i call mine a book bag...and when i get out of school, ill call it a laptop bag. it has lots of stuff in it: cat5e patch cable (and coupler, and crossover adapter, and loopback adapter), phone patch cable, leatherman surge, flashlight, various bootable flash drives, digicam, 11.6" laptop w/ charger, 2 or 3 different usb cables, pens and pencils, tylenol/aspirin, school/work related folders.
i usually keep it in the car, or take it in to work or class, but i dont actively carry it unless i need it, or expect to.
i always carry my android phone.i treat it like a PDA and a comm device mostly. calendar/agenda, emails, IMs, phone calls. sometimes pandora, navigation/gps, internet browsing or games to kill time here and there. also i used to carry a notepad...but its so hard to keep up with paper, to keep it in good shape, and to organize and search a notepad. its all on my phone now.
the laptop doesnt get used super often, but its so small and light that its always in my bag. i can use it for real work or media consumption, its got a core i3 1.2ghz, so its not super powerful, but i can get enough done on it for it to be worth having, and i use it in classes to take notes (again, i dont use paper)
digital lifestyle: i love it./also loves being prepared for all sorts things at a moments notice. the trunk of my car is never empty.
I liked how a professor handled this last semester. If you have a laptop, you are required to sit in the front 2 rows of the class. This gets you in a designated area so people who dont want to be around you dont have to, and it means that everything you do...everyone behind you can see, in an attempt to at least keep people from looking at porn.
I hate paper, I write poorly, I like to type my notes on a laptop so I can read them, edit them and back them up. I really, really dont want to see the privilege taken away from me but I understand why some people are annoyed at others./keeps my wifi off during class so I can focus
I don't have a problem with what wikileaks is doing...but I love amazon and dont want their services disrupted. Hosting wikileaks to start with was really just a bad call, or perhaps signing up for service is so easy that new accounts dont get a thorough review, just an acceptance if they pay up? like...most hositng requests?
My parents sent me to a private school, specifically a baptist-run christian school, up until the 11th grade.
Admittedly, the grade-school education there was actually quite good (aside from the constant religious teaching and anti-evolution science--spelling, math, reading and grammar were done well) but the high school was pretty much worthless. My math, science and writing were all pretty lacking. I could read very well, but Im the type who reads for enjoyment. The high school teachers were bad teachers on a number of levels, excepting one math teacher I had who couldn't teach us only because the prior teacher had done such a bad job getting us ready for the next course.
Since then, I've been to community college, where a couple of the teachers were excellent, a couple average, and several completely craptastic. Im in uni now, some of the teachers here are pretty decent so far. Some...not so much.
I kinda got tired of the way ubuntu updated things and stopped using it. They just *move* stuff every 6 months and it was always something that annoyed the hell out of me. On top of that...the kernel updates were pretty regular, which means I needed to reboot. I was rebooting ubuntu a couple of years ago more than I ever reboot Windows now. Is that still the case? Seems like I was getting kernel updates weekly or bi-weekly.
I thought the conses here would lead to people just calling this copyright infringement, since surely he copied the documents and did not steal them...
I didnt go that far, but inevitably (in another post here I mentioned Im bad at math due to lack of practice) Id have a topic or two where I would almost always mix up something. Id have basic formulas and rules on the sheet, and maybe 2 or 3 example problems for material that I always screwed up.
My professor allowed notes and calculators, but *required* work to be shown. If you didnt show it and had the right answer, it was wrong. Unless the problem was tremendously easy (say, something easier than a basic unit conversion) you had to show how you got your answer.
In that case, if the answer was wrong but the process was right (perhaps you fat-fingered on your calculator or shifted your decimal to the wrong place) youd at least get partial credit for knowing *how* to do the problem
I'm going to university now. Im an older student, at 27 years old, and started in a community college wit the intent to transfer out. At the CC I had to take intro trig and college algebra.
I hadn't had a math class in a decade.
Turned out....the math professor at this little dinky community college was an *excellent* teacher. Very thorough, very knowledgeable, very very good at teaching the material. The guy had a Ph D from a state university (maybe in physics? I dont recall) so everything he had to teach here was stuff he knew inside and out.
He allowed notes for the tests "write whatever you want on it. formulas, sample problems, fill it up, I dont care. If you dont know the material you will fail"
He wasnt kidding. He even gave out last years tests (he always rewrote them) as study guides for the next test. If you didnt really know what you were doing, you were going to fail.
Wish I had more teachers like him. He was thorough, interesting, and an excellent communicator of the material (this is a huge issue with a lot of instructors)
its not a general distro, which is what debian is. its based on RHEL and the main packages that go with that OS. there are community maintained repos that offer a larger variety of software packages to use with your centos install. personally ive used debian more, and prefer it just because im more familiar with it.
The hospital I work in *just* got their several thousand (think 6000+) workstations upgraded to XP. It took almost 2 years.
We're just *now* only beginning to roll out IE7 because it took a while to test vendor apps and make sure things would work for IE7....a few machines are keeping IE6 because they have something that doesnt.
IE8 support isnt even a considering at this point, and probably wont be for the foreseeable future. Windows 7 couldnt happen if they wanted it to...a lot of the workstations are too old and underpowered to run it well, and much of the hardware certainly isnt going to be supported in any way.
Its crap, but theres not really a good way around it with that many workstations unless you have a boatload of money to dump into it.
Came in here to mention this. I worked for a WISP a couple of years ago, and while it was in a rural area in Kansas (but i repeat myself) we were already aware of possible issues with public spectrum transmissions and signal-hopping competition from god only knows what. We had a 900mhz unit in town, aimed at an AP on the other side of town with a clear LOS (i dont know why they did this is town, it happened before I was there) and we couldnt get it to work for our life. We had a spectrum analyzer and couldnt even get a lock on what was causing the issue.
Stuff outside of town aimed at the AP worked dandy, but nothing in the city limits.
Not gonna happen, as has been addressed. I will say that here in NC generally they will show up if you didnt pay or donate, but theyll only keep the fire from spreading to other nearby houses and such. They wont save your place from burning or take any unnecessary risks.
These are people who volunteer....they barely get paid and put themselves at risk for very little to help people. Support them if youre in their service area, and they will support you.
Also.,..dont start a fire if youre an unprepared fucknut and cant manage it.
I'm waiting for the AT-AT...seriously people, these have been in the concept stage for a long time. If we can walk dozens of men in a huge machine all over the place, we wont have to get on the roads.
ive got an old curve 8330 and consider it a decent phone. itll do most everything a modern touch screen phone will do, its just a little slower and not as pretty about it. id like a modern smartphone because im a nerd who likes tech stuff like that, not because i need it.
I would expect that outfitters in that area who providing hiking supplies and such may have some idea as to what your best options are. Surely you know a place or two local to your area with experienced hikers that you can consult? Just an idea, maybe you've tried that already.
I used a T60 thinkpad exclusively for a while...it wasnt bad, but I couldnt do much gaming on it. It was a dual-core so I could run VMs and did a little home video stuff, but that was it. Desktops clearly have their place ( I have a quad-core with 6gb of ram, 3 HDs and 2 monitors....I love it) but most people can get by on a laptop very easily. Both my parents have one and thats all they use, and its all my sister has. For email, office use, web browsing, basic multimedia....its fine.
Mine has a 23" HD display, its my media center, pc, gaming machine, workspace etc....it fits me better. To each his own, I say.
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ill take a netbook, myself. I had a 14" thinkpad....damn decent laptop at the time, smallish, not too heavy. I used it at work for a while. Love the thing, but for an every day carry when I dont *need* that much, it got annoying. I got a netbook (an earlyish 10" model)
Id like either a netbook with an ion chipset and dual core atom, OR (preferably) an 11" notebook with a CULV processor. 3 -4 hours is usually plenty to get my by on battery life, the netbook is just slow enough to get annoying sometimes, but Im not unhappy with it at this point
agreed. my issue isnt the constant upgrades...but I sold my video card recently and bought a used PS3. im not as good at console games as at mouse./keyboard stuff on the pc but i can adjust, im *SICK* of the DRM restrictions on pc games. all i play on my pc now are old, old games i still have around, or titles under $10 from steam. Im not going to pay $50 and $60 a game anymore to get jerked around if my internet connection is acting up or get hassled in any other way.
I know several people with PS3s....none of them bitch about the thing.
you do but, perhaps, he could talk to cisco about getting academy status for cheap or free? might be good PR for them. packet tracer is an excellent tool for the novice networker, even though its not a full replacement for hands on experience, its a damn decent start.
hes using an antenna to watch Over The Air (OTA) content.
im living with my parents while i go to school, the only time i turn on the TV is to watch hockey.
i do have an HD lcd, and im almost tempted to get a tuner card and an antenna but...i dont really care. hulu/torrents/netflix has plenty for me for the rare times i want to watch something. when i lived alone a few years ago i didnt have cable, it wasnt worth it.
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i call mine a book bag...and when i get out of school, ill call it a laptop bag. it has lots of stuff in it: cat5e patch cable (and coupler, and crossover adapter, and loopback adapter), phone patch cable, leatherman surge, flashlight, various bootable flash drives, digicam, 11.6" laptop w/ charger, 2 or 3 different usb cables, pens and pencils, tylenol/aspirin, school/work related folders.
i usually keep it in the car, or take it in to work or class, but i dont actively carry it unless i need it, or expect to.
i always carry my android phone.i treat it like a PDA and a comm device mostly. calendar/agenda, emails, IMs, phone calls. sometimes pandora, navigation/gps, internet browsing or games to kill time here and there. also i used to carry a notepad...but its so hard to keep up with paper, to keep it in good shape, and to organize and search a notepad. its all on my phone now.
the laptop doesnt get used super often, but its so small and light that its always in my bag. i can use it for real work or media consumption, its got a core i3 1.2ghz, so its not super powerful, but i can get enough done on it for it to be worth having, and i use it in classes to take notes (again, i dont use paper)
digital lifestyle: i love it. /also loves being prepared for all sorts things at a moments notice. the trunk of my car is never empty.
I liked how a professor handled this last semester. If you have a laptop, you are required to sit in the front 2 rows of the class. This gets you in a designated area so people who dont want to be around you dont have to, and it means that everything you do...everyone behind you can see, in an attempt to at least keep people from looking at porn.
I hate paper, I write poorly, I like to type my notes on a laptop so I can read them, edit them and back them up. I really, really dont want to see the privilege taken away from me but I understand why some people are annoyed at others. /keeps my wifi off during class so I can focus
Well, comcast is going to be *all* over this one...
I don't have a problem with what wikileaks is doing...but I love amazon and dont want their services disrupted. Hosting wikileaks to start with was really just a bad call, or perhaps signing up for service is so easy that new accounts dont get a thorough review, just an acceptance if they pay up? like...most hositng requests?
I think that's a commercial:
"I don't always argue with physics, but when I do--I win." - The Most Interesting Man in the World
My parents sent me to a private school, specifically a baptist-run christian school, up until the 11th grade.
Admittedly, the grade-school education there was actually quite good (aside from the constant religious teaching and anti-evolution science--spelling, math, reading and grammar were done well) but the high school was pretty much worthless. My math, science and writing were all pretty lacking. I could read very well, but Im the type who reads for enjoyment. The high school teachers were bad teachers on a number of levels, excepting one math teacher I had who couldn't teach us only because the prior teacher had done such a bad job getting us ready for the next course.
Since then, I've been to community college, where a couple of the teachers were excellent, a couple average, and several completely craptastic. Im in uni now, some of the teachers here are pretty decent so far. Some...not so much.
I kinda got tired of the way ubuntu updated things and stopped using it. They just *move* stuff every 6 months and it was always something that annoyed the hell out of me. On top of that...the kernel updates were pretty regular, which means I needed to reboot. I was rebooting ubuntu a couple of years ago more than I ever reboot Windows now. Is that still the case? Seems like I was getting kernel updates weekly or bi-weekly.
I thought the conses here would lead to people just calling this copyright infringement, since surely he copied the documents and did not steal them...
I didnt go that far, but inevitably (in another post here I mentioned Im bad at math due to lack of practice) Id have a topic or two where I would almost always mix up something. Id have basic formulas and rules on the sheet, and maybe 2 or 3 example problems for material that I always screwed up.
My professor allowed notes and calculators, but *required* work to be shown. If you didnt show it and had the right answer, it was wrong. Unless the problem was tremendously easy (say, something easier than a basic unit conversion) you had to show how you got your answer.
In that case, if the answer was wrong but the process was right (perhaps you fat-fingered on your calculator or shifted your decimal to the wrong place) youd at least get partial credit for knowing *how* to do the problem
I'm going to university now. Im an older student, at 27 years old, and started in a community college wit the intent to transfer out. At the CC I had to take intro trig and college algebra.
I hadn't had a math class in a decade.
Turned out....the math professor at this little dinky community college was an *excellent* teacher. Very thorough, very knowledgeable, very very good at teaching the material. The guy had a Ph D from a state university (maybe in physics? I dont recall) so everything he had to teach here was stuff he knew inside and out.
He allowed notes for the tests "write whatever you want on it. formulas, sample problems, fill it up, I dont care. If you dont know the material you will fail"
He wasnt kidding. He even gave out last years tests (he always rewrote them) as study guides for the next test. If you didnt really know what you were doing, you were going to fail.
Wish I had more teachers like him. He was thorough, interesting, and an excellent communicator of the material (this is a huge issue with a lot of instructors)
its not a general distro, which is what debian is. its based on RHEL and the main packages that go with that OS. there are community maintained repos that offer a larger variety of software packages to use with your centos install. personally ive used debian more, and prefer it just because im more familiar with it.
The hospital I work in *just* got their several thousand (think 6000+) workstations upgraded to XP. It took almost 2 years.
We're just *now* only beginning to roll out IE7 because it took a while to test vendor apps and make sure things would work for IE7....a few machines are keeping IE6 because they have something that doesnt.
IE8 support isnt even a considering at this point, and probably wont be for the foreseeable future. Windows 7 couldnt happen if they wanted it to...a lot of the workstations are too old and underpowered to run it well, and much of the hardware certainly isnt going to be supported in any way.
Its crap, but theres not really a good way around it with that many workstations unless you have a boatload of money to dump into it.
Came in here to mention this. I worked for a WISP a couple of years ago, and while it was in a rural area in Kansas (but i repeat myself) we were already aware of possible issues with public spectrum transmissions and signal-hopping competition from god only knows what. We had a 900mhz unit in town, aimed at an AP on the other side of town with a clear LOS (i dont know why they did this is town, it happened before I was there) and we couldnt get it to work for our life. We had a spectrum analyzer and couldnt even get a lock on what was causing the issue.
Stuff outside of town aimed at the AP worked dandy, but nothing in the city limits.
Not gonna happen, as has been addressed. I will say that here in NC generally they will show up if you didnt pay or donate, but theyll only keep the fire from spreading to other nearby houses and such. They wont save your place from burning or take any unnecessary risks.
These are people who volunteer....they barely get paid and put themselves at risk for very little to help people. Support them if youre in their service area, and they will support you.
Also.,..dont start a fire if youre an unprepared fucknut and cant manage it.
I'm waiting for the AT-AT...seriously people, these have been in the concept stage for a long time. If we can walk dozens of men in a huge machine all over the place, we wont have to get on the roads.
ive got an old curve 8330 and consider it a decent phone. itll do most everything a modern touch screen phone will do, its just a little slower and not as pretty about it. id like a modern smartphone because im a nerd who likes tech stuff like that, not because i need it.
this is why the patch cables I buy are purple....haven't lost a single one yet
I would expect that outfitters in that area who providing hiking supplies and such may have some idea as to what your best options are. Surely you know a place or two local to your area with experienced hikers that you can consult? Just an idea, maybe you've tried that already.
i say set up google voice, dial the gv number and do your questions as voicemail into a speakerphone
youll get a transcription in your email. do a question at a time. problem solved!
I used a T60 thinkpad exclusively for a while...it wasnt bad, but I couldnt do much gaming on it. It was a dual-core so I could run VMs and did a little home video stuff, but that was it. Desktops clearly have their place ( I have a quad-core with 6gb of ram, 3 HDs and 2 monitors....I love it) but most people can get by on a laptop very easily. Both my parents have one and thats all they use, and its all my sister has. For email, office use, web browsing, basic multimedia....its fine.
Mine has a 23" HD display, its my media center, pc, gaming machine, workspace etc....it fits me better. To each his own, I say.
ill take a netbook, myself. I had a 14" thinkpad....damn decent laptop at the time, smallish, not too heavy. I used it at work for a while. Love the thing, but for an every day carry when I dont *need* that much, it got annoying. I got a netbook (an earlyish 10" model)
Id like either a netbook with an ion chipset and dual core atom, OR (preferably) an 11" notebook with a CULV processor. 3 -4 hours is usually plenty to get my by on battery life, the netbook is just slow enough to get annoying sometimes, but Im not unhappy with it at this point
agreed. my issue isnt the constant upgrades...but I sold my video card recently and bought a used PS3. im not as good at console games as at mouse./keyboard stuff on the pc but i can adjust, im *SICK* of the DRM restrictions on pc games. all i play on my pc now are old, old games i still have around, or titles under $10 from steam. Im not going to pay $50 and $60 a game anymore to get jerked around if my internet connection is acting up or get hassled in any other way.
I know several people with PS3s....none of them bitch about the thing.
you do but, perhaps, he could talk to cisco about getting academy status for cheap or free? might be good PR for them. packet tracer is an excellent tool for the novice networker, even though its not a full replacement for hands on experience, its a damn decent start.
hes using an antenna to watch Over The Air (OTA) content.
im living with my parents while i go to school, the only time i turn on the TV is to watch hockey.
i do have an HD lcd, and im almost tempted to get a tuner card and an antenna but...i dont really care. hulu/torrents/netflix has plenty for me for the rare times i want to watch something. when i lived alone a few years ago i didnt have cable, it wasnt worth it.