One thing i remember from college dorms is that they had a special "movie channel". It wasn't an additional purchase it just came as an added service (i'm sure it increased the room cost). But basically it was a movie channel playing relatively recent movies. We weren't blocked on channel but there was an added benefit/cost. If they did something like that with the internet network then it might work. Don't block anything but if they get "special" access to "game servers", movie services (hulu/netflix) automatically by paying a raised rent or a discount from buying it normally then that would be a way to go that direction.
Do you do the same with the phone system or TV channels? Are commercial numbers or OTA channels (by way of shared antenna) blocked unless there is a kickback of profit? I'd be super pissed finding someone messing with internet, phone, or TV. I think we put up with legal requests if made by court order and for health of the network somewhat but not just for profit.
Why not require 25 to have a larger security deposit? Typically they get your credit card number and while I haven't tested the theory, I would assume they could charge any destruction to the card.
For CDs and DVDs I like to take my knife and I can scrape the silver/gold into a vial to save for later. Then the clear plastic disk can be tossed. I haven't figured out what to do with the vial of pretty silver flecks yet, but I'll think of something.
Because most of the time it's only a 50 minute drive. I plan to move at least halfway closer so that my drive is only 30 minutes. The problem is that it's hard to find a decent house that's private and cheap enough for a first time buyer.
Yep, daily commuter to STL here too, and rain can double driving time. On Halloween we had a traffic mess. ( first rain in a while, first business day of being off DST, and people rushing home early for halloween parties, etc. )
My 43 mile I-70 commute has improved over the years, the backup gets pushed further and further out. At the times I drive it's usually ot to Mid Rivers / St. Peters.
Yeah, i'd have to say that my microsoft optical mouse is very tough... I've had worse luck with a cheap copy, a Micron. My microsoft one is still holding up since they first came out, even withstanding Lan party abuse.
I miss the wheel up at work... I catch my self strok..er nevermind.
No kidding.... Look at how w3c was handled... yeah there are standards, but it's hard to get people to follow them correctly. I'm still waiting and waiting for cool things like MathML to get put in to at least ONE popular browser (been hoping for mozilla for how many years?). Remember how long we have held onto COBOL FORTRAN and PL/I? Standards create stability but they allow things to stagnate. I think a new standard is a good thing because it will push people away from the antiquated one we have now. (yeah you may disagree, but people have been using extentions and fragmenting the space for too long...time to regroup)
OT: wow, It's been a while since I last posted, an I hadn't realized that my user number is considerably low for how many people are here now..:-) Good to see so many opinions!
Yeah, I like all the places to put those neat bookmarks to go to the right pages, but I don't like where they go...I want to customize it for my settings... Like those tools, tech, interact buttons on the task bar at the bottem. Some stuff has changed since the preview releases so some of the customization documents out there don't have the right stuff...I downloaded and used themes but I could not find them to copy and change one thing that I wanted to..
Like the MySidebar... Of course I detested it at first, but with the Orbit skin it didn't take up so much room and I got rid of the cheesy tabs. Then I put in segfault and slashdot and some other news sites. It works okay except for the fact that when I click on a slashdot headline to check out the story it puts it in a frame underneath a netscape banner. How I had sites that do that.... I really want to have the site that I'm actually browsing be on the address bar so I can bookmark it, copy it, or at least be able to return to it easily.
One thing I'd like to add is that staggered shifts help a little with the commute. Sometimes that extra hour offsets that traffic jam that happens at the city choke points.
If university students want to only use the local network, why wouldn't regular window shares work? I mean, we have a WINS server on campus that keeps track of all the computer names. And we can search for files in everyone's computers.
I would think a better client for search smb shares would be better for our situation. Workgroups are broken down to residence halls and many people share their files that way, with and w/o passwords.
Well just this year the $20 fee was cut. (University of Missouri - Columbia) Now it's included in everyones default room fee whether or not they use the network or not....I'm not sure what the exact dollar amount comes to though.
Limit the campus's ability to SERVE mp3s in napster. Let us connect as clients all we want.
Since the biggest problem is having unknowing people whose computer is actually a server sharing out all their MP3s. (outgoing bandwidth is the main problem right?)
Actually I've heard some IATS people talk about limiting all personal use of the computers.
The problem with Universities is academic freedom...anything you ban might be necessary to study. (analyze protocal for a networking class, trying to implement a client for a C class, study effects on the populace for sociology, the legalities for law...etc.)
Yea, but Engish is open source:)...Applying the microsoft model: You would have to use their closed translators to be able to understand and speak their language. And the Wordperfect translators would goof up and construe the meaning of anything more complex than, "See Dick and Jane play ball."
The file format is the reason for the lock on enterprise level of the Office Suite. Document sharing is key and if formats can only be read by one program then it locks in that program for everyone. Why don't people use Wordperfect or some other format for the whole company? Because of the automatic albeit handy hooks into the OS and other embeded application.
Do we really want everything hooked up to the internet? At school, for our senior engineering project many people are doing internet technologies where they connect applicances to the internet. Nothing here is really innovative. It mostly consists of them arranging sensors of some sort on the device and then using a laptop to monitor it. Of course they try to use wireless technology - cell phone modem, or wireless lan to get it to a central computer that is hooked to the internet.
I'm sure someone is going to hook a toilet to the internet sometime soon...then it will run linux, of course, and count how many flushes, and how big the 'load' is....
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The reason I tend to stick to RPM is that fact that it knows where to put the whole asortted array of files. Some distributions expect files in certain places for other program to locate correctly. Just untarring a new program keeps everything in one spot. I know many include a make install sub section and that works okay. The problems really arise in administering the system. Maybe I want to upgrade or delete a package...
Having an RPM installed is easy to move around. If I would use a make install script I would have problems later tracking down all the files to either delete/change or update.
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I had this problem as well with Mandrake 6.1...
I'm not exactly sure how to use SRPMS so I guess I'll wait for the Mandrake RPM...
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One thing i remember from college dorms is that they had a special "movie channel". It wasn't an additional purchase it just came as an added service (i'm sure it increased the room cost). But basically it was a movie channel playing relatively recent movies. We weren't blocked on channel but there was an added benefit/cost. If they did something like that with the internet network then it might work. Don't block anything but if they get "special" access to "game servers", movie services (hulu/netflix) automatically by paying a raised rent or a discount from buying it normally then that would be a way to go that direction.
Do you do the same with the phone system or TV channels? Are commercial numbers or OTA channels (by way of shared antenna) blocked unless there is a kickback of profit? I'd be super pissed finding someone messing with internet, phone, or TV. I think we put up with legal requests if made by court order and for health of the network somewhat but not just for profit.
Why not require 25 to have a larger security deposit? Typically they get your credit card number and while I haven't tested the theory, I would assume they could charge any destruction to the card.
It would be a big increase for me:
450 mile/week
15g
30 mpg
$2.40 / g
$36.00 per fillup
$2.775 fed fuel tax
or
$4.50-$9 ($1 or $2 per mile)
33.225+2.775
or
33.225+(4.50-9)
62.2% - 224.32% increase
Leave the fuel tax and increase it if you have to.. it leaves the incentive for improving efficiency.
What type of nurse would make that?
For CDs and DVDs I like to take my knife and I can scrape the silver/gold into a vial to save for later. Then the clear plastic disk can be tossed. I haven't figured out what to do with the vial of pretty silver flecks yet, but I'll think of something.
Because most of the time it's only a 50 minute drive. I plan to move at least halfway closer so that my drive is only 30 minutes. The problem is that it's hard to find a decent house that's private and cheap enough for a first time buyer.
Yep, daily commuter to STL here too, and rain can double driving time. On Halloween we had a traffic mess. ( first rain in a while, first business day of being off DST, and people rushing home early for halloween parties, etc. )
My 43 mile I-70 commute has improved over the years, the backup gets pushed further and further out. At the times I drive it's usually ot to Mid Rivers / St. Peters.
Yeah, i'd have to say that my microsoft optical mouse is very tough... I've had worse luck with a cheap copy, a Micron. My microsoft one is still holding up since they first came out, even withstanding Lan party abuse.
I miss the wheel up at work... I catch my self strok..er nevermind.
No kidding.... Look at how w3c was handled... yeah there are standards, but it's hard to get people to follow them correctly. I'm still waiting and waiting for cool things like MathML to get put in to at least ONE popular browser (been hoping for mozilla for how many years?). Remember how long we have held onto COBOL FORTRAN and PL/I? Standards create stability but they allow things to stagnate. I think a new standard is a good thing because it will push people away from the antiquated one we have now. (yeah you may disagree, but people have been using extentions and fragmenting the space for too long...time to regroup)
:-) Good to see so many opinions!
OT: wow, It's been a while since I last posted, an I hadn't realized that my user number is considerably low for how many people are here now..
Yeah, I like all the places to put those neat bookmarks to go to the right pages, but I don't like where they go...I want to customize it for my settings... Like those tools, tech, interact buttons on the task bar at the bottem. Some stuff has changed since the preview releases so some of the customization documents out there don't have the right stuff...I downloaded and used themes but I could not find them to copy and change one thing that I wanted to..
Like the MySidebar... Of course I detested it at first, but with the Orbit skin it didn't take up so much room and I got rid of the cheesy tabs. Then I put in segfault and slashdot and some other news sites. It works okay except for the fact that when I click on a slashdot headline to check out the story it puts it in a frame underneath a netscape banner. How I had sites that do that.... I really want to have the site that I'm actually browsing be on the address bar so I can bookmark it, copy it, or at least be able to return to it easily.
One thing I'd like to add is that staggered shifts help a little with the commute. Sometimes that extra hour offsets that traffic jam that happens at the city choke points.
I don't think we were even allowed to have playing cards in school... They would take them away if you were playing on school grounds.
Funny, they didn't object to the group that was playing with Magic Cards at lunch...
Oh well...
Tradewars was cool but Outpost trader was another similar game that I thought was even better.
I haven't seen it in a long time and it's hard to find the files any more.... But it was a great game. I think it was made by someone in Oklahoma.
I would have like to see improvements in it and made into an internet game.
Ah...those door games were fun.....having to mess with BBS source code and door files, and fossil drivers....
If university students want to only use the local network, why wouldn't regular window shares work? I mean, we have a WINS server on campus that keeps track of all the computer names. And we can search for files in everyone's computers.
I would think a better client for search smb shares would be better for our situation. Workgroups are broken down to residence halls and many people share their files that way, with and w/o passwords.
Well just this year the $20 fee was cut. (University of Missouri - Columbia) Now it's included in everyones default room fee whether or not they use the network or not....I'm not sure what the exact dollar amount comes to though.
We pay for it so I think we should have some say.
Actually Brent I've come up with a better idea!
Limit the campus's ability to SERVE mp3s in napster. Let us connect as clients all we want.
Since the biggest problem is having unknowing people whose computer is actually a server sharing out all their MP3s. (outgoing bandwidth is the main problem right?)
Solution? Get a bigger pipe....
Actually I've heard some IATS people talk about limiting all personal use of the computers.
The problem with Universities is academic freedom...anything you ban might be necessary to study. (analyze protocal for a networking class, trying to implement a client for a C class, study effects on the populace for sociology, the legalities for law...etc.)
Yea, but Engish is open source :) ...Applying the microsoft model: You would have to use their closed translators to be able to understand and speak their language. And the Wordperfect translators would goof up and construe the meaning of anything more complex than, "See Dick and Jane play ball."
The file format is the reason for the lock on enterprise level of the Office Suite. Document sharing is key and if formats can only be read by one program then it locks in that program for everyone. Why don't people use Wordperfect or some other format for the whole company? Because of the automatic albeit handy hooks into the OS and other embeded application.
Wow... never saw that coming...
Do we really want everything hooked up to the internet? At school, for our senior engineering project many people are doing internet technologies where they connect applicances to the internet. Nothing here is really innovative. It mostly consists of them arranging sensors of some sort on the device and then using a laptop to monitor it. Of course they try to use wireless technology - cell phone modem, or wireless lan to get it to a central computer that is hooked to the internet.
I'm sure someone is going to hook a toilet to the internet sometime soon...then it will run linux, of course, and count how many flushes, and how big the 'load' is....
The reason I tend to stick to RPM is that fact that it knows where to put the whole asortted array of files. Some distributions expect files in certain places for other program to locate correctly. Just untarring a new program keeps everything in one spot. I know many include a make install sub section and that works okay. The problems really arise in administering the system. Maybe I want to upgrade or delete a package...
Having an RPM installed is easy to move around. If I would use a make install script I would have problems later tracking down all the files to either delete/change or update.
I had this problem as well with Mandrake 6.1...
I'm not exactly sure how to use SRPMS so I guess I'll wait for the Mandrake RPM...
Yes, we all are all waiting for this new browser that will be replacing netscape.... Are they planning to distributed it like netscape?
Although netscape really hasn't crash that many times for me.....