I would highly agree with the parent. As someone who works on next generation high speed networks, applications like high-def video on demand or having file servers that work as fast as they would on your home lan is a big big plus. One of our goals in the academic community is to reduce duplication of resources by making the network so fast that resources that are sharable are equally fast for anyone to access. For that sort of thing, having true symmetric very high speed connections (over 100Mbit/s) is what we're aiming at.
at least VA's machines are well priced. perhaps they should license some of apple's gorgeous industrial design, start charging more money and have support as crappy as apples.
also being pakistani, i will retort by asking why offense is taken at being put in the same league as ethiopia.
as far as access to the net is concerned, there are quite a few isp's that have been set up despite the government making every step in the set convoluted and difficult.
there have been attempts to filter content, and the government has tried to force isp's to do it, but fortunately they have not met with a great degree of success to date.
however, this is only the case for dial-up. dedicated links are extremely expensive and cable, dsl and fiber are not valid options. it seems that we have taken the first steps but have not managed to get much further... yet.
dealing with the "cultural friction" part of the question, people have run towards getting access. there are always the naysayers, but they have thankfully been largely ignored.
it seems quite amusing to have a company like novell which provides file/print, etc. services mainly to win 95/98/nt/2k environments locking horns with ms. were it not for ms, novell would not really have a reason to exist. they are now trying to diversify, by pushing products like groupwise (which is significantly below par in comparision to the two opensource imap servers on *nix boxes), but their bread and butter was dependent and ms client machines. their macintosh support has waned as their os has matured. i will re-affirm that nds is a wonderful thing, and the products that they have make use of it in and extremely elegant fashion, but novell would do well to support other clients as well as it does ms ones. they do have nfs support, but it is not done terribly well and there are very strict conditions for nfs services on a netware volume. zen works is a wonderful tool, but again it is a windows only tool. they should at least support the mac. a little diversification would allow them to tap into other markets and leave them less vulnerable to FUD.
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Good to know that completely ridiculous patent claims aren't being upheld.
I would highly agree with the parent. As someone who works on next generation high speed networks, applications like high-def video on demand or having file servers that work as fast as they would on your home lan is a big big plus. One of our goals in the academic community is to reduce duplication of resources by making the network so fast that resources that are sharable are equally fast for anyone to access. For that sort of thing, having true symmetric very high speed connections (over 100Mbit/s) is what we're aiming at.
at least VA's machines are well priced. perhaps they should license some of apple's gorgeous industrial design, start charging more money and have support as crappy as apples.
as far as access to the net is concerned, there are quite a few isp's that have been set up despite the government making every step in the set convoluted and difficult.
there have been attempts to filter content, and the government has tried to force isp's to do it, but fortunately they have not met with a great degree of success to date.
however, this is only the case for dial-up. dedicated links are extremely expensive and cable, dsl and fiber are not valid options. it seems that we have taken the first steps but have not managed to get much further... yet.
dealing with the "cultural friction" part of the question, people have run towards getting access. there are always the naysayers, but they have thankfully been largely ignored.
it seems quite amusing to have a company like novell which provides file/print, etc. services mainly to win 95/98/nt/2k environments locking horns with ms. were it not for ms, novell would not really have a reason to exist. they are now trying to diversify, by pushing products like groupwise (which is significantly below par in comparision to the two opensource imap servers on *nix boxes), but their bread and butter was dependent and ms client machines. their macintosh support has waned as their os has matured. i will re-affirm that nds is a wonderful thing, and the products that they have make use of it in and extremely elegant fashion, but novell would do well to support other clients as well as it does ms ones. they do have nfs support, but it is not done terribly well and there are very strict conditions for nfs services on a netware volume. zen works is a wonderful tool, but again it is a windows only tool. they should at least support the mac. a little diversification would allow them to tap into other markets and leave them less vulnerable to FUD.