We shouldn't be seeing garbage markup when we have real standards that work for these things
If I'm producing markup which validates to a recognised, non-obsolete standard, why isn't it up to the assistive technology to do something sensible with it rather than me to take account of the various crapnesses in such software?
This is exactly why I force all my clients to update their DAT's from MY server, not McAfee's
I remember a few years ago when all of our NT4 machines downloaded a corrupt CrapAfee DAT from a local mirror, and refused to boot up.
That was great fun, visiting every machine armed with an NTFS capable boot disk to manually remove the bogus DAT file, before reinstalling the antivirus...
same here, we're mainly XP with a handful of 2000 and 9x boxes, which haven't been upgraded because they run specialist software which we don't want to risk it not playing nicely with XP. Are we categorised in this half of businesses still running 2000?
I dunno anything about BlackBoard but all of these problems sound like database indexing issues. What does it use for a back end?
I think it's fairly platform agnostic, certainly it's been run here on both MySQL and later Oracle, I'm sure the Windows installation will work with M$ SQL
With plain old webpages, students can troll the internet to find class information professors are covering. This is especially important if one wants to "preview" a class. Well, with blackboard. Unless your registered in the class, you have no access to it.
That depends on how the system has been configured, if you click the Modules tab and search by course code you will be able to get "guest" read-only access to the module, providing that it hasn't been turned off at system level or overridden at course level by the Instructor/TA
But I would agree it's not a great system, if you think it's bad as a user it's a real PITA to administer
For me the difficult part is this - how do you define "professional" and "amateur"? Do you have to be an MCSE to be considered a computing professional? Do you simply have to be paid to do something to be considered a "professional"?
Doesn't Google keep improving its search algorithm so that only relevant sites are provided in the hits? Did this "researcher" hit the link that includes the filtered out near duplicates?
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Because the GPL (and presumably, other free/open software licenses) let the user do things that are otherwise illegal (copy and redistribute software)
I don't get this.
Microsoft's EULA lets you use software for which they are the copyright holder. Using it without would be illegal.
Every software licence lets you do things that are otherwise illegal - that's the whole point of buying a license
Works quite well, I wish Real would take note - it's a pain having to wait for Classic to load up to access realmedia material, which does't work too well in the background under classic
Not sure how common this practice is, but they have been used in the past to check out the viability of locations for land based transmitter towers like Emley Moor in the UK
"The key to understanding this announcement is that ntl own all the transmitters up and down the country that are used to transmit all non-BBC television and radio."
Don't want to be pedantic, but that was the case until the 70's or perhaps early 80's - the days of VHF TV, but these days the BBC (or their subcontractors Crown Castle) own about half of the transmitters, NTL the rest, but all of the sites transmit both BBC and commercial services.
Kind of a reciprocal agreement, so that only half as many masts are needed, and so that you only need one receiving aerial.
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... it's not like it will actually fix anything, anyway ;-)
NVU is worth a look. It's what Netscape Composer "became" in the way Navigator "became" Firefox.
Best web design advice ever: Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs > Microsoft FrontPage > Remove > Yes
I thought that was called SVG
I load and reload news sites hundreds of times a day. Strip the bloat out, and let me do it quickly
Isn't that what RSS is for?
We shouldn't be seeing garbage markup when we have real standards that work for these things
If I'm producing markup which validates to a recognised, non-obsolete standard, why isn't it up to the assistive technology to do something sensible with it rather than me to take account of the various crapnesses in such software?
This is exactly why I force all my clients to update their DAT's from MY server, not McAfee's
I remember a few years ago when all of our NT4 machines downloaded a corrupt CrapAfee DAT from a local mirror, and refused to boot up.
That was great fun, visiting every machine armed with an NTFS capable boot disk to manually remove the bogus DAT file, before reinstalling the antivirus...
We can't compete with Dell, because they can use those cheap (and shitty) restore CDs at half the cost of OEM Windows licences.
Although you can add a proper Windows CD for 5.88GBP when you buy and configure a machine on Dell's website
MyOPIA is a web based (LAMP) system written by a guy from the University College London. Haven't managed to get it working here yet however...
We still have 98 running on several systems..
same here, we're mainly XP with a handful of 2000 and 9x boxes, which haven't been upgraded because they run specialist software which we don't want to risk it not playing nicely with XP. Are we categorised in this half of businesses still running 2000?
wit Mc Afee? it works well enough for me
That would be the McAfee that caused *every* NT4 box here to hang on bootup after it downloaded a corrupted dat file from our local mirror?
This type of screen is used on the set of BBC News 24 - you can see it on the photo at the linked address with the logo on it
They're *guidelines* not *rules*, so they should be sufficiently general to still be relevant today
I dunno anything about BlackBoard but all of these problems sound like database indexing issues. What does it use for a back end?
I think it's fairly platform agnostic, certainly it's been run here on both MySQL and later Oracle, I'm sure the Windows installation will work with M$ SQL
With plain old webpages, students can troll the internet to find class information professors are covering. This is especially important if one wants to "preview" a class. Well, with blackboard. Unless your registered in the class, you have no access to it.
That depends on how the system has been configured, if you click the Modules tab and search by course code you will be able to get "guest" read-only access to the module, providing that it hasn't been turned off at system level or overridden at course level by the Instructor/TA
But I would agree it's not a great system, if you think it's bad as a user it's a real PITA to administer
For me the difficult part is this - how do you define "professional" and "amateur"? Do you have to be an MCSE to be considered a computing professional? Do you simply have to be paid to do something to be considered a "professional"?
I buy something - I get an SMS. It's incredibly fast (I usually get the SMS before they hand me the reciept to sign)
So they're debiting your account *before* you've signed the receipt?
And not a single comment yet!
Doesn't Google keep improving its search algorithm so that only relevant sites are provided in the hits? Did this "researcher" hit the link that includes the filtered out near duplicates?
Because the GPL (and presumably, other free/open software licenses) let the user do things that are otherwise illegal (copy and redistribute software)
I don't get this.
Microsoft's EULA lets you use software for which they are the copyright holder. Using it without would be illegal.
Every software licence lets you do things that are otherwise illegal - that's the whole point of buying a license
Works quite well, I wish Real would take note - it's a pain having to wait for Classic to load up to access realmedia material, which does't work too well in the background under classic
Not sure how common this practice is, but they have been used in the past to check out the viability of locations for land based transmitter towers like Emley Moor in the UK
Whatever anyone thinks about their business practices and operating systems, they sure seem to always sell good mice.
I replaced the hideous 'pebble' supplied with my iMac with an MS optical wheel mouse, it's probably the best £30 I've spent on computing kit.
The Classic MacOS drivers for the extra button and scrolly wheel work without incident and MacOSX has support built in.
no wireless in the uk? www.tele2.co.uk would disagree!
any graphics card you can use with Linux you can now use with Solaris
;-)
Not necessarily a great advance, the fun I've had configuring XF86 under RH recently
"The key to understanding this announcement is that ntl own all the transmitters up and down the country that are used to transmit all non-BBC television and radio."
Don't want to be pedantic, but that was the case until the 70's or perhaps early 80's - the days of VHF TV, but these days the BBC (or their subcontractors Crown Castle) own about half of the transmitters, NTL the rest, but all of the sites transmit both BBC and commercial services.
Kind of a reciprocal agreement, so that only half as many masts are needed, and so that you only need one receiving aerial.
(Transmitter Gallery)
This means that there are some areas where only Crown Castle/BBC operate transmitter sites who could be left out under your assertion.