I am the co-director of my schools tech dept. We have around 500 students tops. We use lastname_first-name. Mine being an exception, strunk_l , because I added it to the user list cause I am so lazy and log into to many machines in one day. Also, we didn't standardize early, and many teachers where using last_first-initial to begin with, and since many teachers are very computer illiterate, we decided not to change it. All the students use the last_first though.
It has some problems, such as having two Mrs. Yeagers. So we have Yeager_C1 & Yeager_C2
What I would like to do when update the servers this summer is a better naming convention. I would like Department_Last_First-initial. Example being Art_Henry_J Although that is what first comes to mind, I may think of a better one soon.
I can see that you would be able to accomplish this would be to have a gateway/router for every jack in every room. It would be just as easy to put a computer in every room (and I would rather that money be put in new bed sheets and mattereses:-)
So.. My suggestion is is to just show the staff how to setup DHCP. First, only support windows and Mac (version 9ish and up). Don't support Linux, BSD, Os/2 etc, because if they are using this, they will more than likely already know how to set it up. Then, train the staff, seriously, It's not as hard as it seems, I've done it. In windows (and possibly mac, I've never used it much) make sure the hotel has all the cds they will need (or just put all the tcp/ip drivers on one CD). Show the staff how to install tcp/ip, turn on DCHP, turn on proxy if your using it, and then test it. Walla, your done!
and its kinda strange too, that this article is on slashdot. Because I just finished "The Terminal Man" By Michael Crichton. About almost the same thing, except electrodes where implanted in a guy to stop seizures, and stuff goes wrong
I recently became an usher at a local theatre, I was really excited because I get free tickets for movies. My boss just told me that every cool movie this summer (spiderman, AoTC, etc) is what is called "no passes" where the film company will not allow the theatres to give out free passes to employees for like 60 days. I am still pissed. Atleast Thursday I get to go to the screening with just employees, which kicks arse!
Alot of gamers are in college or below, and have no money. I make 6$ an hour, there is no way I would even spend 2$ a month on this subscription service. And I am sure that 99.99% of others agree with me on that. Is that.01% of people who actually pay going to make them more money than the 100% of people that would otherwise just deal with the ads? If gamespot charges, now I will just go somewhere else. Until it is a proprietary service, and gamespot only offers it, will I pay. And I still probably won't pay either! This is just like fileplanet. Either pay 50$ a year, or wait in line for an hour. I just run an internet search on the file and get it elsewhere, its not like they are the only ones with it.
HAHAHAHA, thats funny. Just go to your local school district, and say "Hi, would you like me to install linux on all your computers, for free?" They will not want you to. Almost every compsci teacher in a highschool is either a. convinced there is nothing but microsoft b. anything but microsoft/apple is illegal c. Linux is evil d. Linux is hard
Trust me, I've tried. I brought up linux with the computer teacher at my school, and he said "is that that OS those freakin long haired geeks out in Colorado came up with?!" I finally did get a full lab setup this year, cause I'm now the tech dude, but no one wants to use it. I made it extremly simple, huge netscape icon, and all they use it for is web surfing. From what I hear it is that the teachers are just to unfamiliar with it. And don't even think about trying to reteach a teacher. Everyone I've ever tried to teach something to just stares blankly at me like "I didn't become a teacher to learn more shit, go the fuck away!" and either they ignore you, they forget, and the rare few that likes it do come along, but its rare.
It all gets better next year. We will have having Win2k and Terminal servers on everything. But when I asked what keeps them from press alt+f12 or whatever to get back into windows and screwing with stuff, he just stared at me and said not to tell anyone!
I've turned a Pro-microsoft Unix Basher around to the point at which they came to me and asked me to setup a *nix lab for them. It was my Partner at my volunteer job thingy at school. I am the co-director of the CNE High school Tech Dept. There is me, and my partner, Rob. Rob lies, rob lies alot. At the beginning of the year, he had me convinced he has his A+, his MCSE, and an Associates Degree in Comp Sci, aswell as 2k$ in Microsoft stocks. Since then, I have found none of this to be true, yet he does know a damn lot about adminning NT and somewhat of 98. I take more care of the teachers computers, the lab computers, and stuff like that. I make sure defrag is ran in all the labs and on all the teachers computers monthly, etc, etc. I also upgrade, fix, and repair. I can strip a computer to the mobo and have it back together in 2 minutes, Rob can re-install NT from corrupted back-up tapes. Anywho, I setup a linux lab (redhat 7.1 with XFS and icewm for those who want to know) as an internet surfing lab at the middleschool. So far since November all I've had happen is one X server crap itself, and I just re-ghosted it. Rob manages the 98 lab (I keep it running, it just installs software and such.) Imagine 5 groups of 30 highschoolers a day in there. It is not fun. Stuff gets deleted, uninstalled, one machine had 10 copies of AIM installed, etc. Then there is the 486 Lab, which is primarily for typing and some internet research. After seeing the sucess of my Linux lab (some students are supposedly confused by it, but I don't see how, Netscape is pre-started and that is all there is), he finally came to me and said, "I want to put linux in the 486 lab". know that any current distro would be slower than my overweight grandma, and that no older ones would easily allow a journaled FS to be setup, we are now planning on installing QNX R4, but its similar enough to be counted, eh?
My mom works for a business very much like Herbalife, called Eola. Its a pyramid network marketing type thing, but it brings in around 2k$ a month, and thats just working on it 10ish hours a week. Year before last, we even won a cruise in the Bahamas for free, because so many people signed up underneath my mom in the pyramid
Eudora would be a great email client, if it weren't for a few things. 1. I don't believe it is out for Linux 2. Wierd ass server naming conventiongs. Your server name is usually like, mail.myrealbox.com in netscape, Yet in Eudora it ends up being, Username@imap.myrealbox.com, and sometimes that even doesn't work, its strange. 3. Buggy as crap, and doesn't like alot of servers from what I can figure 4. Ok, joke error messages are funny, if you know what they are supposed to mean. "I sent the password to the server, and said, shhhh, don't tell anyone, and the server said....shhhh....this..won't work." Ok, is it a bad password, bad server naming convention, or a dozen others. I've seen it do this when I know my net connection is down, so its like, WTF!
Good stuff 1. multiple email boxes/servers/usernames 2. Easy to set rules 3. easy interface 4. tech support is disant from the one time I used it. 5. the only problems with the free one is that there are adds on the bottom left, very small noninvasive adds. 6. you can do cool crap like not only mark an email as read, but mark it with 10 different colors, so you can seperate them between clients/problems or etc.
At my school I am a co-director of the Tech Dept. We has a server room (that used to be a radio broadcasting room), with a nice AC unit. We have 2 compaq big servers, and 4 hubs, 3 switches, and 4 ciscos. Atleast once a week I come in in the morning to find that my partner has turned off the AC because he was cold, and the room goes to over a 100degrees. Make it a rule, or just lose the control, so that employees can't mess with the AC.
This movie sucked. I saw it last night with some friends. Lets give it a run down. 1. That damn trailer for "Spirit" needs to be cut, it almost made me walk out of the theatre. 2. I did like the walking down the hallway scene, that was kinda cool. 3. I could understand how hollywood would want to make it a better plot by having the guy go back to save his gal, but the 4 years he was working on the machine, it gave no detail on how it was built, how it worked, etc. Which i guess is better than making something up though and making it sound stupid like "it works on the plank reaction of sub-atomic quarks in the 5th dimension" or something. 4. The Morlocks where freakin scary looking, I almost jumped out of my seat when the first one jumped in front of the screen. 5. The Eloi looked like mullato's, and thats it, in millions of years, alot more evolution should have happened, look at the morlocks! 6. I remember hearing about in the book (I haven't read it yet, but I am going to) that some eloi fasted because the Morlocks controlled them through their food. In the movie it just had that stupid dream, and thats it! 7. "Just follow the breathing" WTF!!! Ok, that iron face thing was in the dream, but how in the hell did the guy know how to get there?! 8. That computer, how the fuck was it powered for 30 million years, no less, how did it stay intact, etc.
Thats about it. There was this woman in front of me I just about killed. She laughed at everything. "So help me I'll resequence your DNA" "HHAHAHAHAHAHAH, AHAHAHA, HAHAHHAHA, DNA!!! HAHAHA" !!!!ARGHH!!!!! She even laughed at the Eloi language. I hate freakin stupid people.
I disagree with you sir, I have many many Simpsons, Futurama and Family Guy episodes ripped onto my computer that I've downloaded from Gnutella. I'm not going to buy them, and there is no way I can. Same way with my music, I have over 1200 mp3's on my computer. I have never, ever, ever bought a CD in my life. I repeat, never have I bought a CD. I used to hate music until I found MP3s. To get around the fact I'd have to make them into CDs for my car, I am putting an old Celeron in my car to play them on my stereo. I also have about 10 movies on my computer in the divx format. Lets see...Ace Ventura, Remember the Titans, Office Space, Big Daddy, several of the Star Trek movies, and many more. I haven't bought a DVD ever, in fact, the only DVD player in my house is in my moms computer, and its a 1st generation sucky one.
I've tried several different types of Firewall distros. Coyote, Smoothwall, that Mandrake one, etc. I finally settled on Freesco, because it runs off the fat32 filesystem. All of the other ones are basesed on non-journaling Filesystems (Ext2). And my electric goes out quite frequently.
Make this in a tube, so that you could flex it to aim, you could shoot around corners, and just increase the length of your tubeing (and magnets) for a stronger gun.
www.mp3car.com go the the BBS, the link is at the bottom of the page. Let them know lstrunk sent you. Currently, I'm putting a celeron 300a in my car, with a 4x20 LCD, a numeric keypad, and it runs *ghasp* windows 98 SE with winamp set as shell. I decided to do that because I was to lazy, and winamp has all the plugins I need for everything. It boots in about 30 seconds.
Also by 2006, scenes from blockbuster dinosaur film "Jurassic Park" could take a step closer to
reality when the first extinct organism is brought back to life, he predicts. Already been done, 2 years ago actually, an Asian Gaur was cloned from the last remaining specimen after it died.
I rarely ever got telemarketing calls.
Last week I applied for a telemarketing job.
Within hours I started getting calls, and I've gotten 5 a day since.
Sir, you need to CRAM IT WITH WALNUTS!
Its not like I'm saying "Mrs. so&So I'm gonna kill you", its more like "psst..Hey man, you wanna toss in 100$ for an assasin."
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I am the co-director of my schools tech dept.
We have around 500 students tops. We use lastname_first-name. Mine being an exception, strunk_l , because I added it to the user list cause I am so lazy and log into to many machines in one day.
Also, we didn't standardize early, and many teachers where using last_first-initial to begin with, and since many teachers are very computer illiterate, we decided not to change it. All the students use the last_first though.
It has some problems, such as having two Mrs. Yeagers. So we have Yeager_C1 & Yeager_C2
What I would like to do when update the servers this summer is a better naming convention. I would like Department_Last_First-initial.
Example being Art_Henry_J Although that is what first comes to mind, I may think of a better one soon.
I can see that you would be able to accomplish this would be to have a gateway/router for every jack in every room. It would be just as easy to put a computer in every room (and I would rather that money be put in new bed sheets and mattereses :-)
So.. My suggestion is is to just show the staff how to setup DHCP. First, only support windows and Mac (version 9ish and up). Don't support Linux, BSD, Os/2 etc, because if they are using this, they will more than likely already know how to set it up.
Then, train the staff, seriously, It's not as hard as it seems, I've done it. In windows (and possibly mac, I've never used it much) make sure the hotel has all the cds they will need (or just put all the tcp/ip drivers on one CD). Show the staff how to install tcp/ip, turn on DCHP, turn on proxy if your using it, and then test it.
Walla, your done!
and its kinda strange too, that this article is on slashdot. Because I just finished "The Terminal Man" By Michael Crichton. About almost the same thing, except electrodes where implanted in a guy to stop seizures, and stuff goes wrong
I recently became an usher at a local theatre, I was really excited because I get free tickets for movies. My boss just told me that every cool movie this summer (spiderman, AoTC, etc) is what is called "no passes" where the film company will not allow the theatres to give out free passes to employees for like 60 days. I am still pissed. Atleast Thursday I get to go to the screening with just employees, which kicks arse!
Alot of gamers are in college or below, and have no money. I make 6$ an hour, there is no way I would even spend 2$ a month on this subscription service. And I am sure that 99.99% of others agree with me on that. Is that .01% of people who actually pay going to make them more money than the 100% of people that would otherwise just deal with the ads?
If gamespot charges, now I will just go somewhere else. Until it is a proprietary service, and gamespot only offers it, will I pay. And I still probably won't pay either! This is just like fileplanet. Either pay 50$ a year, or wait in line for an hour. I just run an internet search on the file and get it elsewhere, its not like they are the only ones with it.
HAHAHAHA, thats funny.
Just go to your local school district, and say "Hi, would you like me to install linux on all your computers, for free?"
They will not want you to. Almost every compsci teacher in a highschool is either
a. convinced there is nothing but microsoft
b. anything but microsoft/apple is illegal
c. Linux is evil
d. Linux is hard
Trust me, I've tried. I brought up linux with the computer teacher at my school, and he said "is that that OS those freakin long haired geeks out in Colorado came up with?!"
I finally did get a full lab setup this year, cause I'm now the tech dude, but no one wants to use it. I made it extremly simple, huge netscape icon, and all they use it for is web surfing. From what I hear it is that the teachers are just to unfamiliar with it.
And don't even think about trying to reteach a teacher. Everyone I've ever tried to teach something to just stares blankly at me like "I didn't become a teacher to learn more shit, go the fuck away!" and either they ignore you, they forget, and the rare few that likes it do come along, but its rare.
It all gets better next year.
We will have having Win2k and Terminal servers on everything. But when I asked what keeps them from press alt+f12 or whatever to get back into windows and screwing with stuff, he just stared at me and said not to tell anyone!
I've turned a Pro-microsoft Unix Basher around to the point at which they came to me and asked me to setup a *nix lab for them.
It was my Partner at my volunteer job thingy at school. I am the co-director of the CNE High school Tech Dept. There is me, and my partner, Rob. Rob lies, rob lies alot. At the beginning of the year, he had me convinced he has his A+, his MCSE, and an Associates Degree in Comp Sci, aswell as 2k$ in Microsoft stocks. Since then, I have found none of this to be true, yet he does know a damn lot about adminning NT and somewhat of 98. I take more care of the teachers computers, the lab computers, and stuff like that. I make sure defrag is ran in all the labs and on all the teachers computers monthly, etc, etc. I also upgrade, fix, and repair. I can strip a computer to the mobo and have it back together in 2 minutes, Rob can re-install NT from corrupted back-up tapes.
Anywho, I setup a linux lab (redhat 7.1 with XFS and icewm for those who want to know) as an internet surfing lab at the middleschool. So far since November all I've had happen is one X server crap itself, and I just re-ghosted it.
Rob manages the 98 lab (I keep it running, it just installs software and such.) Imagine 5 groups of 30 highschoolers a day in there. It is not fun. Stuff gets deleted, uninstalled, one machine had 10 copies of AIM installed, etc.
Then there is the 486 Lab, which is primarily for typing and some internet research. After seeing the sucess of my Linux lab (some students are supposedly confused by it, but I don't see how, Netscape is pre-started and that is all there is), he finally came to me and said, "I want to put linux in the 486 lab". know that any current distro would be slower than my overweight grandma, and that no older ones would easily allow a journaled FS to be setup, we are now planning on installing QNX R4, but its similar enough to be counted, eh?
She doesn't put up fliers.
She has no advertising other than her website, which I will not post here, because you idiots might screw with her.
My mom works for a business very much like Herbalife, called Eola. Its a pyramid network marketing type thing, but it brings in around 2k$ a month, and thats just working on it 10ish hours a week. Year before last, we even won a cruise in the Bahamas for free, because so many people signed up underneath my mom in the pyramid
Eudora would be a great email client, if it weren't for a few things. ..won't work." Ok, is it a bad password, bad server naming convention, or a dozen others. I've seen it do this when I know my net connection is down, so its like, WTF!
1. I don't believe it is out for Linux
2. Wierd ass server naming conventiongs. Your server name is usually like, mail.myrealbox.com in netscape, Yet in Eudora it ends up being, Username@imap.myrealbox.com, and sometimes that even doesn't work, its strange.
3. Buggy as crap, and doesn't like alot of servers from what I can figure
4. Ok, joke error messages are funny, if you know what they are supposed to mean. "I sent the password to the server, and said, shhhh, don't tell anyone, and the server said....shhhh....this
Good stuff
1. multiple email boxes/servers/usernames
2. Easy to set rules
3. easy interface
4. tech support is disant from the one time I used it.
5. the only problems with the free one is that there are adds on the bottom left, very small noninvasive adds.
6. you can do cool crap like not only mark an email as read, but mark it with 10 different colors, so you can seperate them between clients/problems or etc.
NO!!! Jeff Goldblum will play Gorden Freeman, and thats it!
I want one to quiet down my neighbour's loud dogs. .22 in place of the quiet machine
I suggest a
that is is EM radiation.
Want to know how to check?
See if your balls are shrunken!
At my school I am a co-director of the Tech Dept.
We has a server room (that used to be a radio broadcasting room), with a nice AC unit. We have 2 compaq big servers, and 4 hubs, 3 switches, and 4 ciscos. Atleast once a week I come in in the morning to find that my partner has turned off the AC because he was cold, and the room goes to over a 100degrees. Make it a rule, or just lose the control, so that employees can't mess with the AC.
My biology teacher will Throw as hard as he can (mind you, this is the Wrestling and football coach) chalk erasers are bad or sleeping kids.
This movie sucked.
I saw it last night with some friends.
Lets give it a run down.
1. That damn trailer for "Spirit" needs to be cut, it almost made me walk out of the theatre.
2. I did like the walking down the hallway scene, that was kinda cool.
3. I could understand how hollywood would want to make it a better plot by having the guy go back to save his gal, but the 4 years he was working on the machine, it gave no detail on how it was built, how it worked, etc. Which i guess is better than making something up though and making it sound stupid like "it works on the plank reaction of sub-atomic quarks in the 5th dimension" or something.
4. The Morlocks where freakin scary looking, I almost jumped out of my seat when the first one jumped in front of the screen.
5. The Eloi looked like mullato's, and thats it, in millions of years, alot more evolution should have happened, look at the morlocks!
6. I remember hearing about in the book (I haven't read it yet, but I am going to) that some eloi fasted because the Morlocks controlled them through their food. In the movie it just had that stupid dream, and thats it!
7. "Just follow the breathing" WTF!!! Ok, that iron face thing was in the dream, but how in the hell did the guy know how to get there?!
8. That computer, how the fuck was it powered for 30 million years, no less, how did it stay intact, etc.
Thats about it.
There was this woman in front of me I just about killed. She laughed at everything. "So help me I'll resequence your DNA" "HHAHAHAHAHAHAH, AHAHAHA, HAHAHHAHA, DNA!!! HAHAHA"
!!!!ARGHH!!!!!
She even laughed at the Eloi language. I hate freakin stupid people.
I disagree with you sir,
I have many many Simpsons, Futurama and Family Guy episodes ripped onto my computer that I've downloaded from Gnutella. I'm not going to buy them, and there is no way I can.
Same way with my music, I have over 1200 mp3's on my computer. I have never, ever, ever bought a CD in my life. I repeat, never have I bought a CD.
I used to hate music until I found MP3s. To get around the fact I'd have to make them into CDs for my car, I am putting an old Celeron in my car to play them on my stereo.
I also have about 10 movies on my computer in the divx format. Lets see...Ace Ventura, Remember the Titans, Office Space, Big Daddy, several of the Star Trek movies, and many more.
I haven't bought a DVD ever, in fact, the only DVD player in my house is in my moms computer, and its a 1st generation sucky one.
No, I know its not Journaled, but its close enough.
I've tried several different types of Firewall distros. Coyote, Smoothwall, that Mandrake one, etc. I finally settled on Freesco, because it runs off the fat32 filesystem. All of the other ones are basesed on non-journaling Filesystems (Ext2). And my electric goes out quite frequently.
Make this in a tube, so that you could flex it to aim, you could shoot around corners, and just increase the length of your tubeing (and magnets) for a stronger gun.
www.mp3car.com go the the BBS, the link is at the bottom of the page.
Let them know lstrunk sent you.
Currently, I'm putting a celeron 300a in my car, with a 4x20 LCD, a numeric keypad, and it runs *ghasp* windows 98 SE with winamp set as shell.
I decided to do that because I was to lazy, and winamp has all the plugins I need for everything.
It boots in about 30 seconds.
Also by 2006, scenes from blockbuster dinosaur film "Jurassic Park" could take a step closer to
reality when the first extinct organism is brought back to life, he predicts.
Already been done, 2 years ago actually, an Asian Gaur was cloned from the last remaining specimen after it died.
I rarely ever got telemarketing calls.
Last week I applied for a telemarketing job.
Within hours I started getting calls, and I've gotten 5 a day since.
Sir, you need to CRAM IT WITH WALNUTS! Its not like I'm saying "Mrs. so&So I'm gonna kill you", its more like "psst..Hey man, you wanna toss in 100$ for an assasin."