Yes...we have a big fat pipe...well bigger than a home users at least.
And P2P was eating it all up. Now anything that gets classified as P2P (Kazaa, Morpheus, etc) for the whole campus (faculty, staff and students) gets a combined bandwidth of 28.8k. Instant Messenger programs are limited to 100k (after all, it *should* just be text - though some video I guess could be there, but not rampant file swapping).
Since BitTorrent has a little more real use (Linux ISO's, slashdoted sites) it gets a little more freedom.
Why? Not because we feel bad for the RIAA or anything like that - but legit work could not be done due to a clogged pipe. Students and staff seem to think our connection is there for them to suck down stuff like crazy.
We tried being nice, we tried saying please, but nope.
I've not played with Linux on VM. However, from what I understand it is a sweet thing.
I have played with other OS's running under VM. IBM knows what they are doing in that field.
Combine the two, and I think you have something that should work well. However, I'd weigh the costs. I would think it would a good thing to do if you already have a z-box laying around that has some space cycles. However, I would think that a stack of Dell's or something would be cheaper than buying the IBM equipment.
Part of the reason. That and the pay-to-play ones.
Myself, I think one of the main reasons that it flopped is the requirement to have a phone line for it. Most people don't have a phone line by where their cable comes in, where the entertainment center is, where the DVD player is.
Tell them no, and then start on it and try to get it done before the person goes over your head and management, wanting to be everyones friend, says yes to it despite overwhelming odds (ie. so what if it involves interstellar travel - our department needs to look good) or without hearing your reasons for saying no (because that Mac software technically won't run on our Windows network).
That way you look like you can get things done in a hurry. Looks good come evaluation time.
There is no MS only product policy. Lots of people run Linux. Profs in the IT department run Linux servers. Almost half the campus servers are Linux. There is even a local debian mirror.
However support resources are finite. Usually people running Linux can support themselves. As long as people can get on the network, they should be able to do whatever. And there are quite a few people working at the help desk running Linux as well.
As for the selections of software and other programs, part of it may be the aluded to buddy-system like book dealers and profs. Part of it (the buggy uniprint, which has a stupid design flaw making it trivial to bypass) are because there are not a large number of products to choose from for some of these solutions.
I am not saying it's perfect, but it is hardly the MS stormtrooper filled place you paint it as.
Have you tried doing astrophotography with your Dob? If you're into that, the autoguided SCT's are much better. And you don't need the instant brightness as the film/ccd keeps accumulating photons over time.
THough it is funny watching the alignment people. I've seen people spend so much time getting it aligned that when they punch in something, the battery is already dead. And even though they can manually move it, they have no clue how to find anything because the computer does it all for them.
We try to do the community outreach stuff. We hold observings at schools and stuff.
Everyone that has approached us seems to think that they must view Mars on the 27th...as if it's gonna be so much closer than on the 28th or Sept, etc... It's really pushing the limits of our very good natured "P.R." guy.
But it did look nice the other night...much better than last year.
The simple answer is to open multiple streams on multiple computers...go into work on Monday morning looking frazzled because you just saw and heard everything the BBC did in 1954 over the weekend:)
I live in the US and if I had a chance to pay to get a BBC feed, I'd do it in a minute. BBC America is there, but it is kinda a joke really. Seems it's all Ground Force, Chaning Rooms and the like. (Sad thing is that BBC America is now showing Ground Force America - kinda defeats the purpose)
The show with the pictuer of the fallen Madonna with the big boobies? I saw a few seasons of this in the 80's and have been longing to see it again. In many ways better than Are You Being Served?
Of course, all the Lenny Henry stuff will be cool...though the Dr. Who section will be my main target.
Did something similar once...had my e-mail (from and subject) come to my text pager. I was in a hurry to leave because I had to drive my wife to her school 1.5 hours away. On the way there something went wrong with my quickly implemented code, and a mail loop developed. Every few seconds the pager was going off. By the time we got to the school and I jacked in, I had about 12000 message from MAILER-DAEMON. Fortunatly it was dialing out over a modem to send the message and if the pager wasn't on, the message just went into the air.
Yup...any strings I buy for my bass or guitar will now be Ernie Ball - sadly with the amount I play, that amounts to about $20 of business to them over a 5 year period.
I have not gotten a single one of these. (Mailscanner/f-secure?) My office mate however has been getting tons of them - they don't have the virus though - someone's machine has been scanning, cleaning, and then sending them on.
Uh...both of those movies tanked, well before e-mail and texting were big? Why...for the same reason as Gigli - hey...we got an actor/actress people know - they'll make any script golden.
I guess they don't realize that we are not mindless cattle waiting for whatever they decide to release upon us with dollars in hand.
Or could it just be the lack of responsibility - they can't accept the fact the movie they backed was doomed and should have never been made. Must be the same reason that Hanson CD's aren't selling - it's not that it's bad quailty, it's that damn word-of-mouth, the same reason other CD's are selling and those pesky non-major-company movies and indie bands are growing.
I had a palm, and when I got rid of it I tried to get off all the palm mailing lists. I still got spam after spam no matter how many times I logged in to change my profile "if I no longer wanted the e-mails."
I guess that too many people have blocked *.palm.com so they need something new to spam from.
I haven't bought much off ebay, but in the last 4 months, I've bought some comics, a motherboard, several action figures, and one or two other items. Not had a problem...yet.
But I do know that everytime I decide to bid, I get this sinking feeling that I'm gonna get scammed...not a good feeling for "customer" of ebay to have!
A few years ago they deregulated the gas industry in Georgia. Instead of having one company that ran the gas lines, provided the service and read the meter, you now have lots of companies to choose from.
The idea is that prices will go down because of competition.
Well...I'm not sure about the actual gas prices, but my gas bill used to be $8 in the summer...now it's $22 - the price of gas may not have changed, but now there is a couple of charges that all companies make - meter reading fee and gas-pass thru charge which come to about $15. Why?
Because that one company still maintains everything, provides the gas - however, all these companies get to do is read your meter and bill you.
So, nothing changed at all in the gas infrastructure, just the billing. Otherwise there would need to be a gas line for each company going to each house for true competition.
I'm sure power is the same way...one (aging) infrastructure providing the power and everyone else reading the meter.
not to mention order coming down from administration that it is an inconvienance and should not be done due to that one person that complained.
We recently enforced something that will check your machine for critical security updates and apply them if not on there. Even though (via travelling laptops) this blaster had gotten inside our firewall, he wanted to wait a day or two so we could make sure everyone saw an e-mail explaining what was going on - in much less clear words than the popup box that came up.
Slashdot Mirror
I personally reckon the BBC is probably the only thing that has stopped us decending to the unfortunate state the US has found itself in.
:)
Sitting here in the US listening to BBC 1, 3 and 7. I'm doing my best
Yes...we have a big fat pipe...well bigger than a home users at least.
And P2P was eating it all up. Now anything that gets classified as P2P (Kazaa, Morpheus, etc) for the whole campus (faculty, staff and students) gets a combined bandwidth of 28.8k. Instant Messenger programs are limited to 100k (after all, it *should* just be text - though some video I guess could be there, but not rampant file swapping).
Since BitTorrent has a little more real use (Linux ISO's, slashdoted sites) it gets a little more freedom.
Why? Not because we feel bad for the RIAA or anything like that - but legit work could not be done due to a clogged pipe. Students and staff seem to think our connection is there for them to suck down stuff like crazy.
We tried being nice, we tried saying please, but nope.
Great Stink of London
ISBN: 0750919752
Details all of the above. Is a quite good book...very interesting.
I've not played with Linux on VM. However, from what I understand it is a sweet thing.
I have played with other OS's running under VM. IBM knows what they are doing in that field.
Combine the two, and I think you have something that should work well. However, I'd weigh the costs. I would think it would a good thing to do if you already have a z-box laying around that has some space cycles. However, I would think that a stack of Dell's or something would be cheaper than buying the IBM equipment.
Part of the reason. That and the pay-to-play ones.
Myself, I think one of the main reasons that it flopped is the requirement to have a phone line for it. Most people don't have a phone line by where their cable comes in, where the entertainment center is, where the DVD player is.
Tell them no, and then start on it and try to get it done before the person goes over your head and management, wanting to be everyones friend, says yes to it despite overwhelming odds (ie. so what if it involves interstellar travel - our department needs to look good) or without hearing your reasons for saying no (because that Mac software technically won't run on our Windows network).
That way you look like you can get things done in a hurry. Looks good come evaluation time.
There is no MS only product policy. Lots of people run Linux. Profs in the IT department run Linux servers. Almost half the campus servers are Linux. There is even a local debian mirror.
However support resources are finite. Usually people running Linux can support themselves. As long as people can get on the network, they should be able to do whatever. And there are quite a few people working at the help desk running Linux as well.
As for the selections of software and other programs, part of it may be the aluded to buddy-system like book dealers and profs. Part of it (the buggy uniprint, which has a stupid design flaw making it trivial to bypass) are because there are not a large number of products to choose from for some of these solutions.
I am not saying it's perfect, but it is hardly the MS stormtrooper filled place you paint it as.
Have you tried doing astrophotography with your Dob? If you're into that, the autoguided SCT's are much better. And you don't need the instant brightness as the film/ccd keeps accumulating photons over time.
THough it is funny watching the alignment people. I've seen people spend so much time getting it aligned that when they punch in something, the battery is already dead. And even though they can manually move it, they have no clue how to find anything because the computer does it all for them.
Well, with my optura pi, at about 5x, Jupiter would start showing as a disc, so it could have been.
Still doesn't look as nice as my 10" scope which was nowhere as nice as a friends 14" with the filters, $200 EP, etc...
We try to do the community outreach stuff. We hold observings at schools and stuff.
Everyone that has approached us seems to think that they must view Mars on the 27th...as if it's gonna be so much closer than on the 28th or Sept, etc... It's really pushing the limits of our very good natured "P.R." guy.
But it did look nice the other night...much better than last year.
The simple answer is to open multiple streams on multiple computers...go into work on Monday morning looking frazzled because you just saw and heard everything the BBC did in 1954 over the weekend :)
I live in the US and if I had a chance to pay to get a BBC feed, I'd do it in a minute. BBC America is there, but it is kinda a joke really. Seems it's all Ground Force, Chaning Rooms and the like. (Sad thing is that BBC America is now showing Ground Force America - kinda defeats the purpose)
The show with the pictuer of the fallen Madonna with the big boobies? I saw a few seasons of this in the 80's and have been longing to see it again. In many ways better than Are You Being Served?
Of course, all the Lenny Henry stuff will be cool...though the Dr. Who section will be my main target.
Did something similar once...had my e-mail (from and subject) come to my text pager. I was in a hurry to leave because I had to drive my wife to her school 1.5 hours away. On the way there something went wrong with my quickly implemented code, and a mail loop developed. Every few seconds the pager was going off. By the time we got to the school and I jacked in, I had about 12000 message from MAILER-DAEMON. Fortunatly it was dialing out over a modem to send the message and if the pager wasn't on, the message just went into the air.
Yup...any strings I buy for my bass or guitar will now be Ernie Ball - sadly with the amount I play, that amounts to about $20 of business to them over a 5 year period.
I have not gotten a single one of these. (Mailscanner/f-secure?) My office mate however has been getting tons of them - they don't have the virus though - someone's machine has been scanning, cleaning, and then sending them on.
Hilarious.
Uh...both of those movies tanked, well before e-mail and texting were big? Why...for the same reason as Gigli - hey...we got an actor/actress people know - they'll make any script golden.
I guess they don't realize that we are not mindless cattle waiting for whatever they decide to release upon us with dollars in hand.
Or could it just be the lack of responsibility - they can't accept the fact the movie they backed was doomed and should have never been made. Must be the same reason that Hanson CD's aren't selling - it's not that it's bad quailty, it's that damn word-of-mouth, the same reason other CD's are selling and those pesky non-major-company movies and indie bands are growing.
I had a palm, and when I got rid of it I tried to get off all the palm mailing lists. I still got spam after spam no matter how many times I logged in to change my profile "if I no longer wanted the e-mails."
:)
I guess that too many people have blocked *.palm.com so they need something new to spam from.
No...I'm not bitter
I haven't bought much off ebay, but in the last 4 months, I've bought some comics, a motherboard, several action figures, and one or two other items. Not had a problem...yet.
But I do know that everytime I decide to bid, I get this sinking feeling that I'm gonna get scammed...not a good feeling for "customer" of ebay to have!
A few years ago they deregulated the gas industry in Georgia. Instead of having one company that ran the gas lines, provided the service and read the meter, you now have lots of companies to choose from.
The idea is that prices will go down because of competition.
Well...I'm not sure about the actual gas prices, but my gas bill used to be $8 in the summer...now it's $22 - the price of gas may not have changed, but now there is a couple of charges that all companies make - meter reading fee and gas-pass thru charge which come to about $15. Why?
Because that one company still maintains everything, provides the gas - however, all these companies get to do is read your meter and bill you.
So, nothing changed at all in the gas infrastructure, just the billing. Otherwise there would need to be a gas line for each company going to each house for true competition.
I'm sure power is the same way...one (aging) infrastructure providing the power and everyone else reading the meter.
Read the book Manhattan Transfer by John E. Stith. In that book it is very trivial to move New York.
Good book too.
Ah...obviously you missed Phantom Menace, where R2's true origins and purpose is divulged.
:)
Or maybe you don't miss it
Just give them a minute for a slogan and PETA will get involved over the rabbit's rights.
Probably have one of their members change their name to Bunnyrights.com or something.
not to mention order coming down from administration that it is an inconvienance and should not be done due to that one person that complained.
We recently enforced something that will check your machine for critical security updates and apply them if not on there. Even though (via travelling laptops) this blaster had gotten inside our firewall, he wanted to wait a day or two so we could make sure everyone saw an e-mail explaining what was going on - in much less clear words than the popup box that came up.
For the longest time, FSF had the huge beef against apple for their look-and-feel stuff.
Is this really any different?
Or are we seeing the FSF maturing a bit now since it is not just RMS making all the shots.
?