The Kentucky school system switched to MS's cloud email last June. It has been a pain in the ass for most of the stuff that we have to do. Most of the administration of the system has to be done in Powershell instead of a nice GUI. They have had frequent crashes and issues with the service and we experience slowness working with it daily.
Also if you use IE to work in the OWA interface it is horribly slow, which is funny since you would think that is the one that MS would work on. Chrome and Firefox help quite a bit.
MS has routinely screwed things up by not entering licenses in load balancers, or servers and I get really tired of clearing the cache in our browsers so that our users will get bounced to another server.
Also it only works with Outlook 2007/2010 and some of the online collaboration tools won't even let you print out of them.
Do you have any links to software that you were planning on using to support this. I too would like to build something like this, but I haven't ever seen any software to go with it.
DnD is my tabletop game of choice right now, but I am open to others.
What they should do is use the massive ability of MMO players to do hard labor. Think about all the information that could be parsed by NASA MMO players. Parts of the game should be looking at Hubble Images for specific items, or comparing red shifts. It has been fully shown that MMO players will "grind" up against a work load to get to the next whatever, so that should be something that NASA exploits.
"As I recall, 25 years ago modern science scoffed at acupuncture and said it was voo doo. Now, respectable medical institutions endorse the application of acupuncture as a valid medical procedure."
Could you please cite these such institutions? I want to make sure I do not go there.
I too would like an iRex for similar type things, but the one problem that I have seen is that how many of the books you have laying around have electronic versions to put on it?
I have a bunch of books that I would like to read on something like this, but I have had near 0% success rate in finding electronic versions of them.
Your understanding of the universe is flawed. The universe is not similar to a statue of Lincoln. There is no process that would gradually lead itself to a statue of Lincoln being created by wind and water and that is why you don't see them in the desert.
You are attempting to use the same flawed logic as creationist and their bastard offspring Intelligent Design.
Do I have any evidence that you cannot change probabilities? Sure no one ever has. You are the one claiming some type of unexplained phenomenon not I and thus you are the one that has to provide some proof of its existence. I can tell you that I am followed around by a pink unicorn, but if I don't provide proof then you are probably going to think I am nuts.
Again you are assuming that there is an ability to manipulate something and then basing your whole thought project on that without actually providing any reason that anyone should assume your "god" can do this.
Claiming science doesn't work with religion is understanding reality. "gods" were created to fill gaps in things we don't understand. Fire, lightning used to be their domain. We solved those problems and know you are just filling a gap in something you don't understand with "god" again.
If God could somehow manipulate the probability that this will occur, then any number of things are possible, including what we might think is "magic". Turn water to wine? Sure, just add the right particles to the water in the right proportions.
This is a perfect example of junk thinking. You start out assuming something and then use it to base other statements on that. Do you have any evidence that "god" can manipulate these probabilities? If not then the rest of your statement is really worthless.
That is no different than someone using something in the bible to prove something else in the bible.
It is easy to show that a "god" doesn't effect anything of the above things, because in the entire documented history of man, nothing has ever violated a physical law and most of the stuff that the Christian god is supposed to have done almost always violates some physical law. As a matter of fact his existence pretty much violates them. That is how science has proven that there are no gods and why science is incompatible with religion. For god to exist it requires the violation of the laws of energy conservation and everything we know about matter.
For a "god" to have setup the physical laws that govern our universe he would have had to exist before said universe existed. So where did he come from? Are you proposing that an "all mighty" sentient being just popped into existence? Which aspects of quantum theory are you going to misuse to show that? Because if we want to assume that there is a chance for matter to appear from nowhere, but it has a very low probability, then what are the chances that enough matter/energy is going to appear AND it is going to appear in a form that is able to think, see into the future, alter physical laws and create matter? The odds of that are so small they are effectively zero.
This is wrong. Science is the complete counter-point to religion. Your argument about a "god" creating the laws of physics IS a way to keep a "god". Evolution doesn't need a "god" to work and there are infinite possibilities of how the laws of physics could work.
There is also the simple point that if the laws of physics worked a different way, we wouldn't be here to talk about them working the way they do, but because they work this way in this universe, we are here and have the option to create magical beings that we attribute some special powers too.
The whole universe and everything in it can be explained without using any reference to a "god". "god"'s role has shrunk so far now that people are forced to only be able to attribute something to a "god" that is ridiculous in nature. He has fallen from "the guy that created everything and watches everything you do, judges, punishes, helps, can see into the future, breaks the laws of the universe to perform magic and generally is involved in everything all the time" to "he twiddled some knobs and pushed the start button".
And you know what is way more likely than there being some super-being in existence before the start of our universe, and him defining the way everything works, so that it would lead to our creation? Things are the way they are, because that is the way that they are, and we developed by a series of random changes selected in a no random way and that we have no greater "meaning" in the universe than that. As a matter of fact it is millions of times more likely, from a probability point of view.
Ok I get it. You can make multitouch interfaces. I have made multitouch interfaces myself using a couple different methods.
They aren't worth a damn though unless you have something to use them with. Where is the multitouch picture organizing software that I can display on my coffee table and let me family sort through the pictures. Where is the multitouch D&D program that will let me and my friends move our characters through a dungeon with miniatures? Where is the multitouch coloring book that I can put a bunch of kids on? Multitouch math races? Multitouch Chemical Compound manipulation?
We need software. We have ways to interact now. We need things to interact with.
I think the solution to all of this is to put the batteries on there and then install a treadle with a small generator on it. Then when the computers are one, the kids run the treadle. Burns some calories while also helping with power.
A smarter way to do it if you are going to run PXES is to just put RDP or Citrix support in your TFTP image and connect straight through. There is no reason to connect X11 to a machine and then RDP to a windows machine. That is a common mistake people make when setting this up.
We use PXES.9 I think (not the X2 version) and it works great. I can't comment on X2 as I have never used it, but I setup.8 about 3 years ago and upgraded it to.9 whenever it came out. I haven't touched it since. We just add new terminals to it with Etherboot.com's on small hard drives and walk away. No external drives for the students to tear up and it is tougher for them to mess up the server than it is a local machine.
It doesn't have anything to do with the RC1. I am running the Business edition that is out for companies (no not pirated) on a laptop attempting to use a WRT54GS with the latest firmware and the problem is still there. Mine just randomly connects and disconnects the wireless.
It is a problem with Vista and I think it is going to crop up more when it starts showing up on more machines.
Linksys continues to impress. They had a bit of false start when they didn't get the GPL Code out there, but I would say they have really been trying to be good since then.
Re-releasing this marked as a Linux device should be commended. Not only are they selling something that they know people have the intent to modify (which is rare in this day and age), but they are also making it noticable that it runs Linux.
I wish more companies would sell things and be ok with people modifying what they paid money for (MS, Sony, Apple, MPAA,...)
AP: Why did you change your mind and decide to put the original three movies out on DVD now?
Lucas: Just because the market has shifted so dramatically. A lot of people are getting very worried about piracy. That has really eaten dramatically into the sales. It really just came down to, there may not be a market when I wanted to bring it out, which was like, three years from now. So rather than just sit by and watch the whole thing fall apart, better to bring it out early and get it over with.
Translation: I needed to get this out, before it was too late to make money on it.
What if it were possible to make a game where you solving a puzzle actually helped to further along a research project. Something like distributed folding at home, but something that can't just be done iteration after iteration. Something that takes pattern recognition or something. There are a lot of puzzle game players that are off the charts when it comes to finding patterns in seeming chaos. It would be cool to harness some of this wasted energy.
"and a kid from the inner city can use the same tools as the great minds of today. That's the difference."
That is a falsehood. Working for the schools will show you that, putting a kid in front of a computer means nothing. You can put a kid in front of a supercomputer and unless they have any idea how to use it, it won't make any difference.
More computers in school isn't the answer, but having schools which use computers as a teaching aid to the normal course is a better idea. Watching the kids in school today you would realize that on the whole that isn't what computers are used for. They are used as babysitters and as tools for the kids to use to meet some artifical guideline developed by the state.
The state says that kids need to know who to use email. The state says that kids need to be able to write papers on computers. The state says they need to be able to get X score on a test about computers. As long as those goals are met then no one cares if they know anything else.
It is just like Apple, they take from the community they stuff they couldn't write themselves and give back something that looks like it is of value but isn't. They hold all their patches and enhancements back so that they never improve the programs that they use.
So this pretty much says they are leaking cash like a open wound leaks blood and that the only way they can make money is from two companies who are essentially bankrolling their court case.
Flip a quarter, will the stock prices go up or go down?
What does everyone think that we have to take Linux to the mass market?
Doesn't it seem that the mass market is coming to us? I mean the number of Linux users grows on a daily basis. The number of people that aren't just "using" their computers, but learning to understand them and operate them correctly is growing. More and more people are leaving MS because of MS than they are because they are looking for something else. Once they do then they find a new system that they like better. Making Linux more like Windows isn't going to attract more people. Making Linux better than Windows is going to make more people stay. IMO a single standard desktop interface is NOT better than Windows, the choice to use what you want and what you like IS.
There are a lot of things that I hope to use it for. First is that I have become as used to using X as I have using Windows, and there are times I like the flexability. Forwarding apps from my main desktop to it via the wireless is nice. Portable wired and wireless network scanner with etherape, and ettercap. Artistic work in the Gimp. Mine is a little bit different though since it is a laptop as well.
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The Kentucky school system switched to MS's cloud email last June. It has been a pain in the ass for most of the stuff that we have to do. Most of the administration of the system has to be done in Powershell instead of a nice GUI. They have had frequent crashes and issues with the service and we experience slowness working with it daily.
Also if you use IE to work in the OWA interface it is horribly slow, which is funny since you would think that is the one that MS would work on. Chrome and Firefox help quite a bit.
MS has routinely screwed things up by not entering licenses in load balancers, or servers and I get really tired of clearing the cache in our browsers so that our users will get bounced to another server.
Also it only works with Outlook 2007/2010 and some of the online collaboration tools won't even let you print out of them.
Do you have any links to software that you were planning on using to support this. I too would like to build something like this, but I haven't ever seen any software to go with it.
DnD is my tabletop game of choice right now, but I am open to others.
What they should do is use the massive ability of MMO players to do hard labor. Think about all the information that could be parsed by NASA MMO players. Parts of the game should be looking at Hubble Images for specific items, or comparing red shifts. It has been fully shown that MMO players will "grind" up against a work load to get to the next whatever, so that should be something that NASA exploits.
"As I recall, 25 years ago modern science scoffed at acupuncture and said it was voo doo. Now, respectable medical institutions endorse the application of acupuncture as a valid medical procedure."
Could you please cite these such institutions? I want to make sure I do not go there.
I too would like an iRex for similar type things, but the one problem that I have seen is that how many of the books you have laying around have electronic versions to put on it?
I have a bunch of books that I would like to read on something like this, but I have had near 0% success rate in finding electronic versions of them.
Your understanding of the universe is flawed. The universe is not similar to a statue of Lincoln. There is no process that would gradually lead itself to a statue of Lincoln being created by wind and water and that is why you don't see them in the desert.
You are attempting to use the same flawed logic as creationist and their bastard offspring Intelligent Design.
Do I have any evidence that you cannot change probabilities? Sure no one ever has. You are the one claiming some type of unexplained phenomenon not I and thus you are the one that has to provide some proof of its existence. I can tell you that I am followed around by a pink unicorn, but if I don't provide proof then you are probably going to think I am nuts.
Again you are assuming that there is an ability to manipulate something and then basing your whole thought project on that without actually providing any reason that anyone should assume your "god" can do this.
Claiming science doesn't work with religion is understanding reality. "gods" were created to fill gaps in things we don't understand. Fire, lightning used to be their domain. We solved those problems and know you are just filling a gap in something you don't understand with "god" again.
This is a perfect example of junk thinking. You start out assuming something and then use it to base other statements on that. Do you have any evidence that "god" can manipulate these probabilities? If not then the rest of your statement is really worthless.
That is no different than someone using something in the bible to prove something else in the bible.
It is easy to show that a "god" doesn't effect anything of the above things, because in the entire documented history of man, nothing has ever violated a physical law and most of the stuff that the Christian god is supposed to have done almost always violates some physical law. As a matter of fact his existence pretty much violates them. That is how science has proven that there are no gods and why science is incompatible with religion. For god to exist it requires the violation of the laws of energy conservation and everything we know about matter.
For a "god" to have setup the physical laws that govern our universe he would have had to exist before said universe existed. So where did he come from? Are you proposing that an "all mighty" sentient being just popped into existence? Which aspects of quantum theory are you going to misuse to show that? Because if we want to assume that there is a chance for matter to appear from nowhere, but it has a very low probability, then what are the chances that enough matter/energy is going to appear AND it is going to appear in a form that is able to think, see into the future, alter physical laws and create matter? The odds of that are so small they are effectively zero.
This is wrong. Science is the complete counter-point to religion. Your argument about a "god" creating the laws of physics IS a way to keep a "god". Evolution doesn't need a "god" to work and there are infinite possibilities of how the laws of physics could work.
There is also the simple point that if the laws of physics worked a different way, we wouldn't be here to talk about them working the way they do, but because they work this way in this universe, we are here and have the option to create magical beings that we attribute some special powers too.
The whole universe and everything in it can be explained without using any reference to a "god". "god"'s role has shrunk so far now that people are forced to only be able to attribute something to a "god" that is ridiculous in nature. He has fallen from "the guy that created everything and watches everything you do, judges, punishes, helps, can see into the future, breaks the laws of the universe to perform magic and generally is involved in everything all the time" to "he twiddled some knobs and pushed the start button".
And you know what is way more likely than there being some super-being in existence before the start of our universe, and him defining the way everything works, so that it would lead to our creation? Things are the way they are, because that is the way that they are, and we developed by a series of random changes selected in a no random way and that we have no greater "meaning" in the universe than that. As a matter of fact it is millions of times more likely, from a probability point of view.
Ok I get it. You can make multitouch interfaces. I have made multitouch interfaces myself using a couple different methods.
They aren't worth a damn though unless you have something to use them with. Where is the multitouch picture organizing software that I can display on my coffee table and let me family sort through the pictures. Where is the multitouch D&D program that will let me and my friends move our characters through a dungeon with miniatures? Where is the multitouch coloring book that I can put a bunch of kids on? Multitouch math races? Multitouch Chemical Compound manipulation?
We need software. We have ways to interact now. We need things to interact with.
I think the solution to all of this is to put the batteries on there and then install a treadle with a small generator on it. Then when the computers are one, the kids run the treadle. Burns some calories while also helping with power.
A smarter way to do it if you are going to run PXES is to just put RDP or Citrix support in your TFTP image and connect straight through. There is no reason to connect X11 to a machine and then RDP to a windows machine. That is a common mistake people make when setting this up.
.9 I think (not the X2 version) and it works great. I can't comment on X2 as I have never used it, but I setup .8 about 3 years ago and upgraded it to .9 whenever it came out. I haven't touched it since. We just add new terminals to it with Etherboot .com's on small hard drives and walk away. No external drives for the students to tear up and it is tougher for them to mess up the server than it is a local machine.
We use PXES
It doesn't have anything to do with the RC1. I am running the Business edition that is out for companies (no not pirated) on a laptop attempting to use a WRT54GS with the latest firmware and the problem is still there. Mine just randomly connects and disconnects the wireless.
It is a problem with Vista and I think it is going to crop up more when it starts showing up on more machines.
With all the prayers that everyone keeps asking for the troops, I wouldn't think it would be needed to find a way for medicine to restore a lost limb.
Oh wait maybe they should look for a way to fix that.
Burn Karma Burn.
Linksys continues to impress. They had a bit of false start when they didn't get the GPL Code out there, but I would say they have really been trying to be good since then.
Re-releasing this marked as a Linux device should be commended. Not only are they selling something that they know people have the intent to modify (which is rare in this day and age), but they are also making it noticable that it runs Linux.
I wish more companies would sell things and be ok with people modifying what they paid money for (MS, Sony, Apple, MPAA,...)
What if it were possible to make a game where you solving a puzzle actually helped to further along a research project. Something like distributed folding at home, but something that can't just be done iteration after iteration. Something that takes pattern recognition or something. There are a lot of puzzle game players that are off the charts when it comes to finding patterns in seeming chaos. It would be cool to harness some of this wasted energy.
Is a place that you can tell you ideas to and they can tell you what kinda circuit board you need and what parts it needs on it.
Anyone know any place like that?
"and a kid from the inner city can use the same tools as the great minds of today. That's the difference."
That is a falsehood. Working for the schools will show you that, putting a kid in front of a computer means nothing. You can put a kid in front of a supercomputer and unless they have any idea how to use it, it won't make any difference.
More computers in school isn't the answer, but having schools which use computers as a teaching aid to the normal course is a better idea. Watching the kids in school today you would realize that on the whole that isn't what computers are used for. They are used as babysitters and as tools for the kids to use to meet some artifical guideline developed by the state.
The state says that kids need to know who to use email. The state says that kids need to be able to write papers on computers. The state says they need to be able to get X score on a test about computers. As long as those goals are met then no one cares if they know anything else.
It is just like Apple, they take from the community they stuff they couldn't write themselves and give back something that looks like it is of value but isn't. They hold all their patches and enhancements back so that they never improve the programs that they use.
So this pretty much says they are leaking cash like a open wound leaks blood and that the only way they can make money is from two companies who are essentially bankrolling their court case.
Flip a quarter, will the stock prices go up or go down?
What does everyone think that we have to take Linux to the mass market?
Doesn't it seem that the mass market is coming to us? I mean the number of Linux users grows on a daily basis. The number of people that aren't just "using" their computers, but learning to understand them and operate them correctly is growing. More and more people are leaving MS because of MS than they are because they are looking for something else. Once they do then they find a new system that they like better. Making Linux more like Windows isn't going to attract more people. Making Linux better than Windows is going to make more people stay. IMO a single standard desktop interface is NOT better than Windows, the choice to use what you want and what you like IS.
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There are a lot of things that I hope to use it for. First is that I have become as used to using X as I have using Windows, and there are times I like the flexability. Forwarding apps from my main desktop to it via the wireless is nice. Portable wired and wireless network scanner with etherape, and ettercap. Artistic work in the Gimp. Mine is a little bit different though since it is a laptop as well.
Anyone have any good links for running Linux on the Toshiba Portege 3500?
Getting the WACOM supported and the Wireless working correctly are my main sticklers right now, with Redhat.
Forgot one. Minibroswer in Winamp. I think that was an AOL kinda thing too.