lousy radio reception is why i've taken up listening to books on tape (or cd). you obviously can't read while you're driving, so having something read aloud to you is a great way to pass the time away. yeah, with a 6-hour drive you will probably go through a lot of books, but it accomplishes 2 things: expands your mind by "reading" books, and passes the time while you are driving. your local library will probably be a good source for books on tape, and i have seen several book on tape rental stores in my area. give it a try...you may just like it.
perple potatoes have more flavor than any other potato i've ever had (red, yellow, and russet), and because of this taste much better too. also, purple potatoes are not just purble-skinned; they are purple inside as well - it makes for quite a conversation when you make purple hash browns or mashed potatoes:)
and we are using norton antivirus corporate edition on all of the university-owned computers (we don't have the live-update/management server up and running yet, but we will have one in a month or so). we haven't had any virus problems on the Winnt machines here since we started putting corporate edition on a year ago, and we have the software set to liveupdate itself every friday night at 8:00pm (and then run a scan of the entire computer 30 minutes later). the nice thing about corporate edition is that there is 'realtime filesystem protection' running all of the time, so any file-related activity that goes on is scanned (eg: copying/moving/downloading/opening files). this applies to the computers in our student-access labs as well. as for the student machines, does your site-license extend to their computers? if not, then they are obviously on their own; if it does, then i would prepare instructions on installing the corporate edition in an unmanaged state (not centrally managed, no remote filesystem access: no privacy issues), and include instructions on either how to run liveupdate themselves, or to set liveupdate to run once a week automatically. an advantage for the students of installing an unmanaged corporate edition client and settting the liveupdate to run weekly is that there are no subscription issues, like there is with the retail version of nav (so when they move off-campus, they still have a virus-scanner that works, and is updatable without them having to pay for subscriptions). good luck!
i agree with reality master, but i would liek to expand a little bit... i *know* that the main problem is not video games, or tv, or even guns themselves; the problem is education. so many parents these days are freaked out about guns in general that they are afraid for their kids to even learn about them (guns can kill things, therefore they are *bad*). i have grown up hunting with my dad since i was 12; i took a hunter's saftey course when i was 11 (i'm 23 now). if you are educated about guns, you learn the permanence of what you can do with them. when you shoot something, it dies...forever. you also learn gun saftey. you won't find me looking down the barrel of a shotgun because i don't know what is down there; i also will never store a firearm that is still loaded and will check the chamber to see if a gun is loaded when someone hands one to me. how many kids who have had gun saftey courses do you think have been involved in playing-with-gun accidents? not very many. education is the issue, not anything else - our society will become safer, have less gun-related accidents, and *many* less adolescent-aged shootouts if we start requiring gun safety classes in middle school.
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lousy radio reception is why i've taken up listening to books on tape (or cd). you obviously can't read while you're driving, so having something read aloud to you is a great way to pass the time away. yeah, with a 6-hour drive you will probably go through a lot of books, but it accomplishes 2 things: expands your mind by "reading" books, and passes the time while you are driving. your local library will probably be a good source for books on tape, and i have seen several book on tape rental stores in my area. give it a try...you may just like it.
wally
perple potatoes have more flavor than any other potato i've ever had (red, yellow, and russet), and because of this taste much better too. also, purple potatoes are not just purble-skinned; they are purple inside as well - it makes for quite a conversation when you make purple hash browns or mashed potatoes :)
wally
and we are using norton antivirus corporate edition on all of the university-owned computers (we don't have the live-update/management server up and running yet, but we will have one in a month or so). we haven't had any virus problems on the Winnt machines here since we started putting corporate edition on a year ago, and we have the software set to liveupdate itself every friday night at 8:00pm (and then run a scan of the entire computer 30 minutes later). the nice thing about corporate edition is that there is 'realtime filesystem protection' running all of the time, so any file-related activity that goes on is scanned (eg: copying/moving/downloading/opening files). this applies to the computers in our student-access labs as well. as for the student machines, does your site-license extend to their computers? if not, then they are obviously on their own; if it does, then i would prepare instructions on installing the corporate edition in an unmanaged state (not centrally managed, no remote filesystem access: no privacy issues), and include instructions on either how to run liveupdate themselves, or to set liveupdate to run once a week automatically. an advantage for the students of installing an unmanaged corporate edition client and settting the liveupdate to run weekly is that there are no subscription issues, like there is with the retail version of nav (so when they move off-campus, they still have a virus-scanner that works, and is updatable without them having to pay for subscriptions). good luck!
wally
i agree with reality master, but i would liek to expand a little bit... i *know* that the main problem is not video games, or tv, or even guns themselves; the problem is education. so many parents these days are freaked out about guns in general that they are afraid for their kids to even learn about them (guns can kill things, therefore they are *bad*). i have grown up hunting with my dad since i was 12; i took a hunter's saftey course when i was 11 (i'm 23 now). if you are educated about guns, you learn the permanence of what you can do with them. when you shoot something, it dies...forever. you also learn gun saftey. you won't find me looking down the barrel of a shotgun because i don't know what is down there; i also will never store a firearm that is still loaded and will check the chamber to see if a gun is loaded when someone hands one to me. how many kids who have had gun saftey courses do you think have been involved in playing-with-gun accidents? not very many. education is the issue, not anything else - our society will become safer, have less gun-related accidents, and *many* less adolescent-aged shootouts if we start requiring gun safety classes in middle school.
wally