ac users don't have much if any choice about what OS they use. Use what you have installed on the system from the factory or buy OSX. Yeah, that's real choice.....
Or install *BSD, various flavors of Linux, or, via emulation, any version of Windows, as well as any other x86 OS.
My college's Writing Center is Mac. Users have the choice of booting into OSX or Mandrake Linux.
I just purchased a lab of eMacs (built in monitors) for $750 a machine. With my remote management software, I can image the lab in an hour but don't have to. This lab is replacing an older Mac lab that went in in '95. The old Macs lasted 9 years, with just OS updates over that time. The biggest problem with this lab was hard drives and monitors dying. These machines started out with 8MB RAM/230MB HDs and ended up with 128MB/4GB HD's. Yes, they topped out with OS 9.2 and Office 98 but our college pushes RTF format for documents. Oh yeah, these Macs cost $2300 each, new but I think we got our money out of them. The PC lab next door has gone through three upgrades in the last 10 years and still requires it's own tech while I handle all the Mac labs, staff, faculty and student Macs ('prox 300) by myself. OSX has made this even easier.
As we have updated the faculty/staff Macs this past year, I averaged $930/Mac. This includes G5 Macs, an Xserve (cost as much as my 33MHz Quadra 650 10 years ago) and several laptops. The average price for Dell workstations was just over $1000.
This last year, my school (small private college) just upgraded every Mac, 300MHz and lower. The majority of users got $750.00 eMacs. Yeah, it was a pain, humping those 60 lb beasts around campus, but once in place, life has been easy. The only calls from the labs have been reports of stolen mice, the only printing problem was a bad port in a switch, causing a printer to drop off. Even the school newspaper, averaging several calls a week was silent once they got their OSX machines in. A couple of graphic designers in the business office still need frequent help but they keep using Pagemaker (OS9 only app) and having OS9 related problems. The other two designers (and the newspaper), have moved on to InDesign (OSX) and have smooth sailing.
I've already discussed with the boss, the idea of setting up a small video production lab and getting some training in video editing. My workload is light enough that I can now take on other projects. Cool!
Macs and *NIX have this. Just configure users to have a home directory mounted wherever they log on.
Even cooler would be to have any computer you walk up to log you on and mount your home directory from your 1TB keychain drive, via Ultra-Bluetooth. Wait, you haven't reached 1TB keychain drives yet? What year is this? Stoopid Timequest directions!
I bought an iMac 3 days ago and now it's a discontinued piece of obsolescence!? Oh well, it's not mine. I just purchase what the user wants. Still, wouldn't mind having one at home, for the wife to use (for the internet, you sick pervs!).
I like my women like my beer, stored in the cellar until needed.
...a '70 Impala with a big block Chevy motor, you insensitive clod! The gas gauge doesn't work and the speedometer runs about 10 mph over actual speed. I just have to guess when it's time to fill up. Every third gas station seems to work for me. I never have to put in more than 20 gallons of 93 octane each stop!
I buy a new phone. I power it up and it asks for some kind of personal ID info. This might be SSN in the US, driver license number, or a domain name (phone3.bigmeat.com). With all your phones set to that domain name, your home server (or ISP) will forward to whichever phone detects your on-body bluetooth emitter (or RFID tad). All a person has to do, to add someone to their address book is enter an email name and then press the talk button to call them, as opposed to the text button, to email them. The phone has some kind of MAC address but unless you're a network admin, you'll never know it.
Our med-evac unit was originally planned to be within an Army or Marine firebase, ala Vietnam. Desert Storm turned into such a fast moving battle that we were kinda' left hanging out on our own. We were supposed to only have the revolvers but once it became clear that we were going to be responsible for sight security, food, power, etc, we all donned multiple hats. don't know just where they found the M-16's for us but one would think that they hadn't seen the light of day since 1966.
I got out about a year after Desert Storm and haven't heard how they changed the tactics for use of the Air Evac units.
When I was over in Saudi, for Desert Storm, we had the original M-16's issued to us, with no forward assist. You had one shot and then a rather fragile baseball bat. We also had our.38 Special revolvers. I guess we could shoot ourselves if we were overrun. Gotta' love life in the Air Force Reserves.
Except that, with acceleration, there is a weight transfer to the rear, making rear wheel drive cars ideal for straight line performance.
Ideally, a car would be mid-engined like CART/Indy racers. Had a friend who took a Chevy Corvair, removed the backseat and 176ci engine and installed a 327ci 'Vette engine in it.The car was almost perfectly balanced and could accelerate and handle like a modern car costing four times as much.
As for shooting engineers, of course, they know so much less than us slashdot readers.
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Dialing-For-Dollars? It was on back in the 60's and 70's.
ac users don't have much if any choice about what OS they use. Use what you have installed on the system from the factory or buy OSX. Yeah, that's real choice.....
Or install *BSD, various flavors of Linux, or, via emulation, any version of Windows, as well as any other x86 OS.
My college's Writing Center is Mac. Users have the choice of booting into OSX or Mandrake Linux.
We push RTF file format. Makes things much easier (unless you're trying to do page layout in Word-have fun 8-P).
I just purchased a lab of eMacs (built in monitors) for $750 a machine. With my remote management software, I can image the lab in an hour but don't have to. This lab is replacing an older Mac lab that went in in '95. The old Macs lasted 9 years, with just OS updates over that time. The biggest problem with this lab was hard drives and monitors dying. These machines started out with 8MB RAM/230MB HDs and ended up with 128MB/4GB HD's. Yes, they topped out with OS 9.2 and Office 98 but our college pushes RTF format for documents. Oh yeah, these Macs cost $2300 each, new but I think we got our money out of them. The PC lab next door has gone through three upgrades in the last 10 years and still requires it's own tech while I handle all the Mac labs, staff, faculty and student Macs ('prox 300) by myself. OSX has made this even easier.
As we have updated the faculty/staff Macs this past year, I averaged $930/Mac. This includes G5 Macs, an Xserve (cost as much as my 33MHz Quadra 650 10 years ago) and several laptops. The average price for Dell workstations was just over $1000.
Fark.com is pretty quick on the uptake.
This last year, my school (small private college) just upgraded every Mac, 300MHz and lower. The majority of users got $750.00 eMacs. Yeah, it was a pain, humping those 60 lb beasts around campus, but once in place, life has been easy. The only calls from the labs have been reports of stolen mice, the only printing problem was a bad port in a switch, causing a printer to drop off. Even the school newspaper, averaging several calls a week was silent once they got their OSX machines in. A couple of graphic designers in the business office still need frequent help but they keep using Pagemaker (OS9 only app) and having OS9 related problems. The other two designers (and the newspaper), have moved on to InDesign (OSX) and have smooth sailing.
I've already discussed with the boss, the idea of setting up a small video production lab and getting some training in video editing. My workload is light enough that I can now take on other projects. Cool!
asdf@asdf.com with a zip code of 12345.
applesux@microsoft.com?
dashit@microsoft.com?
So yes, sensible corporations have been listening.
Do the women wear sensible shoes there?
Macs and *NIX have this. Just configure users to have a home directory mounted wherever they log on.
Even cooler would be to have any computer you walk up to log you on and mount your home directory from your 1TB keychain drive, via Ultra-Bluetooth. Wait, you haven't reached 1TB keychain drives yet? What year is this? Stoopid Timequest directions!
I bought an iMac 3 days ago and now it's a discontinued piece of obsolescence!? Oh well, it's not mine. I just purchase what the user wants. Still, wouldn't mind having one at home, for the wife to use (for the internet, you sick pervs!).
I like my women like my beer, stored in the cellar until needed.
Wish I had a spare $25k lying around to spend at Summit and another $25k on wood working tools. Life would be cool. I read Fark for the boobie links.
...a '70 Impala with a big block Chevy motor, you insensitive clod! The gas gauge doesn't work and the speedometer runs about 10 mph over actual speed. I just have to guess when it's time to fill up. Every third gas station seems to work for me. I never have to put in more than 20 gallons of 93 octane each stop!
I buy a new phone. I power it up and it asks for some kind of personal ID info. This might be SSN in the US, driver license number, or a domain name (phone3.bigmeat.com). With all your phones set to that domain name, your home server (or ISP) will forward to whichever phone detects your on-body bluetooth emitter (or RFID tad). All a person has to do, to add someone to their address book is enter an email name and then press the talk button to call them, as opposed to the text button, to email them. The phone has some kind of MAC address but unless you're a network admin, you'll never know it.
Is Canada that big island northwest of Iceland?
UKOL? Would they use a small Hawaiian guitar for their logo?
Our med-evac unit was originally planned to be within an Army or Marine firebase, ala Vietnam. Desert Storm turned into such a fast moving battle that we were kinda' left hanging out on our own. We were supposed to only have the revolvers but once it became clear that we were going to be responsible for sight security, food, power, etc, we all donned multiple hats. don't know just where they found the M-16's for us but one would think that they hadn't seen the light of day since 1966.
I got out about a year after Desert Storm and haven't heard how they changed the tactics for use of the Air Evac units.
I just bumped my b/w G3 up to 450MHz G4. Woot. Now I'm playing with power.
When I was over in Saudi, for Desert Storm, we had the original M-16's issued to us, with no forward assist. You had one shot and then a rather fragile baseball bat. We also had our .38 Special revolvers. I guess we could shoot ourselves if we were overrun. Gotta' love life in the Air Force Reserves.
Hmm...Air Force has the ICBMs, too. SAC-Peace is our profession (war is our trade).
I thought he was Sir Points-out-the-obivous-alot?
GMail!
PHPOsxom
Pogs are over? Oh man!
Except that, with acceleration, there is a weight transfer to the rear, making rear wheel drive cars ideal for straight line performance.
Ideally, a car would be mid-engined like CART/Indy racers. Had a friend who took a Chevy Corvair, removed the backseat and 176ci engine and installed a 327ci 'Vette engine in it.The car was almost perfectly balanced and could accelerate and handle like a modern car costing four times as much.
As for shooting engineers, of course, they know so much less than us slashdot readers.