There may also be serious problems with internal temperature. Metal is a heat conductor, plastic is somewhere in the middle, but surrounding your overclocked P3 with an insulating material is probably not the best idea!:)
No, actually, they don't all have access from their rooms. Also there are a few systems in the university which just don't have network cards; I was doing a presentation from one of them recently - my group simply brought along a zip disk (well, okay, we brought a few backups too, but that's not the point here).
Another point is about the cost of dial-up network connections, just while I'm thinking about it; my university offers a dial-up connection, but like most calls in the UK, it costs per minute you're connected.
Oh, certainly network drives are better. However, when you need to move data between machines that don't share the same network drives (or just aren't on a network)...
The computer science department here has just replaced all their old PowerMacs with iMacs, and fitted them with Zip drives. And the Zip drives are definately in common use by students now.
Or better, give them home directories they can save into directly? The university here has that setup for the Suns (well duh) and the PCs. I beleive they could pull it off with the Macs too, but never have done so...
With all these people taking days off...
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How long is it before companies start employing people to go stand in the queues, so their staff can keep working, and still get their PS2.
Or maybe we should just go the whole way, and have console launch days as official holidays:)
I see your point, although I did mean 5-10 a day. Certainly, I would hope bosses wouldn't care about small amounts of personal e-mail... however, do people open, read, and write responses to their personal snail mail while at work? Because I think that's more what bosses have a problem with.
One thing that also occurs to me, is how could a boss easily determine between personal and non-personal e-mail? Personal snail mail has a tendency to be handwritten, making it more obvious, but personal e-mail looks, without opening it, identical to business e-mail.
If a simple method could be found, so bosses could just quietly bring the issue up with the employee in question, without having to open their e-mails to check, that would be great. I just can't see how...
While the sample size was a bit small, of the Comp Sci students here (St. Andrews, Scotland) I've asked, responses on whether they were interested in getting a PS2 ranged from apathy to "maybe, sometime".
Anyone else in the UK know how people are generally responding to the upcoming UK launch?
Does it use their resources? Certainly, if someone was having significant amounts of personal mail (as people tend to, with e-mail) arriving at work, then I would expect employers to quietly ask the employee just what was happening.
I'm sure infact, that if employees were getting 5-10 personal letters arriving at work (I'm guessing based off my own e-mail quantities), a similar bill would probably follow shortly afterwards, for personal mail.
If you want to keep it private, don't involve work in it!
Well, specifically I think the illegal sites bit is a good thing. I edited Computers/Software for a while (someone took exception to my editing it, and removed me a while back), and remember several pages offering warez CDs. I deleted these sites, going on my own judgement that they were inappropriate (not to mention submitted about 20 times each), but I appreciate having backing from the guidelines now.
IMHO, I think people should complaining more about the law, and what is considered illegal, rather than DMoz's attempt to protect themselves.
I just wish they'd ban Spam software sites too (which tended to go mysteriously missing when I was editing, but AFAIK there is still a category of the damn things).
I still remember the look the techs here (St. Andrews university) gave me when I said I had an Amiga hooked up to the LAN. However, while unwilling to support it, they had no problems with me connecting it (as long as I didn't blow anything up).
I have a writing problem caused by joint and motor control wierdness, and use a laptop for all my lectures. And it is nightmarish. Having to make sure the batteries are charged, switching batteries in the middle of lectures, having to work out how on earth to get greek stuff out of the keyboard, etc. etc. etc.
And have you ever tried doing matrices outside of TeX? *shiver*
Desktop computers are a _much_ better idea. I also like the idea of lectures by video conferencing, although you may find a lot of students just spool morning lectures onto HD to delete^H^H^H^H^H^Hread later:)
I would like to point out that when Opera first looked into porting their browser to other OSes, the response from Linux users was hardly encouraging (actually, I beleive the Amiga users were the biggest fans of the idea).
Perhaps if people sent encouraging e-mails to Opera, or any other company that is developing for Linux, rather than complaining that beta software *gasp* has bugs in it, we might get software a little quicker!
Sorry, but Slashdotters, as a group, seem incredibly negative. On the one hand you complain that Microsoft restrict choice, and then someone asks why Opera bother porting their browser to Linux...
And someone else said they would give Opera the same chance they gave all the other browsers; if it coredumps, they go back to Lynx. My apologies if that person did actually mean they'd do that test for the release version, but I suspect they intend to run the beta version, which undoubtably will coredump, and will go back to Lynx without giving Opera a reasonable chance.
This isn't actually meant as a flame, this is meant to give people more of a perspective. In particular, if someone from Opera reads Slashdot (and is that all that unlikely), I wouldn't be exactly suprised if the Opera for Linux project gets pushed even lower down their priority list.
This is kinda a good idea, the problem is that we need more standardised technology for signature authentication.
The most obvious problem is people hacking into your computer, and copying your signature. I'd suggest that storing the signature on external media (a smartcard would probably be good for this) should significantly help with that problem.
Then there is the issue of your signature being copied, once it is sent. PGP offers a suitable service, where messages can be signed, allowing people to verify that the message came from you, without the "signature" being usable on other messages/documents.
Perhaps an application which presents a document to be signed, and if you accept, signs it using a key stored on the smart card, before sending the signature back to the originator?
I'd just like to point out, we're talking about RedHat. I assume Linux support for Sparc is going to continue, it's simply that there will not be any more official RedHat releases for Sparc.
The university I am at has started using Intel based machines for most things, including running Solaris for the honours students. I beleive this decision was based far more on cost than anything else.
Basically, if people want to run Linux, they'll probably buy Intel. If people are buying Sparc processors, there's a very good chance they wish to run Solaris.
I did actually mean more that they were "patching" it to bring it to the standard it should have been at when first released. Further editions of a book, IMHO, are closer to the difference between consecutive versions of Windows.
No hard drive was hardly a problem when they first came out, and helped reduce the cost. In fact, the A500/A500+ was probably the only Amiga _without_ an easy interface for a hard drive (although I wasn't around for the A1000).
The keyboard again depended on which model you bought.
I would personally disagree with the applications; it never had many Microsoft applications, but that was more down to the fact that the two that did turn up on the Amiga (Amiga Basic and Word 1) were slow and buggy. I'll also admit that the applications aren't up to scratch with current ones, but they weren't bad at the time!
Multi-user, I'll admit, the Amiga doesn't really support. It can be added, but it isn't easy to. On the other hand, it was never designed to, and how many people really use multi-user on their home systems?
Networking was always an option, in the same way you can add a networking card to a PC.
What exactly do you mean no security? Are you just repeating the complaint about multi-user? Because you just complained it had no networking, so it can't be security against remote access...
Basically, you're doing the equivalent of buying a cheap 286/386/whatever, then complaining it doesn't match a server class system costing several times as much. It was never designed to, it was meant to be cheap! What it was meant to do, it did very well!
Basically, not with this technology. To do that would require either being able to hook external information storage into person's memory, or write the memories straight in. Personally, I prefer the first solution, although it may be the less feasible of the two... *ponder* maybe use a mind reading device hooked up to data storage and the optic nerve to supply a readily searchable information supply?
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Nothing here, although one shop did have a small selection of PS2 games. And most of the price difference is VAT, BTW.
You know you were drunk last night, when you wake up next to yourself.
There may also be serious problems with internal temperature. Metal is a heat conductor, plastic is somewhere in the middle, but surrounding your overclocked P3 with an insulating material is probably not the best idea! :)
No, actually, they don't all have access from their rooms. Also there are a few systems in the university which just don't have network cards; I was doing a presentation from one of them recently - my group simply brought along a zip disk (well, okay, we brought a few backups too, but that's not the point here).
Another point is about the cost of dial-up network connections, just while I'm thinking about it; my university offers a dial-up connection, but like most calls in the UK, it costs per minute you're connected.
Oh, certainly network drives are better. However, when you need to move data between machines that don't share the same network drives (or just aren't on a network)...
The computer science department here has just replaced all their old PowerMacs with iMacs, and fitted them with Zip drives. And the Zip drives are definately in common use by students now.
Or better, give them home directories they can save into directly? The university here has that setup for the Suns (well duh) and the PCs. I beleive they could pull it off with the Macs too, but never have done so...
How long is it before companies start employing people to go stand in the queues, so their staff can keep working, and still get their PS2.
Or maybe we should just go the whole way, and have console launch days as official holidays :)
I see your point, although I did mean 5-10 a day. Certainly, I would hope bosses wouldn't care about small amounts of personal e-mail... however, do people open, read, and write responses to their personal snail mail while at work? Because I think that's more what bosses have a problem with.
One thing that also occurs to me, is how could a boss easily determine between personal and non-personal e-mail? Personal snail mail has a tendency to be handwritten, making it more obvious, but personal e-mail looks, without opening it, identical to business e-mail.
If a simple method could be found, so bosses could just quietly bring the issue up with the employee in question, without having to open their e-mails to check, that would be great. I just can't see how...
While the sample size was a bit small, of the Comp Sci students here (St. Andrews, Scotland) I've asked, responses on whether they were interested in getting a PS2 ranged from apathy to "maybe, sometime".
Anyone else in the UK know how people are generally responding to the upcoming UK launch?
Does it use their resources? Certainly, if someone was having significant amounts of personal mail (as people tend to, with e-mail) arriving at work, then I would expect employers to quietly ask the employee just what was happening.
I'm sure infact, that if employees were getting 5-10 personal letters arriving at work (I'm guessing based off my own e-mail quantities), a similar bill would probably follow shortly afterwards, for personal mail.
If you want to keep it private, don't involve work in it!
I beleive they changed the wording slightly. They now have to prove you have the key, before they can send you to jail.
It shouldn't cover your customer's e-mails, only employee's e-mails.
Well, specifically I think the illegal sites bit is a good thing. I edited Computers/Software for a while (someone took exception to my editing it, and removed me a while back), and remember several pages offering warez CDs. I deleted these sites, going on my own judgement that they were inappropriate (not to mention submitted about 20 times each), but I appreciate having backing from the guidelines now.
IMHO, I think people should complaining more about the law, and what is considered illegal, rather than DMoz's attempt to protect themselves.
I just wish they'd ban Spam software sites too (which tended to go mysteriously missing when I was editing, but AFAIK there is still a category of the damn things).
I still remember the look the techs here (St. Andrews university) gave me when I said I had an Amiga hooked up to the LAN. However, while unwilling to support it, they had no problems with me connecting it (as long as I didn't blow anything up).
I have a writing problem caused by joint and motor control wierdness, and use a laptop for all my lectures. And it is nightmarish. Having to make sure the batteries are charged, switching batteries in the middle of lectures, having to work out how on earth to get greek stuff out of the keyboard, etc. etc. etc.
And have you ever tried doing matrices outside of TeX? *shiver*
Desktop computers are a _much_ better idea. I also like the idea of lectures by video conferencing, although you may find a lot of students just spool morning lectures onto HD to delete^H^H^H^H^H^Hread later :)
I would like to point out that when Opera first looked into porting their browser to other OSes, the response from Linux users was hardly encouraging (actually, I beleive the Amiga users were the biggest fans of the idea).
Perhaps if people sent encouraging e-mails to Opera, or any other company that is developing for Linux, rather than complaining that beta software *gasp* has bugs in it, we might get software a little quicker!
Sorry, but Slashdotters, as a group, seem incredibly negative. On the one hand you complain that Microsoft restrict choice, and then someone asks why Opera bother porting their browser to Linux...
And someone else said they would give Opera the same chance they gave all the other browsers; if it coredumps, they go back to Lynx. My apologies if that person did actually mean they'd do that test for the release version, but I suspect they intend to run the beta version, which undoubtably will coredump, and will go back to Lynx without giving Opera a reasonable chance.
This isn't actually meant as a flame, this is meant to give people more of a perspective. In particular, if someone from Opera reads Slashdot (and is that all that unlikely), I wouldn't be exactly suprised if the Opera for Linux project gets pushed even lower down their priority list.
For anyone that cares (yes, both of you), the honours environmental biology student I'm sharing a flat with reckons Hawkings is right.
This is kinda a good idea, the problem is that we need more standardised technology for signature authentication.
The most obvious problem is people hacking into your computer, and copying your signature. I'd suggest that storing the signature on external media (a smartcard would probably be good for this) should significantly help with that problem.
Then there is the issue of your signature being copied, once it is sent. PGP offers a suitable service, where messages can be signed, allowing people to verify that the message came from you, without the "signature" being usable on other messages/documents.
Perhaps an application which presents a document to be signed, and if you accept, signs it using a key stored on the smart card, before sending the signature back to the originator?
Thoughts?
I'd just like to point out, we're talking about RedHat. I assume Linux support for Sparc is going to continue, it's simply that there will not be any more official RedHat releases for Sparc.
The university I am at has started using Intel based machines for most things, including running Solaris for the honours students. I beleive this decision was based far more on cost than anything else.
Basically, if people want to run Linux, they'll probably buy Intel. If people are buying Sparc processors, there's a very good chance they wish to run Solaris.
I did actually mean more that they were "patching" it to bring it to the standard it should have been at when first released. Further editions of a book, IMHO, are closer to the difference between consecutive versions of Windows.
Great, now they're releasing patches for books!
No hard drive was hardly a problem when they first came out, and helped reduce the cost. In fact, the A500/A500+ was probably the only Amiga _without_ an easy interface for a hard drive (although I wasn't around for the A1000).
The keyboard again depended on which model you bought.
I would personally disagree with the applications; it never had many Microsoft applications, but that was more down to the fact that the two that did turn up on the Amiga (Amiga Basic and Word 1) were slow and buggy. I'll also admit that the applications aren't up to scratch with current ones, but they weren't bad at the time!
Multi-user, I'll admit, the Amiga doesn't really support. It can be added, but it isn't easy to. On the other hand, it was never designed to, and how many people really use multi-user on their home systems?
Networking was always an option, in the same way you can add a networking card to a PC.
What exactly do you mean no security? Are you just repeating the complaint about multi-user? Because you just complained it had no networking, so it can't be security against remote access...
Basically, you're doing the equivalent of buying a cheap 286/386/whatever, then complaining it doesn't match a server class system costing several times as much. It was never designed to, it was meant to be cheap! What it was meant to do, it did very well!
Basically, not with this technology. To do that would require either being able to hook external information storage into person's memory, or write the memories straight in. Personally, I prefer the first solution, although it may be the less feasible of the two... *ponder* maybe use a mind reading device hooked up to data storage and the optic nerve to supply a readily searchable information supply?
Yeah, but it would get very, very cold.