What happens when your providers outbound gets trashed? What happens when your providers BGP peers decide to drop them, or someone cuts their fiberline to InterNAP? Multihoming to dual providers provides a level of redundancy not possible with a single provider - you get multiple backbone access points. And yes, it's expensive, but sometimes that cost is worth it (not everything is monetarily measurable - not every organization is a business).
Yeah - mozilla can work with these systems EASILY. IE is a different matter, because installing IE is different for every rev of windows (95OSRB,C,D, 98, 98SE, 2k, sp1/2/3/4/5/6etc). But mozilla should run just fine from a Snappshot.
You obviously don't deal with educational computer users. I work in a moderate school district ( 55 schools, 9000 staff) - when we changed from Wordperfect to Word, it was absolutely astonishing the number of users who got 'lost'. It's not that the concepts are different, it's the fact that these users don't learn CONCEPTS, they learn rote 'skills' and movements. Move one button away from where it is, and they get completely lost and call the helpdesk. So, no, concepts are easy, but changing 5 years of Rote SKill is difficult, and costly, both in terms of training and lost productivity.
Naval academy (and the armed forces in general) do not have the same constutional rights while on gov't property / in their facilities as other citizens. They cannot make disparaging remarks about politicians, and other such things we take for granted.
What a load of horse-shit. Technically inferior in what manner? If you 'had the time' to actually learn how the products worked, and what they were supposed to do, you couldn't make that statement.
Thanks for the help - that was really unexpected, given the volume of 'WTF does this thing mean? What's 'Keiretsu'? Why do we need another port scanner?'. Glad to see I'm not the only one who was really engrossed by AMAZING network theory work....The first 'innovative' stuff I've seen in this arena in a few years. WAY TO GO DAN!
Now I just wish I could go to Hivercon and see him speak......
Welcome to the dumbing down of/. This is News for Nerds - if it was something joe-shmoe Wallstreet journal reader could understand, then it would be in the Wallstreet Journal. If you don't understand it, LOOK IT UP.
All school districts should have someone who handles cirriculum - that person may not be dedicated to computer based cirriculum or instruction (and yes, we are lucky - we have a fulltime staff of 5 people dedicated to computer based cirriculum devlopment and other 'teaching of technology' aspects that teachers and students must deal with). We have labs that have Apple II's sitting next to brandnew Dell P4 desktops - we NEVER throw stuff away, unless it's broken - it can ALL be used for something. Hell, we have a reading test program (Accelerated Reader) that runs on a group of 8 IBM AT's! So, their district may not have such wonderful funding (or be anywhere near as large as us), BUT they have to have some kind of cirriculum guide for each grade. And I'm pretty sure 'teach screen / vi / BitchX' isn't exactly par for course in elementary school;)
Screen? KDE AND Gnome?! Slashdot is not the place to ask for suggestions on what software to use - your school district should have somebody who specializes in educational software and stuff of that nature - the software has to fit the grade level, because, as much as you use the computer for fun, and for computer science - these are elementary school children who will use it as a tool to learn fractions and other basics of Reading Ritin and Rithmatic. Don't force useless, rather advanced programs on them because they are 'cool' - purchase or isntall programs taht assist your teachers in instructing the students in their classes. And yes, I know what I'm talking about - I've been working in K12 IT for over 4 years now.
Maybe it was just REAALY bad compression, but those screenshots looked like crap compared to...just about any commercial 3d engine - they looked very 'unsmooth' and 1997'ish.
But linux still doesn't have it, does it? I'd rather have service packs, than have to hand-apply the hundreds of patches that are put out each year. How does linux handle masses of patches? New kernel build's? That's essentially all a service pack is.
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What happens when your providers outbound gets trashed? What happens when your providers BGP peers decide to drop them, or someone cuts their fiberline to InterNAP?
Multihoming to dual providers provides a level of redundancy not possible with a single provider - you get multiple backbone access points.
And yes, it's expensive, but sometimes that cost is worth it (not everything is monetarily measurable - not every organization is a business).
Where'd you get my CC number?!
Are you joking? Schools cost a lot more than 7mil to run, if they are of any significant size.
Yeah - mozilla can work with these systems EASILY.
IE is a different matter, because installing IE is different for every rev of windows (95OSRB,C,D, 98, 98SE, 2k, sp1/2/3/4/5/6etc).
But mozilla should run just fine from a Snappshot.
You obviously don't deal with educational computer users. I work in a moderate school district ( 55 schools, 9000 staff) - when we changed from Wordperfect to Word, it was absolutely astonishing the number of users who got 'lost'. It's not that the concepts are different, it's the fact that these users don't learn CONCEPTS, they learn rote 'skills' and movements. Move one button away from where it is, and they get completely lost and call the helpdesk.
So, no, concepts are easy, but changing 5 years of Rote SKill is difficult, and costly, both in terms of training and lost productivity.
To awaken Godzilla!
'my reasons to celebrate are liable to predate yours by a milenium or more'
That's like saying 'Mine is bigger!'
Really, who cares who's relegion is older? Older doesn't always mean 'right'.
Anyone notice how Ethernet used to run over CAT3? RJ45 is recent.
0wn3d!
So much for breaking news.....
Sun Tzu - The Art Of War.
Insidious, highly annoying page transistions! Nooooooo!
Apple.com got /.'d?! Wow. I'm impressed. And there are only five comments!
Naval academy (and the armed forces in general) do not have the same constutional rights while on gov't property / in their facilities as other citizens. They cannot make disparaging remarks about politicians, and other such things we take for granted.
DOS wasn't ever 'in' netware - and Novell makes their own version of 'DOS' called 'Novell DOS' - which, btw, isn't even needed in Netware 6.
What a load of horse-shit. Technically inferior in what manner? If you 'had the time' to actually learn how the products worked, and what they were supposed to do, you couldn't make that statement.
Thanks for the help - that was really unexpected, given the volume of 'WTF does this thing mean? What's 'Keiretsu'? Why do we need another port scanner?'. Glad to see I'm not the only one who was really engrossed by AMAZING network theory work....The first 'innovative' stuff I've seen in this arena in a few years. WAY TO GO DAN!
Now I just wish I could go to Hivercon and see him speak......
Welcome to the dumbing down of /.
This is News for Nerds - if it was something joe-shmoe Wallstreet journal reader could understand, then it would be in the Wallstreet Journal. If you don't understand it, LOOK IT UP.
Just call Dimitry and ask for some assistance! :)
(Bad pun, I know....)
All school districts should have someone who handles cirriculum - that person may not be dedicated to computer based cirriculum or instruction (and yes, we are lucky - we have a fulltime staff of 5 people dedicated to computer based cirriculum devlopment and other 'teaching of technology' aspects that teachers and students must deal with). We have labs that have Apple II's sitting next to brandnew Dell P4 desktops - we NEVER throw stuff away, unless it's broken - it can ALL be used for something. Hell, we have a reading test program (Accelerated Reader) that runs on a group of 8 IBM AT's! So, their district may not have such wonderful funding (or be anywhere near as large as us), BUT they have to have some kind of cirriculum guide for each grade. And I'm pretty sure 'teach screen / vi / BitchX' isn't exactly par for course in elementary school ;)
Screen? KDE AND Gnome?! Slashdot is not the place to ask for suggestions on what software to use - your school district should have somebody who specializes in educational software and stuff of that nature - the software has to fit the grade level, because, as much as you use the computer for fun, and for computer science - these are elementary school children who will use it as a tool to learn fractions and other basics of Reading Ritin and Rithmatic. Don't force useless, rather advanced programs on them because they are 'cool' - purchase or isntall programs taht assist your teachers in instructing the students in their classes.
And yes, I know what I'm talking about - I've been working in K12 IT for over 4 years now.
Maybe it was just REAALY bad compression, but those screenshots looked like crap compared to...just about any commercial 3d engine - they looked very 'unsmooth' and 1997'ish.
But linux still doesn't have it, does it? I'd rather have service packs, than have to hand-apply the hundreds of patches that are put out each year. How does linux handle masses of patches? New kernel build's? That's essentially all a service pack is.
Bill and Melinda are helping out 7th graders with ibooks?!
Source takes twice as long to build as what? Binary? Last I checked, you don't build anything BUT source.