DB requires you to use one of these (they are called TANs) when you want to do something that affects the balance of the account, like transfer/withdraw money. However, to simply login you do not need to use one.
I just installed FC1 and W2K last week. I haven't had a problem at all, everything works great. Specs:
Compaq Armada M300
P2-333
20GB IBM Travelstar HD
256MB Kingston RAM
I installed 2K first, then FC1.
They have these in on your driver's license, in certain states. Check yours to see if you have one. I know mine, Texas, does not:(
There's a site somewhere that will tell you what your 2d barcode says if you send them a pic of it, can't remember the URL...
UT pulls this kind of shit all the time. An open records request for information regarding the on campus security cameras was submitted by the Daily Texan; UT denied it. The Texan appealed to AG Abbott, who ruled in their favor; the University appealed and it continues to fester in the legal system.
disks don't fail THAT fast/much, also management needs are way less than you envision - they don't need to f**k with each box individually, it can be done remotely
There's quite a difference between a person who puts up a blog and a person who, for example, leads an armed insurrection against a bastard dictator. I submit that the ability to type and the ability to forcefully overthrow a government have little in common...
MSFT claims that an additional cost of using OO is that it doesn't come with an email client, unlike Office (Outlook), so 'customers may incur a licensing cost associated with buying an email application'. I think it is noteworthy to point out that there are many free email clients, notably Evolution and KMail on Linux, and Mozilla Mail, Scribe, Mahogany, and YAMM for Windows/cross platform.
Wrong. They won't be making 70 cents per download, like they are now, but they won't be losing money either - remember that the marginal cost of selling a downloadable song is $0. So they'll make 70% of $.29.
Theoretically, if both sides play perfectly then every match will end in a draw. So what if Kasparov plays perfectly? Obviously he's lost before, so he doesn't all the time, but it's certainly possible that he could, at least for one game (people play less-complicated games, like Tic-Tac-Toe, perfectly all the time). If so, then no matter how good the computer played it could only draw him. So really, I think chess isn't really an accurate indicator of when 'the day of the machines' is here (or not).
It makes business sense for Redhat to stop actively peddling a distribution geared towards home users, because it costs money to do that, and they're letting people download it for free. They do seem to still want to have something to do with the home market, however, and so they've got Fedora, although I personally don't think it will last or become much of a force within the community. I see other distros (community-assembled, perhaps) filling the whole that Redhat is making. So I guess it's sort of a noteable event, but probably in the end nothing more than a footnote.
I didn't mean to come off as an advocate for 'blanket' luddism. It is my hope that students learn all they can of technology. My point is that learning in the classroom works better now than it would if we gave every student a laptop. A computer-mediated learning environment cannot compete with the immediacy and 'realness' of a live teacher standing in the front of the classroom.
This is a pet peeve of mine. Why do we think that technology is the way to go in the classroom? More than anything else, it puts a barrier between students, because instead of concentrating on the teacher or on their own little games (which don't help them with school subjects but are equally important in that they help to develop personality) they are watching a screen. The current school environment involves learning both as a group (when the teacher is talking) and individually (when you're at home, reading the textbook). This is a balanced approach. It works. It is not broken.
With that said, as a practical matter, laptops are a bad idea. They are easy to steal. They suffer a lot of wear & tear and break (all you road wariors know this). Anyone ever had an LCD crack? Laptop batteries, just like all other batteries, can only hold a charge for so long. And repairing/replacing them (all the parts, not just the battery) is expensive.
Now, I recommend that instead of trying to fool with all this fancy technology (administering these laptops would be a pain in the ass, too), students just take a pad of paper and a pen. We are really losing something important if we teach these youngsters to be dependent on technology to learn.
I work onsite at several Austin-area private dorms. We've been really hard hit by MS.Blast and SoBig. Complicating this is that we use 802.11b, so we can't just shut it off. We've been having to go to *every single computer* and installing the fixes. Of course, it is not all bad, because with all this working time I might actually have enough money to pay my tuition this semester:)
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DB requires you to use one of these (they are called TANs) when you want to do something that affects the balance of the account, like transfer/withdraw money. However, to simply login you do not need to use one.
I just installed FC1 and W2K last week. I haven't had a problem at all, everything works great. Specs: Compaq Armada M300 P2-333 20GB IBM Travelstar HD 256MB Kingston RAM I installed 2K first, then FC1.
yeah, because the difficulty of teaching people so that they come away with a solid, deep, meaningful understanding is hard to overestimate
for sure
They have these in on your driver's license, in certain states. Check yours to see if you have one. I know mine, Texas, does not :(
There's a site somewhere that will tell you what your 2d barcode says if you send them a pic of it, can't remember the URL...
and upon displaying some graphs i made in excel, all of the application's widgets were drawn as filled-in black boxes. i'll stick with gnumeric
UT pulls this kind of shit all the time. An open records request for information regarding the on campus security cameras was submitted by the Daily Texan; UT denied it. The Texan appealed to AG Abbott, who ruled in their favor; the University appealed and it continues to fester in the legal system.
even you don't run a linux laptop like i do, you can trick out your hosts file...
disks don't fail THAT fast/much, also management needs are way less than you envision - they don't need to f**k with each box individually, it can be done remotely
in the real world all that matters is who DOES have custody, which is essentially guaranteed to be the boss...
firefox xmms gaim evolution gtk-gnutella xine
Because it's more important to 'track' the homeless than to feed or clothe them...
There's quite a difference between a person who puts up a blog and a person who, for example, leads an armed insurrection against a bastard dictator. I submit that the ability to type and the ability to forcefully overthrow a government have little in common...
MSFT claims that an additional cost of using OO is that it doesn't come with an email client, unlike Office (Outlook), so 'customers may incur a licensing cost associated with buying an email application'. I think it is noteworthy to point out that there are many free email clients, notably Evolution and KMail on Linux, and Mozilla Mail, Scribe, Mahogany, and YAMM for Windows/cross platform.
Wrong. They won't be making 70 cents per download, like they are now, but they won't be losing money either - remember that the marginal cost of selling a downloadable song is $0. So they'll make 70% of $.29.
Theoretically, if both sides play perfectly then every match will end in a draw. So what if Kasparov plays perfectly? Obviously he's lost before, so he doesn't all the time, but it's certainly possible that he could, at least for one game (people play less-complicated games, like Tic-Tac-Toe, perfectly all the time). If so, then no matter how good the computer played it could only draw him. So really, I think chess isn't really an accurate indicator of when 'the day of the machines' is here (or not).
slashdotted after 2 comments... this really is getting out of hand
It makes business sense for Redhat to stop actively peddling a distribution geared towards home users, because it costs money to do that, and they're letting people download it for free. They do seem to still want to have something to do with the home market, however, and so they've got Fedora, although I personally don't think it will last or become much of a force within the community. I see other distros (community-assembled, perhaps) filling the whole that Redhat is making. So I guess it's sort of a noteable event, but probably in the end nothing more than a footnote.
Range of bluetooth is about 10m. So unless spammer is within that range, can't do anything to/with you via bluetooth.
I just love it when the government actually does what it's supposed to, namely, protect free markets instead of encroach on them!
Seriously. Takes a bit longer to d/l and also need a DVD burner but they last longer, look better. And it also feels more like stealing!
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I didn't mean to come off as an advocate for 'blanket' luddism. It is my hope that students learn all they can of technology. My point is that learning in the classroom works better now than it would if we gave every student a laptop. A computer-mediated learning environment cannot compete with the immediacy and 'realness' of a live teacher standing in the front of the classroom.
With that said, as a practical matter, laptops are a bad idea. They are easy to steal. They suffer a lot of wear & tear and break (all you road wariors know this). Anyone ever had an LCD crack? Laptop batteries, just like all other batteries, can only hold a charge for so long. And repairing/replacing them (all the parts, not just the battery) is expensive.
Now, I recommend that instead of trying to fool with all this fancy technology (administering these laptops would be a pain in the ass, too), students just take a pad of paper and a pen. We are really losing something important if we teach these youngsters to be dependent on technology to learn.
I work onsite at several Austin-area private dorms. We've been really hard hit by MS.Blast and SoBig. Complicating this is that we use 802.11b, so we can't just shut it off. We've been having to go to *every single computer* and installing the fixes. Of course, it is not all bad, because with all this working time I might actually have enough money to pay my tuition this semester :)