I'm in favor of them sending the fix to shut this down but at the same time I have to wonder what part of that botnet is connected to computers that could be monitoring a life support system for a patient in a hospital or something just as critical.
The fix could cost lives just as much as the infection could depending on what happens.
This says learning even in higher education needs to be more challenging for the student. Paying attention in class is very important but at the same time you can't just drone on at a blackboard with a group of people who are used to so many interactive things such as the web.
Students need to pay attention but at the same time if a professor is having trouble keeping their attention regularly then maybe something else needs changed aside from the students.
I'm 6'5" tall and have big hands. As I type this on my Asus 701 4G I can say I've had no problems with keyboard size. For what I do with the laptop it just works.
Screen isn't too big of an issue either. For sitting in meetings and taking notes it wins hands down compared to other laptops. I wish I had this when I was taking college courses and lugging around that old Dell Inspiron 8000. This thing would have blown that out of the water back then.
I didn't know about the flash ram issues. I do have a small swap file on the system. I think I shrunk it down to like 128 megs or something.
XP itself runs fine on there. The only thing I noticed with the video starting up is the screen starts out in 800x600 mode and then takes a moment to shift to 800x480 mode. Drive issue most likely but it's not much of a problem for me when booting.
I stuck XP on my EEE. Darn thing runs good especially after I stick in the extra 16gig SD card and upgraded the RAM to 2gigs.
Stripping XP down as per the instructions in the EEE manual made it's footprint workable and the extra SD card makes a great place for documents, music, and some application/game installs.
YES I said games too. Doom 1, 2, and Quake 1, 2, and 3 run good on this thing.:P If I could put Diablo or Diablo2 on there w/out the CD requirement I'd do that as well.
Open Office fits nicely on here. I actually installed it to the SD card so the primary drive would have more breathing room. I also put a few other apps over there, darn thing is nearly perfect. I only wish it had a full 800x600 screen though.:/
Hehe... my "gameboy" not only lets me take notes at meetings an such but lets me frag while I wait for my car to get serviced on at the shop. ^_^
Black Asus 701 w/4gb drive - $370 2GB ram and 16GB SD card - $80 5.25" IDE USB enclosure - $40 (Old spare DVD/CD burner) Mouse, USB - $10 Earphones - $10 (Decent ear plug kind)
Total cost: $510
I slapped a spare copy of XP on the drive, installed Open Office, Paint.NET, Winamp, Putty, Notepad++, AVG, and my entire doom collection up to 2 and quake collection up to 3. Works like a charm.
For a while I used BartPE with a copy of Avira anti-virus along with SpyBot Search and Destroy and Adaware. Haven't tried out the latest version of Adaware on Bart yet, been a while since I needed the disk.
I made out better forking over $500 for an EEE PC, a 2 gig ram upgrade, 16gig SD drive, and USB drive enclosure.
The USB enclosure made nice with my spare DVD drive and let me put XP on my EEE which lets me do work things and have fun with Doom and Quake when I'm waiting at the car shop while my car gets its regular maintenance done.
If you don't have a spare copy of XP like I did then you'd have to fork out another $200 for it. Still.. thats a whole PC for something the size of this dumb terminal (It doesn't appear to be a complete system to me.)
If anything it'd be nice for exiting mobile device users but only if the price was like $100-200 I feel.. I wouldn't fork over $300-500 for it.
I slapped XP on the thing and upgraded the ram to 2 gigs. The SD card slot has a nice 16 gig card in it with Doom, Doom 2, Quake, Quake 2, and Quake 3 installed. I run them at the low end resolution mode which fits fine on this screen.
Oh wait, this is about educational use?? Uh... yeah I take my EEE PC to meetings and if I had this during college I'd have loved it for note taking. It's a sound educational tool that works great with my campus's wired and wireless access points.
Part of me feels bad because this just sounds so wrong on so many levels and these people should be able to sell that garbage. Quite honestly I'm going to argue that the Church of Scientology is not environmentally friendly if they're going to force people to buy new and not ever get used. If they can't sell this stuff used it's going to end up in the garbage.
The other part of me can't help but laugh hysterically that these people actually bought in to Scientology in the first place.
... Where do they want me to mail that rebate check they're sending me to pay for this damn thing?
One of these days I'm going to visit Washington again. When I get to Washington I'll walk over to where the government does its business and the only thing I'd find there is a deep pit where all the money went. And a large sucking sound will draw me in and I'll never see my friends or family again because of the black hole thats government spending.
Don't tell me it's a drop in the bucket either. All these little drops can add up to a big splash eventually.
During a world wide zombie outbreak, it's best to avoid traveling to areas such as China. During the 00's the Chinese government took steps to ban horror movies and scary story telling. Unfortunately this prevented the Chinese public from being prepared for a zombie outbreak and could leave China as one of the most heavily infested areas of the world.
So, I wanted to like Vista. I knew that eventually everyone would have to upgrade anyway, so, not wanting to be left behind, I wanted to switch to Vista because of the same factor that spammers use to get your attention: "Other guys are improving themselves, why aren't you?" But there were some things I ran into almost immediately:
Using Vista I get the feeling I've been left ahead and that isn't a good feeling in my case.
* 25 meg base OS install. * Windows Updater (Application, not browser lock-in.) * Windows Installer * Latest DX for graphics * Hardware support * Compiler for programmers to keep them interested in the platform.
Seriously I think that would be a smaller footprint and provide a very nice OS. You can then download the free bells and whistles for your 4 gig monster through the updater or you could get Firefox and whatever.
.. to read about cool stuff like this but realize I'll never be around to see it. I really wish sometimes I could just sit back and watch the whole universe and not have to worry about time.
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I'm in favor of them sending the fix to shut this down but at the same time I have to wonder what part of that botnet is connected to computers that could be monitoring a life support system for a patient in a hospital or something just as critical.
The fix could cost lives just as much as the infection could depending on what happens.
This says learning even in higher education needs to be more challenging for the student. Paying attention in class is very important but at the same time you can't just drone on at a blackboard with a group of people who are used to so many interactive things such as the web.
Students need to pay attention but at the same time if a professor is having trouble keeping their attention regularly then maybe something else needs changed aside from the students.
I'm 6'5" tall and have big hands. As I type this on my Asus 701 4G I can say I've had no problems with keyboard size. For what I do with the laptop it just works.
Screen isn't too big of an issue either. For sitting in meetings and taking notes it wins hands down compared to other laptops. I wish I had this when I was taking college courses and lugging around that old Dell Inspiron 8000. This thing would have blown that out of the water back then.
I didn't know about the flash ram issues. I do have a small swap file on the system. I think I shrunk it down to like 128 megs or something.
XP itself runs fine on there. The only thing I noticed with the video starting up is the screen starts out in 800x600 mode and then takes a moment to shift to 800x480 mode. Drive issue most likely but it's not much of a problem for me when booting.
From Kid: Mommy I can't get my homework done. I didn't have the money to pay for class notes.
*FLUSH*
That's the sound of whats left of education in America going down the toilet.
I stuck XP on my EEE. Darn thing runs good especially after I stick in the extra 16gig SD card and upgraded the RAM to 2gigs.
:P If I could put Diablo or Diablo2 on there w/out the CD requirement I'd do that as well.
:/
Stripping XP down as per the instructions in the EEE manual made it's footprint workable and the extra SD card makes a great place for documents, music, and some application/game installs.
YES I said games too. Doom 1, 2, and Quake 1, 2, and 3 run good on this thing.
Open Office fits nicely on here. I actually installed it to the SD card so the primary drive would have more breathing room. I also put a few other apps over there, darn thing is nearly perfect. I only wish it had a full 800x600 screen though.
Hehe... my "gameboy" not only lets me take notes at meetings an such but lets me frag while I wait for my car to get serviced on at the shop. ^_^
Black Asus 701 w/4gb drive - $370
.NET, Winamp, Putty, Notepad++, AVG, and my entire doom collection up to 2 and quake collection up to 3. Works like a charm.
2GB ram and 16GB SD card - $80
5.25" IDE USB enclosure - $40 (Old spare DVD/CD burner)
Mouse, USB - $10
Earphones - $10 (Decent ear plug kind)
Total cost: $510
I slapped a spare copy of XP on the drive, installed Open Office, Paint
An extra core or so on a desktop is nice, beyond that they really won't be anywhere near the speedup its hyped.
I dunno if more cores could help me run Solitare and Minesweeper on Vista at the same time I'm all for it.
For a while I used BartPE with a copy of Avira anti-virus along with SpyBot Search and Destroy and Adaware. Haven't tried out the latest version of Adaware on Bart yet, been a while since I needed the disk.
BartPE - http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Avira - http://www.avira.com/en/pages/index.php
SpyBot Search and Destroy - http://www.spybot.org/en/index.html
Adaware - http://www.lavasoft.com/
We could just carpet bomb them with all the cheap crap they've sold us over the years. They'd surrender quick.
I made out better forking over $500 for an EEE PC, a 2 gig ram upgrade, 16gig SD drive, and USB drive enclosure.
The USB enclosure made nice with my spare DVD drive and let me put XP on my EEE which lets me do work things and have fun with Doom and Quake when I'm waiting at the car shop while my car gets its regular maintenance done.
If you don't have a spare copy of XP like I did then you'd have to fork out another $200 for it. Still.. thats a whole PC for something the size of this dumb terminal (It doesn't appear to be a complete system to me.)
If anything it'd be nice for exiting mobile device users but only if the price was like $100-200 I feel.. I wouldn't fork over $300-500 for it.
I slapped XP on the thing and upgraded the ram to 2 gigs. The SD card slot has a nice 16 gig card in it with Doom, Doom 2, Quake, Quake 2, and Quake 3 installed. I run them at the low end resolution mode which fits fine on this screen.
Oh wait, this is about educational use?? Uh... yeah I take my EEE PC to meetings and if I had this during college I'd have loved it for note taking. It's a sound educational tool that works great with my campus's wired and wireless access points.
...they step on an age old land mine in a very bad way.
...
ANNOUNCING NEW MICROSOFT VeMACS! Thats right! We combined VI and Emacs!
And I heard a sound as if millions of geeks world wide cried out in unison.
"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
Excuse me son, Special Agent Friday, FBI. Are you the owner of a level 70 rogue on the Blackrock PvP server that was in STV around 14:24pm today?
I see... well I'm afraid your going to have to come with me to answer a few questions. That was my shaman you ganked and camped.
Part of me feels bad because this just sounds so wrong on so many levels and these people should be able to sell that garbage. Quite honestly I'm going to argue that the Church of Scientology is not environmentally friendly if they're going to force people to buy new and not ever get used. If they can't sell this stuff used it's going to end up in the garbage.
The other part of me can't help but laugh hysterically that these people actually bought in to Scientology in the first place.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion finally draws to a successful conclusion, a mere 47 years behind schedule.
The only thing that ever beat Duke Nuke'm Forever in terms of a release date.
... Where do they want me to mail that rebate check they're sending me to pay for this damn thing?
One of these days I'm going to visit Washington again. When I get to Washington I'll walk over to where the government does its business and the only thing I'd find there is a deep pit where all the money went. And a large sucking sound will draw me in and I'll never see my friends or family again because of the black hole thats government spending.
Don't tell me it's a drop in the bucket either. All these little drops can add up to a big splash eventually.
During a world wide zombie outbreak, it's best to avoid traveling to areas such as China. During the 00's the Chinese government took steps to ban horror movies and scary story telling. Unfortunately this prevented the Chinese public from being prepared for a zombie outbreak and could leave China as one of the most heavily infested areas of the world.
.. probably never will is Duke Balance Budget'm Forever.
So, I wanted to like Vista. I knew that eventually everyone would have to upgrade anyway, so, not wanting to be left behind, I wanted to switch to Vista because of the same factor that spammers use to get your attention: "Other guys are improving themselves, why aren't you?" But there were some things I ran into almost immediately:
Using Vista I get the feeling I've been left ahead and that isn't a good feeling in my case.
They should productize that.
* 25 meg base OS install.
* Windows Updater (Application, not browser lock-in.)
* Windows Installer
* Latest DX for graphics
* Hardware support
* Compiler for programmers to keep them interested in the platform.
Seriously I think that would be a smaller footprint and provide a very nice OS. You can then download the free bells and whistles for your 4 gig monster through the updater or you could get Firefox and whatever.
.. and in the public domain are just as entertaining today as they were in the old days. Google is great for that stuff.
On a TRS-80 that was black and white text display. The game was a text graphic based dungeon crawler
.. to read about cool stuff like this but realize I'll never be around to see it. I really wish sometimes I could just sit back and watch the whole universe and not have to worry about time.
does fast food cause violence?
Only to the guy sitting next to them in the Quake match as they try to reach over for the his fries and accidentally roll over him out of their chair.