would you want to learn math again? if you don't need it for your job, what difference does it make? higher math is not that important unless you're an engineer or a math teacher. i don't see how anyone would have an "interest" in math as a "hobby".
you couldn't be more wrong. this finding demonstrates that there are many more species that we do not know about. i don't know of any "scientist" that claims to know everything. they wouldn't be a scientist if they knew everything. part of being a scientist is learning. you can't be one if you aren't. saying that 2 new species were found is incorrect. it should be 2 previously unknown species. yes, there are many species moving towards extinction, but that does not mean that they are extinct. that also does not mean that those "new" species we find replace gone ones. this finding shows us just how diverse the world is. biodiversity is good. what is wrong with this? what is not learned by this? the scientist is in brazil with a purpose to study and do research in the flood-plains of the amazon, perhaps one of hte most bio-diverse areas. he "discovered" 2 unknown species and named them. why do you find this to be not learning anything? every scientific finding is important in some way or another.
first of all, i do agree that too much money is spent on the military. however, there is one problem with your statement. you ask "has there been a real attempt by a legitimate threat to conquer the US within the past 20 years?" well, i believe there was a huge threat about 9 months ago. nothing short of a couple thousand innocent civilians dying and 2 of the world's greatest buildings collapsing in the greatest city in the world. but what's the problem? there's plenty of other buildings in other cities and there's billions of people on the planet, which is over-populated anyways. oh yeah, i must have forgotten to mention that the attack was purposely to attack our freedom and take away our freedom. so i guess the military is needed after all to protect our freedom.
the maglev right now is unnecessary. what is the use of a $1,000,000,000,000 train across the country when we have airplanes that can take you cross country in 6 hours? hell, there was mention of getting a ticket for $100 from seattle to chicago. what's that about? it costs over $100 to take amtrak from new york to boston, a much much much much shorter trip. i admit, a high speed railway would be nice, but it's not worth it right now. for a nation of our size, the only use would be to get between cities like nwe york and boston or to replace amtrak from DC to boston. it would cost too much for it to run on a nation-wide scale.
if you noticed the section or category it's in is called United States, maybe you wouldn't be complaining. How hard is it to figure out that it's about the USA if there's a nice image of the American flag next to the article?
should they just use something like everything to get a large brain/idea dump of stuff? they could have a bunch of "posts" which are just basically a list of problems to be fixed and a slashdot-style comment and moderation system and people can post their comments and moderate, only they might want to give only certain people the ability to moderate. or even if they don't want to give people moderation and just have the comments and go through them all since they seem to just be looking for ideas. i think that would be pretty cool and it would allow people who wouldn't normally get their ideas out in the open to speak their minds. if they want to get stuff done, they'd listen to the masses rather than the select few "experts".
most (if not all, i don't completely remember my ornithology class) birds have a "dip angle compass" in their heads. it's not really a dip angle compass, but they can feel the change. it tells them how far north or south they are in relation to the north (or south) poles. i do not think they see an actual spot at magnetic north, but they can feel it. and those that cross the equator during migration reverse their "compass" so that they know they are still flying either north or south. birds are actually pretty cool. they also see a whole different light spectrum than humans (but that is true for a lot of other animals). i think birds can see ultraviolet light.
other mammals can detect non-volatile chemicals, such as pheromones, which humans are not completely known to detect. they have a vomero-nasal organ which is located just above the roof of the mouth. you can see little holes in the skull where the canal leads to it. humans lack this organ. you can see cats using it through flehman, which is what they do when you see them scrunch their noses and upper lips. they are actually pulling air into the vomero-nasal organ. other mammals use licking and nuzzling to get chemicals into this region.
many animals are much cooler than people normally think, but that's because most people don't know much about them other than what they look like.
i have to agree with this one. as a recent graduate (december) looking for a tech job (no tech degree, bio actually) i have found that most places don't care about anything except that you have the experience and the skills... and most importantly, they care about having a 4 year degree. most places won't even consider you unless you have a 4 year degree. it doesn't matter what the degree is in, underwater basketweaving is good enough even, but the fact that you went to college for 4 years and stuck it out to get the degree says a lot about your character (at the least it says you know how to party and drink lots of beer, but there's nothing wrong with that;). right now i'm trying to get in doing tech support or maybe some junior sys or net admin work, but only to give me the experience and knowledge to carry my career further. we'll see where it goes... i had thought about dropping out of school beacuse of my grades and lack of direction and any idea of what i wanted to do (changed my major twice, the last time during my senior year). i finished in 4.5 years. i'm not ashamed, i'm glad actually. i was proud when my diploma came in the mail. it meant i actually graduated.:) so college will help no matter what your major is, no matter what kind of job you want. look for a college that offers some good hands-on classes, a lot of them just teach you the theory but you don't actually do anything. the hands-on is good stuff.
how is this environmentalist propaganda? slashdot's motto... "news for nerds, stuff that matters"... i'd say the climate falls under "stuff that matters" since humans have a direct effect on it. it's important. maybe now they'll work on cleaning up the emissions of airplanes since it is showing to have an effect on the weather. automobiles have become cleaner because it's necessary, why not airplanes and other forms of transportation?
and how much cleaner is coal burner? last i knew coal did not burn cleanly and emitted lots of pollution (nox, sox, particulates, etc, etc, etc) which are hazardous to anyone's health, especially people that live near the power plant. an entire town in ohio got a power company to basically purchase the town (buy all the land and houses in the town) so they don't get slapped with a lawsuit for all the emissions. this way the people that way to move can do it and the plant doesn't have to deal with forking out all the money for lawyers and individual settlements. basically saying "yes, we put out lots of emissions which are hazardous to human health, but we don't want to pay to have that changed". coal is not any different, the power plants are different. they use means of keeping the emissions to a minimum, but those means are costly and affect the efficiency of the plant. nuclear power is much cleaner and probably safer for health reasons, i agree with you there. the coal statement is just wrong. coal has not changed, it's the plants that change their ways. and most plants will very reluctantly put those means to use, and even the bare minimum environmentally-friendly standards aren't the greatest. they should be much stricter. there are currently 6 power plants in my state (CT) that are under scrutiny because of their emissions.
don't be shocked if you see more of this "environmetalist propoganda" on slashdot again. what used to be environmentalist has become much more crucial to human health and the life on this planet. yes i was a bio major. yes, my degree is in ecology. does that make me a tree-hugging hippie? no. but i think that we as inhabitants of this planet need to keep it cleaner than we have been. i hate this "it's my land, i can do whatever i want with it". that's a load of crap. walk the streets of new york city on a hot summer day... then walk through central park. you'll notice a temperature and humidity difference. central park is much more pleasant because there are trees. a big reason there have been more droughts lately has to do with the increased development of land. the less trees and plant life, the drier and hotter the climate.
uconn blocked napster for a reason. ok, i give... i was employed by resnet while i was there, so i have the inside scoop on it all. in fact, i still have the inside scoop and i'm not even tehre anymore. when one application uses 80% of the total bandwidth on a campus, they have to do something about it. they chose to block napster and it succeeded. the residential network is not the only network on campus, they are connected to the administrative buildings as well and share the bandwidth because the school is too cheap to upgrade. you can pull files from other buildings at over 1Mbps anytime actually. the internal network is 155 Mbps, although you can only get a max if 10 since that's what all the switches are set to use, but you should be able to get 1 Mbps no problem.
my former school (just graduated) uses the packetshaper (i believe it's made by packeteer, not sure on the model), but what it does is allow the admins to do a higher level of filtering and bandwidth limiting. they can program it so that it limits incoming or outgoing traffic based on packet type rather than the port. this allows them to limit applications that use the same port as other common apps (i know there's a mp3 search thing out there that uses 5190 which is the aol instant messenger port) or applications that use random ports. basically the guy doesn't want the school to be a huge file server for the internet so he highly limits all outgoing p2p traffic so that connections are dropped but students don't care because they just want to download which is also limited but not nearly as much. he also has it setup so that at certain times the limits are removed or lightened a bit. so at off-peak times the bandwidth to those apps is higher than during times of peak usage. he also used this device to talk to our network traffic logs and used it to enforce a bandwidth policy that says "if you transfer too much in a certain period of time, your personal bandwidth is dropped to 64kbps". i don't know what the actual limit is anymore, it used to be like 5 gigs in a week. the packeteer is a great device and took a huge load off of a lot of people's backs because of what it did. there was a severe lack of bandwidth at one point, but all is well now.
this device may very well be what you're looking for, unless the budget is not there for it, in which case, limiting traffic to ports is probably what you want to start doing.
also, you might want to consider talking to the board of education for the district you work in and see about setting up some kind of policy that bans the use of p2p apps on district owned machines. maybe even setup the machines so that teachers can't install anything themselves. it's a thought. this way you won't have to worry about the problem or limiting it or anything.
the first big issue is the microsoft issue. if the win2k license you have is an oem license, then you can't install it on a new machine (you might have 60 oem licenses and 60 new machiens, but once you get rid of the old machines you lose your rights to the license). if you're using the old machines and "upgrading" them, you might be able to get away with it. i don't know if putting all new hardware in the old case is upgrading or buying a new machine, that's questionable. i think it's upgrading personally, but ianal or overly familiar with what microsoft might say about that.
another issue is the cost of labor. you save $400 per machine, but do you spend the $400 saved by paying people to build these machines? also, how well can you trust the people that will build them? they'd all have to go through huge amounts of testing because unless you build them all yourself with no help, they might be all slightly different. and then there's supporting them yourself and the company has to pay for any support or repairs. dell is great for getting hardware. if something breaks, you tell them, and they send you a new one and you send them the broken old one. also with a company, you might be able to get some sort of a deal on buying 60 machines from them. once again, i don't know the answer to that one, but it's a thought.
how much power do these machines really need anyways? if it's not intense work they would be doing, you can get computers for pretty cheap from dell, and if you already have monitors (and you didn't sound like you cared to replace the old monitors) you can just not get a new monitor.
what you need to do is really look into the microsoft issue first, because if you will need to buy new licenses, then it probably isn't worth building them on your own. and even if you'd just normally transfer the operating system to a new computer at home, the bsa (business software alliance) sounds like they're going to start cracking down on piracy. i've been hearing lots of radio ads from them. so you'll want to make sure that what you're planning on doing is totally legit.
wow... someone is completely off their rocket. let's put all our money in private schools, kill the entire public education system that exists and not make it better. that's a great solution. the average student (public or private schooling) goes to college now and finishes a 4 year degree. maybe back 60 years ago when latin and greek were taught (i am not sure about this, i'm only 23, but i know my high school offered latin, of course i went to a private high school and did absolutely no work, but graduated in the top 20% of my class) the public schools produced automatons to work in factories and not go to college. now most schools teach students to prepare them for college. maybe it's just because i live in CT that i feel this way, maybe it's different in the midwest or the southern states where sports and manual labor are more important than academics, but i think that we should not lose hope in the public education system. that just says that those who don't have the money to send their children to private high schools will never get good education. so maybe you can take your money and send your kids to the top high schools and colleges, while mine go to the crappy public high school and state university. basically it still comes down to money. if you are born into money, you will succeed, if not, you won't. there are no more rags-to-riches stories here because of people like you.
i couldn't agree more (notice i'm not a coward like the other guy that replied telling you to shoot yourself). i think that people need to realize that websites are made to please the majority of the people and make money. lots of people like glitzy flash sites, lots of people like gui, lots of people like doing things the easy way (with gui tools). why take the time to do something through the command line when you can do it quicker with gui? too many people are linux elitests here. it's cool sometime, but after a while, it sucks. microsoft is not all bad. excel is still the best spreadsheet application. i personally enjoy using windows 2000. it's stable, it's easy to setup and configure, and it's compatible with everything i want to do. i can also find more cracks and software for it than i could for linux. so until linux becomes mainstream enough (equalling microsofts share of the desktop market), i think people need to stop bitching about something like flash or gui. windows is easier to handle, most people don't have time to learn linux. and honestly, the command line is really fucking ugly. i like my machine lookign pretty.
i'm using debian... no easy printer setup for debian yet. there is probably a tool that will detect it and everything out there, but i was just learning and doing everything the hard way. oh well... maybe i should try a different distro... actually, i will try lycoris as soon as i have time... i'm primarily a win2k user, linux is only for my p100. i'd want to install lycoris on my own machine, but i have to free up some disk space or get a bigger hard drive (bigger hard drive will probably happen first, but i need $$$)
why not just bring in a pre-installed lycoris box? that'll do everything that you just showed them basically. or get a copy of lycoris and install it during the class and show them how to configure everything and do all that stuff? i haven't tried it yet, but lycoris is pretty cool looking. as soon as i have time and disk space, i plan on installing it myself and taking it for a test drive. one thing you might want to add to the list of things to do is setup a printer (i haven't even attempted to get my printer running under linux because i've read it's not easy, i've got an hp deskjet 722c).
you still haven't said how alcohol is a crutch for the weak. that's great that you gave the definition, but i don't see how it's a crutch. i don't consider myself weak, as i don't go to alcohol as a release from life's downfalls. i enjoy the taste of a good beer every now and then. i don't drink to get trashed. and if you want to pull religious bullshit on me, jesus drank wine, which did have alcohol in it. was he weak? yes, actually he was. did he use alcohol as a crutch, no. are you stronger than me because you're straight-edge? no. part of being human is being weak, that doesn't make those of us that drink weaker than others.
i don't think so... it seems that what he's saying is that regardless of whether or not it's illegal, it's a breach of contract and your isp will shut you off. in the sense of the law, it's not illegal, but as far as your isp is concerned, if you do it, you lose your priviledges of using their network.
hahaha... at my college, the university channels (we had a movie channel and a normal public access like channel, and i think one that advertised stuff) woudl occasionally blue screen or explorer crashed or something crazy, since the ads were running on crappy machines with like win98 or something. it was funny.
which is better, a 6-cylinder gasoline engine or a 4-cylinder diesel engine?
that depends on what you want to do. if you want to drive across the country (usa for all you non-americans) on 2 tanks of gas or tow a couple tons, then a 4-cylinder diesel engine (assuming it's in a truck and turbo charged), but if you want acceleration and good hill-climbing power (the ability to accelerate nicely uphill is great), then you want a 6-cylinder gasoline engine.
i can vouch for the fact that i don't surf as much because i can't stand that just about every useful site has way too much advertising. i don't see why it's completely necessary for all this advertising. i realize it costs money to run a large website but to companies really dislike the normal non-nitrusive banner ads? i don't even mind the ads that i've seen on slashdot as much as some of the other forms of ads i've seen. the big ads that popup and cover the window that i'm trying to look at are really annoying (hollywood.com is a good example of this). luckily they still have a close option so you can stop it before it finishes. i pray that the day doesn't come when there's a full screen ad that doesn't allow you to do anything until it's completely over. that'll be the day i stop using the internet. i don't even mind popups as much as those stupid ads that cover the window. at least you can close popups. the only thing about popups is that they're fine until they start getting intrusive and one page opens up like 15-20 popup ads (i've seen this and it wasn't a porn site). that's obnoxious and unnecessary. the way i look at things is if a company has to go through very intrusive means of advertising, then i will stop buying from them. they lose at least one customer from that. so that's the reason i have cutback on surfing. it's just too annoying and takes too much time to load the ads and close the popups.
i will admit that another reason i don't surf as much is because good content is harder to find, but i have found that it's harder to find because of all the stupid ads, and everyone wants you to click click click to get something, or register to use the website for free or something. free registration is a pain in teh ass too. if i want to read something, i don't want to have to take the time to register. it's a pain in the ass.
because using X and linux as a general desktop os (like windows) is slower than the other desktop oses out there (like windows). as much as all you linux users like to say that windows is the absolute worst operating system in the world, it has its advantages over linux and X. it's a good desktop os. it does what it needs to. i use both linux (for my personal server) and windows. i do my remote admin using ssh, not x. i won't isntall x on my server because it slows it down. my regular desktop os is win2k. you can make a new desktop environment for X for a non-programmer who wants a desktop os, but X is what will slow it down, not the desktop environment. this is what people aren't seeming to understand here. i like linux, and i like the idea of X and when i need to use it, i do. same thing with terminal services in win2k (although not fully implemented in win2k like it is in winxp). i don't think we should get rid of X completely. i think if a desktop linux were to be made, it should be made with a desktop that does not require X. something similar to the way beos, macos, and windows do it. and for those users that still want their X, they can just use an X terminal like many people do in windows. i do believe that one feature of windows terminal services that is better than X in network transparency is that you can access it through a web browser. you don't need a specific client. if that can be implemented into X, X would be much cooler.
that's what he's asking for. he wants a mailing list with the ability to provide a web-based archival system that has most of the same functionality of yahoo groups. there's a lot more to yahoo groups than just the mailing list or the usenet type stuff.
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would you want to learn math again? if you don't need it for your job, what difference does it make? higher math is not that important unless you're an engineer or a math teacher. i don't see how anyone would have an "interest" in math as a "hobby".
you couldn't be more wrong. this finding demonstrates that there are many more species that we do not know about. i don't know of any "scientist" that claims to know everything. they wouldn't be a scientist if they knew everything. part of being a scientist is learning. you can't be one if you aren't. saying that 2 new species were found is incorrect. it should be 2 previously unknown species. yes, there are many species moving towards extinction, but that does not mean that they are extinct. that also does not mean that those "new" species we find replace gone ones. this finding shows us just how diverse the world is. biodiversity is good. what is wrong with this? what is not learned by this? the scientist is in brazil with a purpose to study and do research in the flood-plains of the amazon, perhaps one of hte most bio-diverse areas. he "discovered" 2 unknown species and named them. why do you find this to be not learning anything? every scientific finding is important in some way or another.
first of all, i do agree that too much money is spent on the military. however, there is one problem with your statement. you ask "has there been a real attempt by a legitimate threat to conquer the US within the past 20 years?" well, i believe there was a huge threat about 9 months ago. nothing short of a couple thousand innocent civilians dying and 2 of the world's greatest buildings collapsing in the greatest city in the world. but what's the problem? there's plenty of other buildings in other cities and there's billions of people on the planet, which is over-populated anyways. oh yeah, i must have forgotten to mention that the attack was purposely to attack our freedom and take away our freedom. so i guess the military is needed after all to protect our freedom.
the maglev right now is unnecessary. what is the use of a $1,000,000,000,000 train across the country when we have airplanes that can take you cross country in 6 hours? hell, there was mention of getting a ticket for $100 from seattle to chicago. what's that about? it costs over $100 to take amtrak from new york to boston, a much much much much shorter trip. i admit, a high speed railway would be nice, but it's not worth it right now. for a nation of our size, the only use would be to get between cities like nwe york and boston or to replace amtrak from DC to boston. it would cost too much for it to run on a nation-wide scale.
if you noticed the section or category it's in is called United States, maybe you wouldn't be complaining. How hard is it to figure out that it's about the USA if there's a nice image of the American flag next to the article?
the first time i saw winux used was in this great comic. pretty funny to say the least... i wonder if they still sell those shirts...
should they just use something like everything to get a large brain/idea dump of stuff? they could have a bunch of "posts" which are just basically a list of problems to be fixed and a slashdot-style comment and moderation system and people can post their comments and moderate, only they might want to give only certain people the ability to moderate. or even if they don't want to give people moderation and just have the comments and go through them all since they seem to just be looking for ideas. i think that would be pretty cool and it would allow people who wouldn't normally get their ideas out in the open to speak their minds. if they want to get stuff done, they'd listen to the masses rather than the select few "experts".
most (if not all, i don't completely remember my ornithology class) birds have a "dip angle compass" in their heads. it's not really a dip angle compass, but they can feel the change. it tells them how far north or south they are in relation to the north (or south) poles. i do not think they see an actual spot at magnetic north, but they can feel it. and those that cross the equator during migration reverse their "compass" so that they know they are still flying either north or south. birds are actually pretty cool. they also see a whole different light spectrum than humans (but that is true for a lot of other animals). i think birds can see ultraviolet light.
other mammals can detect non-volatile chemicals, such as pheromones, which humans are not completely known to detect. they have a vomero-nasal organ which is located just above the roof of the mouth. you can see little holes in the skull where the canal leads to it. humans lack this organ. you can see cats using it through flehman, which is what they do when you see them scrunch their noses and upper lips. they are actually pulling air into the vomero-nasal organ. other mammals use licking and nuzzling to get chemicals into this region.
many animals are much cooler than people normally think, but that's because most people don't know much about them other than what they look like.
i have to agree with this one. as a recent graduate (december) looking for a tech job (no tech degree, bio actually) i have found that most places don't care about anything except that you have the experience and the skills... and most importantly, they care about having a 4 year degree. most places won't even consider you unless you have a 4 year degree. it doesn't matter what the degree is in, underwater basketweaving is good enough even, but the fact that you went to college for 4 years and stuck it out to get the degree says a lot about your character (at the least it says you know how to party and drink lots of beer, but there's nothing wrong with that;). right now i'm trying to get in doing tech support or maybe some junior sys or net admin work, but only to give me the experience and knowledge to carry my career further. we'll see where it goes... i had thought about dropping out of school beacuse of my grades and lack of direction and any idea of what i wanted to do (changed my major twice, the last time during my senior year). i finished in 4.5 years. i'm not ashamed, i'm glad actually. i was proud when my diploma came in the mail. it meant i actually graduated. :) so college will help no matter what your major is, no matter what kind of job you want. look for a college that offers some good hands-on classes, a lot of them just teach you the theory but you don't actually do anything. the hands-on is good stuff.
how is this environmentalist propaganda? slashdot's motto... "news for nerds, stuff that matters"... i'd say the climate falls under "stuff that matters" since humans have a direct effect on it. it's important. maybe now they'll work on cleaning up the emissions of airplanes since it is showing to have an effect on the weather. automobiles have become cleaner because it's necessary, why not airplanes and other forms of transportation?
and how much cleaner is coal burner? last i knew coal did not burn cleanly and emitted lots of pollution (nox, sox, particulates, etc, etc, etc) which are hazardous to anyone's health, especially people that live near the power plant. an entire town in ohio got a power company to basically purchase the town (buy all the land and houses in the town) so they don't get slapped with a lawsuit for all the emissions. this way the people that way to move can do it and the plant doesn't have to deal with forking out all the money for lawyers and individual settlements. basically saying "yes, we put out lots of emissions which are hazardous to human health, but we don't want to pay to have that changed". coal is not any different, the power plants are different. they use means of keeping the emissions to a minimum, but those means are costly and affect the efficiency of the plant. nuclear power is much cleaner and probably safer for health reasons, i agree with you there. the coal statement is just wrong. coal has not changed, it's the plants that change their ways. and most plants will very reluctantly put those means to use, and even the bare minimum environmentally-friendly standards aren't the greatest. they should be much stricter. there are currently 6 power plants in my state (CT) that are under scrutiny because of their emissions.
don't be shocked if you see more of this "environmetalist propoganda" on slashdot again. what used to be environmentalist has become much more crucial to human health and the life on this planet. yes i was a bio major. yes, my degree is in ecology. does that make me a tree-hugging hippie? no. but i think that we as inhabitants of this planet need to keep it cleaner than we have been. i hate this "it's my land, i can do whatever i want with it". that's a load of crap. walk the streets of new york city on a hot summer day... then walk through central park. you'll notice a temperature and humidity difference. central park is much more pleasant because there are trees. a big reason there have been more droughts lately has to do with the increased development of land. the less trees and plant life, the drier and hotter the climate.
uconn blocked napster for a reason. ok, i give... i was employed by resnet while i was there, so i have the inside scoop on it all. in fact, i still have the inside scoop and i'm not even tehre anymore. when one application uses 80% of the total bandwidth on a campus, they have to do something about it. they chose to block napster and it succeeded. the residential network is not the only network on campus, they are connected to the administrative buildings as well and share the bandwidth because the school is too cheap to upgrade. you can pull files from other buildings at over 1Mbps anytime actually. the internal network is 155 Mbps, although you can only get a max if 10 since that's what all the switches are set to use, but you should be able to get 1 Mbps no problem.
my former school (just graduated) uses the packetshaper (i believe it's made by packeteer, not sure on the model), but what it does is allow the admins to do a higher level of filtering and bandwidth limiting. they can program it so that it limits incoming or outgoing traffic based on packet type rather than the port. this allows them to limit applications that use the same port as other common apps (i know there's a mp3 search thing out there that uses 5190 which is the aol instant messenger port) or applications that use random ports. basically the guy doesn't want the school to be a huge file server for the internet so he highly limits all outgoing p2p traffic so that connections are dropped but students don't care because they just want to download which is also limited but not nearly as much. he also has it setup so that at certain times the limits are removed or lightened a bit. so at off-peak times the bandwidth to those apps is higher than during times of peak usage. he also used this device to talk to our network traffic logs and used it to enforce a bandwidth policy that says "if you transfer too much in a certain period of time, your personal bandwidth is dropped to 64kbps". i don't know what the actual limit is anymore, it used to be like 5 gigs in a week. the packeteer is a great device and took a huge load off of a lot of people's backs because of what it did. there was a severe lack of bandwidth at one point, but all is well now.
this device may very well be what you're looking for, unless the budget is not there for it, in which case, limiting traffic to ports is probably what you want to start doing.
also, you might want to consider talking to the board of education for the district you work in and see about setting up some kind of policy that bans the use of p2p apps on district owned machines. maybe even setup the machines so that teachers can't install anything themselves. it's a thought. this way you won't have to worry about the problem or limiting it or anything.
the first big issue is the microsoft issue. if the win2k license you have is an oem license, then you can't install it on a new machine (you might have 60 oem licenses and 60 new machiens, but once you get rid of the old machines you lose your rights to the license). if you're using the old machines and "upgrading" them, you might be able to get away with it. i don't know if putting all new hardware in the old case is upgrading or buying a new machine, that's questionable. i think it's upgrading personally, but ianal or overly familiar with what microsoft might say about that.
another issue is the cost of labor. you save $400 per machine, but do you spend the $400 saved by paying people to build these machines? also, how well can you trust the people that will build them? they'd all have to go through huge amounts of testing because unless you build them all yourself with no help, they might be all slightly different. and then there's supporting them yourself and the company has to pay for any support or repairs. dell is great for getting hardware. if something breaks, you tell them, and they send you a new one and you send them the broken old one. also with a company, you might be able to get some sort of a deal on buying 60 machines from them. once again, i don't know the answer to that one, but it's a thought.
how much power do these machines really need anyways? if it's not intense work they would be doing, you can get computers for pretty cheap from dell, and if you already have monitors (and you didn't sound like you cared to replace the old monitors) you can just not get a new monitor.
what you need to do is really look into the microsoft issue first, because if you will need to buy new licenses, then it probably isn't worth building them on your own. and even if you'd just normally transfer the operating system to a new computer at home, the bsa (business software alliance) sounds like they're going to start cracking down on piracy. i've been hearing lots of radio ads from them. so you'll want to make sure that what you're planning on doing is totally legit.
wow... someone is completely off their rocket. let's put all our money in private schools, kill the entire public education system that exists and not make it better. that's a great solution. the average student (public or private schooling) goes to college now and finishes a 4 year degree. maybe back 60 years ago when latin and greek were taught (i am not sure about this, i'm only 23, but i know my high school offered latin, of course i went to a private high school and did absolutely no work, but graduated in the top 20% of my class) the public schools produced automatons to work in factories and not go to college. now most schools teach students to prepare them for college. maybe it's just because i live in CT that i feel this way, maybe it's different in the midwest or the southern states where sports and manual labor are more important than academics, but i think that we should not lose hope in the public education system. that just says that those who don't have the money to send their children to private high schools will never get good education. so maybe you can take your money and send your kids to the top high schools and colleges, while mine go to the crappy public high school and state university. basically it still comes down to money. if you are born into money, you will succeed, if not, you won't. there are no more rags-to-riches stories here because of people like you.
i couldn't agree more (notice i'm not a coward like the other guy that replied telling you to shoot yourself). i think that people need to realize that websites are made to please the majority of the people and make money. lots of people like glitzy flash sites, lots of people like gui, lots of people like doing things the easy way (with gui tools). why take the time to do something through the command line when you can do it quicker with gui? too many people are linux elitests here. it's cool sometime, but after a while, it sucks. microsoft is not all bad. excel is still the best spreadsheet application. i personally enjoy using windows 2000. it's stable, it's easy to setup and configure, and it's compatible with everything i want to do. i can also find more cracks and software for it than i could for linux. so until linux becomes mainstream enough (equalling microsofts share of the desktop market), i think people need to stop bitching about something like flash or gui. windows is easier to handle, most people don't have time to learn linux. and honestly, the command line is really fucking ugly. i like my machine lookign pretty.
i'm using debian... no easy printer setup for debian yet. there is probably a tool that will detect it and everything out there, but i was just learning and doing everything the hard way. oh well... maybe i should try a different distro... actually, i will try lycoris as soon as i have time... i'm primarily a win2k user, linux is only for my p100. i'd want to install lycoris on my own machine, but i have to free up some disk space or get a bigger hard drive (bigger hard drive will probably happen first, but i need $$$)
why not just bring in a pre-installed lycoris box? that'll do everything that you just showed them basically. or get a copy of lycoris and install it during the class and show them how to configure everything and do all that stuff? i haven't tried it yet, but lycoris is pretty cool looking. as soon as i have time and disk space, i plan on installing it myself and taking it for a test drive. one thing you might want to add to the list of things to do is setup a printer (i haven't even attempted to get my printer running under linux because i've read it's not easy, i've got an hp deskjet 722c).
you still haven't said how alcohol is a crutch for the weak. that's great that you gave the definition, but i don't see how it's a crutch. i don't consider myself weak, as i don't go to alcohol as a release from life's downfalls. i enjoy the taste of a good beer every now and then. i don't drink to get trashed. and if you want to pull religious bullshit on me, jesus drank wine, which did have alcohol in it. was he weak? yes, actually he was. did he use alcohol as a crutch, no. are you stronger than me because you're straight-edge? no. part of being human is being weak, that doesn't make those of us that drink weaker than others.
what's so bad about enjoying a few good friends in the company of beer?
i don't think so... it seems that what he's saying is that regardless of whether or not it's illegal, it's a breach of contract and your isp will shut you off. in the sense of the law, it's not illegal, but as far as your isp is concerned, if you do it, you lose your priviledges of using their network.
i hate to say this... but the AC has a point here despite the fact that it seemed like he was just being a stupid troll...
hahaha... at my college, the university channels (we had a movie channel and a normal public access like channel, and i think one that advertised stuff) woudl occasionally blue screen or explorer crashed or something crazy, since the ads were running on crappy machines with like win98 or something. it was funny.
which is better, a 6-cylinder gasoline engine or a 4-cylinder diesel engine?
that depends on what you want to do. if you want to drive across the country (usa for all you non-americans) on 2 tanks of gas or tow a couple tons, then a 4-cylinder diesel engine (assuming it's in a truck and turbo charged), but if you want acceleration and good hill-climbing power (the ability to accelerate nicely uphill is great), then you want a 6-cylinder gasoline engine.
i can vouch for the fact that i don't surf as much because i can't stand that just about every useful site has way too much advertising. i don't see why it's completely necessary for all this advertising. i realize it costs money to run a large website but to companies really dislike the normal non-nitrusive banner ads? i don't even mind the ads that i've seen on slashdot as much as some of the other forms of ads i've seen. the big ads that popup and cover the window that i'm trying to look at are really annoying (hollywood.com is a good example of this). luckily they still have a close option so you can stop it before it finishes. i pray that the day doesn't come when there's a full screen ad that doesn't allow you to do anything until it's completely over. that'll be the day i stop using the internet. i don't even mind popups as much as those stupid ads that cover the window. at least you can close popups. the only thing about popups is that they're fine until they start getting intrusive and one page opens up like 15-20 popup ads (i've seen this and it wasn't a porn site). that's obnoxious and unnecessary. the way i look at things is if a company has to go through very intrusive means of advertising, then i will stop buying from them. they lose at least one customer from that. so that's the reason i have cutback on surfing. it's just too annoying and takes too much time to load the ads and close the popups.
i will admit that another reason i don't surf as much is because good content is harder to find, but i have found that it's harder to find because of all the stupid ads, and everyone wants you to click click click to get something, or register to use the website for free or something. free registration is a pain in teh ass too. if i want to read something, i don't want to have to take the time to register. it's a pain in the ass.
because using X and linux as a general desktop os (like windows) is slower than the other desktop oses out there (like windows). as much as all you linux users like to say that windows is the absolute worst operating system in the world, it has its advantages over linux and X. it's a good desktop os. it does what it needs to. i use both linux (for my personal server) and windows. i do my remote admin using ssh, not x. i won't isntall x on my server because it slows it down. my regular desktop os is win2k. you can make a new desktop environment for X for a non-programmer who wants a desktop os, but X is what will slow it down, not the desktop environment. this is what people aren't seeming to understand here. i like linux, and i like the idea of X and when i need to use it, i do. same thing with terminal services in win2k (although not fully implemented in win2k like it is in winxp). i don't think we should get rid of X completely. i think if a desktop linux were to be made, it should be made with a desktop that does not require X. something similar to the way beos, macos, and windows do it. and for those users that still want their X, they can just use an X terminal like many people do in windows. i do believe that one feature of windows terminal services that is better than X in network transparency is that you can access it through a web browser. you don't need a specific client. if that can be implemented into X, X would be much cooler.
that's what he's asking for. he wants a mailing list with the ability to provide a web-based archival system that has most of the same functionality of yahoo groups. there's a lot more to yahoo groups than just the mailing list or the usenet type stuff.