the network should have solid security instead.
labs are dead, and thin clients and labs do not go together unless you can distribute the load over all servers in the building it will be a slllllow disaster whenever a class uses a thin-based lab.
Save yourself money and skip the microsoft thing, there really is no reason to do it anymore. Linux is very secure, and students have no roblem with it, the only people that might need microsoft are teachers or administrators that dont know anything else, but dont make your tax[ayers and students suffer for that.
http://www.suckless.org/dwm/
geeze 4 WHOLE MEGABYTES, use dwm: the source is under 18kb. GOSH
while xfce might be faster on memory-constrained systems it still uses xlib and is therefore as slow as gnome or kde on cpu-constrained, SMP environments.
I find awesome WM's default key bindings quite wrong, but once you use it you realize how much faster window managers can be--everything is so much more responsive. It does this through using Xcb, which unlike xlib is asynchronous.
yeah i did not know about that simulator before today, im definetely going to check it out
but it happens to be the only thing microsoft has ever sold that is worth its weight. I dont like microsoft, bu flight simulator is a really good similar and nothing else will beat it for quite a while even if it isnt being maintained.
Im not saying that microsoft created something great, they did get flight simulator through a buy out, but this just shows how microsoft will only work on things that they have an unfair advantage at selling crap or wiping out competitors rather than working on something that is actually good.
i accept that, if they ban all encyclopedia then that can make sense, but that is not the norm IFAIK
it is differnt because apple actively attacks jailbreakers while google will suppor the os even if unoffcial apps are installed. In the car world apple's type of tactics were deemed illegal.
and yes some fundamentalists will find out, but IMHO it makes them not care nearly as much if these things have to be sought out.
the is why googles model (android) is so good. the conservatives can buy only from the store while anybody else can get their apps from anywhere. no whining from either side
these kids need to grow up.
everything is owned by the game makers, this isnt theft
it may be harassment but not theft
and then teachers jelous that people who havnt spent there life sucking up for tenure can edit and create a good encyclopedia, ban it
RoR is japaneese for LOL
have you heard of bytecode? bytecode is not source, although it is possible to dissassemble it
theres a ton of pornographic mangas and such is you actually look at the servers, its amaing that the stuff is still on government serevrs
LOLOLOL
the china officials have already been found coult red-handed with porn on government servers:
http://w3.cultdeadcow.com/cms/2008/03/cult-of-the-dea.html
any they ironically didnt find any on us offical servers..
you can, at least for debian there is the alien package--however this does not mean there is binary compadibility--something that is unlikely to ever happen. A rpm installed in debian has to be compiled for debian.
The solution is to compile from source, and most distros provide really easy way to package the compiled program (such as checkinstall) so you can manage it. The distro that fixes this whole problem is gentoo, as it does away with binary packages totally.
What you dont realize is that, even if the binary driver makes their computer work now, it hampers progress and creates endless problems. The kernel developers will not support any kernel that has proprietary code not for any ideological reason, but simply because if they cant view the code, and therefore cant debug it or test it.
If someone has a proprietary module loaded that module can fuck up anything and its really impossible to know without a huge fucking effort of (illegal) reverse engineering.
This is why the kernel wont touch proprietary drivers and why people should shun them, they create vastly more bugs then they fix. This is why Intel needs to move forward and create a better graphics card so developers can properly debug and fix problems for everybody.
Yeah it really is the only option until Intel releases a more powerful graphics chipset, sadly. Of course if you are running a server, or in a VM then this is irrelevant, and as ubuntu cant touch Debian in stability of a server OS this swerves the statistics.
ubuntu has a penchant for BREAKING things in the name of usability, and making a gazillion changes to debian so that must be no easy task to maintain. If you are going to use Debian (and thats what Ubuntu mainly is) then use the real one, one that doesn't have huge gaping bugs in things they ship as stable.
everyone is saying to ban the reply all button but they arnt thinking
if it can crash the system it shouldn't be allowed to happen in the first place, so you have to ban it in the MTA, this is really easy to do
The problem is that a mail message has a real high quality attached to it and a authenticity. a random html page is hard because there is no signature and it could always be argued that you changed it. Until banks cryptographically sign their online statements they are practically useless.
yes you shouldnt rely on them to keep it, but guess what, they are keeping it weather they let you access it or not, what are they going to look at when backing up their claim of your indebtedness to them? What it comes down to is that if they have data about you you deserve to know what threat data is and be able to access it weather you are their customer or not. Its simply common sense.