>>not one of those H&R block things. They will hire anyone, give them a couple days of training and send them out to do your taxes.
pure ignorance on your part. My dad (retired engineer) applied and took their course. It starts with 2 months of twice a week intensive training, weekly tests and three major tests. Then, if you get more than 80% on the final you're eligible to interview, and they're selective on who gets hired. Then there's additional training on their software. Novice preparers only do simple returns, they have to "level up" with experiance points.
yeh, this is minus 1 redundant, but IMHO it's the fastest, easiest way to prevent systems from getting trashed. Kid puts a porno on the desktop? teacher just has to reboot and it's gone.
To stretch both dollars and the limited classroom electric power, you could set up systems using BeTwin from thinsoftinc.com. You can have e up to 5 monitors connected to a single system, each appearing as an individual computer. I did this in a small NYC high school, outfiting 9 classrooms this way saved about $13K (4 "computers" per room)
It uses magnetic drag to slow the spacecraft. Unfortunatly, you fall out of orbit before shedding enough speed to reduce the amount of thermal protection needed.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Photoshop. Professional retouchers often work on 500meg to 1 gig+ size files. Even with a fully populated motherboard, Photoshop will write to its disk based scratch drive. By putting the primary scratch drive on this, saving files and many other functions would be greatly speeded up. There's been some similar products aimed at the Photoshop market, but they cost over $1,000 without ram.
iMatch has a basic language scripting built in, can control other programs, can handle RAW, hundreds of thousands of images in its database, simple image editing, yada yada yada..... it's a mature app.
The programmer is very responsive and active on the user forum.
"The way the school district handled this whole situation was unbelievably atrocious," said Hillary A. Thomas, the mother of Sheldon Thomas, 17, who completed his junior year and is one of the students charged.
Hillary Thomas was among five parents who agreed to talk about the case.
They said the students' actions would have resulted in nothing more than grounding or loss of computer privileges if they did with a home computer what has happened on school laptops.
No permanent damage was done to the district's computer system and nobody was hurt by the students' misdeeds, they said.
"I'd have pulled the modem plug and it would have been hidden," said LeAnn M. Shoemaker, mother of John L. Shrawder, 15, a charged student who was a freshman.
The parents said they didn't learn of the charges until they received a recent letter from police.
Dr. Brenda A. Winkler, superintendent, said Friday that district officials contacted several parents.
"The high school did a lot of contacting," she said.
Parents also are upset they still have not received a copy of the complaint that lists the charges.
They said the district should have tighter security on its computers.
Kutztown Police Chief Theodore R. Cole has said it would be up to the Berks County Juvenile Probation Office to send the parents copies of the charges.
The students are not in custody. The letter from police asked them to go to the Kutztown police station for fingerprinting and identification. The parents said their children have not done that.
Thomas said her son downloaded iChat, a messaging program, and Acquisitions, a program for downloading music.
"We have not even seen the charges, so the whole thing's in limbo," Thomas said.
well, I didn't read the usage policy either. I spent 20 minutes or so trying to find it online, without success. That's why I linked to the FAQ, since it was better than nothing, and did describe parts of the policy. Their policy MAY discuss "charges may be filed".
"Skavinsky consulted with the Berks County District Attorney's office and recommended charges of "Computer Trespass," in violation of PA criminal code section 7615, which carries a third degree felony charge."
The hardware costs are correct, but the software cost stated is an outright lie. The academic cost of the software is probably around $600 to $800. IMHO it is a good mix of software.
Ventura Publisher does things that Quark simply can't do, even with literally $10,000 worth of plug-ins. Things like single multi-column tables that span hundreds of pages with page header text that crosses the columns.
"Penn & Tellers early BBS?" do you mean "secret backdoor to the NYC parking violations ticket computer"? It was one of the first things I used to show a friend and her family when she got an Amiga, they were totally fooled by it. And an hour later totally pissed at me when I broke it to them that they actually did still owe for that ticket....
If the software company is a member of the Business Software Alliance you may be in luck. Having suffered through the begginings of a BSA audit, one thing they made clear to us was that having the disks/serial numbers wasn't relivant, it was proof of purchase that gave us a legal copy of the software. So, since you do have that proof, according to the BSA you have a legal right to the software. Your lawyer should be able to have lots of fun with this.
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>>not one of those H&R block things. They will hire anyone, give them a couple days of training and send them out to do your taxes.
pure ignorance on your part. My dad (retired engineer) applied and took their course. It starts with 2 months of twice a week intensive training, weekly tests and three major tests. Then, if you get more than 80% on the final you're eligible to interview, and they're selective on who gets hired. Then there's additional training on their software. Novice preparers only do simple returns, they have to "level up" with experiance points.
Here is Elion's brother's blog, with news of the launch abort
yeh, this is minus 1 redundant, but IMHO it's the fastest, easiest way to prevent systems from getting trashed. Kid puts a porno on the desktop? teacher just has to reboot and it's gone.
To stretch both dollars and the limited classroom electric power, you could set up systems using BeTwin from thinsoftinc.com.
You can have e up to 5 monitors connected to a single system, each appearing as an individual computer.
I did this in a small NYC high school, outfiting 9 classrooms this way saved about $13K (4 "computers" per room)
that might be a font issue. even if you had a machine running AI6 it may still be munged.
http://www.tethers.com/TT.html
It uses magnetic drag to slow the spacecraft.
Unfortunatly, you fall out of orbit before shedding enough speed to reduce the amount of thermal protection needed.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Photoshop.
Professional retouchers often work on 500meg to 1 gig+ size files. Even with a fully populated motherboard, Photoshop will write to its disk based scratch drive. By putting the primary scratch drive on this, saving files and many other functions would be greatly speeded up.
There's been some similar products aimed at the Photoshop market, but they cost over $1,000 without ram.
I'd bet that your friend was eventually able to read the MO disks on his Quadra, as there were a few programs which allowed Macs to access SCSI media.
iMatch has a basic language scripting built in, can control other programs, can handle RAW, hundreds of thousands of images in its database, simple image editing, yada yada yada..... it's a mature app.
The programmer is very responsive and active on the user forum.
If you didn't RTFA then you missed the student's website
google: citrix osx or google citrix linux and the first results are the clients for those OS
From http://www.readingeagle.com/re/news/1401578.asp
"The way the school district handled this whole situation was unbelievably atrocious," said Hillary A. Thomas, the mother of Sheldon Thomas, 17, who completed his junior year and is one of the students charged.
Hillary Thomas was among five parents who agreed to talk about the case.
They said the students' actions would have resulted in nothing more than grounding or loss of computer privileges if they did with a home computer what has happened on school laptops.
No permanent damage was done to the district's computer system and nobody was hurt by the students' misdeeds, they said.
"I'd have pulled the modem plug and it would have been hidden," said LeAnn M. Shoemaker, mother of John L. Shrawder, 15, a charged student who was a freshman.
The parents said they didn't learn of the charges until they received a recent letter from police.
Dr. Brenda A. Winkler, superintendent, said Friday that district officials contacted several parents.
"The high school did a lot of contacting," she said.
Parents also are upset they still have not received a copy of the complaint that lists the charges.
They said the district should have tighter security on its computers.
Kutztown Police Chief Theodore R. Cole has said it would be up to the Berks County Juvenile Probation Office to send the parents copies of the charges.
The students are not in custody. The letter from police asked them to go to the Kutztown police station for fingerprinting and identification. The parents said their children have not done that.
Thomas said her son downloaded iChat, a messaging program, and Acquisitions, a program for downloading music.
"We have not even seen the charges, so the whole thing's in limbo," Thomas said.
well, I didn't read the usage policy either. I spent 20 minutes or so trying to find it online, without success. That's why I linked to the FAQ, since it was better than nothing, and did describe parts of the policy. Their policy MAY discuss "charges may be filed".
wow, that was beautifully handled. It's nice to hear stories of teachers/principals with a real clue on how to deal with things like this.
"Skavinsky consulted with the Berks County District Attorney's office and recommended charges of "Computer Trespass," in violation of PA criminal code section 7615, which carries a third degree felony charge."
The hardware costs are correct, but the software cost stated is an outright lie. The academic cost of the software is probably around $600 to $800. IMHO it is a good mix of software.
Ventura Publisher does things that Quark simply can't do, even with literally $10,000 worth of plug-ins. Things like single multi-column tables that span hundreds of pages with page header text that crosses the columns.
at least to the New York City department of Education. See the online catalog and notice the vendor.
ditto
"Penn & Tellers early BBS?" do you mean "secret backdoor to the NYC parking violations ticket computer"? It was one of the first things I used to show a friend and her family when she got an Amiga, they were totally fooled by it. And an hour later totally pissed at me when I broke it to them that they actually did still owe for that ticket....
If the software company is a member of the Business Software Alliance you may be in luck.
Having suffered through the begginings of a BSA audit, one thing they made clear to us was that having the disks/serial numbers wasn't relivant, it was proof of purchase that gave us a legal copy of the software.
So, since you do have that proof, according to the BSA you have a legal right to the software.
Your lawyer should be able to have lots of fun with this.
B&H has the 3M 1720 for $130.
Or you can JFFI,
and you can JFGI
also, Don Lancaster has been writing about it for over a decade
If you have a NYC public library card you can access the past year for free via NYPL.org
does QFX have a "better than bicubic" interpolation algorithm?
Ron Scott had one in his qpr program