You wont save much on Windows licensing with thin clients if you want to provide a Windows service on the clients.
You'll need a Windows Server OS on the server.
You'll need Client licenses for each client.
You'll need a license to run Terminal Services.
You'll probably need a license to run the Terminal Services License manager.
You'll need a license for the gun you use to shoot the person responsible for the MS licensing system.
It took us weeks of emails back and forth between my department and our central IT people to figure out if our campus licensing allowed us to run Win 2003 TS client sessions on X-terminals. The answer would change every day. The eventual answer was 'yes', but I think they only said that to get us off their back.
So really seriously consider Linux on the server, Thinstation on the clients, and then Firefox and OpenOffice for applications. The Thinstation people will be very happy to take your money for support, and so will RedHat.
Simplify the desktop and menus so users aren't confused because it doesn't look like their Windows box at home.
"Imagine an LCD screen that actually presses back against your fingertip". Most LCD screens do this. Its called Newton's Third Law of Motion. And I dont mean Apple Newton. Although apples were allegedly involved...
Of course its news for nerds - she's taking a laptop and a pringles can across the ocean to complete the first ever case of war-rowing! There could be loads of open wifi connections out there, from passing ships or electric eels... Sheesh! Didnt you read the article???
He did that, and he didn't even take the scenic route? Could someone do it again, but this time take Highway 1 up the coast? Six minutes of high-speed concrete gets pretty dull and repetitive after about a minute, but I guess he had to find something to match his techno music.
You could write a nice little product for the Plone web-system, using the 'Archetypes' framework, to do this.
* A web-browser-based system (or something else with LAN connectivity) that would allow me to access the inventory from multiple computers
- plone works through the web, so thats no prob.
* Something to indicate where each part is, i.e. "under bed" or "behind bookshelf":)
- you just define your Archetype with 'location' as a field - it can either be a free text field or you could make it a choice of items.
* A way to attach one or more photos to each item
- that's just an Image field in the Archetype.
* Category organization, like "hard drives," "memory," or "cables". Subcategories would be nice too.
- that's another simple 'choice' type field.
* A "notes" field for each item, to save misc. information.
- a text field - do you want structured text, plain html, ReStructured text, or uploaded files? Easy.
* Search functionality, so I could search by category or text-search any field.
- plone catalogs the content and there's a search box.
With Plone and Archetypes, all the forms for editing and adding content are built for you. You can use the default view, or write your own view templates.
www.plone.org for all your plone needs. Python skills useful.
Blah. That always causes people to think they have to stick something in the single-sheet-feeder tray on our printers. So they stand their feeding in 120 pages by hand, cos the printer keeps saying 'PC Load Letter'.
One button on the printer later and it says 'Would you like to print using A4 instead?'.
Did you ever see Thunderbirds? Thunderbird One had a camera detector that alerted Scott whenever anyone tried to take a picture of Thunderbird technology. That's what we need... Where's Brains?
Interesting. We had a machine fall over last week during the height of the Sasser panic. Norton AV had caught an installation of a Windows rootkit, and when we got to it (holiday weekend, so took three days), it had an FTP server installed with 19Gb of German-subtitled Moviez. Kill Bill 2 et al.
We found various infection scripts lying around, because Norton's quarantine seemed to have stopped the infection script in its tracks. One thing it did was to take the machine's details and upload them to an FTP server. A server in.de of all places.
We don't know if this invasion used the same exploit as Sasser, or if a small number of Sassered boxes get FTP status or what. But the German moviez + German FTP dropbox seems suspicious.
Luckily we had the IP-address, username, and password in the script, and were suprised to find we could login there and delete the info. Hopefully the hacker hadn't copied it, but the box has been re-installed from scratch.
And the user is now seriously contemplating Linux, after losing two days...
I've just got a digibox that picks up digital radio stations in the UK. However, the digital radio stations are about two seconds delayed from the analogue stations.
Not a problem, you may think, since it doesn't have to sync with anything. Except that on the hour, Radio 4 goes pip pip pip pip pip piiiiiip to tell you the exact time. But on digital, its two seconds slow.....
So you dont need glasses to see it, but I can imagine after squinting at 24 rotating mirrors projecting a fuzzy blob into a vague space just in front of your nose you soon *will* need glasses!
Drummer friend of mine worked on an auto-tympani tuner as his final-year student project, I think. Part of the problem was recognising the really low frequencies you get from tympani.
I'm not sure how far he got with the project.
Actually, I should probably call him a percussionist:)
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except I haven't written it yet.
Baz
There's more bug anatomy in the Open Office issue tracker than in most University entomology departments...
Baz
You wont save much on Windows licensing with thin clients if you want to provide a Windows service on the clients.
You'll need a Windows Server OS on the server.
You'll need Client licenses for each client.
You'll need a license to run Terminal Services.
You'll probably need a license to run the Terminal Services License manager.
You'll need a license for the gun you use to shoot the person responsible for the MS licensing system.
It took us weeks of emails back and forth between my department and our central IT people to figure out if our campus licensing allowed us to run Win 2003 TS client sessions on X-terminals. The answer would change every day. The eventual answer was 'yes', but I think they only said that to get us off their back.
So really seriously consider Linux on the server, Thinstation on the clients, and then Firefox and OpenOffice for applications. The Thinstation people will be very happy to take your money for support, and so will RedHat.
Simplify the desktop and menus so users aren't confused because it doesn't look like their Windows box at home.
Baz
Hash for hash, I'm Not Better? That makes sense, if that's really good hash...
"Imagine an LCD screen that actually presses back against your fingertip". Most LCD screens do this. Its called Newton's Third Law of Motion. And I dont mean Apple Newton. Although apples were allegedly involved...
Baz
So the first Earthrise was seen by the three astronauts of Apollo 8.
Tonight (22 July) on UKTV History is part two of the Apollo 8 story, 10pm UK time for anyone with access to UKTV History channel.
Baz
Here's some rhymes I learnt to cope with metric conversion:
A meter measures three-foot three,
it's longer than a yard, you see.
Two and quarter pounds of jam,
weighs about a kilogram.
A litre of water's
a pint and three quarters.
That's assuming a US pint is the same as our Imperial pint... I know the US gallons aren't the same....
Baz
Does this CSRSS Bug still take down Windows XP boxes?
Baz
Of course its news for nerds - she's taking a laptop and a pringles can across the ocean to complete the first ever case of war-rowing! There could be loads of open wifi connections out there, from passing ships or electric eels... Sheesh! Didnt you read the article???
Computers dont need Break keys anymore. What they really need is a 'Fix' key.
He did that, and he didn't even take the scenic route? Could someone do it again, but this time take Highway 1 up the coast? Six minutes of high-speed concrete gets pretty dull and repetitive after about a minute, but I guess he had to find something to match his techno music.
You could write a nice little product for the Plone web-system, using the 'Archetypes' framework, to do this.
:)
* A web-browser-based system (or something else with LAN connectivity) that would allow me to access the inventory from multiple computers
- plone works through the web, so thats no prob.
* Something to indicate where each part is, i.e. "under bed" or "behind bookshelf"
- you just define your Archetype with 'location' as a field - it can either be a free text field or you could make it a choice of items.
* A way to attach one or more photos to each item
- that's just an Image field in the Archetype.
* Category organization, like "hard drives," "memory," or "cables". Subcategories would be nice too.
- that's another simple 'choice' type field.
* A "notes" field for each item, to save misc. information.
- a text field - do you want structured text, plain html, ReStructured text, or uploaded files? Easy.
* Search functionality, so I could search by category or text-search any field.
- plone catalogs the content and there's a search box.
With Plone and Archetypes, all the forms for editing and adding content are built for you. You can use the default view, or write your own view templates.
www.plone.org for all your plone needs. Python skills useful.
Baz
I'm worried what 'Randy' will link to...
Blah. That always causes people to think they have to stick something in the single-sheet-feeder tray on our printers. So they stand their feeding in 120 pages by hand, cos the printer keeps saying 'PC Load Letter'.
One button on the printer later and it says 'Would you like to print using A4 instead?'.
Five numbers are a small enough number of numbers to be easily comprehensible in a table. There's not really any need for bar graphs at all.
When you see bar graphs with two items its just plain silly.
Baz
I wish he'd make his mind up on whether to put his bars horizontal or vertical - I'm getting a seriously cricked neck.
And then a couple of 3d ones, just for fun. Sheesh.
He should read some of Edward Tufte's stuff.
Did you ever see Thunderbirds? Thunderbird One had a camera detector that alerted Scott whenever anyone tried to take a picture of Thunderbird technology. That's what we need... Where's Brains?
Baz
This box (and a few others on our subnet, but not my department) had FTP open on port 4321 (have a scan for that on your subnet).
Also, if the infection script had completed, it would have opened a shell port on some port in the 8000s, can't remember the exact number.
Its script was c:\windows\system32\nt.bat and it tried to install the HackDefender rootkit that hides processes, services, and files.
Baz
Interesting. We had a machine fall over last week during the height of the Sasser panic. Norton AV had caught an installation of a Windows rootkit, and when we got to it (holiday weekend, so took three days), it had an FTP server installed with 19Gb of German-subtitled Moviez. Kill Bill 2 et al.
.de of all places.
We found various infection scripts lying around, because Norton's quarantine seemed to have stopped the infection script in its tracks. One thing it did was to take the machine's details and upload them to an FTP server. A server in
We don't know if this invasion used the same exploit as Sasser, or if a small number of Sassered boxes get FTP status or what. But the German moviez + German FTP dropbox seems suspicious.
Luckily we had the IP-address, username, and password in the script, and were suprised to find we could login there and delete the info. Hopefully the hacker hadn't copied it, but the box has been re-installed from scratch.
And the user is now seriously contemplating Linux, after losing two days...
Baz
I've just got a digibox that picks up digital radio stations in the UK. However, the digital radio stations are about two seconds delayed from the analogue stations.
Not a problem, you may think, since it doesn't have to sync with anything. Except that on the hour, Radio 4 goes pip pip pip pip pip piiiiiip to tell you the exact time. But on digital, its two seconds slow.....
Should change his name to Gill Bates or Job Stevens...
% cp /usr/src/linux/COPYING /downloads/KaZaa/WindowsSource/
Hey presto everyone, GPL'd Windows Source code!!!
IBM REXX lives. You can pronounce that two ways
Baz
So you dont need glasses to see it, but I can imagine after squinting at 24 rotating mirrors projecting a fuzzy blob into a vague space just in front of your nose you soon *will* need glasses!
Baz
Drummer friend of mine worked on an auto-tympani tuner as his final-year student project, I think. Part of the problem was recognising the really low frequencies you get from tympani.
:)
I'm not sure how far he got with the project.
Actually, I should probably call him a percussionist