There may be an endowment fund that this type of expense might already qualify under, they can help you identify if any such monies exist.
If not, try reaching out to alumni, but DO NOT DO THIS ON YOUR OWN. Work with your school's Alumni Relations group. Alumni Relations likely won't agree to start cold-calling random alumni for your pet project. So propose that Alumni Relations cross-references their alumni list with the Ham Radio callbook. Should be an easy database join (match by name and address). You'll get highly qualified hits that should result in excellent yields. And you can have meaningful conversations with Alumni that should help build/rebuild the alumni's connection with the school, even if they don't give.
Join this power-generating capability with Google's recent initiative to provide internet access to sub-Sarahan Africa via blimp: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/26/google-blimps...and you've got a robust, uninterruptable combination for internet access in the poorest, and the most corrupt nations in the world. Under such circumstances, Google will have great communicative and, perhaps most interestingly, surveillance power over the people under these oppressive governments. It should be interesting how such absolute power, so closely aligned with government interests, affects Google's behavior.
Of course, it could be that Google simply feels these citizens represent a huge market for targeted advertisements for tablet PCs and Lexus vehicles.
Ha. The LENR research at University of Missouri is being performed by the Sidney Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Rennaisance (SKINR). That makes it LENR-SKINR... like the band
Pardon me, but I think you're a bit naive. When one group presents a uniformly evil projection of another, you're witnessing zealotry. Democrats/Republicans, Socialists/Capitalists, Open Source/Closed Source -- both sides produce some good in this world. They wouldn't continue to grow, and good people wouldn't continue to put forth good efforts for their causes for very long if they didn't.
Also, you're ignoring the fact that Slashdot is/was actively squelching those with a pro- (or at least not anti-) position on MS. Believe me, there have been many cases over the years where the site operators were caught futzing with the moderation system to squelch. Speaking for myself, I mysteriously lost mod points, permanently, years ago... and I was never really a very bad boy.
I still enjoy reading the site, but decided not to contribute much to a site where the operators felt the need to be that underhanded in forcing their ideology. I know the site has changed hands and perhaps gotten less heavy-handed as well in the process.
But if you're not reading Slashdot (or any other source of news) with an eye toward teasing out the bias, you're a bit naive.
Panspermia is a very interesting/compelling theory. But I'd avoid telling anyone in academia that you're interested in an Earth genesis hypothesis other than evolution. You may just as well have told them that you're a pro-lifer, who voted for Bush, are home schooling your kids, believe in a balanced budget, and are a racist all in one sentence.
I forsee myself in your shoes in the next few months. Application-level awareness of our key Microsoft applications (Exchange, MOSS, AD, etc..) are very high on our need list, and so SCOM is a natural best-of-breed pick. However, I *really* want a single integrated solution that also covers our unix/linux systems. Is unix/linux monitoring part of your requirements? If so, could you briefly describe the capabilities (and requirements on the monitored systems) that SCOM currently has in this regard?
I think the chances of this being bio-terrorism just clicked up a notch: According to this article: The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama's trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico's anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn't confirm if Solis had swine flu or not.
I have absolutely no problem spending $500k per student on education, even if that number weren't horribly inflated by, you know, building places to teach students and hiring people to teach them.
You are aware that we're talking $500k just for a high-school education, right? I guess the money is easy to spend^H^H^H^H^H waste when its not yours.
Now you know why the idea of vouchers generates such spitting hatred and loathing among the politicians most ideologically closest to the unions.
They will tell you that they're concerned about the children. They're not. They're concerned about the gravy train stopping. And their gravy train is much more important than educating your children.
That approach has two side-effects, both horrifying to Washington: 1. The money would be spent on the specific needs of each citizen, and not on the needs of Das Kapital. 2. Any mechanism of consolidation of power to Washington would be eliminated. When "the people" buy a badly needed refrigerator, who will be there to negotiate for another refrigerator for their state senator's vacation home in Florida?
Our schools are foundering. Our internet is slower than any other developed nation. Yet Republicans forced spending on both of those VERY NEEDY PROGRAMS to be cut from this bill.
Our schools are not foundering due to a lack of funding. They are foundering because a powerful public education cartel has driven school spending skyward, making the United States among the world's biggest education spenders, even as student achievement lags.
I think one of the worst things that republicans have done to this country is to make people feel educated on a subject after ingesting a few sound bites.
Then read this in-depth article on education costs run amok in New Jersey. It's fascinating (and not boring) reading. Unfortunately it will pop your misconcpetions about how well-spent our education dollar is. Maybe after reading this, you can give us a soundbite or two about how spending $500,000 per graduating high school student is good for the taxpayer.
Where I live (Massachusetts) there has already been a wasteful construction boom in school construction. Cities and towns of modest means have spent hundreds of millions on school construction. It's government run amok. We don't need to federalize this problem.
Well, I don't know about where you live, but where I do we've already had a mess of wasteful school construction. Cities and towns of modest means have built these "Taj Mahal" schools, sometimes approaching $200 Million.
I don't have a problem with giving construction workers jobs as a stimulus, but let's not be arrogantly wasteful about how we spend the money. It's not JUST about providing short term jobs, it's about putting people to work for the long-term good.
"they really should just distribute the renderer in that as a standalone product or something."
Yes. Because we should soon expect the renderer installer alone to consume an entire 4 GB DVD. Adobe Acrobat is the pinnacle of bloatware. No wonder vulnerabilities like these are discovered. It must be easy to poke holes in the 17 gajillion lines of code it takes Adobe to render text.
NIS is a joke of a security protocol... you get access to an NFS server because you are who you say you are?
And the User/Group/World security model of the Kernel only allows a user to be a member of 16 (or 32) groups. I can't think of a single company that needs a user to be a member of more than 16 groups.
If the City of Boston holds any strings whatsoever to the contact, it will surely be a union-driven morass of special kickbacks, perks, and hidden slush funds. They'll be lucky to provide 2400 baud links to a few hundred simultaneous users, after pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars in it.
I can see that copyright law is clearly a priority for early education. Not grammar, or mathematics, but intellectual property and coporate interests.
And apparently not even spelling. Check out the last box of this cartoon.
What, exactly, is "resrearch"?
You're heavily misinformed if you don't think Microsoft and Time Warner are in cahoots on DRM. They are both nearly 50% owners in the ContentGuard corporation, which owns the patent rights to virtually all XML rights expression languages. So, you think that XACML is "open" just because it's approved by OASIS. Think again.
Microsoft's implementation of XrML in Vista is a cornerstone of the upcoming product, and XrML is a key product of ContentGuard.
That thread may have had only 3-4 people with the problem, but there are other threads on that board, as well as on www.linksysinfo.org, where people are having the same problem. It appears to be less of a problem for users who are using DSL (in those cases, Linksys recommends tweaking the MTU).
You may have installed 87 Linksys routers in the 12 years you've been keeping records, but how many of them were WRT54G, Version 5? All the prior versions worked great, it's just that Linksys is now selling hobbled routers and introducing a new class of properly-functioning routers for more $$$.
Yes, I'm technical. I hold Cisco CCNA, VMware, Novell CNE (well, for NetWare 5) as well as a lot of Microsoft certifications. I'm a Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCSE, MCDBA, and a few others. So you could say I'm technical. I'm also open minded, so my knee-jerk reaction isn't "Linux" for everything (or Microsoft for that matter).
I work as a consultant for a Microsoft partner, so Microsoft encourages us to get up to speed on their products. I do have MSDN, so the best way for me to get up to speed on situations I frequently encounter is to use the products. I have a lab at home, and so the PII serves many purposes besides functioning as a firewall.
I know a fair bit about Linux as well. I have compiled Kernel, etc... I have no doubt I could get Linux running on the PII, but then I would need another box if I wanted to do Microsoft work, which I enjoy and earn a nice living by doing so.
When I purchased the "new" WRT54G, version 5, I expected a router that would at least have better performance than my old, reliable Pentium-II firewall running Windows 2003 and Routing and Remote Services.
My longstanding issue was finally escalated to Linksys Customer Support (you will be escalated to Customer support after dealing with Technical support). At Customer Support, they RMA'd my v5 router, and replaced it with a v4 router. I demanded that they replace it with a v4 router, and I noted that a *LOT* of people on this bulletin board are having the EXACT same problem.
I have literally spent hours trying to solve this problem on the v5 router. As soon as I plugged the v4 router in, my problems were solved!
Of course, Linksys being a company that enjoys wasting their customers' time by not even admitting a problem, you will be forced to pay for shipping charges. No matter that the item is clearly flawed by engineering defects to begin with. I will never, ever, consider buying a Linksys in the future. What a mistake I made thinking they were a premium brand.
The fact that they are going to sell a version that finally works as it should, under a different model number and at a higher price, rather than fix the WRT54G Version 5 tells me that they are not interested in providing a quality product. I hope their strategy blows up in their face!
With 20 years in IT, I used to have the same attitude as you.
Unfortunately, in most corporate environments what matters most is the ability to maintain IT operations (even in the face of staff changes). The fact that you're a whiz-bang in Linux is good, but will others be able to understand -- and build upon -- what you're done? Or are you the type who wants to be perceived as irreplaceable because nobody can understand how things work? Your post itself shows this attitude quite clearly: "Actually, one of the things I probably had going for me at my government job was that they had an old VAX that everyone was afraid of that had been inherited from the previous administration. They seemed to like the fact that I actually knew my way around VMS." You're fooling yourself if you think potential employers don't catch on to your disdain for those who question your credentials.
I used to have the same attitude as you about the exams. Later, I got my MCSE, and was actually surprised to find that I had to learn a few things to pass the exam! "What useless crap", I told myself. Later, I'd come to realize that it was operational best practices (not "whiz-bang" best practice which is typically finding the coolest way to do something, and there's a difference) of which I was unaware.
Today, I have my MCP, MCSE, MCSA, MCDBA, and MCT, as well as CCNA and Novell CNA. I've found they're well worth the effort to get, if nothing else than to short-circuit the whole question of my credentials with potential employers or tyrant consultants. Usually, the business of credentials comes up when someone wants to take you down a notch. Instead, you come off as the type who is just itching for a fight. Ask yourself this: Do you really want to fight, or do you want to solve problems? And if you want to solve problems, you should recognize that most problems you'll encounter are not technical problems, but people and organizational problems. And people and organizations like alphabet soup, because it gets the technical credentialing crap out of the way!
The federal government, much less NASA, doesn't get local tax exemptions so that they can rent the land to corporations. And just because NASA is charging them "full price" rent, doesn't mean they will when some other corporation that makes the "right" campaign contributions will have to pay "full price".
This arrangement is not fair to the other corporations in the city, and it's not what federal tax exemptions were designed for.
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There may be an endowment fund that this type of expense might already qualify under, they can help you identify if any such monies exist.
If not, try reaching out to alumni, but DO NOT DO THIS ON YOUR OWN. Work with your school's Alumni Relations group. Alumni Relations likely won't agree to start cold-calling random alumni for your pet project. So propose that Alumni Relations cross-references their alumni list with the Ham Radio callbook. Should be an easy database join (match by name and address). You'll get highly qualified hits that should result in excellent yields. And you can have meaningful conversations with Alumni that should help build/rebuild the alumni's connection with the school, even if they don't give.
Join this power-generating capability with Google's recent initiative to provide internet access to sub-Sarahan Africa via blimp: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/26/google-blimps ...and you've got a robust, uninterruptable combination for internet access in the poorest, and the most corrupt nations in the world. Under such circumstances, Google will have great communicative and, perhaps most interestingly, surveillance power over the people under these oppressive governments. It should be interesting how such absolute power, so closely aligned with government interests, affects Google's behavior.
Of course, it could be that Google simply feels these citizens represent a huge market for targeted advertisements for tablet PCs and Lexus vehicles.
Ha. The LENR research at University of Missouri is being performed by the Sidney Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Rennaisance (SKINR). That makes it LENR-SKINR... like the band
Pardon me, but I think you're a bit naive. When one group presents a uniformly evil projection of another, you're witnessing zealotry. Democrats/Republicans, Socialists/Capitalists, Open Source/Closed Source -- both sides produce some good in this world. They wouldn't continue to grow, and good people wouldn't continue to put forth good efforts for their causes for very long if they didn't.
Also, you're ignoring the fact that Slashdot is/was actively squelching those with a pro- (or at least not anti-) position on MS. Believe me, there have been many cases over the years where the site operators were caught futzing with the moderation system to squelch. Speaking for myself, I mysteriously lost mod points, permanently, years ago... and I was never really a very bad boy.
I still enjoy reading the site, but decided not to contribute much to a site where the operators felt the need to be that underhanded in forcing their ideology. I know the site has changed hands and perhaps gotten less heavy-handed as well in the process.
But if you're not reading Slashdot (or any other source of news) with an eye toward teasing out the bias, you're a bit naive.
Panspermia is a very interesting/compelling theory. But I'd avoid telling anyone in academia that you're interested in an Earth genesis hypothesis other than evolution.
You may just as well have told them that you're a pro-lifer, who voted for Bush, are home schooling your kids, believe in a balanced budget, and are a racist all in one sentence.
I forsee myself in your shoes in the next few months. Application-level awareness of our key Microsoft applications (Exchange, MOSS, AD, etc..) are very high on our need list, and so SCOM is a natural best-of-breed pick. However, I *really* want a single integrated solution that also covers our unix/linux systems. Is unix/linux monitoring part of your requirements? If so, could you briefly describe the capabilities (and requirements on the monitored systems) that SCOM currently has in this regard?
I think the chances of this being bio-terrorism just clicked up a notch: According to this article:
The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama's trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico's anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn't confirm if Solis had swine flu or not.
I have absolutely no problem spending $500k per student on education, even if that number weren't horribly inflated by, you know, building places to teach students and hiring people to teach them.
You are aware that we're talking $500k just for a high-school education, right? I guess the money is easy to spend^H^H^H^H^H waste when its not yours.
Now you know why the idea of vouchers generates such spitting hatred and loathing among the politicians most ideologically closest to the unions.
They will tell you that they're concerned about the children. They're not. They're concerned about the gravy train stopping. And their gravy train is much more important than educating your children.
You missed a crucially important point: Tax cuts have an immediate impact on the economy. Stimulus takes months or years to propagate into an economy.
That approach has two side-effects, both horrifying to Washington:
1. The money would be spent on the specific needs of each citizen, and not on the needs of Das Kapital.
2. Any mechanism of consolidation of power to Washington would be eliminated. When "the people" buy a badly needed refrigerator, who will be there to negotiate for another refrigerator for their state senator's vacation home in Florida?
Our schools are foundering. Our internet is slower than any other developed nation. Yet Republicans forced spending on both of those VERY NEEDY PROGRAMS to be cut from this bill.
Our schools are not foundering due to a lack of funding. They are foundering because a powerful public education cartel has driven school spending skyward, making the United States among the world's biggest education spenders, even as student achievement lags.
I think one of the worst things that republicans have done to this country is to make people feel educated on a subject after ingesting a few sound bites.
Then read this in-depth article on education costs run amok in New Jersey. It's fascinating (and not boring) reading. Unfortunately it will pop your misconcpetions about how well-spent our education dollar is. Maybe after reading this, you can give us a soundbite or two about how spending $500,000 per graduating high school student is good for the taxpayer.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_2_new_jersey.html
Where I live (Massachusetts) there has already been a wasteful construction boom in school construction. Cities and towns of modest means have spent hundreds of millions on school construction. It's government run amok. We don't need to federalize this problem.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/03/22/newtons_taj_mahal/
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/03/31/state_plans_school_construction_probe/
Well, I don't know about where you live, but where I do we've already had a mess of wasteful school construction. Cities and towns of modest means have built these "Taj Mahal" schools, sometimes approaching $200 Million.
I don't have a problem with giving construction workers jobs as a stimulus, but let's not be arrogantly wasteful about how we spend the money. It's not JUST about providing short term jobs, it's about putting people to work for the long-term good.
How about fixing our bridges and infrastructure?
Yes. Because we should soon expect the renderer installer alone to consume an entire 4 GB DVD. Adobe Acrobat is the pinnacle of bloatware. No wonder vulnerabilities like these are discovered. It must be easy to poke holes in the 17 gajillion lines of code it takes Adobe to render text.
Sorry. I missed the part where you tell me how this is more secure than Windows.
NIS is a joke of a security protocol... you get access to an NFS server because you are who you say you are?
And the User/Group/World security model of the Kernel only allows a user to be a member of 16 (or 32) groups. I can't think of a single company that needs a user to be a member of more than 16 groups.
If the City of Boston holds any strings whatsoever to the contact, it will surely be a union-driven morass of special kickbacks, perks, and hidden slush funds. They'll be lucky to provide 2400 baud links to a few hundred simultaneous users, after pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars in it.
I can see that copyright law is clearly a priority for early education. Not grammar, or mathematics, but intellectual property and coporate interests. And apparently not even spelling. Check out the last box of this cartoon. What, exactly, is "resrearch"?
You're heavily misinformed if you don't think Microsoft and Time Warner are in cahoots on DRM.
They are both nearly 50% owners in the ContentGuard corporation, which owns the patent rights to virtually all XML rights expression languages. So, you think that XACML is "open" just because it's approved by OASIS. Think again.
Microsoft's implementation of XrML in Vista is a cornerstone of the upcoming product, and XrML is a key product of ContentGuard.
That thread may have had only 3-4 people with the problem, but there are other threads on that board, as well as on www.linksysinfo.org, where people are having the same problem. It appears to be less of a problem for users who are using DSL (in those cases, Linksys recommends tweaking the MTU).
You may have installed 87 Linksys routers in the 12 years you've been keeping records, but how many of them were WRT54G, Version 5? All the prior versions worked great, it's just that Linksys is now selling hobbled routers and introducing a new class of properly-functioning routers for more $$$.
Yes, I'm technical. I hold Cisco CCNA, VMware, Novell CNE (well, for NetWare 5) as well as a lot of Microsoft certifications. I'm a Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCSE, MCDBA, and a few others. So you could say I'm technical. I'm also open minded, so my knee-jerk reaction isn't "Linux" for everything (or Microsoft for that matter).
I work as a consultant for a Microsoft partner, so Microsoft encourages us to get up to speed on their products. I do have MSDN, so the best way for me to get up to speed on situations I frequently encounter is to use the products. I have a lab at home, and so the PII serves many purposes besides functioning as a firewall.
I know a fair bit about Linux as well. I have compiled Kernel, etc... I have no doubt I could get Linux running on the PII, but then I would need another box if I wanted to do Microsoft work, which I enjoy and earn a nice living by doing so.
When I purchased the "new" WRT54G, version 5, I expected a router that would at least have better performance than my old, reliable Pentium-II firewall running Windows 2003 and Routing and Remote Services.
Boy was I wrong. Many sites, such as: http://www.tmobile.com/ http://www.realtor.com/ and http://www.gamespot.com/ all had great difficulty loading. It turns out a **LOT** of other people are having the same problem with the Version 5 WRT54G.
My longstanding issue was finally escalated to Linksys Customer Support (you will be escalated to Customer support after dealing with Technical support). At Customer Support, they RMA'd my v5 router, and replaced it with a v4 router. I demanded that they replace it with a v4 router, and I noted that a *LOT* of people on this bulletin board are having the EXACT same problem.
I have literally spent hours trying to solve this problem on the v5 router. As soon as I plugged the v4 router in, my problems were solved!
Of course, Linksys being a company that enjoys wasting their customers' time by not even admitting a problem, you will be forced to pay for shipping charges. No matter that the item is clearly flawed by engineering defects to begin with. I will never, ever, consider buying a Linksys in the future. What a mistake I made thinking they were a premium brand. The fact that they are going to sell a version that finally works as it should, under a different model number and at a higher price, rather than fix the WRT54G Version 5 tells me that they are not interested in providing a quality product. I hope their strategy blows up in their face!
With 20 years in IT, I used to have the same attitude as you.
Unfortunately, in most corporate environments what matters most is the ability to maintain IT operations (even in the face of staff changes). The fact that you're a whiz-bang in Linux is good, but will others be able to understand -- and build upon -- what you're done? Or are you the type who wants to be perceived as irreplaceable because nobody can understand how things work? Your post itself shows this attitude quite clearly: "Actually, one of the things I probably had going for me at my government job was that they had an old VAX that everyone was afraid of that had been inherited from the previous administration. They seemed to like the fact that I actually knew my way around VMS." You're fooling yourself if you think potential employers don't catch on to your disdain for those who question your credentials.
I used to have the same attitude as you about the exams. Later, I got my MCSE, and was actually surprised to find that I had to learn a few things to pass the exam! "What useless crap", I told myself. Later, I'd come to realize that it was operational best practices (not "whiz-bang" best practice which is typically finding the coolest way to do something, and there's a difference) of which I was unaware.
Today, I have my MCP, MCSE, MCSA, MCDBA, and MCT, as well as CCNA and Novell CNA. I've found they're well worth the effort to get, if nothing else than to short-circuit the whole question of my credentials with potential employers or tyrant consultants. Usually, the business of credentials comes up when someone wants to take you down a notch. Instead, you come off as the type who is just itching for a fight. Ask yourself this: Do you really want to fight, or do you want to solve problems? And if you want to solve problems, you should recognize that most problems you'll encounter are not technical problems, but people and organizational problems. And people and organizations like alphabet soup, because it gets the technical credentialing crap out of the way!
The federal government, much less NASA, doesn't get local tax exemptions so that they can rent the land to corporations. And just because NASA is charging them "full price" rent, doesn't mean they will when some other corporation that makes the "right" campaign contributions will have to pay "full price".
This arrangement is not fair to the other corporations in the city, and it's not what federal tax exemptions were designed for.