We've had RedHat visit us on several occaisions - but this is the first I've heard of any "all open source" ideas. From what I understand, most admin systems are switching to Win2k.
Of course, considering how all the other machines are Sparq 4's and 5's running a rather belligerent version of SunOS5.6, I don't see how the use of RedHat can be too bad. As long as I can get to a command-line interface, I'll be happy.
As for the exploitation rumors and such, well - I don't know of any professor here who trusts a computer enough to keep all their scores in it:)
~Reave
Well, I personally find that there is something inherently wrong with flaming, but then again, I tend to segregate it all into the following archetypes ($5 words are fun!)
1) Friends joking around
We've all done it - groups of nerds (usually teenagers, and more than often led by a girl) go and find something to make fun of, then put their heads together to find some brutish commentary that will make the person mad, and thus give them a good laugh. Is this bad? Probably - it depends on how far they go. It's the cyber equivalent of a group of people picking on the geek in high school. It happens.
2) People without any respect
You can't please everybody, and sometimes the ones you can't please blame YOU for it. More importantly, they place enough blame on you to let you know about it, thinking that you might actually lower yourself to repair the problem.
3) People who have had bad days
Just like in real life, they've got to spoil it for the rest of us.
4) People who are on an adrenaline high or are frustrated due to some environmental phenomena.
'Moody' describes these people well. They're the ones that go off at the drop of a hat. I remember being like this while trying to install a new video card once (Windows was trying to be 'helpful' and activate the motherboard one...).
Also, when a person is being flamed, they tend to get like this. It's a chain reaction, I've noticed.
5) People who have to be right
Guilty! Heh - ever have someone say something that you know is wrong and then you tried to correct them, only to start a war of correctness? Annoying, isn't it? I just don't understand why they all just wouldn't listen to me:)
Anyway, these are all I can think of at the moment - anyone else think of any?
Alas, the JFK assassination occurred just a FEW years before most major governmental bodies began filing documents into electronic media, mostly from the request of Hollywood writers, who needed a new plotline to cliché (westerns were becoming a drag at the time, but the 'elite thief steals info and holds government for ransom' thing hadn't been done yet).
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We've had RedHat visit us on several occaisions - but this is the first I've heard of any "all open source" ideas. From what I understand, most admin systems are switching to Win2k. Of course, considering how all the other machines are Sparq 4's and 5's running a rather belligerent version of SunOS5.6, I don't see how the use of RedHat can be too bad. As long as I can get to a command-line interface, I'll be happy. As for the exploitation rumors and such, well - I don't know of any professor here who trusts a computer enough to keep all their scores in it :)
~Reave
Well, I personally find that there is something inherently wrong with flaming, but then again, I tend to segregate it all into the following archetypes ($5 words are fun!)
:)
1) Friends joking around
We've all done it - groups of nerds (usually teenagers, and more than often led by a girl) go and find something to make fun of, then put their heads together to find some brutish commentary that will make the person mad, and thus give them a good laugh. Is this bad? Probably - it depends on how far they go. It's the cyber equivalent of a group of people picking on the geek in high school. It happens.
2) People without any respect
You can't please everybody, and sometimes the ones you can't please blame YOU for it. More importantly, they place enough blame on you to let you know about it, thinking that you might actually lower yourself to repair the problem.
3) People who have had bad days
Just like in real life, they've got to spoil it for the rest of us.
4) People who are on an adrenaline high or are frustrated due to some environmental phenomena.
'Moody' describes these people well. They're the ones that go off at the drop of a hat. I remember being like this while trying to install a new video card once (Windows was trying to be 'helpful' and activate the motherboard one...).
Also, when a person is being flamed, they tend to get like this. It's a chain reaction, I've noticed.
5) People who have to be right
Guilty! Heh - ever have someone say something that you know is wrong and then you tried to correct them, only to start a war of correctness? Annoying, isn't it? I just don't understand why they all just wouldn't listen to me
Anyway, these are all I can think of at the moment - anyone else think of any?
~Reave
Requires 384MB of RAM and 4 gigs of HDD space?
Hey... you gus SURE that isn't the next windows release?
~Reave
Alas, the JFK assassination occurred just a FEW years before most major governmental bodies began filing documents into electronic media, mostly from the request of Hollywood writers, who needed a new plotline to cliché (westerns were becoming a drag at the time, but the 'elite thief steals info and holds government for ransom' thing hadn't been done yet).
And my, that was a very long sentence...
~Reave