I'd pay that just to have advertisements taken out of my daily TV...infact it's one of the main reasons I like the ReplayTV 4000-series, you can just have it skip the ads all-together.
And for those of you who enjoy commercial breaks so you can run and get more chips or ice cream...remember, you can always just pause it!
Yeah, I go to the University of Rochester also, and the only reason they, and Penn State even struck these deals is because UR's Provost, Charles Phelps, and PSU's president, both serve on the Technology Task Force of the Joint Committee along with members of the MPAA and RIAA. Oddly enough, Dave Lambert,
Vice President & CIO of Georgetown University, is also on this committee (see link).
The Napster offering is lame, the students cannot use it from home, nor can they play the teathered tracks without being connected to the network and logged into Napster. The streaming quality of 96kbps is pathetic, and most new albums and additions are buy-only, making the service almost completely useless. I'd rather listen to internet radio at a higher bitrate.
As far as limmited network traffic, it probably does work, because those people who would use Kazaa anyway would maybe like it, and since each school then buys a RAID array Napster Server to host the service on-site, less people will be wasting my bandwidth:-)
I work for ResNet at the University of Rochester and we recomend that all incomming students with PC's buy them with either Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional. We specifically would not like them to have XP Home as then they will not be able to VPN into the wireless network as well as other things. While we don't like Windows ME, we still allow users who already have it to continue to use it and will support it if any problems arise. In fact, if you have Linux and can't get the internet to work, we will help you out to the best of that consultants abilities. It's silly to limmit what operating systems users can use, especially for security reasons. When we had an outbreak of Klez and Nimda last year, we licensed Trend Micro for the entire campus and setup an online install for all students and then had the RA's do a hall program telling everyone who didn't already have an up-to-date antivirus to load Trend which updates itself automatically.
Instead of telling people they can't use an OS cuz it's insecure (even if it's not), they should educate their users on how to make it secure and then deal with those who are still at risk.
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And I had my hopes up for it being named Rupert :-(
I'd pay that just to have advertisements taken out of my daily TV...infact it's one of the main reasons I like the ReplayTV 4000-series, you can just have it skip the ads all-together.
And for those of you who enjoy commercial breaks so you can run and get more chips or ice cream...remember, you can always just pause it!
Yeah, I go to the University of Rochester also, and the only reason they, and Penn State even struck these deals is because UR's Provost, Charles Phelps, and PSU's president, both serve on the Technology Task Force of the Joint Committee along with members of the MPAA and RIAA. Oddly enough, Dave Lambert, Vice President & CIO of Georgetown University, is also on this committee (see link).
:-)
The Napster offering is lame, the students cannot use it from home, nor can they play the teathered tracks without being connected to the network and logged into Napster. The streaming quality of 96kbps is pathetic, and most new albums and additions are buy-only, making the service almost completely useless. I'd rather listen to internet radio at a higher bitrate. As far as limmited network traffic, it probably does work, because those people who would use Kazaa anyway would maybe like it, and since each school then buys a RAID array Napster Server to host the service on-site, less people will be wasting my bandwidth
Here's a mirror for ya (shouldn't go down either ;-)
I work for ResNet at the University of Rochester and we recomend that all incomming students with PC's buy them with either Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional. We specifically would not like them to have XP Home as then they will not be able to VPN into the wireless network as well as other things. While we don't like Windows ME, we still allow users who already have it to continue to use it and will support it if any problems arise. In fact, if you have Linux and can't get the internet to work, we will help you out to the best of that consultants abilities. It's silly to limmit what operating systems users can use, especially for security reasons. When we had an outbreak of Klez and Nimda last year, we licensed Trend Micro for the entire campus and setup an online install for all students and then had the RA's do a hall program telling everyone who didn't already have an up-to-date antivirus to load Trend which updates itself automatically.
Instead of telling people they can't use an OS cuz it's insecure (even if it's not), they should educate their users on how to make it secure and then deal with those who are still at risk.