The one thing that this article gets right is that average users don't know, or care to know about how the magic box works. To most, it's a box with a switch that draws pretty pictures. At work, they learn what they need to get the job done and little else. That is until they find something that they want done, music, dvd, etc. For home computers they want to do the "cool" things that they do, but aren't supposed to do at work. Since the IT department tells them what they need at work, or better, it just magically shows up they assume that its like that everywhere, on every computer. They are not ready to make choices about the computer because those choices are always made for them. They can "do and F12,Al+T", but don't understand that they're opening a file to edit it. Learning is hard, why should they do it, the IT guys can make wordperfect for DOS work on anything, right?
I'm treading real close to this being a rant about stupid users, maybe I've crossed that line and lost sight of the topic, so now, I regroup.
Getting linux to the desktop is as simple as getting some major(lots of employees) companies to use it. The users, will buy they're next computer to be just like the one at work.
Users and people in general make decisions with regards to what they know about and lets them think the least. The overwhelming tone of the article was and I'll paraphrase Lisa Simpson...
"I want a challenge I can do."
And it's pretty/really easy to set up. Just a couple of changes in the configuration file. I've never done the replication of the database across anything with less bandwidth than all machines on the same local switch, but it appears to be rather reliable. Some of the slaves that I've played with have been down for days, and when they database is restarted... they pick up replicating where it left off.
Not sure if this has anything to do with what you're doing as MySQL is an entirely different product than PostgreSQL, and you may be trying to avoid it based on its own well documented pitfalls/features/etc.
I won't touch on PVM or MPI clustering, but as far as High Availability clustering goes, most of the distributions will use some form of lvs Since it uses nice command line utiities you can write your own scripts, or you could use the gui they offer as well. Slap that software on any distro(make sure that the kernel's patched right) and you're ready to go.
I've done this myself, and without starting a flame war, I've found that the easiest setup was achieved using RedHat. Their piranha tools make things easier and since the servers came with RedHat, I didn't have to waste too much time, nor did I have to drop a couple thousand dollars for their cluster distro, it all comes in the general distribution. During research for this project I read quite a bit about the TurboLinux distribution. The internals aren't much more than lvs, but the price tag scares you away (not that you couldn't do it with a stock TL and LVS, but to use their special distro it costs... just like RedHat's. You're not really paying for the software, but rather the tech support). Whatever you decide, keep in mind a few things..
1. Any distro can do it.
2. When you get the cluster up, do what you can to keep the distro/OS in the cluster the same. You'll save yourself a good bit of headaches in administration and make using the weighted algorithims a reality (ex: NT won't respond to the uptime, or ruptime polling requests, so you're stuck with the static weight that you assigned read the HOWTO for more).
3. If you are using lvs, use direct routing. It's fast.
Why not just ask for tax breaks and offer to train
Americans? Nothing against people from
countries, but this whole visa for foreign workers
smells of sweatshop labor. Instead of putting a
factory in the US and paying minimum wage, let's
put it elsewhere and pay nothing... or... US
programmers won't work for $30k, but somebody
else will.
I'm actually in the same boat that you're in. Built like a fire-hydrant 5'10" & > 350lbs. I am an avid weightlifter and I play rugby although an injury has sidelined me for the better part of a year(no insurance). Before playing rugby I was well over 400 lbs. Even then I could do push ups, some semblance of situps, calf raises, etc. The problem with all of those things is that they are limited range motions. They involve relatively small muscles and those muscles actually get tired before any cardiovascular effect can be gained
I think that the idea of a peddling mechanism is a good one to start. My uncles had one from the 70's, no real way to interface them, but they fit in front of a chair and pedalled as fast as you like. The resistance was provided by a wing nut and a washer tightening the connection between the support and the pedalling mech. Anyway, I think that the devices exist, but in the long run...
Back away from the keyboard. Muscles need room to move. You won't get any real cardio/fat burning effect until you make all the big muscles work real hard doing real world things. I agree with lifting weights as a good place to start. It builds muscle and that helps burn fat. It also doesn't hurt too much cardiovascularly. A good weightlifting session doesn't leave you miserably out of breath, but breathing hard and sweating good. After that gets comfortable, a couple of minutes (5, 10, 15 to start) on an excercise bike mixed in and then the hardest part... eating better. I think the first thing that can be done to help the transition is to drink water instead of soft drinks. Not exclusively mind you... that would be suicidal, but cut soda back to dinner and lunch and if you drink, try to save it for the weekends.
As soon as I find the key to this eating right thing, I'll tell the world. I can't claim to be an expert, but if you want a pretty good starting point in a weightlifting/resistance training program, go ahead and e-mail me. I might be able to help. Good luck.
It's just not enough to own a computer.
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I've read some comments in this thread and I agree with those that state that giving a computer is just the first step...
I work at a university in DC, and just recently the students moved out for the summer. In an effort to lighten their luggage some threw away computers. Full machines. Some in various states of disarray, one was a perfectly good powermac. The office that I'm in is in the basement of a residence hall, so we interact with housekeeping on a regular basis. The housekeeping staff represents what I think is a representative of the population. They are people trying to do their job and get by. They know computers are expensive. and when they see them being thrown away they gather them and asked me if they are any good. When they find out that they are, their next question is invariably what can I do with it?
Computers make little difference in the ordinary person's life right now. Beyond the scope of work(whether it be coding or memo writing) and game playing there is no real enhancement to an average persons life. You get home from work, you watch some TV, maybe a good movie is on tonight. They don't see the sense in teaching themselves how to use a computer, which is two steps from witchcraft anyway, when they can pop in a perfectly good videotape for entertainment and watch the news to see what's happening in the world.
Until computers become as easy to use as the television and radio then they will continue to be limited to work and technofile/wannabe technofile use.
Redhat's been pretty busy with the Itanium port. Maybe no time for this one... yet?
An amusing development ...
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I must say that I am not sure where Interscope falls in the realm of labels, but I've heard of Dr. Dre and Metallica referred to as label mates of Limp Bizkit. Now Limp Bizkit's lead singer is Fred Durst, a Vice President of Interscope Records. If these guys are so adamant about shutting down Napster, how exactly is it that someone of any standing in the company, namely Durst is doing summer concerts funded by Napster? I can believe that Mr. Durst isn't a very powerful VP. He's probably more in charge of signing new bands and those kinds of deals that the company's monetary welfare.
This feels rather peculiar, more corporate doublespeak? Or am I wrong about the labelmate status of Bizkit, Dre, and Metallica?
Now I have a question that might be a bit off-topic, but please bear with me: If someone broadcasts their MP3 collection, and you listen to the stream and record it, are you legally allowed to have that MP3? I guess the two sides of this argument are really... It's legal to have, but you can only use it for personal use, or It's illegal since the person initiating the stream was only supposed to be using it for personal use.
... And the first few years of my CS schooling were nearly unbearable. It was very similar to being forced to speak in very proper English all the time, calling every person you meet by their complete names, and annunciating each and every syllable. Looking back, I believe that ADA is a good language to learn for a first language. Just like being forced to take grammar and phonics in grade school. The teachers force you to speak properly during class, but you find more concise and effective communication possible when you talk with your friends using slang, vernacular, etc. You speak formally when you are trying to prove something, or be academic, but to get work done, you don't wish to be bothered with the formallities. I think that's ADAs biggest problem. Either that or the fact that the ADA standard wasn't changed until 1995, well after other languages gained momentum and wide spread acceptance in the academic community.
What a treat. Is it just me or are viruses that affect e-mail seen as so much scarier since the user gets to see something, as opposed to other viruses that do damage and don't announce themselves.
Anyway, I read this over on OSOpinion... but could MS's implanting of Outlook in nearly everything actually be more damaging than their inclusion of IE in DOS?
There are two main kinds of clusters from what I can see. The supercomputer like Beowulf(ish) cluster and the High Availability Clusters. The multi-processing clusters(I'll call the Beowulfs for the sake of brevity) are designed to help in massive computations. The key element there is to speed up or parallelize? computations of large amounts of calculations, such as physics, computer imaging (like in Titanic Linux Journal has an article about Linux and the movie). Within these multi-processor nodes are multiple programming libraries, PVM, MPI, and others that allow you to write code that uses this new conglomerate system.
The High availability cluster is something else entirely. These clusters are not built for speed, but rather reliability and distributed load bearing. It usually means a group of machines that behave to the user as if they are one. Kind of like a certain major website that we're on. You generally have one or two traffic servers whose job is to send requests to the computer that meets certain criteria. Perhaps you want load balancing web servers. The traffic computers would send some requests to one server, some other requests to the other server, and so on based on some predetermined criteria. It can also be used to make sure no requests go to a dead machine. There is some real good information on this out there, but the most easily digestible is probably at TurboLinux and their High Availability Cluster solution and RedHat with their Piranha solutions.
I know that was oversimplified, but I hope that it helps.
the lack of honor that makes these persons fell it necessary to cheat. I love competition in nearly any form that I can get it. You don't play games to win... you play them to compete. I hate losing as much as the next guy... probably more so, but to know that I put forth an effort that wasn't enough, allows me to become better at the game, teaches me my weaknesses and makes me better as a person. There is an ecstasy, a euphoria that stems from overcoming an obstacle that is difficult in overcoming within the rules of the contest. During a track meet, the race is to the finish line, along a specified path. They do not give the prize to the runner that takes a shortcut, that wasn't the contest. If you win by modifying an online game, what did you win? Certainly not the game everyone else was playing. For those that say that the disparity in hardware and ping configurations force some to hack a game to get a "level playing field" I reply "NO!". I offer you an example. I play rugby. I am slow. My 350 pounds does not move as quickly as some(any) of the lighter players. In order for me to be a factor, I have to work harder. It means that when not playing the game, I must attempt to get faster. I cannot simply make the referee have everyone jog at my pace. What kind of game is that? Take away someone's advantage so that I can do better. It is more satisfying to find their weakness and exploit it and any and every opportunity that I can, as they run around me when afforded the chance, so must I drive them into the ground when I tackle them. For online gaming... the same. I have played with 14.4 modems and now ADSL. When my roommate doesn't pay the phone bill, I use a wireless modem and play on that poor connection. I adapt to my connection and play the best that I can. That is where the fun is.
I do not agree with companies policing hard disks, or processes, but would like to see some kind of referee system that makes sure all of the rules are abided to. It would be real nice if online games were like playground sports, where rules were agreed upon and no officiating was necessary because if a rule was broken it was well known and most of the time a result of bad luck on a hard play. If there is a disagreement, the dispute is settled quickly.
Damn your moral dilemmas. Both of you make good points, supporting LinDVD is helping the MPAA, and at the same time helping Linux. I was fired up about buying this software until I read this thread... thinking that now I could do away with windows forever. However if my actions support the MPAA, then Free Software takes a hit and Free Software is bigger than Linux. I am a Linux advocate, but I don't wish ill upon our BSD brethren. I really want DVDs on Linux, so I might just buy it... then give copies of it away and call them lost backups.
Some time ago, I took my CS Operating Systems class and there was an accompanying lab. The two were disjointed (I really didn't like it, but both courses became easy A's). The course proper dealt with theory, just like the post a few back. Mutex and protected memory, spin locks and dining philosophers... The lab consisted of attempting to do very basic OS type operations, but used NT. Since there were'nt enough NT boxes in the lab, some of us that worked were forced to "BUY NT"(the horror, not so much NT, but BUYING IT). I told the professor that I didn't have the means to do so and to his credit he accepted linux/unix versions of equivalent projects for the NT assignments. I attempted the NT, but found that for even an NT fork() there were about 10 parameters to be passed. Most were for the GUI and could be eliminated, but there were about 3 that weren't. I was completely confused. fork() doesn't need parameters.
What I learned from this approach is that operating systems should be taught at both levels, theoretical and practical. The theory and practice should coincide, and that OS theory has little to do with window placement, border sizes, and adding these things only confuses students. I guess the final thought in all of this is that it is best for an OS class to use an OS based on the theory that it teaches, *nix, Linux, a BSD or derivative so that the theory blends best with the practical. Using a Free OS just makes it easier on the students, especially those that can't make it to the lab all day because they work.
I read this editorial and while I can't say that I've never wondered why more women aren't involved in geekdom/linux/computers/software/whatever, I've never really cared.
When I work, I want to get the job done. If you happen to be a woman and can help me, good. Not once have I used my penis to solve a computer related problem. Recruiting women (or anybody for that matter) into this 'geek' population to get a 'woman's' perspective is absurd. Define a woman's perspective. Is it creative? There are plenty of creative, artsy males out there. Whole sites devoted to theming and skinning and art. What's a woman gonna add to that? Different favorite colors? Is a woman's perspective big picture, little picture, half picture, agressive, submissive, managerial, detail oriented, etc., etc.? I can see the only real relevance to getting women into the community is to give us compulsive obsessive men something to obsess about that is made of good old flesh, not metal and silicon.
Forget about getting women into the geekhood. Get geeks into geekhood. If they're women, good. If they're men, good. They just have to be 'geeks'. It does nobody any good to place a woman on the team if she can't contribute. It's idiotic.
Maybe this wasn't so clear, so I'll sum up... Geeks need geeks to make geek things happen. Men need women and vice versa, when it's time to be human.
I'm not sure where you are located, but if there is a well off school district in your area, they might be looking to get rid of some old equipment. Sometimes they look to GIVE it away and just want somebody to take it. I just lucked out and picked up a $100 HP 4si as it was being THROWN AWAY simply because it was too old. Threw on a JetDirect, another $50, or even less if you find a vendor that wants to dump the JetDirects that don't do NDS (think Local University Computer Store). Good Luck.
Caldera makes a real good product. Forget about their pretty installer, the thing that makes Caldera a real nice distribution are the NDS tools that it includes. Being able to play with Netware 4 and 5 boxes is probably one thing that would help all distributions. I know that we've seen quite a bit of it in the last few months, but I'm always glad to see someone deserving get some cash to help keep doing the good work.
I guess while I plug the Caldera NDS tools, I need to ask a question. I've seen Netware boxes with 1 year uptimes. They have proven dependable and completely functional. Why is it that Netware doesn't get more attention? Has Netware and all of it's interoperablity become the "thing that we hide in the back room? I'd sure like to see a continued focus on Netware interoperability and less worry about NT, especially in Linux.
It would appear that everybody is getting themselves ready to defend their home. I don't think that this is the way to go. I'll be preparing for the millenium by being amongst the people, and if they start to act up, I'll take care of them before they get to where I live. For any of you looking to gain an advantage with guns... I will now take this opportunity to question your manhood. Eventually it's gonna come down to blunt force trauma. Kudos to the/. gang for choosing snow shovels, I for one will use my indominatble will... I am the most powerful man in the universe.
Perhaps I'm just a little mistaken on the concept, but why would you need Internet ready Appliances? I believe that network ready appliances would be wonderful. The ability to monitor everything as it goes would up productivity greatly, at least for me. Having my TV be able to tell me that the oven has reached the desired temperature, or even a central panel that indicates great temperature changes in the refrigerator. This would be really cool for me, but the Internet? It's not necessary for Maytag to monitor these things from a remote office.
I guess what I want is a more intelligent X10, and not multiple gateways into my life for the manufacturers whose products I have purchased. If you've seen it, the commercial where the repairman shows up at a house and tells the owner that the refigerator is "about to have a problem" freaks me out.
He built all of the cool stuff that the hero couldn't live without. Underappreciated, but never expendable. 85 in a head on car crash. Looks like he didn't stop living 'til his heart stopped.
The department I work for uses the names of computers found in movies, and books for the Netware servers. Preferably evil ones and obscure, HAL would be real boring. I don't read anything by O'reilly so I'm of little use. I prefer to use weapons for Linux servers at work. morningstar, rapier, claymore... emphasis on blunt force trauma. fistofrage coming soon. my home consists of fuedal themes, with some odd ones for roommates. darklord - main workstation, darkknight - firewall/masq server, jester(darkdaze) - NT server, quake - offtheme, but necessary, my roommates have stupid computer names. So I recommend, weapons, predatory animals, just remember OWLS not hooters
I am a speaker of the english language, as are many of you. I wish you all success with your speech and other forms of communication. However it has come to my attention that many (if not all) of you are infringing upon my trademarks.
Early in my first year I gained the rights to such phonetical noises as ma-ma and "P-I-E pie". Later in my development I began to use such parts of speech as verbs and nouns. Recognizing these as keys to profit, I trademarked those as well as any pattern matching [a-zA-Z0-9]* . Fear not, I am not attempting to trademark the entire English language and character set, that would mean hampering my communications with you.
I cheerfully relinquish the trademark rights to
Pronouns
The Articles
The verbs is, as, are, were, been, and does
Conjunctions
The prepositions of and for
Individuals may use their birthnames without penalty
I believe that the vocabulary that I have listed is sufficient for most daily communication.
Me is and are of and with I but for you, John F. Hurst
I'm glad that maddog's book/pamphlet was free, I don't think I'll be using cash with these guys.
Is not that DNA could be patented, I think that it's ridiculous notion. I just can't wait for the argument that arises when the Religious Zealots, creationists, and the Kansas School Board start to protest based on the "Lord having the patent". Let's hope that they're money and rightousness don't halt the projects all together.
go ahead and strip down a window manager to it's basics. AfterStep was easy enough to do that with. Leave a button for closing the app on the window. Then go ahead and write a little program, using some real basic graphics library that has pictures and text descriptions. One of the big things in doing this is to make it REAL simple. You want the user to be able to do ONLY what needs doin'. I wrote something in Xforms for a student lab once that is very similar to what you'd want. I'll give you the source if you want it, but it's UGLY.
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I'm treading real close to this being a rant about stupid users, maybe I've crossed that line and lost sight of the topic, so now, I regroup.
Getting linux to the desktop is as simple as getting some major(lots of employees) companies to use it. The users, will buy they're next computer to be just like the one at work. ...
"I want a challenge I can do."
Users and people in general make decisions with regards to what they know about and lets them think the least. The overwhelming tone of the article was and I'll paraphrase Lisa Simpson
Not sure if this has anything to do with what you're doing as MySQL is an entirely different product than PostgreSQL, and you may be trying to avoid it based on its own well documented pitfalls/features/etc.
The URL for the story on setting up MySQL replication is: http://www.phpbuilder.com/co lum ns/tanoviceanu20000912.php3.
Hope it helps.
I've done this myself, and without starting a flame war, I've found that the easiest setup was achieved using RedHat. Their piranha tools make things easier and since the servers came with RedHat, I didn't have to waste too much time, nor did I have to drop a couple thousand dollars for their cluster distro, it all comes in the general distribution. During research for this project I read quite a bit about the TurboLinux distribution. The internals aren't much more than lvs, but the price tag scares you away (not that you couldn't do it with a stock TL and LVS, but to use their special distro it costs ... just like RedHat's. You're not really paying for the software, but rather the tech support). Whatever you decide, keep in mind a few things ..
1. Any distro can do it.
2. When you get the cluster up, do what you can to keep the distro/OS in the cluster the same. You'll save yourself a good bit of headaches in administration and make using the weighted algorithims a reality (ex: NT won't respond to the uptime, or ruptime polling requests, so you're stuck with the static weight that you assigned read the HOWTO for more).
3. If you are using lvs, use direct routing. It's fast.
Why not just ask for tax breaks and offer to train Americans? Nothing against people from countries, but this whole visa for foreign workers smells of sweatshop labor. Instead of putting a factory in the US and paying minimum wage, let's put it elsewhere and pay nothing ... or ... US
programmers won't work for $30k, but somebody
else will.
I think that the idea of a peddling mechanism is a good one to start. My uncles had one from the 70's, no real way to interface them, but they fit in front of a chair and pedalled as fast as you like. The resistance was provided by a wing nut and a washer tightening the connection between the support and the pedalling mech. Anyway, I think that the devices exist, but in the long run ...
Back away from the keyboard. Muscles need room to move. You won't get any real cardio/fat burning effect until you make all the big muscles work real hard doing real world things. I agree with lifting weights as a good place to start. It builds muscle and that helps burn fat. It also doesn't hurt too much cardiovascularly. A good weightlifting session doesn't leave you miserably out of breath, but breathing hard and sweating good. After that gets comfortable, a couple of minutes (5, 10, 15 to start) on an excercise bike mixed in and then the hardest part ... eating better. I think the first thing that can be done to help the transition is to drink water instead of soft drinks. Not exclusively mind you ... that would be suicidal, but cut soda back to dinner and lunch and if you drink, try to save it for the weekends.
As soon as I find the key to this eating right thing, I'll tell the world. I can't claim to be an expert, but if you want a pretty good starting point in a weightlifting/resistance training program, go ahead and e-mail me. I might be able to help. Good luck.
I work at a university in DC, and just recently the students moved out for the summer. In an effort to lighten their luggage some threw away computers. Full machines. Some in various states of disarray, one was a perfectly good powermac. The office that I'm in is in the basement of a residence hall, so we interact with housekeeping on a regular basis. The housekeeping staff represents what I think is a representative of the population. They are people trying to do their job and get by. They know computers are expensive. and when they see them being thrown away they gather them and asked me if they are any good. When they find out that they are, their next question is invariably what can I do with it?
Computers make little difference in the ordinary person's life right now. Beyond the scope of work(whether it be coding or memo writing) and game playing there is no real enhancement to an average persons life. You get home from work, you watch some TV, maybe a good movie is on tonight. They don't see the sense in teaching themselves how to use a computer, which is two steps from witchcraft anyway, when they can pop in a perfectly good videotape for entertainment and watch the news to see what's happening in the world.
Until computers become as easy to use as the television and radio then they will continue to be limited to work and technofile/wannabe technofile use.
This feels rather peculiar, more corporate doublespeak? Or am I wrong about the labelmate status of Bizkit, Dre, and Metallica?
Now I have a question that might be a bit off-topic, but please bear with me: ... It's legal to have, but you can only use it for personal use, or It's illegal since the person initiating the stream was only supposed to be using it for personal use.
If someone broadcasts their MP3 collection, and you listen to the stream and record it, are you legally allowed to have that MP3? I guess the two sides of this argument are really
Looking back, I believe that ADA is a good language to learn for a first language. Just like being forced to take grammar and phonics in grade school. The teachers force you to speak properly during class, but you find more concise and effective communication possible when you talk with your friends using slang, vernacular, etc. You speak formally when you are trying to prove something, or be academic, but to get work done, you don't wish to be bothered with the formallities. I think that's ADAs biggest problem.
Either that or the fact that the ADA standard wasn't changed until 1995, well after other languages gained momentum and wide spread acceptance in the academic community.
Anyway, I read this over on OSOpinion ... but could MS's implanting of Outlook in nearly everything actually be more damaging than their inclusion of IE in DOS?
The High availability cluster is something else entirely. These clusters are not built for speed, but rather reliability and distributed load bearing. It usually means a group of machines that behave to the user as if they are one. Kind of like a certain major website that we're on. You generally have one or two traffic servers whose job is to send requests to the computer that meets certain criteria. Perhaps you want load balancing web servers. The traffic computers would send some requests to one server, some other requests to the other server, and so on based on some predetermined criteria. It can also be used to make sure no requests go to a dead machine. There is some real good information on this out there, but the most easily digestible is probably at TurboLinux and their High Availability Cluster solution and RedHat with their Piranha solutions.
I know that was oversimplified, but I hope that it helps.
During a track meet, the race is to the finish line, along a specified path. They do not give the prize to the runner that takes a shortcut, that wasn't the contest. If you win by modifying an online game, what did you win? Certainly not the game everyone else was playing.
For those that say that the disparity in hardware and ping configurations force some to hack a game to get a "level playing field" I reply "NO!". I offer you an example. I play rugby. I am slow. My 350 pounds does not move as quickly as some(any) of the lighter players. In order for me to be a factor, I have to work harder. It means that when not playing the game, I must attempt to get faster. I cannot simply make the referee have everyone jog at my pace. What kind of game is that? Take away someone's advantage so that I can do better. It is more satisfying to find their weakness and exploit it and any and every opportunity that I can, as they run around me when afforded the chance, so must I drive them into the ground when I tackle them. For online gaming
I do not agree with companies policing hard disks, or processes, but would like to see some kind of referee system that makes sure all of the rules are abided to. It would be real nice if online games were like playground sports, where rules were agreed upon and no officiating was necessary because if a rule was broken it was well known and most of the time a result of bad luck on a hard play. If there is a disagreement, the dispute is settled quickly.
Both of you make good points, supporting LinDVD is helping the MPAA, and at the same time helping Linux. I was fired up about buying this software until I read this thread
I really want DVDs on Linux, so I might just buy it
What I learned from this approach is that operating systems should be taught at both levels, theoretical and practical. The theory and practice should coincide, and that OS theory has little to do with window placement, border sizes, and adding these things only confuses students. I guess the final thought in all of this is that it is best for an OS class to use an OS based on the theory that it teaches, *nix, Linux, a BSD or derivative so that the theory blends best with the practical. Using a Free OS just makes it easier on the students, especially those that can't make it to the lab all day because they work.
When I work, I want to get the job done. If you happen to be a woman and can help me, good. Not once have I used my penis to solve a computer related problem. Recruiting women (or anybody for that matter) into this 'geek' population to get a 'woman's' perspective is absurd. Define a woman's perspective. Is it creative? There are plenty of creative, artsy males out there. Whole sites devoted to theming and skinning and art. What's a woman gonna add to that? Different favorite colors? Is a woman's perspective big picture, little picture, half picture, agressive, submissive, managerial, detail oriented, etc., etc.? I can see the only real relevance to getting women into the community is to give us compulsive obsessive men something to obsess about that is made of good old flesh, not metal and silicon.
Forget about getting women into the geekhood. Get geeks into geekhood. If they're women, good. If they're men, good. They just have to be 'geeks'. It does nobody any good to place a woman on the team if she can't contribute. It's idiotic.
Maybe this wasn't so clear, so I'll sum up ...
Geeks need geeks to make geek things happen. Men need women and vice versa, when it's time to be human.
I just lucked out and picked up a $100 HP 4si as it was being THROWN AWAY simply because it was too old. Threw on a JetDirect, another $50, or even less if you find a vendor that wants to dump the JetDirects that don't do NDS (think Local University Computer Store). Good Luck.
I guess while I plug the Caldera NDS tools, I need to ask a question. I've seen Netware boxes with 1 year uptimes. They have proven dependable and completely functional. Why is it that Netware doesn't get more attention? Has Netware and all of it's interoperablity become the "thing that we hide in the back room? I'd sure like to see a continued focus on Netware interoperability and less worry about NT, especially in Linux.
I'm still alive.
My 'puter still works.
If the world has ended, somebody tell
me in the morning.
If nothing happens
Perhaps I'm just a little mistaken on the concept, but why would you need Internet ready Appliances? I believe that network ready appliances would be wonderful. The ability to monitor everything as it goes would up productivity greatly, at least for me. Having my TV be able to tell me that the oven has reached the desired temperature, or even a central panel that indicates great temperature changes in the refrigerator. This would be really cool for me, but the Internet? It's not necessary for Maytag to monitor these things from a remote office.
I guess what I want is a more intelligent X10, and not multiple gateways into my life for the manufacturers whose products I have purchased. If you've seen it, the commercial where the repairman shows up at a house and tells the owner that the refigerator is "about to have a problem" freaks me out.
85 in a head on car crash. Looks like he didn't stop living 'til his heart stopped.
The department I work for uses the names of computers found in movies, and books for the Netware servers. Preferably evil ones and obscure, HAL would be real boring. I don't read anything by O'reilly so I'm of little use. ... emphasis on blunt force trauma. fistofrage coming soon.
I prefer to use weapons for Linux servers at work. morningstar, rapier, claymore
my home consists of fuedal themes, with some odd ones for roommates. darklord - main workstation, darkknight - firewall/masq server, jester(darkdaze) - NT server, quake - offtheme, but necessary, my roommates have stupid computer names. So I recommend,
weapons, predatory animals, just remember OWLS not hooters
Early in my first year I gained the rights to such phonetical noises as ma-ma and "P-I-E pie". Later in my development I began to use such parts of speech as verbs and nouns. Recognizing these as keys to profit, I trademarked those as well as any pattern matching [a-zA-Z0-9]* . Fear not, I am not attempting to trademark the entire English language and character set, that would mean hampering my communications with you.
I cheerfully relinquish the trademark rights to
- Pronouns
- The Articles
- The verbs is, as, are, were, been, and does
- Conjunctions
- The prepositions of and for
- Individuals may use their birthnames without penalty
I believe that the vocabulary that I have listed is sufficient for most daily communication.Me is and are of and with I but for you,
John F. Hurst
I'm glad that maddog's book/pamphlet was free, I don't think I'll be using cash with these guys.
Is not that DNA could be patented, I think that
it's ridiculous notion. I just can't wait for
the argument that arises when the Religious Zealots, creationists, and the Kansas School Board start to protest based on the "Lord having the patent". Let's hope that they're money and rightousness don't halt the projects all together.
go ahead and strip down a window manager to it's basics. AfterStep was easy enough to do that with. Leave a button for closing the app on the window. Then go ahead and write a little program, using some real basic graphics library that has pictures and text descriptions.
One of the big things in doing this is to make it REAL simple. You want the user to be able to do ONLY what needs doin'. I wrote something in Xforms for a student lab once that is very similar to what you'd want. I'll give you the source if you want it, but it's UGLY.