I recall a ID-10T report about a user holding up a document to the screen so the "Techie" could see it on-line or something to that effect. Sounds like that story will become anachronistic .
I take it you don't run Tiger then - it's pretty dog slow between Dashboard and Spotlight clogging background processes. Going from Leopard to Tiger is certainly a transition to the slower lane.
Blackboards are good for writing and static diagrams and you are good for talking/discussing the subject (which the computer isn't usually).
But the computer is good for: animation, 3D rendering and simulation.
From my perspective I never got math to well in school mainly because they explained how to solve problems, but not how to apply math in a real situation. If I were teaching a math class (shudder at the thought) I would provide my students with some idea of what good the math is, relate it to a real world problem.
- Create problems to be solved with algebra/calculus/physics, and use the computer to plot the results Such as: achieving an orbit, how much powder should Clint Eastwood's.38 bullet need to make the 160 lb. badguy sail across the room (factoring in wind resistance, gunpowder strength, etc.)
- Show simulations of math and physics in action
- Animate complex problems (some people are visual and need more a visual idea how problems fold together to make the whole.)
But as many have said don't just rely on it. Pull it out when you need to use it but don't replace what skills and enthusiasm you have, a big part of education is to inspire students not just to instruct - them show them what you like about math and science and they will learn a lot more then just how to solve equations.
According to the Microsoft webpage, it takes about 30 seconds to disable it in Vista using regedit.
It that same phrase was replaced with "Linux" and "using the shell" there would be no end to how lousy Linux is. Though I am assuming; for all I know you might like all your users to know how to get into regedit to 'fix stuff'.
"Which implementations support or require the broadcast flag? The broadcast flag is an optional element of DHCP, but a client which sets it works only with a server or relay that supports it.
Clients Microsoft Windows NT DHCP client support added with version 3.5 sets the broadcast flag. Version 3.51 and later no longer set it. The exception is in the remote access support: it sets the flag when it uses DHCP to acquire addresses to hand out to its PPP clients. tcp/ip-32 for Microsoft Windows for Workgroups (WFW) Version 3.11a sets it, but version 3.11B doesn't. Microsoft Windows 95 Does not set the broadcast flag."
So, I guess Vista only works with Servers that support it and it was an option to implemant it. End of Story.
And then in a year or so they will "talk the talk" and eventually release some half-assed upgrade (fixing all those "Windows incompatibilities" in the original - as in windows-izing the APIs, retooling the standards to MS ones, etc.) and then later report due to "lack of interest" for the other platform versions drop all support for Non-Windows versions.
Then the next release they will tout it as their innovation in technology, slap on a new sparkly logo, maybe a new name (or just add "Visual", "Vista", a "#" sign or some other McThing to the name).
Then as they release newer versions - the extend it by duct-taping.Net (or some other new MS interoperability API) to it (and not to well they lost, fired or re-classified the original core programmers by now) and, futzing it so it only is cross-compatible with MS Access, Office 2007 or IE tags, etc.
Lastly some other (non-MS) company will innovate in some other market that they don't have thier hand in and they will drop it like an old fish and start to leak FUD about it all over to encourage developers to switch to their "new" competitive technology.
Problem with iWork is the same AppleWorks has, it is not entirely exportable or cross platform. I really like AppleWorks but now it's discontinued and no avenue to convert DBs and drawings (two of the best parts of AW BTW)
I had been looking for something a bit less of an eventual dead end. OpenOffice/NeoOffice certainly has similar features - OO Draw is superb (but they need to fix tiling on printout), and the DB looks even more capable than ApplWorks DB. Not only that it works on Macs, Windows and Linux and I can readily provide people with the app if they don't have it. Pretty much a win all the way around to me.
I will say iWork has the glitz (PowerPoint and Impress are way behind in animation compared to Keynote - hey, GL guys, where are you???) but that's the only iWork feature I see compelling but then again, in my career, I've probably only created about six PowerPoints.
I've seen some great preferences and some lousy ones, and then there are a bunch that are still only accessible via text editors. Getting some of the guys that are doing a bang up job on the good ones to help with the bad ones would be a start (i.,e. get the RH guys from system-config-samba to help on the gsambad project.) Also get a nice recoverable video preferences system (to go back to a one-size-fits most mode if you totally mess up the monitor settings).
How about including some of the documentation files WITH the app packages (sometimes they are there as an often overlooked separate install, sometimes there are none included.:-/)
Last but not least would be print settings - some are nearly great (Open Office) where everything just about works (i.e. Tiling should not loose stuff in the print margins). And other are near non-existant (Inkscape).
May have been - but it still prevented me and others from checking out the contents of either document before purchasing. The publisher may have thought of that as a bonus, where many of us just saw a barrier.
Sysadmin and many other tech mags are more expensive. And before I put significant money in a publication, AC, I would want to know if it is worth it. Considering all the books I regularly buy (O'Reilly gets a good chunk of change in that) it may mean buying or not buying some fat $60 book on my monthly book store run.
But never bought it because all the issues I saw were like double issues in a plastic sleeve, so I could never check out the content. Pity, it looked interesting but not enough by just reading the cover.
Yeah more then the Viva Vision canopy part of the Fremont Street Experience in Vegas which is only 12.5 million pixels down about 1,400 feet. But it certainly is impressive with the right show (or equally lousy with the wrong one).
A lot of the problems are based n antiquated systems still out there storing (then) not so sensive data loosely. The problem created itself when institutions used this old passive ID (name, SSN) as THE ID.
If I were "king 'o the world" I would get some international org together to develop an ID standard, then require all employers, agencies, and lenders and such to convert over (say in five years) to use that for all transactions, etc. Also set up laws and education curriculum about "your ID" and punish those who abuse them.
Kludging together christian names, birthdates and social security numbers may have been a neat hack in the 60s but it's a bit outdated now. The only way to get past it is if we can reinvent a better wheel (Yeah, Im a programmer).
To me I see and I saw school as an opportunity. Part of school is to get you ready to function in society, to learn the history, culture, language, and laws of where you live. Also that there are things you must do in our society: follow traffic laws, pay your bills, earn a living, speak correctly, use grammar, build social skills, etc.
School directly and indirectly expose you to many different things that your family or friends may not know or understand, for me that was Computers, for others, may be art, literacy, metal working, carpentry, biology, calculus, etc. Many of us don't really know what we 'want to be when we grow up' or know what things our brains and our bodies are good at until we experience them.
For all the bad press school gets (sometimes rightly so) there are more things school helps us with to make the rest of our lives more worthwhile.
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If you really want to exceed follow this bit of wisdom from Mark Twain:
"I never let schooling get in the way of my education."
Schools are NOT the beginning and end of our education unless we choose to believe it (unfortunately many of us do nowadays.) Fortunately if you have a gifted person and just give them the opportunity to learn and explore and show them where resources are and how to use them (Library, searching Google, etc.) they will go running with their education themselves.
For many of us those opportunities were the home computers of the 80s and bunch of programming books and type-in game articles.
I think it is a good idea, put i t in the same classes as consumer education (you know where they each you stuff about shopping for value, writing checks, etc, all the real-life skills you will need when you are living on your own.) Though I guess it would also be good for younger kids for the cyberbulying thing, (what is it like 3rd or 4th grade when I saw Free to Be You and Me - that probably shows my age.) It goes along the same lines as letter writing too (but for email, (any of 'you kids' learn the parts of a letter in school? address salutation, body, signature, etc.)
Or is iWork a completely different piece of software...Sorry for being ignorant about the Mac world...
It is a completely different piece of software, it is more or less the word processing component of AppleWorks with all the improvement but no more integration with the database or drawing (Don't know about the spreadsheet).
I have, besides the obvious of not porting the database and drawings (two of the BEST parts of AppleWorks though OOo org has a great drawing module) OOo has a serious problem with printing tiled pages. Similar to AW, you can work on user defined huge page sizes - 36"x43" no problem - but when printing tiles, content is lost in the white borders of the tile, so there are gaps in the tiles which is an immediate show stopper.
Why do I need another 'flash-like' player that has no meda for it, that has no widely availabe development tools, etc.
And I've had to try to install Mono before (on Centos 4) and it was an involved process and then found out a dependency was broken (Centos's prob, low support, "oh well") and stopped there. Then I relized I didn't want to go through all that extra effort of crapifying my systems for one specific program, and located a just as capable light weight alternative that comes without all the cruft.
As I have read a lot on administering servers there is one axiom that stands out, "even if you do all the communication and data protection as well as keep out bad guys from getting in through your ports, if they get hold of the box it is just a matter of time, as they have total access."
Encrypted drive with a password to open access during boot would be the best (unless bad guys compromise the box while it is running).
But who knows there probably is a way around that too, as with DRM - someone somewhere seems to eventually figure out a new (usually easy) method of bypassing the most secure systems.
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I'm currently playing with Unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ which does syncing through SSH, it runs on Linux, MacOS X and Windows (on Windows you have to install SSH though) Is runnable from a command line and is configurable from a simple text file describing what directories you want synced and what exceptions there are.
It's very similar to rsync except that it has an added module that keeps a history of the directory contents to properly handle syncing file removals/renames/etc. It is quite nice.
The problem there is that the Mac version does not equal the windows version, one of the common things a Mac user sees is the "Compatibility Check Reminder" which check for comaptibility between the Mac and Windows versions of Office (as well as the newer and older ones).
In the next version of Office MS has announced there will be a removal of the macro language VBA (add it to the list of things like Active X which hasn't been on the Mac since the olf IE days).
I have my doubts that MS is planning to make Mac Office 2008 fully OOXML standard compliant.
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I recall a ID-10T report about a user holding up a document to the screen so the "Techie" could see it on-line or something to that effect. Sounds like that story will become anachronistic .
I take it you don't run Tiger then - it's pretty dog slow between Dashboard and Spotlight clogging background processes. Going from Leopard to Tiger is certainly a transition to the slower lane.
Think about it, what are computers are good for.
.38 bullet need to make the 160 lb. badguy sail across the room (factoring in wind resistance, gunpowder strength, etc.)
Blackboards are good for writing and static diagrams and you are good for talking/discussing the subject (which the computer isn't usually).
But the computer is good for: animation, 3D rendering and simulation.
From my perspective I never got math to well in school mainly because they explained how to solve problems, but not how to apply math in a real situation. If I were teaching a math class (shudder at the thought) I would provide my students with some idea of what good the math is, relate it to a real world problem.
- Create problems to be solved with algebra/calculus/physics, and use the computer to plot the results Such as: achieving an orbit, how much powder should Clint Eastwood's
- Show simulations of math and physics in action
- Animate complex problems (some people are visual and need more a visual idea how problems fold together to make the whole.)
But as many have said don't just rely on it. Pull it out when you need to use it but don't replace what skills and enthusiasm you have, a big part of education is to inspire students not just to instruct - them show them what you like about math and science and they will learn a lot more then just how to solve equations.
According to the Microsoft webpage, it takes about 30 seconds to disable it in Vista using regedit.
It that same phrase was replaced with "Linux" and "using the shell" there would be no end to how lousy Linux is. Though I am assuming; for all I know you might like all your users to know how to get into regedit to 'fix stuff'.
From : http://www.dhcp-handbook.com/dhcp_faq.html#wisrb
"Which implementations support or require the broadcast flag?
The broadcast flag is an optional element of DHCP, but a client which sets it works only with a server or relay that supports it.
Clients
Microsoft Windows NT
DHCP client support added with version 3.5 sets the broadcast flag. Version 3.51 and later no longer set it. The exception is in the remote access support: it sets the flag when it uses DHCP to acquire addresses to hand out to its PPP clients.
tcp/ip-32 for Microsoft Windows for Workgroups (WFW)
Version 3.11a sets it, but version 3.11B doesn't.
Microsoft Windows 95
Does not set the broadcast flag."
So, I guess Vista only works with Servers that support it and it was an option to implemant it. End of Story.
Sure would be better than the "Multicolored Pinwheel of Wait" part of OS X now.
And then in a year or so they will "talk the talk" and eventually release some half-assed upgrade (fixing all those "Windows incompatibilities" in the original - as in windows-izing the APIs, retooling the standards to MS ones, etc.) and then later report due to "lack of interest" for the other platform versions drop all support for Non-Windows versions.
.Net (or some other new MS interoperability API) to it (and not to well they lost, fired or re-classified the original core programmers by now) and, futzing it so it only is cross-compatible with MS Access, Office 2007 or IE tags, etc.
Then the next release they will tout it as their innovation in technology, slap on a new sparkly logo, maybe a new name (or just add "Visual", "Vista", a "#" sign or some other McThing to the name).
Then as they release newer versions - the extend it by duct-taping
Lastly some other (non-MS) company will innovate in some other market that they don't have thier hand in and they will drop it like an old fish and start to leak FUD about it all over to encourage developers to switch to their "new" competitive technology.
Been there done that, got the big heavy boxes.
Problem with iWork is the same AppleWorks has, it is not entirely exportable or cross platform. I really like AppleWorks but now it's discontinued and no avenue to convert DBs and drawings (two of the best parts of AW BTW)
I had been looking for something a bit less of an eventual dead end. OpenOffice/NeoOffice certainly has similar features - OO Draw is superb (but they need to fix tiling on printout), and the DB looks even more capable than ApplWorks DB. Not only that it works on Macs, Windows and Linux and I can readily provide people with the app if they don't have it. Pretty much a win all the way around to me.
I will say iWork has the glitz (PowerPoint and Impress are way behind in animation compared to Keynote - hey, GL guys, where are you???) but that's the only iWork feature I see compelling but then again, in my career, I've probably only created about six PowerPoints.
I've seen some great preferences and some lousy ones, and then there are a bunch that are still only accessible via text editors. Getting some of the guys that are doing a bang up job on the good ones to help with the bad ones would be a start (i.,e. get the RH guys from system-config-samba to help on the gsambad project.) Also get a nice recoverable video preferences system (to go back to a one-size-fits most mode if you totally mess up the monitor settings).
:-/)
How about including some of the documentation files WITH the app packages (sometimes they are there as an often overlooked separate install, sometimes there are none included.
Last but not least would be print settings - some are nearly great (Open Office) where everything just about works (i.e. Tiling should not loose stuff in the print margins). And other are near non-existant (Inkscape).
Those are the things I think are past due.
May have been - but it still prevented me and others from checking out the contents of either document before purchasing. The publisher may have thought of that as a bonus, where many of us just saw a barrier.
Sysadmin and many other tech mags are more expensive. And before I put significant money in a publication, AC, I would want to know if it is worth it. Considering all the books I regularly buy (O'Reilly gets a good chunk of change in that) it may mean buying or not buying some fat $60 book on my monthly book store run.
But never bought it because all the issues I saw were like double issues in a plastic sleeve, so I could never check out the content. Pity, it looked interesting but not enough by just reading the cover.
Yeah more then the Viva Vision canopy part of the Fremont Street Experience in Vegas which is only 12.5 million pixels down about 1,400 feet. But it certainly is impressive with the right show (or equally lousy with the wrong one).
A lot of the problems are based n antiquated systems still out there storing (then) not so sensive data loosely. The problem created itself when institutions used this old passive ID (name, SSN) as THE ID.
If I were "king 'o the world" I would get some international org together to develop an ID standard, then require all employers, agencies, and lenders and such to convert over (say in five years) to use that for all transactions, etc. Also set up laws and education curriculum about "your ID" and punish those who abuse them.
Kludging together christian names, birthdates and social security numbers may have been a neat hack in the 60s but it's a bit outdated now. The only way to get past it is if we can reinvent a better wheel (Yeah, Im a programmer).
To me I see and I saw school as an opportunity. Part of school is to get you ready to function in society, to learn the history, culture, language, and laws of where you live. Also that there are things you must do in our society: follow traffic laws, pay your bills, earn a living, speak correctly, use grammar, build social skills, etc.
School directly and indirectly expose you to many different things that your family or friends may not know or understand, for me that was Computers, for others, may be art, literacy, metal working, carpentry, biology, calculus, etc. Many of us don't really know what we 'want to be when we grow up' or know what things our brains and our bodies are good at until we experience them.
For all the bad press school gets (sometimes rightly so) there are more things school helps us with to make the rest of our lives more worthwhile.
If you really want to exceed follow this bit of wisdom from Mark Twain:
"I never let schooling get in the way of my education."
Schools are NOT the beginning and end of our education unless we choose to believe it (unfortunately many of us do nowadays.) Fortunately if you have a gifted person and just give them the opportunity to learn and explore and show them where resources are and how to use them (Library, searching Google, etc.) they will go running with their education themselves.
For many of us those opportunities were the home computers of the 80s and bunch of programming books and type-in game articles.
I think it is a good idea, put i t in the same classes as consumer education (you know where they each you stuff about shopping for value, writing checks, etc, all the real-life skills you will need when you are living on your own.) Though I guess it would also be good for younger kids for the cyberbulying thing, (what is it like 3rd or 4th grade when I saw Free to Be You and Me - that probably shows my age.) It goes along the same lines as letter writing too (but for email, (any of 'you kids' learn the parts of a letter in school? address salutation, body, signature, etc.)
Or is iWork a completely different piece of software...Sorry for being ignorant about the Mac world...
It is a completely different piece of software, it is more or less the word processing component of AppleWorks with all the improvement but no more integration with the database or drawing (Don't know about the spreadsheet).
I have, besides the obvious of not porting the database and drawings (two of the BEST parts of AppleWorks though OOo org has a great drawing module) OOo has a serious problem with printing tiled pages. Similar to AW, you can work on user defined huge page sizes - 36"x43" no problem - but when printing tiles, content is lost in the white borders of the tile, so there are gaps in the tiles which is an immediate show stopper.
Why do I need another 'flash-like' player that has no meda for it, that has no widely availabe development tools, etc.
:-)
And I've had to try to install Mono before (on Centos 4) and it was an involved process and then found out a dependency was broken (Centos's prob, low support, "oh well") and stopped there. Then I relized I didn't want to go through all that extra effort of crapifying my systems for one specific program, and located a just as capable light weight alternative that comes without all the cruft.
I'm much less stressed.
As I have read a lot on administering servers there is one axiom that stands out, "even if you do all the communication and data protection as well as keep out bad guys from getting in through your ports, if they get hold of the box it is just a matter of time, as they have total access."
Encrypted drive with a password to open access during boot would be the best (unless bad guys compromise the box while it is running).
But who knows there probably is a way around that too, as with DRM - someone somewhere seems to eventually figure out a new (usually easy) method of bypassing the most secure systems.
YES SCOX has been THE news leader in Linux/Unix Industry for the past 5 years! With an aggressive marketing and innovative IP methods SCOX is definitely a BUY investment. MAJOR customers include Sun and Microsoft! Don't miss out on this opportunity to buy SCOX stock at ground level prices!
I'm currently playing with Unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ which does syncing through SSH, it runs on Linux, MacOS X and Windows (on Windows you have to install SSH though) Is runnable from a command line and is configurable from a simple text file describing what directories you want synced and what exceptions there are.
It's very similar to rsync except that it has an added module that keeps a history of the directory contents to properly handle syncing file removals/renames/etc. It is quite nice.
Apples New iWork programs support OOXML format, but Apple has nothing with ODF support so far.
The problem there is that the Mac version does not equal the windows version, one of the common things a Mac user sees is the "Compatibility Check Reminder" which check for comaptibility between the Mac and Windows versions of Office (as well as the newer and older ones).
In the next version of Office MS has announced there will be a removal of the macro language VBA (add it to the list of things like Active X which hasn't been on the Mac since the olf IE days).
I have my doubts that MS is planning to make Mac Office 2008 fully OOXML standard compliant.