This article, and too many of the the comments, are completely clueless. I chose to get a T-Mobile hotspot because of Binge On. My responsibility as a consumer requires some due diligence. I learned that I could stream content from providers for free if they participated in a programs that would reduce the quality of my video to that which could be carried at 1.5 Mbps. Great for a mobile device, tablet, and even a laptop. Not so great for a 4K TV.
But I knew this because it was a hotspot from a mobile provider with a clearly stated policy about what to expect for free. If I wanted to use all of the 6GB I paid for at full resolution watching any video service I wanted, then all I had to do was to turn off Binge On. Wow. Such a violation of my rights as a net user.
Let's repeat. T-Mobile offers a free video feed at 1.5mbps. Free net access at 1.5mbps. How Net Neutral can one be?
Twitter's single biggest mistake, in my humble opinion, was overlooking ride sharing. I don't want to use a paid ride sharing service where I don't know the people, the driver, or what kind of music I will hear during the ride. I would prefer to twit my ride and go with someone I know something about.
They can monetize this quite easily by charging the regulated Taxi industry a small percentage when a twitter user summons their service and pays through their Twitter account. You don't always have a twitter friend nearby when you need a ride. It would be a shame to see a company with so much momentum and promise fail due to hubris.
This guy is a complete Idiot Incarnate. Period. Given his brilliant insights, perhaps he can architect the "simple data pipe" that he suggests T-Mobile implement. How, or why, is this a Slashdot story?
On a personal level, I have always liked the NX Protocol. It's easily installable on Ubuntu or CentOS. You can choose between the free and open source route, or for an enterprise roadmap, NoMachine reigns supreme in my experience.
NoMachine packages its free client/server solution for what seems to be any gnu/linux distro. Its IOS and Android clients are due for release in the coming months and can solve the original poster's "problem". I have no affiliation with nomachine other than being a bit of a fan due to their community commitments.
In all reality it becomes a matter of servers, clients, and protocols that fit within your network's architecture with varying degrees of comfort and performance.
Nicely observed. The path along/behind Kam Highway has improved greatly, they are adding to the windmill farm, and I believe that GE is doing one on Maui.
The insurance - dude - you nailed it. Many, my legislative buddy, Tom Berg, included, have asserted that the true path to traffic relief is uninsured motorist enforcement. It's a good point.
Many on the outside fail to appreciate that we are ripe with opportunity, but are still wrestling with a post-plantation mentality.
Uhh, you cannot be serious, or informed, about rail transport. In 2006 we approved the local funding mechanism, an excise tax increase, in order to cover our share of the mass transit project expense. This was a critical first step to secure federal consideration. Next we approved the Locally Preferred Alternative that established an Elevated Fixed Guideway running from Barber's Point (Kalaeloa) to Salt Lake. This happened last year, and you can see the hearings at youtube.com/sctinc. In November we agreed on the technology to be placed upon this Elevated Fixed Guideway and we, the voters of Oahu, chose fixed rail. It was a stupid choice.
The only thing that should be discussed as innovation in Hawaii is the locally manufactured, grid-rechargeable, small form-factor vehicle that has exclusive access to our elevated fixed guideway that we are paying 6 billion to build with fixed rail. This would require HECO allowing us to pump power back into the grid with an inverter only and no batteries in our small homes. Unfortunately the de-commissioned Barber's Point Naval Air Station sits barren, Hunt Development has lost the financial capacity to develop it, and we are sitting on top of the greatest lost tech opportunity in America. Instead of making these cars, we are importing them while building an Ancient Fixed Rail System.
You, Slashdot readers, need to understand the technology travesty going on here on Oahu. Take if from an empassioned FLOSS advocate who ran for office in 2006, serves on one of our Neighborhood Boards, and who is actively trying to create support for vendor neutral, community owned, FTTX for the developing Ewa Plain. We are so close to something special here.
Dude - the entire Kaneohe Marine Corps Base on Oahu is going off-grid in the next few years with wave, wind, and solar. This is a critical, active, strategic Marine Corps Base in the Pacific Theater. It appears that wind and tidal energy, plus solar, are a bit further along than you currently understand. This is bigger news than the poorly reported rechargeable nonsense.
So, let's be clear, we are talking about the island of Oahu, not the island chain of Hawaii. Each island has different power producers, sources, and strategies. This poster does not seem to understand just how many hundreds of acres we have, out of site of tourists, or that we, as in federal taxpayers, are building a 6 Billion elevated fixed rail that is destined to blight the tourist landscape as much as any solar array 30 miles from Waikiki can. The bigger news is that the Oahu based Kaneohe Marine Corps Base is going off grid and will be producing power in the next few years. Please, moderators, find the people like myself who live on Oahu, who have run for office, who are involved with our development, and who passionately read Slashdot.
Pure Nonsense. The funding mechanism for mass transit was approved two years ago. The locally preferred alernative route, from Barber's Point (Kalaeloa) to Salt Lake, was approved last year. In our most recent election the voters approved the technology to ride on this elevated fixed guideway. We chose rail.
As a resident of Oahu, and closely connected to the sources of this press release, I can assure you that we have not the solar, wind, wave, nor geothermal power infrastructure to provide even 10% of our State's electrical demand. The only thing that should be discussed as innovation in Hawaii is the locally manufactured, grid-rechargeable, small form-factor vehicle that has exclusive access to our elevated fixed guideway that we are paying 6 billion to build with fixed rail. Unfortunately the de-commissioned Barber's Point Naval Air Station sits barren, Hunt Development has lost the financial capacity to develop it, and we are sitting on top of the greatest lost tech opportunity in America. Instead of making these cars, we are importing them while building an Ancient Fixed Rail System.
You, Slashdot, need to understand the technology travesty going on here on Oahu.
Actually, being a resident of Oahu, and being actively and pro-actively involved in local politics, we need more people like you taking the time to testify to OMPO or to your Neighborhood Board or to your elected officials asking for the rapid completion of the Leeward Bike route instead of blindly encouraging people to ride on paths that do not exist.
Two hours? What time of day? Try leaving the North Shore Friday at noon. It will take you 5 hourse, most of it in bumper to bumper traffic, to make it past Makaha. if you don't know this, then you have not driven on Oahu in the last few years.
Pure Nonsense. As a resident of Oahu, and closely connected to the sources of this press release, I can assure you that we have not the solar, wind, wave, nor geothermal power infrastructure to provide even 10% of our State's demand. The only thing that should be discussed as innovation in Hawaii is the locally manufactured, grid-rechargeable, small form-factor vehicle that has exclusive access to our elevated fixed guideway that we are paying 6 billion to build with fixed rail. Unfortunately the de-commissioned Barber's Point Naval Air Station sits barren, Hunt Development has lost the financial capacity to develop it, and we are sitting on top of the greatest lost tech opportunity in America.
Re:Hawaii = Huge Data Center Power Bill
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Pimp My Datacenter
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· Score: 4, Interesting
If you're in Hawaii, you better be pimping the dickens out of your data center. Hawaii has the most expensive electricity in the United States, according to state-by-state energy prices, which show Hawaiian power prices at 16 to 17 cents per kW hour. Actually, with recent cost recovery adjustments, I pay just under.30/kWhr. Yeah, you heard me right.
I thought this was gonna be like an iris-scanning, fully Direct Current, liquid cooled, flywheel-UPSed, heat reclaming technological wonderland. Instead it's just more 'throw money at the first google hit.' Welcome to state expenditures in Hawaii where spending OPM, other people's money, is a work of art.
We have been doing this, successfully, in Hawaii for the last few years. Yes it is true that FOSS can save schools tremendous amounts of money. However, one must remember that ripping and replacing for the sake of idealism serves no one.
Our method of advocacy has been to recycle computers that we in turn donate to schools and non-profits. More often than not we use the K12LTSP in order to take advantage of discarded hardware. It is critical to keep in mind that getting a school to embrace FOSS is only 16% of the work. The real challenge is in creating a competent culture of self-reliance and sustainability, aka Training.
Our position is that if an end-user is comfortable with the GUI in Windows or Mac, then the migration to FOSS is trivial. However, if one struggles with either of the proprietary distros, they can expect to be equally challenged by FOSS. The fact that it is free does not make it easier.
We are at a critical transition in our education system. Schools have no business spending taxpayer dollars on Commodity Computing Solutions. Most NCLB focused apps are web-based. Proprietary, curricula-enhancing apps purchased for stand-alone installs are an entrepreneurial opportunity awaiting you. Code an alternative that is more culturally sensitive to your district's needs. We can no longer afford to spend money on software and hardware that does not contribute to the value of education.
You put your finger on our current initiatives with the Boys and Girls Club, our DOE, and the Makiki Community Library. We are working hard to create Community Technology Centers by partnering with existing institutions. The computer labs we donate are just a start.
Teachings computer literacy with a vendor neutral platform like Linux is the most important goal we have for the next few years. Education is not supposed to be about workforce readiness. That should be a by-product of a solid knowledge base.
Most importantly, teaching computer literacy with Linux does not create a multi-hundred dollar deficit to own the very software you are learning on.
Our schools are not adequately funded because no one likes taxes.
Giving away computers is easy, and we do it well. The hard part is creating a sustainable, self-reliant computer lab that has an educational and economic impact. That is HOSEF's specialty.
We not only set up the lab, we also provide free classes on how to run the lab. We handle server administration until we can get a project leader or teacher to handle these tasks. We provide mailing lists for support. We promise replacement of failed clients, as long as we have them, for the life of the lab. If volunteer support is not enough, we put the school or recipient in touch with Friends of HOSEF for paid support.
I guarantee that there is no other computer lab in the country with a lower total cost of ownership. Period. As an MBA I have no choice but to consider the bottom line.
By using a Linux lab, we return schools to teaching concepts, not vendor skillsets. By using a GUI, they learn how to operate a computer and to use logic and reasoning, not vendor-provided how-tos. Our schools are not a corporate training ground, and OSS solutions provide a competitive array of desktops that don't create a several hundred dollar burden of ownership if you too want that software on your computer.
I have recently begun to work on it full time. I started the
project and took care of the paperwork to incorporate and become
tax-free. The look of the site is the work of one of our very
kind volunteers. All the worthy success in what we do is the work
of volunteers. There is a list, where
you can track the progress of many groups and may find that there are
some NC schools using thin-client labs. I don't know if any are
rural vs. in the Triangle, but I do know that the rural schools are the
one's that could benefit the most.
Don't be discouraged by existing contracts. If the school is not
too crowded, it may just benefit from another lab. If you drum up
the publicity, get a sponsor, and involve the Principal and the PTA,
you can get a server donated and the clients and cabling to boot.
If schools are not reachable, start with your Boys and Girls Club,
YMCA, or other community center. You are the only limit.
You sound like someone who has not actually called on his local schools
to see if they could benefit from a thin client lab. You don't
seem to realize how many "free" computers schools refuse from their
community because they are not "fast" enough for Windows. We have set up thin-client computer
labs for Elementary, Middle, and High Schools here in Hawaii and have
been supporting them for years. We just did one for the Boys and
Girls Club. We use the K12LTSP's
distribution of Linux, and, for less than $3000, we can set up a
30-station lab using donated clients and a custom-built dual opteron
server.
Setting up a lab is not converting "a whole network to a new operating
system." It is a lab. One of our installations is simply a
typing lab. Another is used for Digital Photography. I
really think you should be sure that you have more experience before
you authoritatively state "this is why Skolelinux won't take off for
years." We need you helping your local schools by trying before
making premature conclusions. There is your solution: doing it
rather than talking about why it won't work. If you want clearly
defined steps, contact me.
Incidentally, we are definitely looking into migrating our installs
away from the K12LTSP to Skolelinux. Fedora core vs.
Debian-stable. The perpetuity of Debian and the reliability of
the community make for a very bright future for Skolelinux. Kudos
to the team.
I wish that this article was hysterical. It is dead on.
There is no value to having the best standards based browser when the
content you want or need requires IE. Let us not be so
slashnocentric here.
Want to know what the biggest threat to Linux in the schools is?
It is the administrators who purchase web-based software to address
the NCLB
mandate or other school tasks.
With increasing frequency these applications require some hook that
Windows provides. It is presumably innocent enough. The
product meets the school's needs - The price is right.
~"Yes it does require IE, but we all use IE so no big deal." In
Hawaii we witness this decision being made even while many schools
still use Macs with an unsupported and underdeveloped version of
IE.
We have put nearly 200 computers
into schools and non-profits here. We are running into a lot of
these applications in ourk12ltsp
labs. A concerted effort has been made to let the vendors know
that multi-platform support can result in more sales. We are
letting the DOE administration know that standards compliance is of
utmost importance to our schools. It is a difficult thing to
communicate. The Americans with Disabilities Act may be our
friend. It is in trenches like this that OSS will win or die in
the marketplace.
It is not hysterical to be alarmed that the most attractive feature of
any computer's OS (to the *average* user), it's browser/web access,
stands to be limited by the content providers. We can rest assure
that the future of China and other developing nations will not be based
on using such "standards." This was most recently confirmed at
the IIPI conference
in Hawaii If you find a commerce site that is not W3C compliant, remind them of the
potential market loss. The decision to develop these browser
limiting applications are not always intentional.
An actual reading of tfa will reveal that the Powerbook was more than 10 days old when the friend decided that he did not want it. It was 21 days old when the bidding began.
All I know is that I used to watch Leo and Kate when The Screen Savers first started. This was at least four years ago. He would do an entire Linux install, Live, on the show. They had a Cobalt cube. That show was *way* ahead of its time, and the Linux coverage was impressive. Watching Leo take calls, live, on Call for Help was instructional in grace and poise for me. What a shame to see this jewel undeveloped. It is the future of TV, to some extent.
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I want the neighbor to cross the fence, smack the tablet with a shovel, and say "I don't know what a computer is, either."
This article, and too many of the the comments, are completely clueless. I chose to get a T-Mobile hotspot because of Binge On. My responsibility as a consumer requires some due diligence. I learned that I could stream content from providers for free if they participated in a programs that would reduce the quality of my video to that which could be carried at 1.5 Mbps. Great for a mobile device, tablet, and even a laptop. Not so great for a 4K TV.
But I knew this because it was a hotspot from a mobile provider with a clearly stated policy about what to expect for free. If I wanted to use all of the 6GB I paid for at full resolution watching any video service I wanted, then all I had to do was to turn off Binge On. Wow. Such a violation of my rights as a net user.
Let's repeat. T-Mobile offers a free video feed at 1.5mbps. Free net access at 1.5mbps. How Net Neutral can one be?
Twitter's single biggest mistake, in my humble opinion, was overlooking ride sharing. I don't want to use a paid ride sharing service where I don't know the people, the driver, or what kind of music I will hear during the ride. I would prefer to twit my ride and go with someone I know something about.
They can monetize this quite easily by charging the regulated Taxi industry a small percentage when a twitter user summons their service and pays through their Twitter account. You don't always have a twitter friend nearby when you need a ride. It would be a shame to see a company with so much momentum and promise fail due to hubris.
This guy is a complete Idiot Incarnate. Period. Given his brilliant insights, perhaps he can architect the "simple data pipe" that he suggests T-Mobile implement. How, or why, is this a Slashdot story?
I revived a non-booting MacBook Pro doing this, although I did follow the directions here
http://russell.heistuman.com/2...
and I have a feeling that what really fixed it was re-applying the thermal paste.
With Firefox. Using Ghostery. It's about the safest way I can find to use and be used by Facebook on my Android-based Nexus 4.
On a personal level, I have always liked the NX Protocol. It's easily installable on Ubuntu or CentOS. You can choose between the free and open source route, or for an enterprise roadmap, NoMachine reigns supreme in my experience.
NoMachine packages its free client/server solution for what seems to be any gnu/linux distro. Its IOS and Android clients are due for release in the coming months and can solve the original poster's "problem". I have no affiliation with nomachine other than being a bit of a fan due to their community commitments.
In all reality it becomes a matter of servers, clients, and protocols that fit within your network's architecture with varying degrees of comfort and performance.
Nicely observed. The path along/behind Kam Highway has improved greatly, they are adding to the windmill farm, and I believe that GE is doing one on Maui. The insurance - dude - you nailed it. Many, my legislative buddy, Tom Berg, included, have asserted that the true path to traffic relief is uninsured motorist enforcement. It's a good point. Many on the outside fail to appreciate that we are ripe with opportunity, but are still wrestling with a post-plantation mentality.
Uhh, you cannot be serious, or informed, about rail transport. In 2006 we approved the local funding mechanism, an excise tax increase, in order to cover our share of the mass transit project expense. This was a critical first step to secure federal consideration. Next we approved the Locally Preferred Alternative that established an Elevated Fixed Guideway running from Barber's Point (Kalaeloa) to Salt Lake. This happened last year, and you can see the hearings at youtube.com/sctinc. In November we agreed on the technology to be placed upon this Elevated Fixed Guideway and we, the voters of Oahu, chose fixed rail. It was a stupid choice.
The only thing that should be discussed as innovation in Hawaii is the locally manufactured, grid-rechargeable, small form-factor vehicle that has exclusive access to our elevated fixed guideway that we are paying 6 billion to build with fixed rail. This would require HECO allowing us to pump power back into the grid with an inverter only and no batteries in our small homes. Unfortunately the de-commissioned Barber's Point Naval Air Station sits barren, Hunt Development has lost the financial capacity to develop it, and we are sitting on top of the greatest lost tech opportunity in America. Instead of making these cars, we are importing them while building an Ancient Fixed Rail System.
You, Slashdot readers, need to understand the technology travesty going on here on Oahu. Take if from an empassioned FLOSS advocate who ran for office in 2006, serves on one of our Neighborhood Boards, and who is actively trying to create support for vendor neutral, community owned, FTTX for the developing Ewa Plain. We are so close to something special here.
Dude - the entire Kaneohe Marine Corps Base on Oahu is going off-grid in the next few years with wave, wind, and solar. This is a critical, active, strategic Marine Corps Base in the Pacific Theater. It appears that wind and tidal energy, plus solar, are a bit further along than you currently understand. This is bigger news than the poorly reported rechargeable nonsense.
So, let's be clear, we are talking about the island of Oahu, not the island chain of Hawaii. Each island has different power producers, sources, and strategies. This poster does not seem to understand just how many hundreds of acres we have, out of site of tourists, or that we, as in federal taxpayers, are building a 6 Billion elevated fixed rail that is destined to blight the tourist landscape as much as any solar array 30 miles from Waikiki can. The bigger news is that the Oahu based Kaneohe Marine Corps Base is going off grid and will be producing power in the next few years. Please, moderators, find the people like myself who live on Oahu, who have run for office, who are involved with our development, and who passionately read Slashdot.
Pure Nonsense. The funding mechanism for mass transit was approved two years ago. The locally preferred alernative route, from Barber's Point (Kalaeloa) to Salt Lake, was approved last year. In our most recent election the voters approved the technology to ride on this elevated fixed guideway. We chose rail. As a resident of Oahu, and closely connected to the sources of this press release, I can assure you that we have not the solar, wind, wave, nor geothermal power infrastructure to provide even 10% of our State's electrical demand. The only thing that should be discussed as innovation in Hawaii is the locally manufactured, grid-rechargeable, small form-factor vehicle that has exclusive access to our elevated fixed guideway that we are paying 6 billion to build with fixed rail. Unfortunately the de-commissioned Barber's Point Naval Air Station sits barren, Hunt Development has lost the financial capacity to develop it, and we are sitting on top of the greatest lost tech opportunity in America. Instead of making these cars, we are importing them while building an Ancient Fixed Rail System. You, Slashdot, need to understand the technology travesty going on here on Oahu.
Actually, being a resident of Oahu, and being actively and pro-actively involved in local politics, we need more people like you taking the time to testify to OMPO or to your Neighborhood Board or to your elected officials asking for the rapid completion of the Leeward Bike route instead of blindly encouraging people to ride on paths that do not exist. Two hours? What time of day? Try leaving the North Shore Friday at noon. It will take you 5 hourse, most of it in bumper to bumper traffic, to make it past Makaha. if you don't know this, then you have not driven on Oahu in the last few years.
Pure Nonsense. As a resident of Oahu, and closely connected to the sources of this press release, I can assure you that we have not the solar, wind, wave, nor geothermal power infrastructure to provide even 10% of our State's demand. The only thing that should be discussed as innovation in Hawaii is the locally manufactured, grid-rechargeable, small form-factor vehicle that has exclusive access to our elevated fixed guideway that we are paying 6 billion to build with fixed rail. Unfortunately the de-commissioned Barber's Point Naval Air Station sits barren, Hunt Development has lost the financial capacity to develop it, and we are sitting on top of the greatest lost tech opportunity in America.
Our method of advocacy has been to recycle computers that we in turn donate to schools and non-profits. More often than not we use the K12LTSP in order to take advantage of discarded hardware. It is critical to keep in mind that getting a school to embrace FOSS is only 16% of the work. The real challenge is in creating a competent culture of self-reliance and sustainability, aka Training.
Our position is that if an end-user is comfortable with the GUI in Windows or Mac, then the migration to FOSS is trivial. However, if one struggles with either of the proprietary distros, they can expect to be equally challenged by FOSS. The fact that it is free does not make it easier.
We are at a critical transition in our education system. Schools have no business spending taxpayer dollars on Commodity Computing Solutions. Most NCLB focused apps are web-based. Proprietary, curricula-enhancing apps purchased for stand-alone installs are an entrepreneurial opportunity awaiting you. Code an alternative that is more culturally sensitive to your district's needs. We can no longer afford to spend money on software and hardware that does not contribute to the value of education.
You put your finger on our current initiatives with the Boys and Girls Club, our DOE, and the Makiki Community Library. We are working hard to create Community Technology Centers by partnering with existing institutions. The computer labs we donate are just a start.
Teachings computer literacy with a vendor neutral platform like Linux is the most important goal we have for the next few years. Education is not supposed to be about workforce readiness. That should be a by-product of a solid knowledge base.
Most importantly, teaching computer literacy with Linux does not create a multi-hundred dollar deficit to own the very software you are learning on.
Our schools are not adequately funded because no one likes taxes.
Giving away computers is easy, and we do it well. The hard part is creating a sustainable, self-reliant computer lab that has an educational and economic impact. That is HOSEF's specialty.
We not only set up the lab, we also provide free classes on how to run the lab. We handle server administration until we can get a project leader or teacher to handle these tasks. We provide mailing lists for support. We promise replacement of failed clients, as long as we have them, for the life of the lab. If volunteer support is not enough, we put the school or recipient in touch with Friends of HOSEF for paid support.
I guarantee that there is no other computer lab in the country with a lower total cost of ownership. Period. As an MBA I have no choice but to consider the bottom line.
By using a Linux lab, we return schools to teaching concepts, not vendor skillsets. By using a GUI, they learn how to operate a computer and to use logic and reasoning, not vendor-provided how-tos. Our schools are not a corporate training ground, and OSS solutions provide a competitive array of desktops that don't create a several hundred dollar burden of ownership if you too want that software on your computer.
I have recently begun to work on it full time. I started the project and took care of the paperwork to incorporate and become tax-free. The look of the site is the work of one of our very kind volunteers. All the worthy success in what we do is the work of volunteers. There is a list, where you can track the progress of many groups and may find that there are some NC schools using thin-client labs. I don't know if any are rural vs. in the Triangle, but I do know that the rural schools are the one's that could benefit the most.
Don't be discouraged by existing contracts. If the school is not too crowded, it may just benefit from another lab. If you drum up the publicity, get a sponsor, and involve the Principal and the PTA, you can get a server donated and the clients and cabling to boot. If schools are not reachable, start with your Boys and Girls Club, YMCA, or other community center. You are the only limit.
You sound like someone who has not actually called on his local schools to see if they could benefit from a thin client lab. You don't seem to realize how many "free" computers schools refuse from their community because they are not "fast" enough for Windows. We have set up thin-client computer labs for Elementary, Middle, and High Schools here in Hawaii and have been supporting them for years. We just did one for the Boys and Girls Club. We use the K12LTSP's distribution of Linux, and, for less than $3000, we can set up a 30-station lab using donated clients and a custom-built dual opteron server.
Setting up a lab is not converting "a whole network to a new operating system." It is a lab. One of our installations is simply a typing lab. Another is used for Digital Photography. I really think you should be sure that you have more experience before you authoritatively state "this is why Skolelinux won't take off for years." We need you helping your local schools by trying before making premature conclusions. There is your solution: doing it rather than talking about why it won't work. If you want clearly defined steps, contact me.
Incidentally, we are definitely looking into migrating our installs away from the K12LTSP to Skolelinux. Fedora core vs. Debian-stable. The perpetuity of Debian and the reliability of the community make for a very bright future for Skolelinux. Kudos to the team.
I wish that this article was hysterical. It is dead on. There is no value to having the best standards based browser when the content you want or need requires IE. Let us not be so slashnocentric here.
Want to know what the biggest threat to Linux in the schools is? It is the administrators who purchase web-based software to address the NCLB mandate or other school tasks. With increasing frequency these applications require some hook that Windows provides. It is presumably innocent enough. The product meets the school's needs - The price is right. ~"Yes it does require IE, but we all use IE so no big deal." In Hawaii we witness this decision being made even while many schools still use Macs with an unsupported and underdeveloped version of IE.
We have put nearly 200 computers into schools and non-profits here. We are running into a lot of these applications in ourk12ltsp labs. A concerted effort has been made to let the vendors know that multi-platform support can result in more sales. We are letting the DOE administration know that standards compliance is of utmost importance to our schools. It is a difficult thing to communicate. The Americans with Disabilities Act may be our friend. It is in trenches like this that OSS will win or die in the marketplace.
It is not hysterical to be alarmed that the most attractive feature of any computer's OS (to the *average* user), it's browser/web access, stands to be limited by the content providers. We can rest assure that the future of China and other developing nations will not be based on using such "standards." This was most recently confirmed at the IIPI conference in Hawaii If you find a commerce site that is not W3C compliant, remind them of the potential market loss. The decision to develop these browser limiting applications are not always intentional.
An actual reading of tfa will reveal that the Powerbook was more than 10 days old when the friend decided that he did not want it. It was 21 days old when the bidding began.
All I know is that I used to watch Leo and Kate when The Screen Savers first started. This was at least four years ago. He would do an entire Linux install, Live, on the show. They had a Cobalt cube. That show was *way* ahead of its time, and the Linux coverage was impressive. Watching Leo take calls, live, on Call for Help was instructional in grace and poise for me. What a shame to see this jewel undeveloped. It is the future of TV, to some extent.
The only fight I ever had was after I wrote
10 PRINT "Carl is an idiot"
20 GOTO 10
Never was a Commodore Pet more incendiary.
Needless to say, our 7th grade "fight" was as meaningless as the program.
I loved BASIC. I can call myself a programmer because of it.