I also forgot to add...for logging & debugging purposes, I have found log4net http://logging.apache.org/log4net/ to be extremely useful. It is not the easiest logging library to get set up, but it does offer quite a bit of flexibility and is easy to use once you do.
If this project has them, I would also make sure to examine the output of unit tests http://www.nunit.org/ . If the project does not have these, then I would recommend checking it out. The one advantage to using the approach of unit testing, is that once you develop a test to produce the buggy behavior, it then becomes possible to test for this behavior at a later date (regression errors). In addition the debugger built into Visual Studio.Net is quite powerful once you get used to it (and with VS 2005 it has only gotten more powerful). Even if your project is not written for the 2.0 framework/2005 specifically, it still may be useful to debug it in 2005.
One area that I would shy away from if you could help it is if you need to debug the interactions between two servers, is the remote debugging tools for debugging remote servers. I tried using these at work, and spent close to 5 hours on that particular Rat Hole.
Many of the threads spoke about credit cards. One word of advice I can give is to establish a good line of credit. What I did was apply for a credit card, and then use it to pay for my books. I then paid the bill through financial aid. This way they could see that I was "responsible" and paid my bills on time.
There is one solution to that.....isn't there a method to kill the GPS antenna? Something I read somewhere stated that if you cover an antenna with aluminum foil it will kill the GPS antenna?
If that was the case, why not approach the professor and get the class waived. I know at my University, they allow for more advanced students to see about challenging the class--you ask the prof, they give you the final and your grade is based off it. Or just get the credits waived--eg instead of the intro class you waive the requirement but not the credit, and down the road you take an elective class in its stead (or not if you have enough credits)
Better watch yerself otherwise the chuch of Scientology will getcha for the DMCA..doh.....one religion using the DMCA against another religion....double DOH!!
This thing would be very cool if they would drop the friggen modem and add a 2nd nic interface. I'd have my boss purchase one of these devices simply to make the thing into a firewall/proxy server......I know that I wanted to build one of those linux advanced radio terminals (lart)...but I don't have the $$$ or the experience to build the **** thing...
OK I work for a prometric testing center. I am also a teacher. What I noticed (this was the first and last time I gave one) with the scantron sheets is that when I did a glance over of all of the tests, that I had at least a 35% error rate on them. Mind you that the machines used to score the tests are a heck of a lot higher quality. (I finally ended up hand scoring the things).
Also working at the prometric system, I can't answer to the actual scoring, but one thing that is nice, is when the hardware works (as with anything the computerized testing does have its shares of glitches in it). But there is one major major major major major advantage that I can see that most schools/testing agencies have to deal with that computerized testing doesn't--the problem of scanning tests to be entered on the computer--as the answers are already in the computer.
I also know as a teacher, if I screwed up on a test and graded it incorrectly my *** would be hung out to dry, and I'd have to answer to quite a few angry parents. This is also because the kids would have a chance to review the questions.
Here in lies the problem. I know for a fact that some of the testing agencies value their questions at more than $600.00 per question. Heck I had to sign I don't know how many waivers just to take a computerized GRE, and then I had to take the thing at a specific time of the month, when ETS was apparently going to rotate their questions again. This is the main reason why that parent had to threaten a lawsuit to view the test questions on the test. He was lucky that they did so to begin with, as this was not the only time that wierd things have happened with standardized tests. If you check out the book about Escalante, he had a heck of a battle on his hands with ETS's AP Calc test. At least those kids got a second shot at the test.....
I read on the web site that MIR was gonna do pickups of some of the satelittes....
IF it aint too expensive...why not see if they can preserve some of the satelites for pickup, and then REALLY see if they can do an analysis of the things
Who cares? I know a lot of people who care about stuff like this. People want to remember stuff like this because it brings back memories. Heck I remember the HOURS I spent on the colecovision, or the hours I spent in front of my C128. This is a case of remembering history. Where would we be today if it weren't for these systems from yesterday?
I was just thinking would be a nice touch would be the attache' case.....you have the handle to make the thing portable...anyone remember the Kaypro computers..hehehe would be nice for the LAN parties.....just snap the top of the case open, remove mouse and keyboard, plug in ethernet,video and power in the back, and bam...yer in business....
OK somebody needs to come up with a definition...what is a LEGAL definition of a PC.....one that would also mean you would have to logically include devices like the RIO, or digital microrecorder (or a digital reminder)...hell take a look at radio stations. I wonder how many of them also use PCs to store their programming....Does this mean that they are not using a digital recording medium...Hell I bet most radio DJs probably prefer to beatmix their material beforehand on a PC....and this is NOT A DIGITAL RECORDING DEVICE....
Ok but lets play devils advocate here. The OS sucks major donkey balls. After dealing with a lab full of mac classics for a year, I will be the first one to agree. Maybe this is the reason why they are trying to integrate BSD in as the new system OS of choice......finally beef things up to something a bit more robust......Personally I will be interested to see what happens....IF they do this right, they could win a lot of people over imho.......
OK just a gripe about many of the search engines I use. Maybe I'm not using proper filter or search techniques, but what about an AI controlled web spider that searches out links, and then is able to filter the findings by classification--ie if you want to filter out web board messages for instance.......
OK, I tend to agree with you on most of those points, however I want to play devils advocate here. (and not for free bsd either)....When you are talking about public schools you have several other issues at hand as well. One of the first things you would need to keep in mind ESPECIALLY for public schools, is the KISS concept. Many teachers as it is are extremely skittish about using computers as it is, and if you make it any harder than necessary to use a computer, they will back away from them. The next thing you need to keep in mind is compatibility. After working with staroffice as well as word perfect, I found that neither of them had the "feel" of word or claris works. In addition there is another problem the minute you start thinking linux--it is the compatibility issue. I'm not referring to the server side of things, in fact linux was absolutely perfect for use as a netatalk server for a lab of 35 cranky mac classics. The compatibility issue I'm referring to comes from the fact that when you have an entire classroom full of students, who are using a lab to finish up a report, you NEED them to be able to pop their disk in from home, and bring the report up within a minute or two after sitting at their computer. Now think of the following scenario--you are running linux with staroffice as the main office suite. As far as I know SO doesn't have good built in support for either clarisworks, or word. (the office suites of choice in most schools) You have 30 kids in a class, 10 of which did part of the work at home. 5 of them did their work on clarisworks, the other 5 on word. As it is, there is going to be a problem when you attempt to do cross platform disk reads. Now take in to consideration that you are throwing in an alternative OS that I know first hand is VERY cranky about reading floppy disks (unless you build in some sort of automount autoformatread feature.... Here is the final thing...save off at the end of the period...Sammy, Joe, and Eric all need to finish their work at home. They save off, and when they go to bring the information up, UH OH...it is in whatever format SO or WP defaults to... Most teachers I know do not have the technical expertise to deal with situations like that. I also know firsthand, that if faced with something that proves to be EXTREMELY difficult to go around, most teachers look for alternatives esp if it deals with technology. Now computer science labs are a different beast linux would be my first choice for a CS lab...esp if they are PCs....
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I also forgot to add...for logging & debugging purposes, I have found log4net http://logging.apache.org/log4net/ to be extremely useful. It is not the easiest logging library to get set up, but it does offer quite a bit of flexibility and is easy to use once you do.
If this project has them, I would also make sure to examine the output of unit tests http://www.nunit.org/ . If the project does not have these, then I would recommend checking it out. The one advantage to using the approach of unit testing, is that once you develop a test to produce the buggy behavior, it then becomes possible to test for this behavior at a later date (regression errors). In addition the debugger built into Visual Studio .Net is quite powerful once you get used to it (and with VS 2005 it has only gotten more powerful). Even if your project is not written for the 2.0 framework/2005 specifically, it still may be useful to debug it in 2005.
One area that I would shy away from if you could help it is if you need to debug the interactions between two servers, is the remote debugging tools for debugging remote servers. I tried using these at work, and spent close to 5 hours on that particular Rat Hole.
Many of the threads spoke about credit cards. One word of advice I can give is to establish a good line of credit. What I did was apply for a credit card, and then use it to pay for my books. I then paid the bill through financial aid. This way they could see that I was "responsible" and paid my bills on time.
There is one solution to that.....isn't there a method to kill the GPS antenna? Something I read somewhere stated that if you cover an antenna with aluminum foil it will kill the GPS antenna?
What if there were a method to obtain a copy of the dll (I know this could be considered piracy...but that might be one method?
If that was the case, why not approach the professor and get the class waived. I know at my University, they allow for more advanced students to see about challenging the class--you ask the prof, they give you the final and your grade is based off it. Or just get the credits waived--eg instead of the intro class you waive the requirement but not the credit, and down the road you take an elective class in its stead (or not if you have enough credits)
Better watch yerself otherwise the chuch of Scientology will getcha for the DMCA..doh.....one religion using the DMCA against another religion....double DOH!!
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This thing would be very cool if they would drop the friggen modem and add a 2nd nic interface. I'd have my boss purchase one of these devices simply to make the thing into a firewall/proxy server......I know that I wanted to build one of those linux advanced radio terminals (lart)...but I don't have the $$$ or the experience to build the **** thing...
OK I work for a prometric testing center. I am also a teacher. What I noticed (this was the first and last time I gave one) with the scantron sheets is that when I did a glance over of all of the tests, that I had at least a 35% error rate on them. Mind you that the machines used to score the tests are a heck of a lot higher quality. (I finally ended up hand scoring the things). Also working at the prometric system, I can't answer to the actual scoring, but one thing that is nice, is when the hardware works (as with anything the computerized testing does have its shares of glitches in it). But there is one major major major major major advantage that I can see that most schools/testing agencies have to deal with that computerized testing doesn't--the problem of scanning tests to be entered on the computer--as the answers are already in the computer. I also know as a teacher, if I screwed up on a test and graded it incorrectly my *** would be hung out to dry, and I'd have to answer to quite a few angry parents. This is also because the kids would have a chance to review the questions. Here in lies the problem. I know for a fact that some of the testing agencies value their questions at more than $600.00 per question. Heck I had to sign I don't know how many waivers just to take a computerized GRE, and then I had to take the thing at a specific time of the month, when ETS was apparently going to rotate their questions again. This is the main reason why that parent had to threaten a lawsuit to view the test questions on the test. He was lucky that they did so to begin with, as this was not the only time that wierd things have happened with standardized tests. If you check out the book about Escalante, he had a heck of a battle on his hands with ETS's AP Calc test. At least those kids got a second shot at the test.....
Ever hear of the car called the Tucker?
fuckin thintg....I was drunk as hell when I made thqat post.....hehehehehehehehehehe 4 double kamikazes....I should go to bed at this point......
I read on the web site that MIR was gonna do pickups of some of the satelittes.... IF it aint too expensive...why not see if they can preserve some of the satelites for pickup, and then REALLY see if they can do an analysis of the things
Who cares? I know a lot of people who care about stuff like this. People want to remember stuff like this because it brings back memories. Heck I remember the HOURS I spent on the colecovision, or the hours I spent in front of my C128. This is a case of remembering history. Where would we be today if it weren't for these systems from yesterday?
I was just thinking would be a nice touch would be the attache' case .....you have the handle to make the thing portable ...anyone remember the Kaypro computers..hehehe would be nice for the LAN parties.....just snap the top of the case open, remove mouse and keyboard, plug in ethernet,video and power in the back, and bam...yer in business....
OK somebody needs to come up with a definition...what is a LEGAL definition of a PC.....one that would also mean you would have to logically include devices like the RIO, or digital microrecorder (or a digital reminder)...hell take a look at radio stations. I wonder how many of them also use PCs to store their programming....Does this mean that they are not using a digital recording medium...Hell I bet most radio DJs probably prefer to beatmix their material beforehand on a PC....and this is NOT A DIGITAL RECORDING DEVICE....
Ok but lets play devils advocate here. The OS sucks major donkey balls. After dealing with a lab full of mac classics for a year, I will be the first one to agree. Maybe this is the reason why they are trying to integrate BSD in as the new system OS of choice......finally beef things up to something a bit more robust......Personally I will be interested to see what happens....IF they do this right, they could win a lot of people over imho.......
OK just a gripe about many of the search engines I use. Maybe I'm not using proper filter or search techniques, but what about an AI controlled web spider that searches out links, and then is able to filter the findings by classification--ie if you want to filter out web board messages for instance.......
OK, I tend to agree with you on most of those points, however I want to play devils advocate here. (and not for free bsd either)....When you are talking about public schools you have several other issues at hand as well. One of the first things you would need to keep in mind ESPECIALLY for public schools, is the KISS concept. Many teachers as it is are extremely skittish about using computers as it is, and if you make it any harder than necessary to use a computer, they will back away from them. The next thing you need to keep in mind is compatibility. After working with staroffice as well as word perfect, I found that neither of them had the "feel" of word or claris works. In addition there is another problem the minute you start thinking linux--it is the compatibility issue. I'm not referring to the server side of things, in fact linux was absolutely perfect for use as a netatalk server for a lab of 35 cranky mac classics. The compatibility issue I'm referring to comes from the fact that when you have an entire classroom full of students, who are using a lab to finish up a report, you NEED them to be able to pop their disk in from home, and bring the report up within a minute or two after sitting at their computer. Now think of the following scenario--you are running linux with staroffice as the main office suite. As far as I know SO doesn't have good built in support for either clarisworks, or word. (the office suites of choice in most schools) You have 30 kids in a class, 10 of which did part of the work at home. 5 of them did their work on clarisworks, the other 5 on word. As it is, there is going to be a problem when you attempt to do cross platform disk reads. Now take in to consideration that you are throwing in an alternative OS that I know first hand is VERY cranky about reading floppy disks (unless you build in some sort of automount autoformatread feature.... Here is the final thing...save off at the end of the period...Sammy, Joe, and Eric all need to finish their work at home. They save off, and when they go to bring the information up, UH OH...it is in whatever format SO or WP defaults to... Most teachers I know do not have the technical expertise to deal with situations like that. I also know firsthand, that if faced with something that proves to be EXTREMELY difficult to go around, most teachers look for alternatives esp if it deals with technology. Now computer science labs are a different beast linux would be my first choice for a CS lab...esp if they are PCs....