That the editor had to add the fact that this was in EQ. Think of all the people who don't read the article's expression when/. posts a story about platinum being sold....
This should be in the 'Meta Ask Slashdot' catagory;)
I personally ask stuff like that on mailing lists, usenet, and IRC (not in that order!). You can also try hooking up with a geeks / sysadmin group in your local area (I'm sure there's one most everywhere), and ask friends / associates there.
Not only is Mt. Dew missing, but so is Jolt, Bawls, and all the other Highly Caffeinated cans/bottles of goodness. If you are relying on sobe or Dr. Pepper for a late-nite energy infusion, you may as well drink Cold Water;)
If you have a Select Agreement, as we do, you can purchase your WinXP or whatever FROM Dell on your Select Agreement schedule of prices - so you get a PC with windows preinstalled, and a pretty significant discount on the windows installation of your new PC.
Nope - Parhelia only has two video out - 1 DVI and one analog/VGA, with a splitter cable for the VGA port. That 'triple head' is only available in windows (atm), because it's doen in software.
Right, make education a priority. Teachers are afraid of technology. Therefore, technology should be something they can just 'do', and not have to spend hours agonizing over 'kGrader' or 'gGrader' or whatever. I work in a large inner-city school district, and we DO use Open Source software for a lot of things. However, we also use lots of closed source, proprietary software (Novell and MS) because, quite frankly there is not a lot of real benefit cost wise to using Linux on the desktop. Do you realize what schools pay? 40 bucks per desktop, gets your ALL the MS products - it's even cheaper if you just want the OS. Linux is free licensing, but the training and reorientation of 15000 staff and teachers is unbelievably expensive. Believe me, we are 'phasing' it in slowly...but there is no reason to just jump ship to Linux or BSD or whatever. Our primary goal is to keep the teachers feeling comfortable, and the students learning. Teachers don't use linux, and aren't 'encouraged' to use Open Source, because teachers don't have the TIME to be bothered with something as completely unimportant as what software they are using. That is the JOB of the district support staff. Homogenity is a goal that is strongly enforced to keep our underpaid staff on top of things. Our teachers should be writing lesson plans and talking to parents and helping out students, not worrying about fscking their HDD's or anything like that. We are mandated by law to provide certain levels of access and associated computer services, to ALL students. To do this, we place restrictions on what can, and cannot go on the network. We don't want Jane English Teacher to setup her Redhat workstation and say 'DHCP Server', and take out a whole net because of her misconfigured workstation. So, before spouting OSS Nonsense, take a step back to the real world, and look at what's important. Giving children an education is the goal, not pushing your software agenda.
And, fyi, MANY different systems are used by students now adays (Mac, Windows, Novell, hell, we even have CISCO classes.).
You won't get many replies, 'cause you forgot to tie in DRM or something that incites feeling in everybody....actually asking something technical, jeez. On/. ? Good luck!:)
You sir, a total reject. I've been using USB printers, flash card readers for my digi cam, usb speakers..for years. In win2K, it's been nothing but flawless. Just because your ineptitude with Windows prevents you from using something 'like you think it should work' doesnt mean Microsoft won't support a 'universal' device. What about PCI? What about SCSI? Doesn't MS support those? Can't those hold anything?
TCP and 802.11 are totally different types of protocols. Think 'TCP' and 'Ethernet'. 802.11b is CSMA/CD as someone mentioned. By isochronous, it'd be going from Ethernet to TokenRing without the wired ring.
Besides the fact that it's 403'd, the single protocol / plug type is already here with firewire, and/or USB. HD's, modems, NICs, mice all work on one of the two now. It's very nice, if not-so greatly designed.
Novell's SingleSignOn solutions with iChain, iManage, and dirXML work wonderfully. And yes, users I've seen use it, have loved it (primarily RSA SecureID's).
They didn't spend it on any of that because they CAN'T. They saved IT budget - IT, not 'office furniture'. Schools are Gov't organizations (for the most part), and have to stick to their budget alotments - they can't go just 'rearranging' money.
They only solve a SYMPTOM of the issue. These people need to set their systems up correctly! Either a) install MS-DNS and point your boxen at that, or b) use BIND, but ENABLE dyn-dns and stop this traffic at the local level. And if you use a RFC1918 address space, your DNS server should have reverse lookups enabled for that address space - even a split zone so the world won't see them - and that will a) help management of the network easier, and b) prevent problems like this from happening;)
Crossplatform to those people stuck in the Windows world is not crossplatform as a unix geek sees it. Crossplatform to windows, is Compaq or Dell, HP or IBM. Crossplatform to Unix people is Intel or Sparc, MIPS or PowerPC. It's amazing how many MCSEs and 'windows' people I've met that have no idea that intel is really a little kid in the Super-Server world;)
Read the question - they aren't asking how to PREPARE kids for these jobs. They want to know how to test for skills, like a CLEP / Placement exam for comp. skills. And besides, not everyone who recieves a computer education will be a sysadmin / analyst / CS Whatever right out of high school.
As to the topic - check out the State of Virginia's "Standards of Learning" on Technology - don't have a link handy, but I'll try to post it in a follow up.
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I kid you not, wordstar probably NEVER crashes on them. :)
This is actually a easy to tune kernel config variable. Quick and easy performance boosts to be had by all!
That the editor had to add the fact that this was in EQ. Think of all the people who don't read the article's expression when /. posts a story about platinum being sold....
This should be in the 'Meta Ask Slashdot' catagory ;)
I personally ask stuff like that on mailing lists, usenet, and IRC (not in that order!). You can also try hooking up with a geeks / sysadmin group in your local area (I'm sure there's one most everywhere), and ask friends / associates there.
Not only is Mt. Dew missing, but so is Jolt, Bawls, and all the other Highly Caffeinated cans/bottles of goodness. If you are relying on sobe or Dr. Pepper for a late-nite energy infusion, you may as well drink Cold Water ;)
If you have a Select Agreement, as we do, you can purchase your WinXP or whatever FROM Dell on your Select Agreement schedule of prices - so you get a PC with windows preinstalled, and a pretty significant discount on the windows installation of your new PC.
Nope - Parhelia only has two video out - 1 DVI and one analog/VGA, with a splitter cable for the VGA port. That 'triple head' is only available in windows (atm), because it's doen in software.
Right, make education a priority.
Teachers are afraid of technology.
Therefore, technology should be something they can just 'do', and not have to spend hours agonizing over 'kGrader' or 'gGrader' or whatever.
I work in a large inner-city school district, and we DO use Open Source software for a lot of things. However, we also use lots of closed source, proprietary software (Novell and MS) because, quite frankly there is not a lot of real benefit cost wise to using Linux on the desktop. Do you realize what schools pay? 40 bucks per desktop, gets your ALL the MS products - it's even cheaper if you just want the OS. Linux is free licensing, but the training and reorientation of 15000 staff and teachers is unbelievably expensive.
Believe me, we are 'phasing' it in slowly...but there is no reason to just jump ship to Linux or BSD or whatever. Our primary goal is to keep the teachers feeling comfortable, and the students learning.
Teachers don't use linux, and aren't 'encouraged' to use Open Source, because teachers don't have the TIME to be bothered with something as completely unimportant as what software they are using. That is the JOB of the district support staff. Homogenity is a goal that is strongly enforced to keep our underpaid staff on top of things. Our teachers should be writing lesson plans and talking to parents and helping out students, not worrying about fscking their HDD's or anything like that.
We are mandated by law to provide certain levels of access and associated computer services, to ALL students. To do this, we place restrictions on what can, and cannot go on the network. We don't want Jane English Teacher to setup her Redhat workstation and say 'DHCP Server', and take out a whole net because of her misconfigured workstation. So, before spouting OSS Nonsense, take a step back to the real world, and look at what's important. Giving children an education is the goal, not pushing your software agenda.
And, fyi, MANY different systems are used by students now adays (Mac, Windows, Novell, hell, we even have CISCO classes.).
You won't get many replies, 'cause you forgot to tie in DRM or something that incites feeling in everybody....actually asking something technical, jeez. On /. ? :)
Good luck!
You sir, a total reject. I've been using USB printers, flash card readers for my digi cam, usb speakers..for years. In win2K, it's been nothing but flawless.
Just because your ineptitude with Windows prevents you from using something 'like you think it should work' doesnt mean Microsoft won't support a 'universal' device. What about PCI? What about SCSI? Doesn't MS support those? Can't those hold anything?
TCP and 802.11 are totally different types of protocols. Think 'TCP' and 'Ethernet'. 802.11b is CSMA/CD as someone mentioned. By isochronous, it'd be going from Ethernet to TokenRing without the wired ring.
We've purchased hundres (if not a few thousand) of those things, and they are dead-sturdy. You may have gotten a bad production run.
Besides the fact that it's 403'd, the single protocol / plug type is already here with firewire, and/or USB. HD's, modems, NICs, mice all work on one of the two now. It's very nice, if not-so greatly designed.
With that spelling, can we trust a patch will compile? :)
Novell's SingleSignOn solutions with iChain, iManage, and dirXML work wonderfully. And yes, users I've seen use it, have loved it (primarily RSA SecureID's).
Novell's iFolder solves your problems quite easily ;)
They didn't spend it on any of that because they CAN'T. They saved IT budget - IT, not 'office furniture'. Schools are Gov't organizations (for the most part), and have to stick to their budget alotments - they can't go just 'rearranging' money.
Is it me, or did he sound like compiler output?
;)
"Not to my knowledge"
"No, It's not."
Never anything helpful
Boy, you're sure gonna have quite a bit of log file data to look over in a few minutes. At least the box was co-lo'd :)
Martin will never win, because people don't like their main characters to die out all time ;) ;)
I love his Game of Thrones series
They only solve a SYMPTOM of the issue. These people need to set their systems up correctly! Either a) install MS-DNS and point your boxen at that, or b) use BIND, but ENABLE dyn-dns and stop this traffic at the local level. ;)
And if you use a RFC1918 address space, your DNS server should have reverse lookups enabled for that address space - even a split zone so the world won't see them - and that will a) help management of the network easier, and b) prevent problems like this from happening
Got nothing to do with it. I've grown up with this crap - and it does suck. Almost all of it.
Crossplatform to those people stuck in the Windows world is not crossplatform as a unix geek sees it. Crossplatform to windows, is Compaq or Dell, HP or IBM. Crossplatform to Unix people is Intel or Sparc, MIPS or PowerPC. It's amazing how many MCSEs and 'windows' people I've met that have no idea that intel is really a little kid in the Super-Server world ;)
Read the question - they aren't asking how to PREPARE kids for these jobs. They want to know how to test for skills, like a CLEP / Placement exam for comp. skills.
And besides, not everyone who recieves a computer education will be a sysadmin / analyst / CS Whatever right out of high school.
As to the topic - check out the State of Virginia's "Standards of Learning" on Technology - don't have a link handy, but I'll try to post it in a follow up.
No, it's all done thru the servers - everything, that's why people have such trouble with the 'alternative' clients.