can't believe it hasn't occured to you?! you have the logs, you mentioned the CLI is dull looking. Set up a cron job to generate graphs using jgraph. Use a html page with a timed refresh coded in...
* if struck by any CLI hassles which u give repeated examples of, google the correct command;
* over time you will become more proficient in the CLI and not need google;
* over time you will become more efficient on your Ubuntu machine and actually save time;
* if the CLI still bothers u, try Applications > Add/Remove. Its been in Ubuntu since I switched from Windaz at 7.04;
* did your sock-puppet mod u insightful?
If user rights were properly limited in the first place, they wouldn't have had any issues with the Windows machines. And if they don't limit them properly on the Linux ones, they'll have the same problem.
We're talking about a school library. usually the "IT" department of a school library consists of the member of staff who is "good with computers". Security thru obscurity is still quite common in many (low budget) public institution computers.
As for limiting user accounts, we are likely dealing with Win98 machines. IIRC, locking down Win98 is usually done with 3rd party software. I guess it can be done with registry hacks, but that is non-trivial.
The way you use words like "stupid" and "moron" makes me wonder if you've put your brain into gear before posting?
I had this knock-off game for the Atari 2600 called Time Race. IIRC it was a side-scrolling space shooter, like scramble but with a few more colours. Neither the concept of time or racing had anything to do with it... actually that's so dumb as not to be even remotely funny.
As time went by I got a C64, but never did find myself "keeping up" and going to the Amiga. I always thought that Leisure Suit Larry was a great name for a game, but never got to play it.
At least out here in Aus where almost every system had some sort of DOS application in there... yeah, I'm in.au -- I guess 32 bit s/ware will catch on eventually:)
Just out of curiosity, why buy second-hand 3.5" floppy drives? buy? I said source:)
our IT dept is very efficient due to lack of funds - boxen and/or components are swapped around on a needs basis (our needs, not the lusers of course).
One good thing about being in an organisation that is tight with $ is that the mix of old and new gear, plus a bit of space in the IT shop for "stuff", means us older hands can horde and entertain^W maintain with old gear.
my organisation got rid of its last DOS app last year (vehicle fuel logs, very important). We had to maintain an old Win 98 box (and source the occasional second-hand replacement 3.5" FDD drive).
VMs and emulating the A: drive doesn't help if the auditing office insists on receiving the data via snail-mail delivered floppy (no joke!)
I think Vista will be fine for most people once powerful hardware becomes more common. People I know who have it pre-loaded on their new laptops seem to be okay with it. would these "people you know" be the 1st time purchasers of notebooks? I have seen this Vista thing during sessions helping new-owners and cannot believe the drag it places on their machines. One had a memory load of >400MB on an out-of-the-box install of Vista Home plus associated bloat-ware. This is on a notebook that comes with 512MB (shared) RAM and a "Vista capable" sticker.
I have concluded that "Vista capable" indicates that it is capable of blowing. I have long-term clients that -- on hearing my frustrations while tweaking their Vista systems -- can't dig my recommendations that they downgrade to XP and dual-boot Ubuntu with view to migrating prior to XP becoming unsupported. Their response is usually along the lines of "but it [Vista] looks so glossy and nice... what could be wrong with it?" Fair enough, stick with a computer that boots slower than WfW 3.1 on a 386 with 16MB of RAM...
It can also integrate buzzwords into story summaries with ease! Think of the synergy! Should be great for the incremental subsumption of so'net knowledge users, especially now that the right-sized pricing structure has received a homogeneous definition which should be an enabler and champion of the leverage of the competitors' customers.
don't RTFA if you can get away with it, the link implies that there's no need to. GNU/Linux does what we want it to do. If it doesn't we're free to look inside and tweak stuff. This can become quite a pastime. Did I get it right?
Mitigating climate change is too expensive. Saving us from death-rays is not required until far beyond our lives and the lives of many generations to follow. No need to resort to money as an excuse.
But you do make a good point - we can't even save ourselves from ourselves, let alone an external threat:(
There is nothing in there that says that Americans aren't chronically dehydrated, just that the 75% figure as a scientific fact is unsupported.
There's a difference? The way you put it, if a total of two Americans are chronically dehydrated, the statement is correct. Don't use pedantry to support sensationalism.
It is not good enough for us to trust primary historical documents such as newspapers to their original publisher. We must allow libraries verbatim copy, and distribution....Information must remain free and it will have to be truly liberated if it's going to be that way.
since i don't have mod pts i'll reply - this should be +5... public and many academic libraries have always had this as a central reason for being. many of the 'free internet' philosophies come straight from this. to suggest that libraries are about to r.i.p or are entitled to be neglected is to deny any reason for free-information / free-internet.
DRM and dissapearning media have no place in free societies.
libraries and public consortia are the perfect repositories for outdated formats and the archiving of such. consider all of the archiving/conversion that will need to be done to DRM'ed media once that bollocks becomes archaic
so how long until an executive at a rival company demands that they produce one with 5 layers?
One more is always better, just ask Gillette and anyone with a guitar amp.
What's with/. lately? I'm inclined to create a bunch of sock puppets and meta-mod all these sentimental, right-wing, apple-pie-humping mods to their beloved fiery furnace...
... corn ethanol, backed by tax dollars to hide the fact that AT BEST, it produces 10% more fuel than is used in the production of it... to add to that, growing stuff for fuel pushes up the price of food - in countries where many are already hungry this is not good. As if enough of the 3rd world hadn't already supplanted food crops with tobacco and coffee...
Their current natural regime hasn't ever allowed them the opportunity... hey, its not our fault that God put OUR oil under THEIR sand, oops, I mean in their clouds!
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of course - maximas tibi gratias ago!
yep - cloning is nothing like creation el n ... duh I flunked latin -- creation from nothing
That kind of attitude really pisses me off! ;-)
yes, I detest being gently hated by patronising tech support heroes
All hail Xenu!
or NIbiru or seed for new lifeforms or ... more likely just a bunch of dust and ice with a few exotic compunds
can't believe it hasn't occured to you?! you have the logs, you mentioned the CLI is dull looking. Set up a cron job to generate graphs using jgraph. Use a html page with a timed refresh coded in ...
* if struck by any CLI hassles which u give repeated examples of, google the correct command;
* over time you will become more proficient in the CLI and not need google;
* over time you will become more efficient on your Ubuntu machine and actually save time;
* if the CLI still bothers u, try Applications > Add/Remove. Its been in Ubuntu since I switched from Windaz at 7.04;
* did your sock-puppet mod u insightful?
We're talking about a school library. usually the "IT" department of a school library consists of the member of staff who is "good with computers". Security thru obscurity is still quite common in many (low budget) public institution computers.
As for limiting user accounts, we are likely dealing with Win98 machines. IIRC, locking down Win98 is usually done with 3rd party software. I guess it can be done with registry hacks, but that is non-trivial.
The way you use words like "stupid" and "moron" makes me wonder if you've put your brain into gear before posting?
As time went by I got a C64, but never did find myself "keeping up" and going to the Amiga. I always thought that Leisure Suit Larry was a great name for a game, but never got to play it.
our IT dept is very efficient due to lack of funds - boxen and/or components are swapped around on a needs basis (our needs, not the lusers of course).
One good thing about being in an organisation that is tight with $ is that the mix of old and new gear, plus a bit of space in the IT shop for "stuff", means us older hands can horde and entertain^W maintain with old gear.
VMs and emulating the A: drive doesn't help if the auditing office insists on receiving the data via snail-mail delivered floppy (no joke!)
I have concluded that "Vista capable" indicates that it is capable of blowing. I have long-term clients that -- on hearing my frustrations while tweaking their Vista systems -- can't dig my recommendations that they downgrade to XP and dual-boot Ubuntu with view to migrating prior to XP becoming unsupported. Their response is usually along the lines of "but it [Vista] looks so glossy and nice ... what could be wrong with it?" Fair enough, stick with a computer that boots slower than WfW 3.1 on a 386 with 16MB of RAM...
generally speaking, I don't like banner years. This may be helpful...
'cause it ain't China
don't RTFA if you can get away with it, the link implies that there's no need to. GNU/Linux does what we want it to do. If it doesn't we're free to look inside and tweak stuff. This can become quite a pastime. Did I get it right?
But you do make a good point - we can't even save ourselves from ourselves, let alone an external threat :(
There's a difference? The way you put it, if a total of two Americans are chronically dehydrated, the statement is correct. Don't use pedantry to support sensationalism.
since i don't have mod pts i'll reply - this should be +5 ... public and many academic libraries have always had this as a central reason for being. many of the 'free internet' philosophies come straight from this. to suggest that libraries are about to r.i.p or are entitled to be neglected is to deny any reason for free-information / free-internet.
DRM and dissapearning media have no place in free societies.libraries and public consortia are the perfect repositories for outdated formats and the archiving of such. consider all of the archiving/conversion that will need to be done to DRM'ed media once that bollocks becomes archaic
this has the same ring to it as 75% of Americans being chronically dehydrated
so how long until an executive at a rival company demands that they produce one with 5 layers?
One more is always better, just ask Gillette and anyone with a guitar amp.
Artificial Insertion? ...
Piers Anthony had some interesting ideas on this
What's with /. lately? ...
I'm inclined to create a bunch of sock puppets and meta-mod all these sentimental, right-wing, apple-pie-humping mods to their beloved fiery furnace
... corn ethanol, backed by tax dollars to hide the fact that AT BEST, it produces 10% more fuel than is used in the production of it... to add to that, growing stuff for fuel pushes up the price of food - in countries where many are already hungry this is not good. As if enough of the 3rd world hadn't already supplanted food crops with tobacco and coffee