Speaking of having a school situation.. it _could_ be useful. A "barebones" install could be great in a teaching situation, and if something stuffs up, a four-minute downtime and voila, back up and running. I've taught Introductory Linux in my old college (year 11, 12 - im Australian) and how I would have loved to have had a box for each of the students; maybe this will pave the way for making this viable. If it is true, and classes like this become more of a commonality, then isn't that good for the Linux community? If it does work, it's bloody great opportunity to get Linux into the spotlight and demonstrate it for what it is: powerful, functional while still being as minimalistic as you please, and not as daunting as people think it is.
There were days when Telstra's service were quite acceptable. Once. It seems not so any more; they let down many of their customers, both Residential and Business, in both the Internet and Telco sectors.
Unfortunately, it is in the Telstra T&C that they only have to _guarantee_ a customer (Res. or Bus.) 2400baud (yes, baud; dont start a flame war, I know the difference between bps and baud) on any phone line. Which is a real pr*ck if you like downloading stuff fast from your local ISP (oh, who inevitably buys connectivity from Telstra Internet, a 'wholly separate' entity *cough* *cough*). BUT, if you want your phone line fixed.. ring up their Support line and tell them you're a BigPond (Telstra's Home Internet service) customer, even if you aren't, and voila, spiffy new phone line that'll hold 48,000 for hours. Unless you're on a PairGain system. And don't get me started there, suffice to say that if anyone else in the street makes a phone call you get disconnected. Shit eh.
Kudos Rob, Hemos et al. Slashdot is my daily read, and I've also introduced a few paeople into it who, as I do, realise the value of this place. Here's to another 100 million more:> PS. Pity it had to be a Mac user.... JUST KIDDING.
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For the CS department at my university, we have:
alacritas (alacrity)
depravitas (depravity)
vanitas (vanity)
profanitas (profanity)
etc
In Information Systems:
Boston
Manhattan
Chicago
On my next door neighbour's LAN:
ghost
spectre
demon
wraith
vampire
spirit
Yeah.
Speaking of having a school situation.. it _could_ be useful. A "barebones" install could be great in a teaching situation, and if something stuffs up, a four-minute downtime and voila, back up and running. I've taught Introductory Linux in my old college (year 11, 12 - im Australian) and how I would have loved to have had a box for each of the students; maybe this will pave the way for making this viable. If it is true, and classes like this become more of a commonality, then isn't that good for the Linux community? If it does work, it's bloody great opportunity to get Linux into the spotlight and demonstrate it for what it is: powerful, functional while still being as minimalistic as you please, and not as daunting as people think it is.
Vive la Linux.
There were days when Telstra's service were quite acceptable. Once. It seems not so any more; they let down many of their customers, both Residential and Business, in both the Internet and Telco sectors.
Unfortunately, it is in the Telstra T&C that they only have to _guarantee_ a customer (Res. or Bus.) 2400baud (yes, baud; dont start a flame war, I know the difference between bps and baud) on any phone line. Which is a real pr*ck if you like downloading stuff fast from your local ISP (oh, who inevitably buys connectivity from Telstra Internet, a 'wholly separate' entity *cough* *cough*). BUT, if you want your phone line fixed.. ring up their Support line and tell them you're a BigPond (Telstra's Home Internet service) customer, even if you aren't, and voila, spiffy new phone line that'll hold 48,000 for hours. Unless you're on a PairGain system. And don't get me started there, suffice to say that if anyone else in the street makes a phone call you get disconnected. Shit eh.
If only they were as good as they had been.
Justaan
Kudos Rob, Hemos et al. Slashdot is my daily read, and I've also introduced a few paeople into it who, as I do, realise the value of this place. Here's to another 100 million more :> PS. Pity it had to be a Mac user.... JUST KIDDING.