It's important to remember that the "traditional" classroom is changing. We now have things like "distance learning."
Maybe your school doesn't use computers, or doesn't use them effectivly, but they aren't "just" for word processing and "myspace". It's important to think about innovative current or future uses instead of dwelling on ancient historical uses of computers in education.
DRM really hampers the flow of information in education. Since DRM is still fairly new, the impact has yet to be felt in any major way.
(BTW, let's be grownups and stop with the personal attacks, M-Kay?)
According to TFA, the need is only "several months." I wouldn't deem that "long-term."
Paper sleeves in a cardboard box is just fine for short term. I wouldn't stack them flat though, I'd store them on edge (they have "short" versions of bankers boxes used to store letters and such that would be Perfect.)
I'd still use an IM type service, but with media in the 30,000 quantity range, you would go broke using the "special" metal boxes from IM. Long-term storage of backup tapes is another issue.
Exactly. A simple box like this one where you use standard paper sleeves with the disks. Label each sleeve with a sequential serial number, and enter the info into a database. If you have multiple different retention periods, you have several boxes going at once - one for each period.
Put the range of disk numbers on the front of the box.
If you want to get fancy, use a prefix that indicates the retention period (6m-123 is not the same as 6y-123)
Alright, did anyone else think that the 200th episode TOTALLY sucked ass? Stuuuuupid to the X-treame. Damn near unwatchable. WTF were they thinking????
The first time I saw ECW on SciFi, I thought WTF is THIS shit doing on here? Actually, I STILL wonder. The only reason I can think of, is that it's actually an infomercial where they paid SF to show it.
Crossover Office (commercial WINE) works well enough for Office for most people. The list of what doesn't work is getting smaller all the time. I use it for the rare cases where OOo doesn't. I also have VMWare for the cases where WINE is just not good enough yet.
I would think that it would be VERY VERY difficult for the US government to do much to Australia economically. The government doesn't do importing / exporting - that's private business. One possibility would be to slap unreasonable tarrifs on things, but the WTO would step in in that case.
You give way too much credit to Bush's ability to shape AUS law. Time to look internally at the true source of your problems.
I think you don't realize the power of major telecoms. Cooperating with the NSA without law or court order to back up the request is highly unlikely to land an AT&T executive in jail or get the corporation sued. Now the gov may have played hardball another way, such as "do it or we pass network neutrality legislation," but that's about it.
Maybe they simply found outside counsel that told they what they wanted to hear. Obviously they KNEW they were potentially infringing BECAUSE they sought outside counsel! What we don't know is exactly what the outside counsel said. Was it along the lines of "In my opinion you should be OK" or was it "There is no chance that you will have a problem because it's very clear that the technology is totally different."
I guess you could say that they have a monopoly on their patent, because that is exactly what patents do. They do NOT have a monopoly on DVR's because they license their technology to anyone that wants to pay for it.
Frankly, while I wouldn't be thrilled at the idea, I could see paying $10 for the right to use tivo technology in Mythtv, much like I pay $10 / channel for the g729 codec used in Asterisk. Not happy, but such is life. Now if Tivo demanded that Myth cease to exist, or "monthly payments", I would be quite upset.
You cannot compare the lunacy of SCO / IBM with Tivo / Echostar other than the fact that both SCO and Tivo are financially troubled and took on a bigger company. SCO had no case at all - no evidence, no patents - nothing. Their product was basically dead in the market and they knew that their only hope of survival was to bully IBM into buying them out.
The same is NOT the case for Tivo who DOES have a viable and competitive product based on patented technology that they are licensing. This is not the behavior of a patent troll. Tivo is a true innovator in the marketplace unlike the abortion that is SCO (remember - the SCO today is not the original SCO.)
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the new intel processors cheaper, faster, and use less power than AMD at this point??? I must be missing something.
But I'm with you - I banned the purchase of Dell machines in our company due to horrible quality and horrible customer service.
Booze remains one of the most expensive things that is routinely served. Just ask the casinos, who increasingly have sensors on booze bottles that wire the manager when the bartender is poring long shots.
Don't worry, it's not a pattern. Insane court decisions are still the norm. 20 year sentances for selling some pot and 3 weeks for rape and attempted murder.
I wouldn't say "useless". It would be very nice if by "support" they mean that I will be able to download a debian version of the PSP (which contains special drivers, management tools, etc.) which have only been available for Suse and RedHat. Yeah, you can get some of the stuff to work by manually extracting and installing, but it's a PITA. I couldn't care less about phone support.
ISP's are doing nothing, government is doing nothing, Microsoft is doing nothing, so what's YOUR solution? I want to take down compromised machines. I'd prefer that they actually go up in a puff of smoke, but I'll settle for crashing them or getting them knocked offline.
Really, the fsking ISP's are in the perfect position to detect and shut down botnets, but refuse to do so.
Hmm. Got modded funny, but I was serious. If the ports are blocked on your firewall, the worms just move on. If enough people would respond back with a flood of garbage, it would be a reverse DOS. Instead of reponding with an ubuntu ISO, you could scan the attacker for open ports and flood those with SYN packets. Enough is enough. If we just do nothing about zombie attacks and machines, they will just continue. It's time to fight back and make zombie networks useless.
IMHO, you should not be blocking those ports at the firewall, but rather redirect them to a responder that floods the return path with copies of the Ubuntu ISO. Run QOS on your outbound and set it at a lower(est) priority than your normal traffic so it doesn't impact you.
And what if you want to add a package to only one of the VMs?
Then you add a package to that VM. That's what RW snapshots allow you to do. Go read the LVM howto that I referenced above. If you want to delete a package, go ahead and delete a package. It really IS that simple.
the fact that cramming ten virtual machines into a single system is not a good idea when the minimal install is 1.2GB
Um, considering that in VM situations, most of that 1.2G can be in a shared read-only partition (or an LVM2 RW snapshot), and that modern hard drives are quite large, I respectfully disagree.
See the LVM HOWTO which SPECIFICALLY mentions XEN as an applcaion of RW snapshots.
Why should Americans have to drive at such a snails pace over such vast distances
Because we have really shitty roads. The big highways also have WAY too much traffic for those speeds. Drive from Boston to DC some time and you will understand.
doesn't have to wait 10-15 minutes to collect his checked bag
The last 5 times I've flown with checked luggage, it has taked nearly a full hour to get my bags once I'm waiting in the baggage area. With carryon baggage, I've already gotten a rental car, checked into the hotel, and am sitting in the jacuzzi before I would have gotten checked luggage. Couple that with the extra 15 - 30 mins on the front end of the flight in a long line waiting for a counter agent to tag my bag.
Couple that with the damage to luggage itself and the contents, and you understand VERY WELL why people don't check their bags unless they HAVE to.
My personal favorite is the smaller regional jets where the carryon's are tagged plane side, and you pick them up plane side at the far end. There is still a slight risk of dammage, but since they are loaded last you don't end up with someone's monster 200lb rolling trunk on top of your soft-sided bag (why is it that 4' tall petite asian women have the largest suitcases on the planet???)
I don't know where you fly, but it's sure not Boston, LA, SFO, Dulles, O'Hare, Atlanta, or most other major airports if you only have to wait 10-15. Even a lot of the smaller airports where your gate is no more than 100 feet from the baggage area it can take 30 mins or more. I always joke that the delay is because the handlers need time to steal all the good stuff. Unfortunately, there is truth to that joke.
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It's important to remember that the "traditional" classroom is changing. We now have things like "distance learning."
Maybe your school doesn't use computers, or doesn't use them effectivly, but they aren't "just" for word processing and "myspace". It's important to think about innovative current or future uses instead of dwelling on ancient historical uses of computers in education.
DRM really hampers the flow of information in education. Since DRM is still fairly new, the impact has yet to be felt in any major way.
(BTW, let's be grownups and stop with the personal attacks, M-Kay?)
That's a shitload of pRon there dude. Suggest a girlfriend as an alternative. Oh wait - this is /. - nevermind.
According to TFA, the need is only "several months." I wouldn't deem that "long-term."
Paper sleeves in a cardboard box is just fine for short term. I wouldn't stack them flat though, I'd store them on edge (they have "short" versions of bankers boxes used to store letters and such that would be Perfect.)
I'd still use an IM type service, but with media in the 30,000 quantity range, you would go broke using the "special" metal boxes from IM. Long-term storage of backup tapes is another issue.
Exactly. A simple box like this one where you use standard paper sleeves with the disks. Label each sleeve with a sequential serial number, and enter the info into a database. If you have multiple different retention periods, you have several boxes going at once - one for each period.
Put the range of disk numbers on the front of the box.
If you want to get fancy, use a prefix that indicates the retention period (6m-123 is not the same as 6y-123)
Alright, did anyone else think that the 200th episode TOTALLY sucked ass? Stuuuuupid to the X-treame. Damn near unwatchable. WTF were they thinking????
The first time I saw ECW on SciFi, I thought WTF is THIS shit doing on here? Actually, I STILL wonder. The only reason I can think of, is that it's actually an infomercial where they paid SF to show it.
Crossover Office (commercial WINE) works well enough for Office for most people. The list of what doesn't work is getting smaller all the time. I use it for the rare cases where OOo doesn't. I also have VMWare for the cases where WINE is just not good enough yet.
I would think that it would be VERY VERY difficult for the US government to do much to Australia economically. The government doesn't do importing / exporting - that's private business. One possibility would be to slap unreasonable tarrifs on things, but the WTO would step in in that case.
You give way too much credit to Bush's ability to shape AUS law. Time to look internally at the true source of your problems.
I think you don't realize the power of major telecoms. Cooperating with the NSA without law or court order to back up the request is highly unlikely to land an AT&T executive in jail or get the corporation sued. Now the gov may have played hardball another way, such as "do it or we pass network neutrality legislation," but that's about it.
Maybe they simply found outside counsel that told they what they wanted to hear. Obviously they KNEW they were potentially infringing BECAUSE they sought outside counsel! What we don't know is exactly what the outside counsel said. Was it along the lines of "In my opinion you should be OK" or was it "There is no chance that you will have a problem because it's very clear that the technology is totally different."
Tivo is perfectly willing to let others license the technology which still allows competition and innovation.
I guess you could say that they have a monopoly on their patent, because that is exactly what patents do. They do NOT have a monopoly on DVR's because they license their technology to anyone that wants to pay for it.
Frankly, while I wouldn't be thrilled at the idea, I could see paying $10 for the right to use tivo technology in Mythtv, much like I pay $10 / channel for the g729 codec used in Asterisk. Not happy, but such is life. Now if Tivo demanded that Myth cease to exist, or "monthly payments", I would be quite upset.
You cannot compare the lunacy of SCO / IBM with Tivo / Echostar other than the fact that both SCO and Tivo are financially troubled and took on a bigger company. SCO had no case at all - no evidence, no patents - nothing. Their product was basically dead in the market and they knew that their only hope of survival was to bully IBM into buying them out.
The same is NOT the case for Tivo who DOES have a viable and competitive product based on patented technology that they are licensing. This is not the behavior of a patent troll. Tivo is a true innovator in the marketplace unlike the abortion that is SCO (remember - the SCO today is not the original SCO.)
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the new intel processors cheaper, faster, and use less power than AMD at this point??? I must be missing something.
But I'm with you - I banned the purchase of Dell machines in our company due to horrible quality and horrible customer service.
Booze remains one of the most expensive things that is routinely served. Just ask the casinos, who increasingly have sensors on booze bottles that wire the manager when the bartender is poring long shots.
Sounds like a job for bar monkey.
Don't worry, it's not a pattern. Insane court decisions are still the norm. 20 year sentances for selling some pot and 3 weeks for rape and attempted murder.
I think you are all looking at the data wrong. Everyone knows that *Alien intervention* was the reason humans diverged from Apes.
I wouldn't say "useless". It would be very nice if by "support" they mean that I will be able to download a debian version of the PSP (which contains special drivers, management tools, etc.) which have only been available for Suse and RedHat. Yeah, you can get some of the stuff to work by manually extracting and installing, but it's a PITA. I couldn't care less about phone support.
ISP's are doing nothing, government is doing nothing, Microsoft is doing nothing, so what's YOUR solution? I want to take down compromised machines. I'd prefer that they actually go up in a puff of smoke, but I'll settle for crashing them or getting them knocked offline.
Really, the fsking ISP's are in the perfect position to detect and shut down botnets, but refuse to do so.
Hmm. Got modded funny, but I was serious. If the ports are blocked on your firewall, the worms just move on. If enough people would respond back with a flood of garbage, it would be a reverse DOS. Instead of reponding with an ubuntu ISO, you could scan the attacker for open ports and flood those with SYN packets. Enough is enough. If we just do nothing about zombie attacks and machines, they will just continue. It's time to fight back and make zombie networks useless.
IMHO, you should not be blocking those ports at the firewall, but rather redirect them to a responder that floods the return path with copies of the Ubuntu ISO. Run QOS on your outbound and set it at a lower(est) priority than your normal traffic so it doesn't impact you.
And what if you want to add a package to only one of the VMs?
Then you add a package to that VM. That's what RW snapshots allow you to do. Go read the LVM howto that I referenced above. If you want to delete a package, go ahead and delete a package. It really IS that simple.
the fact that cramming ten virtual machines into a single system is not a good idea when the minimal install is 1.2GB
Um, considering that in VM situations, most of that 1.2G can be in a shared read-only partition (or an LVM2 RW snapshot), and that modern hard drives are quite large, I respectfully disagree.
See the LVM HOWTO which SPECIFICALLY mentions XEN as an applcaion of RW snapshots.
Why should Americans have to drive at such a snails pace over such vast distances
Because we have really shitty roads. The big highways also have WAY too much traffic for those speeds. Drive from Boston to DC some time and you will understand.
doesn't have to wait 10-15 minutes to collect his checked bag
The last 5 times I've flown with checked luggage, it has taked nearly a full hour to get my bags once I'm waiting in the baggage area. With carryon baggage, I've already gotten a rental car, checked into the hotel, and am sitting in the jacuzzi before I would have gotten checked luggage. Couple that with the extra 15 - 30 mins on the front end of the flight in a long line waiting for a counter agent to tag my bag.
Couple that with the damage to luggage itself and the contents, and you understand VERY WELL why people don't check their bags unless they HAVE to.
My personal favorite is the smaller regional jets where the carryon's are tagged plane side, and you pick them up plane side at the far end. There is still a slight risk of dammage, but since they are loaded last you don't end up with someone's monster 200lb rolling trunk on top of your soft-sided bag (why is it that 4' tall petite asian women have the largest suitcases on the planet???)
I don't know where you fly, but it's sure not Boston, LA, SFO, Dulles, O'Hare, Atlanta, or most other major airports if you only have to wait 10-15. Even a lot of the smaller airports where your gate is no more than 100 feet from the baggage area it can take 30 mins or more. I always joke that the delay is because the handlers need time to steal all the good stuff. Unfortunately, there is truth to that joke.