It just works, imaging, software deployment, remote control, its all there.
Their RIP packager leaves a bit to be desired, but it does work.
I think their imaging ability works much better than any other of the image and automatic configuration programs I have seen It can rename machines, rejoin to AD, and run post setup jobs. Plus, the amount of information Altiris collects about a computer is amazing, need to know: serial numbers mac address installed programs installed hardware bios versions
altiris' SQL database has everything you need.
We could have used SMS for almost nothing because of our Microsoft licenses but we still pay for Altiris because it is just worth it.
I have a p3 600Mhz laptop that I broke the hinges for the lcd panel on, so now it runs my domain at home. It isnt the fastest Windows 2003 Server box I have ever used, but even with only 256MB RAM it is fine for DNS and all of my authentications.
With its oldish battery, I get 3-4 hours with the lcd off, plus plugging it into a UPS would probably get me even more.
I would definately go with something in the more "portable" end of the spectrum, the desktop replacements still eat the battery; but a laptop server is a definate possibility for low load situations, and even higher end stuff
not to be condescending, but thats the same point DeepFreeze accomplishes.
As a simple background DeepFreeze, DriveShield, and some other programs:
"lock" the real once you have a good install instead of writing changes to the hard drive, they have a virtual partition that they write all the changes that would have been made. When you access the hard drive, it checks the virtual partition to see what should be different. if anything
While this can be a blessing once you get things working, I also find it bad for windows update, many admins are too lazy / don't know how to unlock the machine, install windows updates, and relock it. If you try to install updates while the machine is in a locked state, reboot and the updates are gone
my reciever has this as well, but i was under the impression that it didnt do what the submitter wanted, they instead block out/ reduce the harmonic RANGE of the sound.
This would mean, less bass, less extremely high trebles, but not actually changing the volume at all
its considered night mode because those really high frequences and really low frequencies are more likely to be annoying to others at night time
Just today I was in a 4 hour computer crime class (only once a week) and I wanted to print some notes during the 20 minute break for the class,
This class wasnt taking place in my college (RIT has several "colleges," it was in the college of business, and instead of having to walk the whole way to my college, the computer college, I just went to the building right next door to the college of Math and Science. and used one of the open labs there.
Its not really an easily providable service, but having open labs all over campus is something really nice here at RIT and I know I take advantage of them all the time (even the College of Business has labs, but they had a class in them at the time). Even some of our dorms have open labs in them, and almost all the labs have macs and PC's which is nice.
another thing that we have that is nice is campus wide Active directory, so that no matter what building I am in, I still just log in with my RIT account and it just works.
that same Active Directory is used to provide access to exchange mail, but we also have the option to use IMAP or POP3, or even web-based e-mail which is nice having that choice
I am also at RIT, and I work for the IT dept, we also convinced the sys admins to put firefox as the default browser on the most recent image we use for the several hundred computers that we have in our labs.
I can't imagine what it would be like to register not-online, its how it always had been for me.
as for your "blackboard" we use something called "myCourses" which, depending on the teacher, can be utilized alot. myCourses is web based, which is nice because its accessable in the same format from anywhere.
In the IT dept, we use something called Firstclass, an e-mail, conferencing, b-board, chat, instant message, dropbox application all rolled into one. RIT as a whole uses it for their distance learning / online classes as well. Firstclass has an online interface but, well it sucks
for ex. today in database class, we had some ideas, but weren't really brave enough to say it outloud to the teacher, so we started a chatroom for the class in firstclass, and just invited everyone that we knew in the class, so we could have a fast paced convo about it instead of waiting for the teacher to say something about our ideas.
We get 20 megs on www.rit.edu/~our user name on a unix server that we have access to via ssh, telnet, ftp, sftp, which also provides a place to use the shell in a sandbox way for people who wouldnt otherwise have access
Again, I think that allowing a more open network can be one of the biggest steps in getting students to learn things. I have several servers running web, e-mail, ntp, and other random stuff, because they dont block ports really, and if we can use em, lots of people say "sure, might as well set up my own *nix box with apache, etc."
Studies actually show that less people have died from the cancer caused by radiation in York Haven and Cly and such than would have that kind of cancer in any normal town of the same size
I personally live 4 miles as the crow flys from TMI, its a great landmark to tell people from far away where I live, lol
Fischer Scientific
they sent me several boxes of catalogs all for free, and then have EVERYTHING, you do need a "company" to buy, i have never bought anything but I dont think it should be a problem to make one up
Its not that easy for people with macular degeneration, they get splotches in their eyes where they cant see anything, and basically have to rely on periferal vision to see anything
I pay $31.95 for fast cable, 128k up, but usually 3-4 mpbs down.
I have a friend who pays 69.99 for the same thing, but a "business" account, they have a static IP, but my IP hasnt changed for over a year, so I practically do as well
We have local dial up for 9.95 plus all the bigger companies juno, aol, msn, etc.
DSL would be an option for me, as I am really close to a telco switch office, but that costs upwards of 49.95 in my area, for a connection that is slower than my cable
I have Suscom cable modem if interested Susquahanna Communications
what does not having ties to Yahoo have to do with their legal power? I know it means they lost a decent sized customer, but its google, yahoo isnt the only thing they have going on
Or, you could have special "cell phone" booths, like a bathroom, but no toilet, and make sure that they are tiny and no sitting room, so that calls are only as long as they need to be
I dont know about best Buy, but Circuit cities CSP (Customer Service Plan) does not cover batteries as they are considered a part that always fails in time
(pissed me off cause mine died like a month after the 1 year warranty that Compaq would cover it during) but my $149 battery does last twice as long as the first one
I have gotten the warranty on almost everything i have bought @ circuit City, and it has been worth it every time.
My desktop computer - Warranty cost = $149 Replaced HD - (got a bigger one for free) Replaced CD drive (got a faster one) Replaced Monitor (got a better one)
My Laptop - $199 Replaced HD (dropped it) Replaced DVD Replaced Monitor Port on back (got bunged up) still got time left and the video card is gonna fry soon so... (contact me if u have any exp for why my compaq 1700XL 265 screen would turn white and not go back till it cools off)
My Stereo - $60 for a $500 surround sound package Replaced Reciever (power surge) Replaced Center speaker ??
My Minidisc - 40ish they will send me a check for 149.99 (what i paid) if it breaks (it may break about a month before 2 years???)
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Have you ever used Altiris?
It just works, imaging, software deployment, remote control, its all there.
Their RIP packager leaves a bit to be desired, but it does work.
I think their imaging ability works much better than any other of the image and automatic configuration programs I have seen
It can rename machines, rejoin to AD, and run post setup jobs. Plus, the amount of information Altiris collects about a computer is amazing, need to know:
serial numbers
mac address
installed programs
installed hardware
bios versions
altiris' SQL database has everything you need.
We could have used SMS for almost nothing because of our Microsoft licenses but we still pay for Altiris because it is just worth it.
I have a p3 600Mhz laptop that I broke the hinges for the lcd panel on, so now it runs my domain at home. It isnt the fastest Windows 2003 Server box I have ever used, but even with only 256MB RAM it is fine for DNS and all of my authentications.
With its oldish battery, I get 3-4 hours with the lcd off, plus plugging it into a UPS would probably get me even more.
I would definately go with something in the more "portable" end of the spectrum, the desktop replacements still eat the battery; but a laptop server is a definate possibility for low load situations, and even higher end stuff
We have about 18,000 mailboxes in exchange
Students get 20MB
Staff/faculty get 50MB
If staff / faculty need more or want more then they can request increases to 100MB or more
even letting someone get 13GB sounds ridiculous
sounds like you probably have 100GB+ of spam
not to be condescending, but thats the same point DeepFreeze accomplishes.
As a simple background DeepFreeze, DriveShield, and some other programs:
"lock" the real once you have a good install
instead of writing changes to the hard drive, they have a virtual partition that they write all the changes that would have been made. When you access the hard drive, it checks the virtual partition to see what should be different. if anything
While this can be a blessing once you get things working, I also find it bad for windows update, many admins are too lazy / don't know how to unlock the machine, install windows updates, and relock it. If you try to install updates while the machine is in a locked state, reboot and the updates are gone
an hour of DV is about 13-18 GB
so... no
my reciever has this as well, but i was under the impression that it didnt do what the submitter wanted, they instead block out/ reduce the harmonic RANGE of the sound.
This would mean, less bass, less extremely high trebles, but not actually changing the volume at all
its considered night mode because those really high frequences and really low frequencies are more likely to be annoying to others at night time
Just today I was in a 4 hour computer crime class (only once a week) and I wanted to print some notes during the 20 minute break for the class,
This class wasnt taking place in my college (RIT has several "colleges," it was in the college of business, and instead of having to walk the whole way to my college, the computer college, I just went to the building right next door to the college of Math and Science. and used one of the open labs there.
Its not really an easily providable service, but having open labs all over campus is something really nice here at RIT and I know I take advantage of them all the time (even the College of Business has labs, but they had a class in them at the time). Even some of our dorms have open labs in them, and almost all the labs have macs and PC's which is nice.
another thing that we have that is nice is campus wide Active directory, so that no matter what building I am in, I still just log in with my RIT account and it just works.
that same Active Directory is used to provide access to exchange mail, but we also have the option to use IMAP or POP3, or even web-based e-mail which is nice having that choice
I am also at RIT, and I work for the IT dept, we also convinced the sys admins to put firefox as the default browser on the most recent image we use for the several hundred computers that we have in our labs.
I can't imagine what it would be like to register not-online, its how it always had been for me.
as for your "blackboard"
we use something called "myCourses" which, depending on the teacher, can be utilized alot.
myCourses is web based, which is nice because its accessable in the same format from anywhere.
In the IT dept, we use something called Firstclass, an e-mail, conferencing, b-board, chat, instant message, dropbox application all rolled into one. RIT as a whole uses it for their distance learning / online classes as well. Firstclass has an online interface but, well it sucks
for ex. today in database class, we had some ideas, but weren't really brave enough to say it outloud to the teacher, so we started a chatroom for the class in firstclass, and just invited everyone that we knew in the class, so we could have a fast paced convo about it instead of waiting for the teacher to say something about our ideas.
We get 20 megs on www.rit.edu/~our user name
on a unix server that we have access to via ssh, telnet, ftp, sftp, which also provides a place to use the shell in a sandbox way for people who wouldnt otherwise have access
Again, I think that allowing a more open network can be one of the biggest steps in getting students to learn things. I have several servers running web, e-mail, ntp, and other random stuff, because they dont block ports really, and if we can use em, lots of people say "sure, might as well set up my own *nix box with apache, etc."
DScaler is an awesome program
I just got a Haup-whatever card from a friend, and XP would BSOD if i tried to start the software from their website
so a friend recommended DScaler, and it has worked awesomly every step of the way
--- as a side note, is there a good pref open source program to control the FM tuner that TV cards are coming with today ?
does that mean that xvid is called xvid because its divx backwards?
i tried researching, but am also watching a movie, so i didnt try that hard (movie is in Divx btw)
did you know xvid is divx backwards?
i wonder if divx was actually named because it was "x-vid" backwards?
just an interesting thought
Do you know what Thermite is?
U TF -8&q=thermite&btnG=Google+Search
Aluminum metal, fine granular
Ferric (iron III) Oxide powder (Fe2O3)
Magnesium ribbon
To my knowledge, none of these are explosive or dangerous by themselves, so I would think getting on a plane would be no problem
Not that I am suggesting this, bad terriorist bad, but any thoughts on this?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=
Studies actually show that less people have died from the cancer caused by radiation in York Haven and Cly and such than would have that kind of cancer in any normal town of the same size
I personally live 4 miles as the crow flys from TMI, its a great landmark to tell people from far away where I live, lol
here at college, i LOVE getting mail, so i signed myself up for some catalogs
besides your basic Crutchfield and random crap, i enjoy looking through
Edmund Scientific who has a great supply of random stuff
Fischer Scientific they sent me several boxes of catalogs all for free, and then have EVERYTHING, you do need a "company" to buy, i have never bought anything but I dont think it should be a problem to make one up
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hahaha
haha
ha
no
Its not that easy for people with macular degeneration, they get splotches in their eyes where they cant see anything, and basically have to rely on periferal vision to see anything
Here at RIT, I have dual OC-3's plus a T3 backup, for the low low price of $30k a year
Actually, its quite nice
I pay $31.95 for fast cable, 128k up, but usually 3-4 mpbs down.
I have a friend who pays 69.99 for the same thing, but a "business" account, they have a static IP, but my IP hasnt changed for over a year, so I practically do as well
We have local dial up for 9.95
plus all the bigger companies
juno, aol, msn, etc.
DSL would be an option for me, as I am really close to a telco switch office, but that costs upwards of 49.95 in my area, for a connection that is slower than my cable
I have Suscom cable modem if interested
Susquahanna Communications
what does not having ties to Yahoo have to do with their legal power? I know it means they lost a decent sized customer, but its google, yahoo isnt the only thing they have going on
just curious
i have had this problem with badly cracked versions of XP
buy it, or find a corp version without a crack
Or, you could have special "cell phone" booths,
like a bathroom, but no toilet, and make sure that they are tiny and no sitting room, so that
calls are only as long as they need to be
exactly!
And i have several friends that I have reccommended the CC plan to, and they
have had entire computer replaced (he got one 5 times faster)
another got HD upgrades (from 6 to 60 gigs)
another got a better monitor
oh, and they replaced the RAM in my laptop as well
I may not be for all people, but it always has been for me
(i may just be extra hard on stuff)
I dont know about best Buy, but Circuit cities CSP (Customer Service Plan) does not cover batteries as they are considered a part that always fails in time
(pissed me off cause mine died like a month after the 1 year warranty that Compaq would cover it during)
but my $149 battery does last twice as long as the first one
I have gotten the warranty on almost everything i have bought @ circuit City, and it has been worth it every time.
My desktop computer - Warranty cost = $149
Replaced HD - (got a bigger one for free)
Replaced CD drive (got a faster one)
Replaced Monitor (got a better one)
My Laptop - $199
Replaced HD (dropped it)
Replaced DVD
Replaced Monitor Port on back (got bunged up)
still got time left
and the video card is gonna fry soon so... (contact me if u have any exp for why my compaq 1700XL 265 screen would turn white and not go back till it cools off)
My Stereo - $60 for a $500 surround sound package
Replaced Reciever (power surge)
Replaced Center speaker ??
My Minidisc - 40ish
they will send me a check for 149.99 (what i paid) if it breaks
(it may break about a month before 2 years???)
Cause there are no Presentation programs for other os's
All this time I thought I used Star Office with Star Impress
What was I thinking!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!