I was so happy to see Wake finally dropping Netscape 4 as their default broswer this past year;it made my life and my job much easier. Of course, it'll be better in the fall when everyone's default browser will be Moz, instead of it just pertaining to 1/2 the school.
I worked in the ZSR all last year, and was hoping that we'd switch our search terminals to Moz as well. But no such luck! Some moron at Circ switched them to IE, even after the rest of the school had been switched to Moz!
Here in Japan, nearly everyone has "paka-paka" (clamshell) phones with cameras. They're really useful for surreptitiously taking pictures of odd people on the train... The best thing is that they're all priced under $120 dollars, and most you can get for free with any calling plan. Cell phone service in Japan should be a model for America: not only are all incoming calls free, you're always covered by a network and the customer service is excellent. The newest thing being advertised here, btw, is "Movie Mail", where you can use your phone to take movies, complete with sound, and send them to your friends. AU has some promo stuff. This looks unbelievably cool.
Ok, I'm at Kansai Gaidai right this second, and my roommates and I want to find the porn machine! Where is it? We found the battery machine and the machine that dispenses cartons of milk...not to mention the \500 condom machine. But where is the porn?
Don't forget that some colleges give students computers. At Wake Forest , everyone gets a new IBM think pad every two years. (Perfect for formatting and installing Linux, I might add).
Also, you should ask to see the CS student lab areas. We have many (Windows/Mac) computer labs for undergrads, but only 2 for CS students (various unix machines).
The most important thing is to meet current CS students. Go to a class or two with them, ask about good and bad professors and classes, etc. Talking with the students at a college is the best way to see what a school is like without being fed all the BS by the admissions people.
Well, since I already have this to match my boyfriend, nothing would be nicer than another T-shirt to proclaim my geekiness to the world.
And, boys, don't forget to make it a night she won't forget of champagne, roses, chocolates, and patching your kernels together.
For the past few months, I've been alternately using Win2K and Redhat 7.2 on my Thinkpad A20m. After upgrading my Win partition from 98 to 2K, I will say that I have experienced much greater stability with 2K. However, the installation process was horrific, and Win2K did not detect my ethernet card or my modem during installation. Redhat 7.1, which I had installed a bit earlier, detected my ethernet card during the installation process, and I was easily able to install a patch for my winmodem. Today, my 2K partition still does not recognize my modem, despite many hours of struggle with drivers. I gladly use linux for my day-to-day work online and use Opera for crash-free browsing. I have given Win2K much of my time and given it a fair chance; I do not use it often because it is just not as good as linux, not because I have some unsubstantiated anti-MS bias.
And for the record, I've spent lots of time playing SSX Tricky with my brother on his Game Cube, and I've fallen in love with Nintendo all over again. I never had a Game Boy as a kid, but am seriously contemplating getting a GBA when I can spare the cash. It's just a great system for people of any age.
I'm an 18 year old geek type, and though many of my peers are online/ computer literate, I worry about what they do. Many of my classmates use their computers for three things: AIM, Gnutella, and writing the odd paper. They propigate viruses cheerfully and unknowingly, and knock on my door at all times of the day, asking, "Why won't x work?" after they've destroyed their computer due to their sheer ignorance despite being "trained" and equipped with their own university supplied computers, no less.
The few people on campus who know how to actually use their computers/the network have the ability to bring the other 99% of the campus to their knees in a matter of seconds.
So, between the masses unwittingly damaging the network unknowingly and the script kiddies doing so malevolently, I worry.
See, I tried the AT&T service for a month while keeping my old (and still not steller) ISP account. Since I'm a current AT&T customer, I thought I'd be getting decent enough service with the low price as a perk. Um, wrong.
Not only was there an annoying ad bar for this PAID service, but the connection was slow, hard to connect to, and I was randomly disconnected every 5 minutes or so or if I was idle for too long. This to me was exactly the same kind of service I got through NetZero, but at least that was free.
Needless to say, I'm still with my local ISP.
Just maybe this company has a chance, as long as it provides decent enough service, or at least better than your typical overloaded AT&T/AOL line.
I can only imagine the problems, not to mention the dubious legality, of an online court.
So, how are we to get sufficient security to prevent hacks to change verdicts or to be able verify the identity of the participants?
Nice idea for the future, but not at all possible today.
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I was so happy to see Wake finally dropping Netscape 4 as their default broswer this past year;it made my life and my job much easier. Of course, it'll be better in the fall when everyone's default browser will be Moz, instead of it just pertaining to 1/2 the school.
I worked in the ZSR all last year, and was hoping that we'd switch our search terminals to Moz as well. But no such luck! Some moron at Circ switched them to IE, even after the rest of the school had been switched to Moz!
Here in Japan, nearly everyone has "paka-paka" (clamshell) phones with cameras. They're really useful for surreptitiously taking pictures of odd people on the train...
The best thing is that they're all priced under $120 dollars, and most you can get for free with any calling plan. Cell phone service in Japan should be a model for America: not only are all incoming calls free, you're always covered by a network and the customer service is excellent.
The newest thing being advertised here, btw, is "Movie Mail", where you can use your phone to take movies, complete with sound, and send them to your friends. AU has some promo stuff. This looks unbelievably cool.
Ok, I'm at Kansai Gaidai right this second, and my roommates and I want to find the porn machine! Where is it? We found the battery machine and the machine that dispenses cartons of milk...not to mention the \500 condom machine. But where is the porn?
Not that I ever use my Win2K partition, but at this point, I'd rather give the script kiddies a chance"to (access)the user's system with the ability to add, change or delete data and perform other functions" than let M$ have the same access(with far more insidious motives, I'm sure.)
Don't forget that some colleges give students computers. At Wake Forest , everyone gets a new IBM think pad every two years. (Perfect for formatting and installing Linux, I might add).
Also, you should ask to see the CS student lab areas. We have many (Windows/Mac) computer labs for undergrads, but only 2 for CS students (various unix machines).
The most important thing is to meet current CS students. Go to a class or two with them, ask about good and bad professors and classes, etc. Talking with the students at a college is the best way to see what a school is like without being fed all the BS by the admissions people.
Well, since I already have this to match my boyfriend, nothing would be nicer than another T-shirt to proclaim my geekiness to the world.
And, boys, don't forget to make it a night she won't forget of champagne, roses, chocolates, and patching your kernels together.
For the past few months, I've been alternately using Win2K and Redhat 7.2 on my Thinkpad A20m. After upgrading my Win partition from 98 to 2K, I will say that I have experienced much greater stability with 2K. However, the installation process was horrific, and Win2K did not detect my ethernet card or my modem during installation. Redhat 7.1, which I had installed a bit earlier, detected my ethernet card during the installation process, and I was easily able to install a patch for my winmodem. Today, my 2K partition still does not recognize my modem, despite many hours of struggle with drivers. I gladly use linux for my day-to-day work online and use Opera for crash-free browsing. I have given Win2K much of my time and given it a fair chance; I do not use it often because it is just not as good as linux, not because I have some unsubstantiated anti-MS bias.
And for the record, I've spent lots of time playing SSX Tricky with my brother on his Game Cube, and I've fallen in love with Nintendo all over again. I never had a Game Boy as a kid, but am seriously contemplating getting a GBA when I can spare the cash. It's just a great system for people of any age.
CM's just keep popping out of the woodwork. :)
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The sad fact is that I first heard of the Beast on
The few people on campus who know how to actually use their computers/the network have the ability to bring the other 99% of the campus to their knees in a matter of seconds.
So, between the masses unwittingly damaging the network unknowingly and the script kiddies doing so malevolently, I worry.
Not only was there an annoying ad bar for this PAID service, but the connection was slow, hard to connect to, and I was randomly disconnected every 5 minutes or so or if I was idle for too long. This to me was exactly the same kind of service I got through NetZero, but at least that was free. Needless to say, I'm still with my local ISP.
Just maybe this company has a chance, as long as it provides decent enough service, or at least better than your typical overloaded AT&T/AOL line.
C'mon, just download the client. You know you want to know what ARM has to say.
Nice idea for the future, but not at all possible today.