Those 1% of users will be the developers and the people writing how-to's and web apps. So take them out of the mix. It just seems problematic to me. I have one. It was too difficult to do anything more than check email and Facebook, so I installed Ubuntu. Want to edit a document in Dropbox? It is too complex for someone like my wife. If that is the intended audience, it will never gain traction and succeed.
One issue with the Chromebooks is that if you upgrade the memory or hard drive to a ssd, you void the warranty. I asked a Chrome tech to confirm this with a supervisor. You are not going to get much geek interest in a product if they can't upgrade a hard drive. So... It is going to languish with the low end users and not do much. My 2 cents
If I had mod points, I would mod the parent up. I have taught for 28 years and was Novell/Microsoft certified in the 90's. I have installed and administered various Linux servers over the years because they just worked and I could repurpose hardware easily on a budget.
I currently administer a Moodle server and due to politics, it is a MS server. For my money, we should be using Linux in the server room, and FOSS software on the desktop where possible. As the parent said, software lockin is huge, and culture is hard to change.
1. Drink tequila until I pass out after voting all my ACORN ballots. 2. Check the paper to see results in the morning while nursing a hangover. 3. Take money from shorting Lehman Brothers and buy unregistered handguns. 4. In six weeks hear on NPR that the last vote count has been validated by the courts. 5. Wait for civil unrest and start selling handguns. 5. Profit
FWIW, I publish my materials for conferences, etc. under the GNU Free Documentation License. I have had people ask "So I understand what this means if I want to print your paper and distribute it to my department. What if I want to take your project and modify it for my classes?"
I reply that this is really my hope, and that if they publish it or present on the project, as a fellow academic, I would expect them to cite me as a source. I would also hope that if they improve the materials, they would let me know so that I could benefit.
I have a BP6 motherboard sporting dual 500 MHz processors and 512 mb of ram that I built when all this equipment was new (1999 sometime I think). It is still in service and works pretty well given the age. When I built this machine, my main box was NT4 233 MHz and 32 mb of ram, so I was suddenly living very large.
You laugh, but I have always said the secret to a happy relationship is finding someone smarter than you who is dumb enough to go out with you. It seems to have worked for me. My wife and I have been married 25 years as of this last June. She earns more than I do too, although that is not too hard since I teach high school math and do some network admin contract stuff on the side.
When I was 29 (back in the 80's), I was an English teacher who taught a math course or two because I had enough math hours on the transcript. I decided to go to grad school and wanted to earn Math certification as part of the process. The Dean of the Graduate School suggested I think about a math major. They had an assistantship, etc.
I became a Math major and essentially recreated myself.
I am still teaching, and just finished my 25th year in the classroom.
I am the Sr. Warden of my Episcopal Church. I think we do a better job of following an open source model than you might think. If someone wants to work with the Sunday School or rewrite the policies for the hourly employees, we have a process. That process is not a top-down business process. Our goal is to empower and support anyone who wants to contribute with some safety checks in there before it becomes policy. This seems similar to the way that open source projects are managed.
We are all volunteers after all and are doing this because we believe it is the right thing to do. Some of us contribute a lot, and others have pockets of influence/interest. Others just come on Sunday and are in receive mode instead of give.
When this article came out, the Slashdot community seemed impressed that Bill Gates was giving 750 million (or 1.5% of his net worth). 85% is a substantial donation. I don't care how wealthy he is.
On my way home from a motorcycle trip once I was stopped in Columbia, MO. The policeman had me demonstrate that all my lights worked and then told me he was going to have to search my bags. Now I had been on the road for a week, and had some funky clothes and little else in the bags. There was for sure nothing the policeman would have cared about, but I did not feel like having him dig through my dirty underwear.
I told him that he did not have my permission to search the bags, and I asked if I was being charged with anything. He told me he could have a search warrant in no time. He had been fishing with the judge just that morning.
I encouraged him to get a warrant if he wanted to search the bags.
He said it could also take a while to process the warrant, and he would have to take me to the jail to wait. I told him I was a teacher and was on summer break. A wait would just make for a better story when I got home.
I asked if I was being charged with anything.
We danced around this issue for a while. I was polite but firm. He kept telling me he was going to have to search the bags.
He never did search the bags or write me a ticket or tell me why he stopped me.
It still pisses me off.
I think the librarian should have asked for a subpoena. There are fundamental issues here, and while I don't think anyone should obstruct justice, I also don't think policemen should be able to waltz into a library and ask for circulation records. It is not that you have anything to hide, but sometimes you don't feel like having someone digging through your personal stuff.
We had people on the school network who were infected with MSBlast and did not seem to be in any rush to get machines cleaned up. I found an exploit on MajorExploits that allowed me to remotely access the infected machines. I then modified boot.ini so it would not boot and shut them down. They would turn machines back on and make a beeline for the tech department.
This aproach is something like what people are describing here I guess. I have no regrets.
In the interests of full disclosure, I did not get caught, and I might have regrets if I had gotten in trouble at work over this.
I do this frequently. A meeting is announced from 3-4. My PDA goes off at 4, and I'll check it and politely excuse myself from a meeting that has gone way past the point of being effective. No one knows that I set the thing to go off.
I have a reputation for being a busy guy and someone who is schedule driven. That PDA helps me stay on task and get me to my next 'appointment.'
When I worked in Washington, I was at the Franklin Park Hotel. It was 8 floors. I don't recall many taller buildings, but I wasn't paying much attention either.
For sure the limit is not 6 stories.
Regards... Tom
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What you don't understand is that this is how marriage works. My wife left a good job so I could make a career move. I supported her as she went through grad school and the process to become an Episcopal priest. Right now, she is at home with the kids while I am presenting at a conference.
We have been married 23 years, and I claim that this sort of thing is more typical than you might imagine. We have both realized dreams because of the support of the other.
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Those 1% of users will be the developers and the people writing how-to's and web apps. So take them out of the mix. It just seems problematic to me. I have one. It was too difficult to do anything more than check email and Facebook, so I installed Ubuntu. Want to edit a document in Dropbox? It is too complex for someone like my wife. If that is the intended audience, it will never gain traction and succeed.
One issue with the Chromebooks is that if you upgrade the memory or hard drive to a ssd, you void the warranty. I asked a Chrome tech to confirm this with a supervisor. You are not going to get much geek interest in a product if they can't upgrade a hard drive. So... It is going to languish with the low end users and not do much. My 2 cents
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/04/15/inside-the-james-bond-villain-data-center/ It seems like these folks have a lot going for them. There is the sensible management, a cool place to work, etc.
If I had mod points, I would mod the parent up. I have taught for 28 years and was Novell/Microsoft certified in the 90's. I have installed and administered various Linux servers over the years because they just worked and I could repurpose hardware easily on a budget.
I currently administer a Moodle server and due to politics, it is a MS server. For my money, we should be using Linux in the server room, and FOSS software on the desktop where possible. As the parent said, software lockin is huge, and culture is hard to change.
I bought one in 1997 maybe that was a demo model at Office Max or someplace. It was a P133 and had a 1.6gb hard drive. I maxed the memory out at 80mb.
I'll have to say, it was a very sturdy laptop, and it ran quite well all considered. I sold it in 2002 or so for $200.
1. Drink tequila until I pass out after voting all my ACORN ballots.
2. Check the paper to see results in the morning while nursing a hangover.
3. Take money from shorting Lehman Brothers and buy unregistered handguns.
4. In six weeks hear on NPR that the last vote count has been validated by the courts.
5. Wait for civil unrest and start selling handguns.
5. Profit
FWIW, I publish my materials for conferences, etc. under the GNU Free Documentation License. I have had people ask "So I understand what this means if I want to print your paper and distribute it to my department. What if I want to take your project and modify it for my classes?"
I reply that this is really my hope, and that if they publish it or present on the project, as a fellow academic, I would expect them to cite me as a source. I would also hope that if they improve the materials, they would let me know so that I could benefit.
This is the way the academic world functions.
I have a BP6 motherboard sporting dual 500 MHz processors and 512 mb of ram that I built when all this equipment was new (1999 sometime I think). It is still in service and works pretty well given the age. When I built this machine, my main box was NT4 233 MHz and 32 mb of ram, so I was suddenly living very large.
You laugh, but I have always said the secret to a happy relationship is finding someone smarter than you who is dumb enough to go out with you. It seems to have worked for me. My wife and I have been married 25 years as of this last June. She earns more than I do too, although that is not too hard since I teach high school math and do some network admin contract stuff on the side.
When I was 29 (back in the 80's), I was an English teacher who taught a math course or two because I had enough math hours on the transcript. I decided to go to grad school and wanted to earn Math certification as part of the process. The Dean of the Graduate School suggested I think about a math major. They had an assistantship, etc.
I became a Math major and essentially recreated myself.
I am still teaching, and just finished my 25th year in the classroom.
I am the Sr. Warden of my Episcopal Church. I think we do a better job of following an open source model than you might think. If someone wants to work with the Sunday School or rewrite the policies for the hourly employees, we have a process. That process is not a top-down business process. Our goal is to empower and support anyone who wants to contribute with some safety checks in there before it becomes policy. This seems similar to the way that open source projects are managed.
We are all volunteers after all and are doing this because we believe it is the right thing to do. Some of us contribute a lot, and others have pockets of influence/interest. Others just come on Sunday and are in receive mode instead of give.
It works...
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article came out, the Slashdot community seemed impressed that Bill Gates was giving 750 million (or 1.5% of his net worth). 85% is a substantial donation. I don't care how wealthy he is.
On my way home from a motorcycle trip once I was stopped in Columbia, MO. The policeman had me demonstrate that all my lights worked and then told me he was going to have to search my bags. Now I had been on the road for a week, and had some funky clothes and little else in the bags. There was for sure nothing the policeman would have cared about, but I did not feel like having him dig through my dirty underwear.
I told him that he did not have my permission to search the bags, and I asked if I was being charged with anything. He told me he could have a search warrant in no time. He had been fishing with the judge just that morning.
I encouraged him to get a warrant if he wanted to search the bags.
He said it could also take a while to process the warrant, and he would have to take me to the jail to wait. I told him I was a teacher and was on summer break. A wait would just make for a better story when I got home.
I asked if I was being charged with anything.
We danced around this issue for a while. I was polite but firm. He kept telling me he was going to have to search the bags.
He never did search the bags or write me a ticket or tell me why he stopped me.
It still pisses me off.
I think the librarian should have asked for a subpoena. There are fundamental issues here, and while I don't think anyone should obstruct justice, I also don't think policemen should be able to waltz into a library and ask for circulation records. It is not that you have anything to hide, but sometimes you don't feel like having someone digging through your personal stuff.
The celebration of the resurrection begins at sunset. I got back from the Vigil about an hour ago.
Ah yes... six readings and four psalms...
We can say "Alleluia" again.
We had people on the school network who were infected with MSBlast and did not seem to be in any rush to get machines cleaned up. I found an exploit on MajorExploits that allowed me to remotely access the infected machines. I then modified boot.ini so it would not boot and shut them down. They would turn machines back on and make a beeline for the tech department.
This aproach is something like what people are describing here I guess. I have no regrets.
In the interests of full disclosure, I did not get caught, and I might have regrets if I had gotten in trouble at work over this.
Looks like I am screwed... but not literally or anything.
Sigh.
Ha!
I do this frequently. A meeting is announced from 3-4. My PDA goes off at 4, and I'll check it and politely excuse myself from a meeting that has gone way past the point of being effective. No one knows that I set the thing to go off.
I have a reputation for being a busy guy and someone who is schedule driven. That PDA helps me stay on task and get me to my next 'appointment.'
Someone releases a wmf exploit which is designed to install the hexblog wmf fix? It seems logical enough.
This has potential, but I think the "open" in the name is a misnomer...
Perhaps I could recommend yet another terror alert system that seems to work pretty well.
When I worked in Washington, I was at the Franklin Park Hotel. It was 8 floors. I don't recall many taller buildings, but I wasn't paying much attention either.
For sure the limit is not 6 stories.
Regards... Tom
Ummm...
What you don't understand is that this is how marriage works. My wife left a good job so I could make a career move. I supported her as she went through grad school and the process to become an Episcopal priest. Right now, she is at home with the kids while I am presenting at a conference.
We have been married 23 years, and I claim that this sort of thing is more typical than you might imagine. We have both realized dreams because of the support of the other.
I am on the WhiteBox list, and there has been some discussion of the CentOS letter.
WhiteBox has not been contacted by the RH legal folks, and they may be in better compliance.