The apex of American comics was Underground Comix with classics like "Star-Eyed Stella" and "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers." It has all been downhill since then. I am thinking about finding my old Zaps and thumbing through them again - sigh...
http://www.lambiek.net/comics/underground.htm
"The truth is I am the last of the great Medieval Thinkers."
This must be about the norm for school systems. In a former life, I was a "School-based Technology Specialist." I was the man for a school of 2400. I stayed pretty busy.
Get a copy of the book Sex and Broadcasting by Lorenzo Milam. He can give you a historical perspective on the issue, and many of the fundamental issues in creating a "private broadcasting station" are the same. Check at Amazon or on Google RE Lorenzo and this book.
The second half of the disk image advice is to set up a data partion. Move "My Documents" and the mail storage there so that if the OS partiton gets hosed, you haven't lost the recipes and email. Of course, you only need the image of the OS portion burned on CD somewhere.
I bought a computer new that was a 133 MHz with 16 megs of ram, and a 1.2 gig HD. It came with Lotus SmartSuite. I thought it was pretty snappy for the day, and it worked pretty well.
My daughter is currently using it to play Little Bear and Jump Start CD's. I bumped the ram up to 32 megs at some point.
I speak as a teacher who briefly dabbled in IT. I got Microsoft and Novell certifications, did consulting, was a Network Administrator. I am currently a teacher and tech resource for a math department.
The academic world can be a cold place, and there are a lot of people who come from business to fail miserably in the classroom. It looks harder than it is. The first time you want to talk about business experiences, people figure you are one of those jerks who is always talking about return on investment and telling other people how to do their jobs.
Be warned that it takes a long time to work up the ladder in an academic institution, and sometimes the politics are such that you will never make full professor or master teacher, etc.
Having said all this, I enjoy working with students, and while I still do some consulting to supplement my income, I won't go back to the server room full time.
In the 70's a friend of mine in high school and I decided to check _The_Communist_Manifesto_ out of the school library. This seemed like a rebellious thing to do, and we were feeling rebellious.
It turned out to be a boring read for a couple of guys in high school, so it was thrown in the back of my locker.
It came due and my homeroom received two late lists. One had my name alone. The other had the four or five other late book folks in the homeroom. We laughed about how a copy of that late book list was in a file at the FBI.
I was trying to find something to install on a 500M HD to salvage an old system. I had a Caldera 2.2 disk and a RH 5.1 disk in the archive. They both installed nicely and X worked about as snappily as Win 95 might have on the same system.
The install claimed that the Caldera needed 160M, and with that size HD, there weren't options for the install. The RH gave options, although I just took the default workstation. It needed about 325M.
I think the problem with SVCD is the amount of video you can get on a CD. A CD is only good for about a 1/2 hour of video, and this limits the use.
The VCD has about an hour and that corresponds better to the length of a class.
The value of these formats in in their use in a standalone DVD player. If you are going to have students play an mpeg on a laptop, why not just give them the mpeg on CD?
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The apex of American comics was Underground Comix with classics like "Star-Eyed Stella" and "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers." It has all been downhill since then. I am thinking about finding my old Zaps and thumbing through them again - sigh...
http://www.lambiek.net/comics/underground.htm
"The truth is I am the last of the great Medieval Thinkers."
This login generator hasn't worked for a while at the NYT site.
Check the archive link in a previous post.
This must be about the norm for school systems. In a former life, I was a "School-based Technology Specialist." I was the man for a school of 2400. I stayed pretty busy.
The SuSE article is dated 1999.
The clue is the mentioned relelase of 6.1 (and the date at the top).
Get a copy of the book Sex and Broadcasting by Lorenzo Milam. He can give you a historical perspective on the issue, and many of the fundamental issues in creating a "private broadcasting station" are the same. Check at Amazon or on Google RE Lorenzo and this book.
The second half of the disk image advice is to set up a data partion. Move "My Documents" and the mail storage there so that if the OS partiton gets hosed, you haven't lost the recipes and email. Of course, you only need the image of the OS portion burned on CD somewhere.
I bought a computer new that was a 133 MHz with 16 megs of ram, and a 1.2 gig HD. It came with Lotus SmartSuite. I thought it was pretty snappy for the day, and it worked pretty well.
My daughter is currently using it to play Little Bear and Jump Start CD's. I bumped the ram up to 32 megs at some point.
I speak as a teacher who briefly dabbled in IT. I got Microsoft and Novell certifications, did consulting, was a Network Administrator. I am currently a teacher and tech resource for a math department.
The academic world can be a cold place, and there are a lot of people who come from business to fail miserably in the classroom. It looks harder than it is. The first time you want to talk about business experiences, people figure you are one of those jerks who is always talking about return on investment and telling other people how to do their jobs.
Be warned that it takes a long time to work up the ladder in an academic institution, and sometimes the politics are such that you will never make full professor or master teacher, etc.
Having said all this, I enjoy working with students, and while I still do some consulting to supplement my income, I won't go back to the server room full time.
YMMV
In the 70's a friend of mine in high school and I decided to check _The_Communist_Manifesto_ out of the school library. This seemed like a rebellious thing to do, and we were feeling rebellious.
...
It turned out to be a boring read for a couple of guys in high school, so it was thrown in the back of my locker.
It came due and my homeroom received two late lists. One had my name alone. The other had the four or five other late book folks in the homeroom. We laughed about how a copy of that late book list was in a file at the FBI.
Ha Ha Ha
I was trying to find something to install on a 500M HD to salvage an old system. I had a Caldera 2.2 disk and a RH 5.1 disk in the archive. They both installed nicely and X worked about as snappily as Win 95 might have on the same system.
The install claimed that the Caldera needed 160M, and with that size HD, there weren't options for the install. The RH gave options, although I just took the default workstation. It needed about 325M.
The RH stayed, and it is working pretty well.
"Source code licenses sell for $9895 and include 40 hours of co-engineering and 90 days of e-mail support."
I'm having a hard time seeing the impact on my life.
I think the problem with SVCD is the amount of video you can get on a CD. A CD is only good for about a 1/2 hour of video, and this limits the use. The VCD has about an hour and that corresponds better to the length of a class. The value of these formats in in their use in a standalone DVD player. If you are going to have students play an mpeg on a laptop, why not just give them the mpeg on CD?
You took the words out of my mouth... Medireview_Thinker