I would be more concerned that it is easy to get hold if DNA sequences for VERY harmful bacteria on the web - and the tech to produce these things can be bought with near no control. I think anthrax was mentioned of a radio show I heard...
Ok, iw would require great skill to make, but probably less that a nuclear bomb, and since the raw materails are easy to get (All living things have DNA that could be potentially broken down for parts) then this is more of a threat than a nuclear bomb...
Re:Um, how does that make it the 'coolest'?
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Coolest, no, but the Physics department at my uni (Lancaster Uni - www.lancs.ac.uk) use a reasonably sized beowulf cluster (about 220ish machines from memory) for low energy particle collision simulation! Is that close enough?
BTW Linux doesn't use the bios once past the basic boot phase - my mouse works (MS Explorer), My NVidia GeForce II works fine (Mandrake 9.0) AND my computer crashes only if I do something really stupid. Most of the time Lockups can be sorted out by killing X or loging in remotely (via a secure connection - SSH) and killing the process causing the problem, but this is rarely needed.
Hmmm, Beer....... But I digress.
The Linux Bios is at a state now where boot time is limited by the time taken for the drives to spin up (Note: got to get flash HD for root...)
ASUS may provide **FREE** bios upgrades, this is to fix errors and poss minor speed improvements. I doubt they will support the mentioned implementation of secure hardware with iButtons and alike - Does this look like an alternative (abet slightly different) to Palladium...
But if Ford and BMW build two cars, they can drive on the same road, use standard fuel and both have stearing wheels and pedals.
If sony builds a CD player it uses the same type of CD and same external power supply as it's competators.
If one company builds a 100BaseT (or whatever the standard is) PCMCIA network card it can be used with pretty much any device capable of holding a PCMCIA network card and on any network using that standard.
Now in software, if you build a java app (this is probably as close to this kind of model as you can get in software) no other software (bar poss. via a source code route) is that compatable across the breath of computers. However, it doesn't help that some software companies refuse to play ball with standards. And as far as I know Sun also fall into this category as they haven't got Java formally standardised (has it got an ANSI standard?)
However, even if software isn't designed to be compatable at this level, they should still be able to talk to each other and standards such as SMB should be followed. If they need extending then the/standard/ should be extended, not one implementation of it. Another example if this is/data/ which should be able to be opened, edited and saved (if it is wished) on any platform that is capable of performing such a task. Not a limited sub-set because one company is gready.
But how many of those security issues are still unpatched?
Isn't it better for an advisory to be made and the software patched fully (Note: I don't concider what they are doing in this case to constitute fully) than to have fewer advisories but the holes to remain?
If I only had spam comming in to the filter, all I would have to do is pass all E-mail to the TrashCan!
I wish that they had just mandated something like a extra line in the header of all spam rather than a remove link at the bottom, then we could have just filtered out all occurences with that in it!
Neither was I, I was trying to make the point that spending more on a good admin brings a whole load of advantages, one of them being added cost savings in othger areas.
But the $50k a year admin would probably realise that the 30 old P100's that the MS Monkey was about to bin that are in the classroom could be used as X-terms. Thus all he would need are a few GHz servers as X-servers (load levelled of course), a few PC's with Large HD array's for/home and he's sorted. Rather than spending $$$$$$'s on 30 PC's with a likely minimum spec of 1GHz...
Oh what the Heck, he want's better.doc support, he'll buy a copy or two of staroffice rather than $$$$ ms office.
Given that there is a HUGE number of people that will travel miles to try and get linux into school (remember that Oregon/MS outbreak a little while ago) then I'm sure there would be loads of developers pleading to help develop apps for schools. Has anyone tried to start up any OSS projects to fill thse holes?
What do GradeQuick, Accelerated Reader, CCC/Successmaker, NovaNet actually give you? What do they do? Do the kids use them, some of them sound like admin titles...
On a more general point, if similar titles were available for Linux, would you concider a switch, or are they an empty excuse?
I am Actually interested, cos I can't remember ever using any special software at school...
I wish when I was younger I was told to RTFM, them I would be faster a reading now, better at getting a grip on technical issues quickly whilst reading and would have a LOT more patience when trying to fix a problem. These kind of skills are more important than knowing word.
I'm sick of the fact I spent years using windows, I wish I had taken to linux years earlier than I did.
Most schools computer systems are not maintained properly, and they usually just barely work. The cost of training, and expert administration would be rather high.
May I suggest this is because the software costs so much they can't afford a decent tech to look after them
proprietary software (an absolute must)
Why? I did all my work on MS Works at school, I could still use word when it came to it, there would be no real difference if they used Star Office then had to use word.
I think that Open source stuff would be excellent in schools, given they use the saved money to hire a decent Tech, when I was a school the network was over-run and frequently crashed by the kids because they were able to fill the servers hard-drives leading to it bombing! I don't think I could do that to my Linux machine now with only a normal user account.
So if the system is configured for you and all you need to do is run apps, why would it be harder to use say, KDE, rather than windows?
Programs like OpenOffice and Mozilla are probably one of your best starting points. If all the required activities can be carried out using these cross-platform programs, once the company is effectively wiened onto these migration of the OS will be far less of a headache! - This is of course if you are concidering migrating desktops...
Don't forget to concider the requirement for employees to be able to access documents sent to them! The word filters on OpenOffice aren't great and VB Macros won't work! (Not sure about Star Office though..)
How big is the company, what do you do? Could you switch to a X-term style infrastructure, poss with load balenced X-servers linked to multiple file servers. This might however require a large step at some point..
Question - Can you copy and paste stuff between the two windows if they are running as differnet X sessions (I'm guessing not, but it would be tres sweet!)
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Maybe not for reading, but it doesn't need to spin up on warm up, hence there are savings at boot time.
Although it's a pretty moot point, since its on 24/7 so it would just be a waste of money!
I would be more concerned that it is easy to get hold if DNA sequences for VERY harmful bacteria on the web - and the tech to produce these things can be bought with near no control. I think anthrax was mentioned of a radio show I heard...
Ok, iw would require great skill to make, but probably less that a nuclear bomb, and since the raw materails are easy to get (All living things have DNA that could be potentially broken down for parts) then this is more of a threat than a nuclear bomb...
..put the the computer inside, them what?
Arse - No door!
Coolest, no, but the Physics department at my uni (Lancaster Uni - www.lancs.ac.uk) use a reasonably sized beowulf cluster (about 220ish machines from memory) for low energy particle collision simulation! Is that close enough?
BTW Linux doesn't use the bios once past the basic boot phase - my mouse works (MS Explorer), My NVidia GeForce II works fine (Mandrake 9.0) AND my computer crashes only if I do something really stupid. Most of the time Lockups can be sorted out by killing X or loging in remotely (via a secure connection - SSH) and killing the process causing the problem, but this is rarely needed.
... But I digress.
Hmmm, Beer....
The Linux Bios is at a state now where boot time is limited by the time taken for the drives to spin up (Note: got to get flash HD for root...)
ASUS may provide **FREE** bios upgrades, this is to fix errors and poss minor speed improvements. I doubt they will support the mentioned implementation of secure hardware with iButtons and alike - Does this look like an alternative (abet slightly different) to Palladium...
Have you got your fingers crossed & what are you wishing for?
Ah,
/standard/ should be extended, not one implementation of it. Another example if this is /data/ which should be able to be opened, edited and saved (if it is wished) on any platform that is capable of performing such a task. Not a limited sub-set because one company is gready.
But if Ford and BMW build two cars, they can drive on the same road, use standard fuel and both have stearing wheels and pedals.
If sony builds a CD player it uses the same type of CD and same external power supply as it's competators.
If one company builds a 100BaseT (or whatever the standard is) PCMCIA network card it can be used with pretty much any device capable of holding a PCMCIA network card and on any network using that standard.
Now in software, if you build a java app (this is probably as close to this kind of model as you can get in software) no other software (bar poss. via a source code route) is that compatable across the breath of computers. However, it doesn't help that some software companies refuse to play ball with standards. And as far as I know Sun also fall into this category as they haven't got Java formally standardised (has it got an ANSI standard?)
However, even if software isn't designed to be compatable at this level, they should still be able to talk to each other and standards such as SMB should be followed. If they need extending then the
Apparently the new MS EULA bars the use of VNC.
That's if you give a toss about the EULA anyway.
Just out of interest, what happens if you have over 10 directories with the same first 6 letters?
Do you loose another letter and get a 2 digit number?
But how many of those security issues are still unpatched?
Isn't it better for an advisory to be made and the software patched fully (Note: I don't concider what they are doing in this case to constitute fully) than to have fewer advisories but the holes to remain?
Just what I was thinking!
If I only had spam comming in to the filter, all I would have to do is pass all E-mail to the TrashCan!
I wish that they had just mandated something like a extra line in the header of all spam rather than a remove link at the bottom, then we could have just filtered out all occurences with that in it!
Slashdot has got a white background by default to! Wow, it is easy.
Neither was I, I was trying to make the point that spending more on a good admin brings a whole load of advantages, one of them being added cost savings in othger areas.
Sorry if my post sounded a little angry...
YOU DO THIS AT UNI!!!
What course are you doing?
Don't they have something better to teach you?
But the $50k a year admin would probably realise that the 30 old P100's that the MS Monkey was about to bin that are in the classroom could be used as X-terms. Thus all he would need are a few GHz servers as X-servers (load levelled of course), a few PC's with Large HD array's for /home and he's sorted. Rather than spending $$$$$$'s on 30 PC's with a likely minimum spec of 1GHz...
Oh what the Heck, he want's better .doc support, he'll buy a copy or two of staroffice rather than $$$$ ms office.
Given that there is a HUGE number of people that will travel miles to try and get linux into school (remember that Oregon/MS outbreak a little while ago) then I'm sure there would be loads of developers pleading to help develop apps for schools. Has anyone tried to start up any OSS projects to fill thse holes?
What do GradeQuick, Accelerated Reader, CCC/Successmaker, NovaNet actually give you? What do they do? Do the kids use them, some of them sound like admin titles...
On a more general point, if similar titles were available for Linux, would you concider a switch, or are they an empty excuse?
I am Actually interested, cos I can't remember ever using any special software at school...
I wish when I was younger I was told to RTFM, them I would be faster a reading now, better at getting a grip on technical issues quickly whilst reading and would have a LOT more patience when trying to fix a problem. These kind of skills are more important than knowing word.
I'm sick of the fact I spent years using windows, I wish I had taken to linux years earlier than I did.
Most schools computer systems are not maintained properly, and they usually just barely work. The cost of training, and expert administration would be rather high.
May I suggest this is because the software costs so much they can't afford a decent tech to look after them
proprietary software (an absolute must)
Why? I did all my work on MS Works at school, I could still use word when it came to it, there would be no real difference if they used Star Office then had to use word.
I think that Open source stuff would be excellent in schools, given they use the saved money to hire a decent Tech, when I was a school the network was over-run and frequently crashed by the kids because they were able to fill the servers hard-drives leading to it bombing! I don't think I could do that to my Linux machine now with only a normal user account.
So if the system is configured for you and all you need to do is run apps, why would it be harder to use say, KDE, rather than windows?
...And Apparently TLA's.
...and a catchy thrase...
Where do you want to wipe today.
IIRC in the UK the palm OS based devices still sell in higher quantities.
That one is not dead yet.
I had forgot about the hardware issue and is very important! Unless of course you are buying new hardware, but it still needs to be concidered.
Programs like OpenOffice and Mozilla are probably one of your best starting points. If all the required activities can be carried out using these cross-platform programs, once the company is effectively wiened onto these migration of the OS will be far less of a headache! - This is of course if you are concidering migrating desktops...
Don't forget to concider the requirement for employees to be able to access documents sent to them! The word filters on OpenOffice aren't great and VB Macros won't work! (Not sure about Star Office though..)
How big is the company, what do you do? Could you switch to a X-term style infrastructure, poss with load balenced X-servers linked to multiple file servers. This might however require a large step at some point..
Just some thoughs.
Next Question! Can you drag apps between them (Threre must be some limitation why else would Xinerama exist?)
Question - Can you copy and paste stuff between the two windows if they are running as differnet X sessions (I'm guessing not, but it would be tres sweet!)