We use SunRay thin client for this purpose and also to help with a number of other IT cost issues. It is quick, has good support for windows, is fast, easy to administer and the webtop version is great for people on the move or for helping those with older laptops or who need access to certain apps not installed on their laptop be productive.
If you get your linux from, say Redhar, you already have a licence. You got it from REdhar. It is RedHat's problem, not yours if they have not paid SCO (assuming SCO have anything to be paid for).
Thus, since we have a licence WTF would I pay SCO?
Why don't we get a petition together end send SCO a list of the names and addresses of loads of linux users telling them we have a licence already thanks.
YOu don't even get the trade. Crime moves to another location away from the cameras (here in the UK) anyway. Besides, the real question is security from what? Crime maybe, I want security from excessive government intervention.
The real question is why do we think that cameras are the answer to crime or security, they are a quick fix which completely fail to address the real problems, like drug addiction (most crime in the UK is drug related). Legalising drugs (I don't and never have done them) would seem better. Giving them away, better still (audited and only from sanctioned places) - remove the profit, remove the drug lords. REmove the cost, remove the crime to get the money for the drugs.
Paul
I agree with this. My background is BSc Theoretical Physics - which gives very good mathematic problem solving training as well as (at the time) FORTRAN, UNIX and Numerical Analysis skills.
Since then, an MSc in IT and most of a PhD in Parallel programming with genetic algorithms gives a broader computer perspective.
If the kind of job you have had been around when I'd finished the BSc, I would have jumped at the chance.
- Paul
While I would agree that we are polluting our environment, we have no real idea what effect this is having. The weather patterns may be part of a natural cycle, or we may be amplifying the effect, perhaps our contibutions are the straw that broke the cammel's back; who knows. The only effect we could reasonably attribute to the human species is ozone depletion, yet even the ozone layer is recovering at a surprising rate. Weather is a chaotic system - ie it is not random - which means it is "inherently" predictable, but the vast number of variables effecting the system cannot yet (propably never) be modelled. Yet we can see patterns in weather. The patterns we see are short term, who knows what patterns exist which play out and repeat over centuries, or millenia. Some, like ice-ages, we know of, but others we are no doubt unaware of.
What is important, I think, is to minimise our impact because it is more efficient for us to do so. Using less of our resources is a better, more responsible way to behave, after all how can we expect emerging countries not to cut down rain forest if we burn fossil fuels like there's no tomorrow?
Anyway, it si lunch time, so I'm gonna drive down to McDonalds and buy me a burger;->
Yeah,
but my Aston V8 can only do circa 200 miles on a full tank (95 litres), but then it sounds a shit load better than an electric car. I prefer those rufs - http://www.ruf.com - from the other day, now they are cool.
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We use SunRay thin client for this purpose and also to help with a number of other IT cost issues. It is quick, has good support for windows, is fast, easy to administer and the webtop version is great for people on the move or for helping those with older laptops or who need access to certain apps not installed on their laptop be productive.
All in all money very well spent.
If you get your linux from, say Redhar, you already have a licence. You got it from REdhar. It is RedHat's problem, not yours if they have not paid SCO (assuming SCO have anything to be paid for).
Thus, since we have a licence WTF would I pay SCO?
Why don't we get a petition together end send SCO a list of the names and addresses of loads of linux users telling them we have a licence already thanks.
When I was at Uni, I got marked down in a class once for over commenting my code!!!
:-)
I include a variable definition block at the top of each function describing what each variable was for.
Each function got its own description and then comments were in the code when I was say, performing some test.
Still, that is University for you
Nice way to give the resulting child a serious socialogical complex.
"What does your Dad do?"
"Oh, he's a geek!"
"Cool! And your Mom?"
YOu don't even get the trade. Crime moves to another location away from the cameras (here in the UK) anyway. Besides, the real question is security from what? Crime maybe, I want security from excessive government intervention. The real question is why do we think that cameras are the answer to crime or security, they are a quick fix which completely fail to address the real problems, like drug addiction (most crime in the UK is drug related). Legalising drugs (I don't and never have done them) would seem better. Giving them away, better still (audited and only from sanctioned places) - remove the profit, remove the drug lords. REmove the cost, remove the crime to get the money for the drugs. Paul
I agree with this. My background is BSc Theoretical Physics - which gives very good mathematic problem solving training as well as (at the time) FORTRAN, UNIX and Numerical Analysis skills. Since then, an MSc in IT and most of a PhD in Parallel programming with genetic algorithms gives a broader computer perspective. If the kind of job you have had been around when I'd finished the BSc, I would have jumped at the chance. - Paul
While I would agree that we are polluting our environment, we have no real idea what effect this is having. The weather patterns may be part of a natural cycle, or we may be amplifying the effect, perhaps our contibutions are the straw that broke the cammel's back; who knows. The only effect we could reasonably attribute to the human species is ozone depletion, yet even the ozone layer is recovering at a surprising rate. Weather is a chaotic system - ie it is not random - which means it is "inherently" predictable, but the vast number of variables effecting the system cannot yet (propably never) be modelled. Yet we can see patterns in weather. The patterns we see are short term, who knows what patterns exist which play out and repeat over centuries, or millenia. Some, like ice-ages, we know of, but others we are no doubt unaware of. What is important, I think, is to minimise our impact because it is more efficient for us to do so. Using less of our resources is a better, more responsible way to behave, after all how can we expect emerging countries not to cut down rain forest if we burn fossil fuels like there's no tomorrow? Anyway, it si lunch time, so I'm gonna drive down to McDonalds and buy me a burger ;->
Yeah, but my Aston V8 can only do circa 200 miles on a full tank (95 litres), but then it sounds a shit load better than an electric car. I prefer those rufs - http://www.ruf.com - from the other day, now they are cool.