I'm the admin at a K-12. Basically my policy for laptops is that if you want to use one, you have to give it to me first and let me lock it down. I treat it just like I would any other workstation: I take away their admin rights, install Firefox and disable IE, install our centrally-managed AV, enable auto updates, make sure the firewall is up and running, etc. Any extra programs you want to install, you have to ask me first. It still makes me nervous though, and we have definitely had our share of laptops causing trouble on the network. And yes we have had laptops stolen which is never much fun. I make sure any important data gets backed up to a server.
Once on my birthday I was sitting on the floor installing a new video card I'd received, and my little brother came in and spilled a whole plate full of cake and ice cream right into the open computer. It took me forever to clean it out, but it did work fine afterward.
Yeah, how is this news? Thousands of bands have many of their songs available for free via MP3 download or Flash-streaming, direct from their website. They have been doing this for 10 years. I know plenty of other bands that flat out encourage you to share their songs.
Think how much cheaper and easier it would be if they just used an E-book s with DRM.
Think about how much it really, really sucks to read a book off of a computer screen.
I remember back in the day I wrote a BASIC program that looked exactly like DOS, except it would give weird error messages any time you did anything. My parents sure loved that one.
I am the (one and only) sysadmin at a K-12. I have done a decent job of keeping documentation, but what am I supposed to do with passwords? There are so many of them and they are mostly in my head or in my PDA. Should I write them down somewhere? Should I keep them offsite? Any suggestions?
I am the admin at a K-12. We had thought about using OpenOffice, but we get state grant money for software. The licensing for MS Office is more than covered, so we go with that. Why not?
Most of the faculty and staff still hold the idea that "the students should learn the application they will be using in the workplace." I don't agree, but it's a hard point to argue against.
Plus, OpenOffice is still a little rough around the edges. Funny, I bet if it "looked cool" they would be a lot more receptive...
My wife is a graphic designer for a local ad agency. They all use Macs, mostly G5s, but not a single one of them uses an LCD screen. They all have humongous CRTs.
I think it was '87 or '88. It was 3rd grade, anyway. I was over at a friend's house and his older brother was playing Space Quest on their family PC. I was blown away. We stayed up all night and beat the game. I went home and told my family that I wanted a PC, so we got one for Christmas. SQ was the first game I got, and I quickly had learned to type better than any adult I knew. Still, I mostly played games, but in those days you had to know a lot about DOS to play games. Like the difference between "extended" and "expanded" memory, the autoexec and configsys, loading DOS into the UMB, that kind of stuff. I had to upgrade the hardware in order to play the newer games, so either I learned to do it or I didn't get to play them. Not to mention that in those days you had to set jumpers for everything. Installing my first sound card nearly drove me insane.
Also sometime around '92 or so, a friend introduced me to BASIC programming and the BBS world. Both completely blew my mind. I started writing programs based on the stuff I had seen him make. And I got a 300 bps modem and started connecting to the local BBS to play door games and to download.
A couple of years before college, I got into HTML of course. Graduated with an MIS degree, fast-forward a few years and now I am a sysadmin and do freelance web development part time.
I had to set up a system for a new secretary and gave her Sunbird instead of Outlook. She was eager to give it a shot, but after a few days she told me it just didn't have the features and flexability of Outlook, which it doesn't. Maybe soon.
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Um, because you can't fit dozens or hundreds of books in your pocket?
Humm, I'm pretty sure the information overload of a typical website contributed to the same thing on TV news stations, not the other way around.
I'm the admin at a K-12. Basically my policy for laptops is that if you want to use one, you have to give it to me first and let me lock it down. I treat it just like I would any other workstation: I take away their admin rights, install Firefox and disable IE, install our centrally-managed AV, enable auto updates, make sure the firewall is up and running, etc. Any extra programs you want to install, you have to ask me first. It still makes me nervous though, and we have definitely had our share of laptops causing trouble on the network. And yes we have had laptops stolen which is never much fun. I make sure any important data gets backed up to a server.
King Kong, pirates... add some ninjas and we're looking at a kick-ass movie!
Once on my birthday I was sitting on the floor installing a new video card I'd received, and my little brother came in and spilled a whole plate full of cake and ice cream right into the open computer. It took me forever to clean it out, but it did work fine afterward.
Actually IM is more like a cross between phone and email.
Yeah, how is this news? Thousands of bands have many of their songs available for free via MP3 download or Flash-streaming, direct from their website. They have been doing this for 10 years. I know plenty of other bands that flat out encourage you to share their songs.
Think how much cheaper and easier it would be if they just used an E-book s with DRM. Think about how much it really, really sucks to read a book off of a computer screen.
Doesn't anyone read Wired? Linux already lost the desktop war!
Get a cheap Linksys router from CompUSA.
Does it run Lin... eh.
Oh! Imagine a Beowulf clus.....
Nevermind.
People should stop developing with JavaScript. How many of us have it disabled in our browsers? It's nothing but trouble.
Probably your ISP or email providers have very effective anti-spam controls.
AOL, is that thing still around?
I remember back in the day I wrote a BASIC program that looked exactly like DOS, except it would give weird error messages any time you did anything. My parents sure loved that one.
I am the (one and only) sysadmin at a K-12. I have done a decent job of keeping documentation, but what am I supposed to do with passwords? There are so many of them and they are mostly in my head or in my PDA. Should I write them down somewhere? Should I keep them offsite? Any suggestions?
I use SplashID.
We need a Fugazi/Dischord of the video game industry.
How many times has sans.org been hacked?
Maybe they should just say that .com .org and .net are for pr0n, and start new ones for non-pr0n sites, and then not allow pr0n sites to register them?
I am the admin at a K-12. We had thought about using OpenOffice, but we get state grant money for software. The licensing for MS Office is more than covered, so we go with that. Why not?
Most of the faculty and staff still hold the idea that "the students should learn the application they will be using in the workplace." I don't agree, but it's a hard point to argue against.
Plus, OpenOffice is still a little rough around the edges. Funny, I bet if it "looked cool" they would be a lot more receptive...
My wife is a graphic designer for a local ad agency. They all use Macs, mostly G5s, but not a single one of them uses an LCD screen. They all have humongous CRTs.
I think it was '87 or '88. It was 3rd grade, anyway. I was over at a friend's house and his older brother was playing Space Quest on their family PC. I was blown away. We stayed up all night and beat the game. I went home and told my family that I wanted a PC, so we got one for Christmas. SQ was the first game I got, and I quickly had learned to type better than any adult I knew. Still, I mostly played games, but in those days you had to know a lot about DOS to play games. Like the difference between "extended" and "expanded" memory, the autoexec and configsys, loading DOS into the UMB, that kind of stuff. I had to upgrade the hardware in order to play the newer games, so either I learned to do it or I didn't get to play them. Not to mention that in those days you had to set jumpers for everything. Installing my first sound card nearly drove me insane.
Also sometime around '92 or so, a friend introduced me to BASIC programming and the BBS world. Both completely blew my mind. I started writing programs based on the stuff I had seen him make. And I got a 300 bps modem and started connecting to the local BBS to play door games and to download.
A couple of years before college, I got into HTML of course. Graduated with an MIS degree, fast-forward a few years and now I am a sysadmin and do freelance web development part time.
What this guy posted was copied and pasted from LinuxSucks.org.
I totally agree.
I had to set up a system for a new secretary and gave her Sunbird instead of Outlook. She was eager to give it a shot, but after a few days she told me it just didn't have the features and flexability of Outlook, which it doesn't. Maybe soon.
I would use it if it could sync with my Tungsten.