I reluctantly agree with part of your message. Slashdot is about "Stuff that matters". A linux conference is something that matters to quite a few enthusiasts.
Where Hemos is going to be is very hard to classify...
seem to me to be too exagerated, or too simplified. He mentiones ONE person working part time to support 500 "unix" machines an 4 for 500 Windows machines. Then this:
In operation, a Windows-based client-server system of this complexity will be staffed at a user:support ratio of about 30:1, and so needs about 165 full-time support people plus a base Information Systems (IS) staff of about 35 for single shift operation.
The Unix setting, in contrast, needs two groups of 20 people in the data centers and a staff of perhaps five. This totals 45 IS staffers for 24 x 7 operation.
I work in the support side of a telecommunications company employing about 8000 staff. There are about 400+ support staff including the call support centre, the network management and the server management teams. By the way, we use Mac and NT desktops, and everything from AppleShare, NT, Solaris and Linux servers. I wonder how this stacks up to other organisations.
seem to me to be too exagerated, or too simplified. He mentiones ONE person working part time to support 500 "unix" machines an 4 for 500 Windows machines. Then this:
In operation, a Windows-based client-server system of this complexity will be staffed at a user:support ratio of about 30:1, and so needs about 165 full-time support people plus a base Information Systems (IS) staff of about 35 for single shift operation.
The Unix setting, in contrast, needs two groups of 20 people in the data centers and a staff of perhaps five. This totals 45 IS staffers for 24 x 7 operation.
I work in the support side of a telecommunications company employing about 8000 staff. There are about 400+ support staff including the call support centre, the network management and the server management teams. By the way, we use Mac and NT desktops, and everything from AppleShare, NT, Solaris and Linux servers. I wonder how this stacks up to other organisations.
I quite agree with this. When I went to school, we were never allowed to use a calculator during maths classes. I was in my last year at high school (or second last year) before we were allowed to use a calculator. It definitely helped us comprehend the principles.
Using a computer, even though it is a "cool" thing, I do not think it will encourage students to learn the basics. Why bother if you can get the computer to do the work for you. As a visual aid it would be great. As replacement to pen and paper, books and the good old talk-to-your-classmates, I think will lead to many problems.
But could it be that GNOME is not ready because: Gnome's leader Miguel de Icaza is currently having a flirtation with Microsoft's C# technologies and is producing a Linux version of the stuff under an open source initiative called the Mono Project. ? Or could this be a hint from Sun, to ignore MS C# (and MONO)or GNOME will wither an die a slow agonising death? After all, doesn't Sun now offer an alternative to Passport, and so.NET?
Just a thought.
Commercial Email. In 1989, MCI Mail and Compuserve provided the first commercial electronic mail connection to the Internet through the Corporation for the National Research Initiative (CNRI) and Ohio State University respectively. Does anyone else know of other early comercial implementations of email?
It doesn't look like it is slashdotted; I can get to the site, however, the link seems to be to a non-existant page. I also did a "google" search on that site for anything 845, and nothing was found. Also nothing about i845 in the reviews section.
What's up, anyone?
Of a lot of what it is worth. The beauty of Tolkien's work in Lord of the Rings, is the ability to amke the reader a part of that world. I'd rather imagine the trolls or Gandalf, or Bilbo etc, than have some one else imprint his/her imagination on me through their images. I'm glad I read that book a few times now, and a few years ago. I plan on watching the movies. I hope I am not disappointed.
Mergers of this size inevitably lead to monopolies. An example is the aerospace defence industry. Where I comefrom (Australia) Boeing owns everything. So much for competitive tendering.
I've been using KDE 2.2alpha (on Mandrake 8), and it is great. There were some hitches, but they'd be ironed out in the release version. What I like most about KDE is not just the eye-candy that is builtin, but actually the uniformity of the interface between all the various components. Anyone else notice the similarities with Aqua, like the enlarged panel icons ala the Dock?
"The internet is being Balkanized..."
That is true, but I think the major reason for this has more to do with "identity" (maybe better "national identity") than firewalling or filtering unacceptable external sites.
Computing and the internet, more than anything else, have led to English becoming the lingua franca (irony intended);
Language, the most obvious identifier for a culture, is the main reason why many governments want to change or control the internet; (I know there are exceptions, such as China/Afghanistan and a few others). If I am Chinese, or Greek, or Russian, why can't I have my web address in Chinese, Greek or Russian? This alone identifies the internet with Western culture (.biz,.kids anyone?) which is not acceptable to many in some contries. This is what makes all external influences (external websites, such as Yahoo in France) unacceptable.
I think, until this imbalace is addressed, the Internet will allways be a target for restrictions.
Evgeny Podkletnov 1
1 Moscow Chemical Scientific Research Centre
113452 Moscow - Russia E-mail: epodkletnov@hotmail.com
Are they so poor in russia that their universities do not have their own domian presence?
Perhaps instead of Communisim (ala China, Russia etc.) They should refer to Scialisim. There are many democratic couties that are socialist (or with scialist leanings) like Israel, France...
The sole reason that Passport is being pushed forward, is to minimise the number of logons and password that a user needs to remember; so we store them in one location!
Wouldn't be more secure to have multiple logons (for each service provider) that are exactly the same? Sure there would be a security problem if someone happens to know my logon and my password, but there is a lesser chance of them having access to all my details, because they have to logon for every single service individually.
I found the following from the paper to be very pertinent: "The centralized service model is antithetical to the distributed nature of the Internet that has made it so robust and so popular."
But pedophilia is by no means worse than murder. Yet murder is a legitimate subject for satire, comedy, thrillers, whodunnits: a whole industry has sprung up around it.
I agree about paedophilia not being worse than murder in terms of the perpetrator, however, there is a great danger in making paedophilia as common as murder is in the entertainment industry. Just look at how much murder is now taken for granted; we run the unpleasant risk of making people insensitive to paedophilia just like we did for murder due to its prevalence in the entertainment industry.
There is a big difference between a "legitimate discusson" and an entertainment topic.
But if someone finds the content they find offending, no one is saying they must look at it
That is absolutely true. People seem to too easily blame someone else for their mistakes, in this case it is the internet. However, there is a group in our society that cannot think for themselves, or rather, do not know when to stop or look the other way. They are called kids. I teach kids from ages 5 to 12. I can see clearly how they are influenced by what they watch (TV more so than the internet), and for that I hold only the parents responsible. You can't police the internet.>/i> That is also true, but you have to educate the responsible people.
Journalists, sometimes, ask experts whenever they don't know the subject that well. Unfortunately, the experts that advertise themselves as such have a great vested interest to not be biased. Check this article from The Register about the most wonderful quotes related to the Code Red costing billions in damage. You've gotta love those experts
There is an article on ZDNET about Microsoft giving away the equivalent of AU$65,000(U.S. $32,500) for 150 packs of Windows 95 and 10 refurbished computers.
If the Win95 licence is worth $250, then that makes the "refurbished" PC worth over $2600. I can buy new machines for less than that! So I think my logic is incorrect. The RRP for Win95 must be around $400. Is it worth that much?
I think the previous post needs to be removed becuase it is copyrighted
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It seems stereotyping the typical slashdotter as a fearmonger is true.
Here we have some Congressman submitting a law that is related to computer usage (misuse) and everyone is accusing him of the worst crimes against humanity. (Disclaimer, I am not an American)
`(8) knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally affects or impairs without authorization a computer of an elementary school or secondary school or institution of higher education;'.
I can hardly see what's wrong with this. Email has been mentioned a lot, but the words intentionally and knowingly do actually mean that the student knew the damage to be done and still sent the email/file whatever.
I agree with most posters that there is no need for such a law since most school/college/university regulations and bylaws are capable of handling such situations, but that does not mean that it is a law from the pit of hell and that all students who email their teachers will end up in jail.
Grow up people. Work for change and don't just complain
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I reluctantly agree with part of your message. Slashdot is about "Stuff that matters". A linux conference is something that matters to quite a few enthusiasts.
Where Hemos is going to be is very hard to classify...
In operation, a Windows-based client-server system of this complexity will be staffed at a user:support ratio of about 30:1, and so needs about 165 full-time support people plus a base Information Systems (IS) staff of about 35 for single shift operation.
I work in the support side of a telecommunications company employing about 8000 staff. There are about 400+ support staff including the call support centre, the network management and the server management teams. By the way, we use Mac and NT desktops, and everything from AppleShare, NT, Solaris and Linux servers.The Unix setting, in contrast, needs two groups of 20 people in the data centers and a staff of perhaps five. This totals 45 IS staffers for 24 x 7 operation.
I wonder how this stacks up to other organisations.
In operation, a Windows-based client-server system of this complexity will be staffed at a user:support ratio of about 30:1, and so needs about 165 full-time support people plus a base Information Systems (IS) staff of about 35 for single shift operation.
I work in the support side of a telecommunications company employing about 8000 staff. There are about 400+ support staff including the call support centre, the network management and the server management teams. By the way, we use Mac and NT desktops, and everything from AppleShare, NT, Solaris and Linux servers.The Unix setting, in contrast, needs two groups of 20 people in the data centers and a staff of perhaps five. This totals 45 IS staffers for 24 x 7 operation.
I wonder how this stacks up to other organisations.
I quite agree with this. When I went to school, we were never allowed to use a calculator during maths classes. I was in my last year at high school (or second last year) before we were allowed to use a calculator. It definitely helped us comprehend the principles.
Using a computer, even though it is a "cool" thing, I do not think it will encourage students to learn the basics. Why bother if you can get the computer to do the work for you. As a visual aid it would be great. As replacement to pen and paper, books and the good old talk-to-your-classmates, I think will lead to many problems.
I scoured all the comments, and if the link to the transcribed text is there, I missed it.
But could it be that GNOME is not ready because: .NET?
Gnome's leader Miguel de Icaza is currently having a flirtation with Microsoft's C# technologies and is producing a Linux version of the stuff under an open source initiative called the Mono Project. ?
Or could this be a hint from Sun, to ignore MS C# (and MONO)or GNOME will wither an die a slow agonising death? After all, doesn't Sun now offer an alternative to Passport, and so
Just a thought.
"A Wedding in 60 Seconds."
I don't think they'll be signing, it takes too long. I think they'll just finger print the wedding certificates.
Desides, where is the science in the wedding?
There is an article at Living Internet about the history of email. An interesting quote:
Commercial Email. In 1989, MCI Mail and Compuserve provided the first commercial electronic mail connection to the Internet through the Corporation for the National Research Initiative (CNRI) and Ohio State University respectively.
Does anyone else know of other early comercial implementations of email?
It doesn't look like it is slashdotted; I can get to the site, however, the link seems to be to a non-existant page. I also did a "google" search on that site for anything 845, and nothing was found. Also nothing about i845 in the reviews section.
What's up, anyone?
Of a lot of what it is worth. The beauty of Tolkien's work in Lord of the Rings, is the ability to amke the reader a part of that world. I'd rather imagine the trolls or Gandalf, or Bilbo etc, than have some one else imprint his/her imagination on me through their images. I'm glad I read that book a few times now, and a few years ago. I plan on watching the movies. I hope I am not disappointed.
Except that the perpetrators were Japanese. I wonder where people get their ideas from?
You know, if God/Allah/(insert your Creator here) would just release the source code ...
It is called DUST.
Let's see. These companies grew fro acquisition, and I leave the impact/advantages to your imagination:
AOL/NETSCAPE/Time/WarnerBrothers
Boeing/McDonnelDouglas
Compaq/Digital
Caldera/SCO
and the list goes on.
Mergers of this size inevitably lead to monopolies. An example is the aerospace defence industry. Where I comefrom (Australia) Boeing owns everything. So much for competitive tendering.
I've been using KDE 2.2alpha (on Mandrake 8), and it is great. There were some hitches, but they'd be ironed out in the release version. What I like most about KDE is not just the eye-candy that is builtin, but actually the uniformity of the interface between all the various components. Anyone else notice the similarities with Aqua, like the enlarged panel icons ala the Dock?
"The internet is being Balkanized..."
.kids anyone?) which is not acceptable to many in some contries. This is what makes all external influences (external websites, such as Yahoo in France) unacceptable.
That is true, but I think the major reason for this has more to do with "identity" (maybe better "national identity") than firewalling or filtering unacceptable external sites.
Computing and the internet, more than anything else, have led to English becoming the lingua franca (irony intended);
Language, the most obvious identifier for a culture, is the main reason why many governments want to change or control the internet; (I know there are exceptions, such as China/Afghanistan and a few others). If I am Chinese, or Greek, or Russian, why can't I have my web address in Chinese, Greek or Russian? This alone identifies the internet with Western culture (.biz,
I think, until this imbalace is addressed, the Internet will allways be a target for restrictions.
Evgeny Podkletnov 1
1 Moscow Chemical Scientific Research Centre
113452 Moscow - Russia
E-mail: epodkletnov@hotmail.com
Are they so poor in russia that their universities do not have their own domian presence?
Perhaps instead of Communisim (ala China, Russia etc.) They should refer to Scialisim. There are many democratic couties that are socialist (or with scialist leanings) like Israel, France...
The sole reason that Passport is being pushed forward, is to minimise the number of logons and password that a user needs to remember; so we store them in one location!
Wouldn't be more secure to have multiple logons (for each service provider) that are exactly the same? Sure there would be a security problem if someone happens to know my logon and my password, but there is a lesser chance of them having access to all my details, because they have to logon for every single service individually.
I found the following from the paper to be very pertinent: "The centralized service model is antithetical to the distributed nature of the Internet that has made it so robust and so popular."
I agree about paedophilia not being worse than murder in terms of the perpetrator, however, there is a great danger in making paedophilia as common as murder is in the entertainment industry. Just look at how much murder is now taken for granted; we run the unpleasant risk of making people insensitive to paedophilia just like we did for murder due to its prevalence in the entertainment industry.
There is a big difference between a "legitimate discusson" and an entertainment topic.
But if someone finds the content they find offending, no one is saying they must look at it
That is absolutely true. People seem to too easily blame someone else for their mistakes, in this case it is the internet. However, there is a group in our society that cannot think for themselves, or rather, do not know when to stop or look the other way. They are called kids. I teach kids from ages 5 to 12. I can see clearly how they are influenced by what they watch (TV more so than the internet), and for that I hold only the parents responsible.
You can't police the internet.>/i>
That is also true, but you have to educate the responsible people.
Journalists, sometimes, ask experts whenever they don't know the subject that well. Unfortunately, the experts that advertise themselves as such have a great vested interest to not be biased. Check this article from The Register about the most wonderful quotes related to the Code Red costing billions in damage. You've gotta love those experts
There is an article on ZDNET about Microsoft giving away the equivalent of AU$65,000(U.S. $32,500) for 150 packs of Windows 95 and 10 refurbished computers .
If the Win95 licence is worth $250, then that makes the "refurbished" PC worth over $2600. I can buy new machines for less than that! So I think my logic is incorrect. The RRP for Win95 must be around $400. Is it worth that much?
I think the previous post needs to be removed becuase it is copyrighted
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The following paragraph in the copyright notice does not allow you to republish it:
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I remember when I was working on engineering design that PI=3.1416.
That was good enough for us.
It seems stereotyping the typical slashdotter as a fearmonger is true.
Here we have some Congressman submitting a law that is related to computer usage (misuse) and everyone is accusing him of the worst crimes against humanity. (Disclaimer, I am not an American)
`(8) knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally affects or impairs without authorization a computer of an elementary school or secondary school or institution of higher education;'.
I can hardly see what's wrong with this. Email has been mentioned a lot, but the words intentionally and knowingly do actually mean that the student knew the damage to be done and still sent the email/file whatever.
I agree with most posters that there is no need for such a law since most school/college/university regulations and bylaws are capable of handling such situations, but that does not mean that it is a law from the pit of hell and that all students who email their teachers will end up in jail.
Grow up people. Work for change and don't just complain