According to their website, they have 2,600 students. I'm the technology coordinator for a school district with 2,200 students and ~700 computers (97% Mac).... Guess how many IT people we have?
One.... I handle everything from setting the machines up to networking to adding users. Every student gets a file server account that follows them from 1st to 12th grade. All students in 6-12 get an e-mail account. Every computer is networked.
This district will be getting a call from me tomorrow, and a letter to the editor to the King County Journal.
Here's a real idea, Matt: Why doesn't your industry get it together to place kiosks in my local CD store, kiosks that are basically high-speed connections to a content delivery service. These stands would let me select or even design the CD cover material, then I could download and burn the content to disc right then & there, I get the jewel case and all.
What's to stop someone from doing that right now with a fast connection and an iMac? What's to stop Apple from doing it themselves in the Apple store? Ummm....
Be wary of the newer models (mostly anything with a slot loading cd-rom). They never turn the monitor off (sure, you can set the energy saver, but it only blanks the screen, it doesn't turn it off).
The monitor is required to cool the machine. It uses convection. The monitor heats the air around it, that air rises bringing in cool air underneath. They get mighty warm, although I do know of others that have used them in a server configuration.
I went looking, and the only one that would do decent vt100 emulation was the OS 9 app MacSSH.
We need it to access a VMS machine, and no other term emulators would work as flawlessly as MacSSH. I would LOVE to be proven wrong, if someone can point me to a term app that allows me to use the function keys and the keypad correctly!
That would mean that they would lose 8,000,000 dollars per week 416,000,000 dollars per year. Can Microsoft afford it? Hell yes. And when they have marginalised Apple out of the business, they will own this business.
I don't think even Microsoft can afford to lose almost a half billion dollars a year. Even with $40 billion in cash, they would be broke in 20 years, but the shareholders would be screaming bloody murder long before then.
Cedar Point has looked into some sort of "fastpass" system, but ran into a couple of problems. Most notably, the weather. It could look like the nicest day in the world when all of the sudden it rains. This adds to the delays. The other problem is ride breakdowns. Another poster noted that the ride broke down for 1/2 an hour. Since the Dragster is rated at around 1,500 people an hour, that's 750 people that you have to try to get back into the cue. Just think of the rain lasting 30 minutes, then another 1 hour before the ride is dry enough to ride. You'd have 2,250 people getting pretty ticked.
It was not written from the beginning as a trilogy. If you go back and read the interviews and the talk on the newsgroups, the Wachowski brothers were thinking of a sequel because of the buzz just before the movie was released. In fact, one interview said they were thinking about the second movie being a prequel.
"We could do a prequel and a sequel to this episode or two prequels or two sequels. The story and characters lend themselves to any number of permutations and combinations." - Andy Wachowski (on the possibilities of more Matrix movies) Source: Calgary Sun
The right mouse button is a bane to a lot of users, especially beginners. It is also a misconception that every student in school was born with a mouse in their hand. I work in the schools, and we have maybe 30% of the students are proficient with basic computer skills when they come to school.
I've had to teach a lot of beginners, and they do not understand the concept of two mouse buttons, even when you repeat yourself ad nauseum telling them to only use the left mouse button when they are starting out. Heaven forbid that you have to have these people double-click... or worse yet, click and drag! The mouse works pretty well once you get the hang of it, but it is a lousy input device for a beginner.
Once I taught a person how to use her first computer. She worked at a library and they wanted to automate some stuff. First thing we had to do was practice for 30 minutes on the fact that you can move the mouse left, and this little arrow moved left. Move it right and the arrow moved right. Next I showed her how to enter information into the computer. I came back the next day and looked over her work. Everything looked ok, but I could figure out why the years column in this spreadsheet would not sort correctly. Upon closer examination, it turns out she had been putting l (the lowercase L) in for ones and a O (uppercase o) for zeros because when she first learned to type that's how they entered those numbers because the typewriters didn't have 1s or 0s on them.
I understand perfectly why Apple has a one button mouse. Just because you are proficient and everyone you hang out is doesn't make it the majority!:-)
Computer Success has one on display (warning, requires IE to successfully navigate their site), and it looks like LucentRigs is the website of the guy who built it.
Get a ReplayTV and DVArchive. You use the ReplayTV to schedule and record your shows and DVArchive to backup the shows and watch them in other locations. You can also watch shows on the ReplayTV from the DVArchive machine (or multiple DVArchive machines).
DVArchive can be set up to automatically download the shows from the ReplayTV. I haven't looked into whether MythTV supports DVArchive though.
P.S. Someone was asking about regular cable and Satellite. The ReplayTV has two inputs (although you can only record one show at a time) so I have one setup for my Dish Network box and the other for my local cable. The ReplayTV grabs both guides and unifies them for viewing and recording.
Check out Bitsmack.com. The reviews are user submitted, and cover just about every videogame known (going back to the Fairchild F).
If a game's crappy, it gets a bad review. If a game's good, it gets a good review. Pretty soon, you start to recognize other reviewers ratings and how they rank against your personal feelings to help you pick out games you will enjoy.
A minor advantage, but quite important for iBook/powerbook users: it's the only Mac browser REALLY designed with single-button mouse in mind. On Safari or Explorer, you have to press ctrl to get contextual menu. OmniWeb gets contextual after a "longer click", which is very easy to learn.
AFAIK, most Mac browser do this. In fact, I just noticed that Safari doesn't, but Mozilla and IE both do.
I own the first Mavica, the FD-7 (the other one is the FD-5, but it doesn't have zoom). It saves its pictures as jpegs. I don't think there are any other options (it's been awhile since I've used it).
Something to try out then. Mozilla was an application I was thinking of that must run from a HFS+ partition. Our servers are OS X, so this shouldn't be a problem.
Our php programming class has just started using this. It is going over pretty well, and easily works with the 20 students in the class all working on the same document. The teacher can pose questions to certain people in the group, who can then type the answer directly into the document.
This is one of those applications that can really show off what OS X can do. It's not only what's possible technology wise, but how simple it is to set up and use. It took all of 10 seconds to use Apple Remote Desktop to copy the Application to 24 machines in the room.
Sure it costs $6 a year, but I'd rather pay than use some free site that may or may not exist in the future. (Backflip was down for 2 weeks last November). I wanted something that I knew could sustain itself and I didn't like all the marketing with other free sites.
Flyrt has:
a Javascript flyrt tool that you put in your toolbar to easily bookmark sites
A Mozilla side bar
A pop-up window of your links for IE users
Easy import/export of bookmarks
Make folders public for others to use your links (http://flyrt.com/username)
There is a free 30 day trial. Check it out and of course constructive criticism is always appreciated.
At the FAQ page there is info on my philosophy and links to other web based bookmark managers, so you can try them all out.
We just started a programming class at our high school using HTML and PHP. This is our first programming class and it has been a resounding success. The students are learning something that they can immediately put to use, and they'll be able to use it almost everywhere. It is very cross platform, all they need is a text editor.
A good side effect is that we can help teach website design. Hopefully 20 less crappy websites when these students go out into the world.
But you can turn on full keyboard navigation through System Preferences -> Keyboard. Then you can navigate through menus, dialog boxes, etc., entirely with the keyboard.
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According to their website, they have 2,600 students. I'm the technology coordinator for a school district with 2,200 students and ~700 computers (97% Mac).... Guess how many IT people we have?
One.... I handle everything from setting the machines up to networking to adding users. Every student gets a file server account that follows them from 1st to 12th grade. All students in 6-12 get an e-mail account. Every computer is networked.
This district will be getting a call from me tomorrow, and a letter to the editor to the King County Journal.
What's to stop someone from doing that right now with a fast connection and an iMac? What's to stop Apple from doing it themselves in the Apple store? Ummm....
The monitor is required to cool the machine. It uses convection. The monitor heats the air around it, that air rises bringing in cool air underneath. They get mighty warm, although I do know of others that have used them in a server configuration.
I went looking, and the only one that would do decent vt100 emulation was the OS 9 app MacSSH.
We need it to access a VMS machine, and no other term emulators would work as flawlessly as MacSSH. I would LOVE to be proven wrong, if someone can point me to a term app that allows me to use the function keys and the keypad correctly!
Live in the middle of nowhere and go to Kmart. Our KMart has always had an ample supply since the day they came out.
I don't think even Microsoft can afford to lose almost a half billion dollars a year. Even with $40 billion in cash, they would be broke in 20 years, but the shareholders would be screaming bloody murder long before then.
Just use a terminal client that supports Zmodem, and sz the files over the connection.
It was Ronald Kahlow and Best Buy. He was arrested twice and sued Best Buy, but lost.
Cedar Point has looked into some sort of "fastpass" system, but ran into a couple of problems. Most notably, the weather. It could look like the nicest day in the world when all of the sudden it rains. This adds to the delays. The other problem is ride breakdowns. Another poster noted that the ride broke down for 1/2 an hour. Since the Dragster is rated at around 1,500 people an hour, that's 750 people that you have to try to get back into the cue. Just think of the rain lasting 30 minutes, then another 1 hour before the ride is dry enough to ride. You'd have 2,250 people getting pretty ticked.
It was not written from the beginning as a trilogy. If you go back and read the interviews and the talk on the newsgroups, the Wachowski brothers were thinking of a sequel because of the buzz just before the movie was released. In fact, one interview said they were thinking about the second movie being a prequel.
"We could do a prequel and a sequel to this episode or two prequels or two sequels. The story and characters lend themselves to any number of permutations and combinations." - Andy Wachowski (on the possibilities of more Matrix movies) Source: Calgary Sun
So there was no planned story arc, no big plans.
You pay for exactly what you use. At your specs, it would be $10 for bandwidth and $3 for storage. PHP and MySQL available.
The right mouse button is a bane to a lot of users, especially beginners. It is also a misconception that every student in school was born with a mouse in their hand. I work in the schools, and we have maybe 30% of the students are proficient with basic computer skills when they come to school.
I've had to teach a lot of beginners, and they do not understand the concept of two mouse buttons, even when you repeat yourself ad nauseum telling them to only use the left mouse button when they are starting out. Heaven forbid that you have to have these people double-click... or worse yet, click and drag! The mouse works pretty well once you get the hang of it, but it is a lousy input device for a beginner.
Once I taught a person how to use her first computer. She worked at a library and they wanted to automate some stuff. First thing we had to do was practice for 30 minutes on the fact that you can move the mouse left, and this little arrow moved left. Move it right and the arrow moved right. Next I showed her how to enter information into the computer. I came back the next day and looked over her work. Everything looked ok, but I could figure out why the years column in this spreadsheet would not sort correctly. Upon closer examination, it turns out she had been putting l (the lowercase L) in for ones and a O (uppercase o) for zeros because when she first learned to type that's how they entered those numbers because the typewriters didn't have 1s or 0s on them.
I understand perfectly why Apple has a one button mouse. Just because you are proficient and everyone you hang out is doesn't make it the majority! :-)
Computer Success has one on display (warning, requires IE to successfully navigate their site), and it looks like LucentRigs is the website of the guy who built it.
Get a ReplayTV and DVArchive. You use the ReplayTV to schedule and record your shows and DVArchive to backup the shows and watch them in other locations. You can also watch shows on the ReplayTV from the DVArchive machine (or multiple DVArchive machines).
DVArchive can be set up to automatically download the shows from the ReplayTV. I haven't looked into whether MythTV supports DVArchive though.
P.S. Someone was asking about regular cable and Satellite. The ReplayTV has two inputs (although you can only record one show at a time) so I have one setup for my Dish Network box and the other for my local cable. The ReplayTV grabs both guides and unifies them for viewing and recording.
At least in Ohio you can be jailed for text child porn.
Check out Bitsmack.com. The reviews are user submitted, and cover just about every videogame known (going back to the Fairchild F).
If a game's crappy, it gets a bad review. If a game's good, it gets a good review. Pretty soon, you start to recognize other reviewers ratings and how they rank against your personal feelings to help you pick out games you will enjoy.
AFAIK, most Mac browser do this. In fact, I just noticed that Safari doesn't, but Mozilla and IE both do.
I own the first Mavica, the FD-7 (the other one is the FD-5, but it doesn't have zoom). It saves its pictures as jpegs. I don't think there are any other options (it's been awhile since I've used it).
Something to try out then. Mozilla was an application I was thinking of that must run from a HFS+ partition. Our servers are OS X, so this shouldn't be a problem.
Thanks for the heads up.
That's a good idea, but will this break apps that expect to be on an HFS+ drive or those Apps that require to be in /Applications?
Our php programming class has just started using this. It is going over pretty well, and easily works with the 20 students in the class all working on the same document. The teacher can pose questions to certain people in the group, who can then type the answer directly into the document.
This is one of those applications that can really show off what OS X can do. It's not only what's possible technology wise, but how simple it is to set up and use. It took all of 10 seconds to use Apple Remote Desktop to copy the Application to 24 machines in the room.
You can also join via an IP address, for those times that you are not on the same subnet.
Sure it costs $6 a year, but I'd rather pay than use some free site that may or may not exist in the future. (Backflip was down for 2 weeks last November). I wanted something that I knew could sustain itself and I didn't like all the marketing with other free sites.
Flyrt has:
a Javascript flyrt tool that you put in your toolbar to easily bookmark sites
A Mozilla side bar
A pop-up window of your links for IE users
Easy import/export of bookmarks
Make folders public for others to use your links (http://flyrt.com/username)
There is a free 30 day trial. Check it out and of course constructive criticism is always appreciated.
At the FAQ page there is info on my philosophy and links to other web based bookmark managers, so you can try them all out.
We just started a programming class at our high school using HTML and PHP. This is our first programming class and it has been a resounding success. The students are learning something that they can immediately put to use, and they'll be able to use it almost everywhere. It is very cross platform, all they need is a text editor.
A good side effect is that we can help teach website design. Hopefully 20 less crappy websites when these students go out into the world.
But you can turn on full keyboard navigation through System Preferences -> Keyboard. Then you can navigate through menus, dialog boxes, etc., entirely with the keyboard.