where are my mod points when i need them!!! laughing my ass off!!!(holy crap, that's the funniest post since some natlaie portman, soviet russia, dead bsd post. ha ha ha.)
But there is something to be said for being well-read. It's not just enough to read any book, though it's far better than watching TV. However, the classics help preserve and continue our culture, and provide a common ground of knowledge. We too often make the mistake of confusing education with training. Schools are in the education business, and in fact much of what is part of an education is not practical. That is not the purpose. Public schools are here to prepare students to live in a pluralistic democratic society. Yes, they should have some training, i.e. life/job skills, but not at the expense of knowledge. It is the derision of the classical approach to education that I think has been the undoing of our public education system. We somehow bought into the idea that we had to "sell" our product. No student I know is going to "buy" my history class, though it is an essential subject. For a geek (really, running linux since '98), I am also a believer in a classical, liberal educaiton. (here's my class website. staff.hartdistrict.org/rmandel )
Healy did make the point that computers are tools, and that they have a place. My guess is that she, like so many others, has seen the pendulum swing way too far. Sure there's a happy middle. As I finished my thesis, I became a little too pessimistic also and had to remind myself(a computer geek), and include in the thesis, that maybe there are places for them. but nice guidelines. i might just "borrow" them. ha ha ha!!!
I have. Unfortunately it a very slanted view of history. He presents half-truths, errors of commission, rather than omission. The author has a very pronounced agenda, one with which I personally disagree. However, there are huge problems with textbooks, and in fact, I use the text in my 10th grade Mod Civ class rarely, if ever.
you forget something else about the donated computers, that it actually costs lots of money. at my old school, we used to get all kinds of crap computers, and even worse, to get matching tech funds (i never did figure this one out) we had to have some magic computers:students ratio. so we bought a bunch of crap P120's w/32MB. what people forget is that since we can't use OEM softeware, they need to install windows/office/norton AV/novell/etc. costs over $250 per box. and for what?
I am finishing a masters in Ed. (Computers and Ed. Technology) and this book was a big part of my thesis. I have been involved in my school's technology for years. This book should be required reading for every princpal and teacher. Sadly, he exposes the "education industrial complex" (paraphrasing Eisenhower) and highlights many problems with our education system. I could go on, but that's my thesis. Schools need to go back to the basics, readin', writin', 'rithmetic. Literacy and critical thinking should be the goals of school, and if the kids never even touch a computer in school, they won't miss a thing. Though I do believe there should be a technology component, where kids do learn basic computer skills.
I might also suggest Jane Healy's "Failure to Connect" and Clifford Stoll's "Silicon Snake Oil". Please take it from me, I am a high school history teacher, and I see this problem as wide scale.
and a burglar who breaks into my house at night, trips on the stairs, and breaks a leg is entitleds to sue me. holy crap. while i use os x and linux, i don't buy microsoft products, i respect their right to publish thier software under any license they see fit. and if i'm unwilling to agree to the terms, then that's my decision. all this would do is be rewarding people for breaking the law. what a stupid idea.
oh wait, there's this amnesty plan for illegals. shit, there goes that theory.
then the macs would be on many more corporate desktops. they are far esier to maintain and admin. but, businesses are pennywise and pound foolish. admin costs are not necessarily up front costs. so, bottom line bean counters can justify purchase from vendor A because of lower initial cost. also, don't count out the paper mill MCSE's that influence purchasing decisions.
seven clients doesn't sound like much, but that was over a 10MB hub (cheap one at that). and i know i could hook up several more. the point was that a lowly P3 could serve 7 clients simultaneously and not hiccup. i understand (and i could be wrong) that windows term services use tons more hardware resources per client, which can be a factor. part of the problem is that X i don't think was ever intended to be a remote desktop, but rather a network desktop. i haven't used a pure networked client, but what i did was do a base install on the P120/32MB clients, install X, then configure rc.local to go right to X remotely:
/usr/bin/X11/X -query 192.168.0.1
or whatever IP. remove the CD and floppy (pull the cables!!), and there's no access to the hard drive. and it fires up right into GDM logon screen. X might not be great across a phone line, but it is pretty cool across a network. at least in my experience.
no, X doesn't suck. it's based on a client/server model when all computing was networked. the computer on every desk mentality eminated in redmond. X works great across networks. in fact, instead of LTSP, i just used a singe X server and had several X clients running in my classroom last year. (i am at a new school this year.) i had a P3/933 w/512MB running 7 X clients, OO.org, moz, etc., without a hiccup. in fact, i had a knoppix boot cd that i could pop into any old box on campus and get X from anywhere. freaked some people out. X works great across networks. it doesn't suck. most of X's problems are driver related. hardly its fault. just learn how to make it work well.
is adobe acrobat reader GPL'd? is it possible to resdistribute this? i know you canpay a license fee, but there's plenty of good pdf viewers out there. and i wouldn't want knoppix to get hammered due to some license crap.
as a java/perl/php/web developer, and linux screwer arounder in C, using linux since '97 (honestly) and a recovering VB luser, i noticed that apple deveopment sits in between the two big models. one, the pure commercial, big shop model with apps like dreamweaver, photoshop, and the movie stuff, and the open source and *nix model. look around at some mac apps from small developers. they all wnat $5 or $10 and they're not very good. since they won't be boxed item software, they could but don't take advantage fo the open source model. while macs have probably more pure desktop share than linux (it's close at least), there ar 100X more linux developers, and the real movement in OS X dev is on the BSD front, the fink and darwin projects. i came to the conclusion that small mac developers don't "get it". i have played with cocoa/obj-c a it is an unbelievable combo. it is truly phenomenal. anyways, the problem isn't apple's developer programs, it's mac developers. at least with linux, if i have a really shitty app, 1) it's open source and 2) there are 20 other like apps that are open source.
although windows doesn't have huge open source legions, it has 90%+ of the desktop market, so 90% + of the developers will target it, and, the tools ar not that expensive, really. plus, there has been nothing like VB to amke us all think we're uber hackers!!! the only thing that would have sustained a huge mac deevlopment process is open source, and it never happened.
How could this get posted? It is just as bad as the stupid BSD are dying trolls.
because this is a discussion, if you call it that, forum. posting another article that says how wonderful open source is and how great linux is, and how bad microsoft sucks, isn't gonna generate alot of discussion. so, you find an interesting, if controversial article, from a reputable site, and you get discussion. this generates hits, which means more ad revenue to whoever owns/. this week. the job of the editors is to get people talking. duh?
when microsoft started forcing volume licensees to buy office it started. in fact, if you remember, word97 came with wordperfect keystrokes, so you still do everything same in word until you "converted". now, what got office over the top. PIRACY. for all their bitching and whining, microsoft didn't give two shits about piracy, well not at least among individuals. businesses had to pay, but if employee A took the CD home and installed it, BFD. yeah, yeah, lost sales. my arse. if i wasn't going to buy it, and it cost you absolutely nothing, then you lost no money. it isn't like i stole a car, which requires steel, rubber, plastic, etc. now, i am not condoning piracy, but they knew that when you could get their product free, why would you pay efor a competitors. and when you talk schools, holy shit. damn near everyone in my district got an office97 cd. so, when people became proficient in word, then it was expected that the business would have to get word. funny circular pattern really. businesses/schools get word, and "pirate" it to their employees. later, new employees only know word, so business saves shitloads on training, because person knows word. what a fscking business plan. not that office isn't a great product now. but think back to office 95. what a piece of shit. 97 was nice, but had lots of quirks. but, the killer was they were able to eliminate all competition through piracy.
i'm well aware of the court packing and jefferson's anger. i just didn't feel like going on for 7 pages. if the only check is the ammendment process, than it is a very weak check. even with overwhelming support for 1M1W marriage, odds are slim that an ammendment will be passed. the judiciary has no checks as jefferson correctly pointed out. think about it: what can the congress do if the supremes decide the |prisoners|detainees|whatever| at the gitmo are free to go? sure, we could just say like andy jackson did, mr. marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it. but few would go for that. i guess the boat they were being shipped back on would mysteriously sink. (maybe an iceberg!!) as for the purse strings, courts have ordered tons of things be done (like busing, overrulling welfare cuts) that the legislature has to do. so no, representatives don't have complete control.
i don't hear the left complaing when the same court ruled that two dudes butt-fucking was a constitutionally protected right. and you don't hear the left complaing when a court in Mass. overrules the will of the vast majority of the people and says gays have a right to marry.
now, i fear a judiciary that has no check or balance. jefferson warned of this repeatedly. and we have seen it totally change our country. for instance, when the supremes decided to start approving fdr's new deal legislation that it had been rejecting, it set a very bad precedent. so now, even though so much of what the gov't does is unconstitutional, it is ingrained in our societal fabric. sad.
sorry, but i thought that is what the gpl is about. if they release the source, BFD. i still sometimes go back to older versions of redhat and mandrake because they are better for older harware. in fact, long story short, at my old school, the mac lab had a hard time with its internet connections. so, i just put a router in between, and had the OS 9 clients use that. took pressure off the G4 server (not runnin OS X). but, to do so, i had to scrounge up a P120 32MB ram. kernel 2.2 runs great on old hardware, plus, i had set up lots of experieince setting up ipchains, but had to download old version of RH. so, i scrounge for an old iso to download (mirrors.usc.edu). so, who the fsck cares. it there's demand for 2.4 fine. it's calld the GPL.
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you have a G5 at work. are you hiring?
where are my mod points when i need them!!! laughing my ass off!!!(holy crap, that's the funniest post since some natlaie portman, soviet russia, dead bsd post. ha ha ha.)
But there is something to be said for being well-read. It's not just enough to read any book, though it's far better than watching TV. However, the classics help preserve and continue our culture, and provide a common ground of knowledge. We too often make the mistake of confusing education with training. Schools are in the education business, and in fact much of what is part of an education is not practical. That is not the purpose. Public schools are here to prepare students to live in a pluralistic democratic society. Yes, they should have some training, i.e. life/job skills, but not at the expense of knowledge. It is the derision of the classical approach to education that I think has been the undoing of our public education system. We somehow bought into the idea that we had to "sell" our product. No student I know is going to "buy" my history class, though it is an essential subject. For a geek (really, running linux since '98), I am also a believer in a classical, liberal educaiton. (here's my class website. staff.hartdistrict.org/rmandel )
since they know NT will crash, they have already planned ahead. good job. now, send us your bikini team.
Healy did make the point that computers are tools, and that they have a place. My guess is that she, like so many others, has seen the pendulum swing way too far. Sure there's a happy middle. As I finished my thesis, I became a little too pessimistic also and had to remind myself(a computer geek), and include in the thesis, that maybe there are places for them. but nice guidelines. i might just "borrow" them. ha ha ha!!!
I have. Unfortunately it a very slanted view of history. He presents half-truths, errors of commission, rather than omission. The author has a very pronounced agenda, one with which I personally disagree. However, there are huge problems with textbooks, and in fact, I use the text in my 10th grade Mod Civ class rarely, if ever.
you forget something else about the donated computers, that it actually costs lots of money. at my old school, we used to get all kinds of crap computers, and even worse, to get matching tech funds (i never did figure this one out) we had to have some magic computers:students ratio. so we bought a bunch of crap P120's w/32MB. what people forget is that since we can't use OEM softeware, they need to install windows/office/norton AV/novell/etc. costs over $250 per box. and for what?
I am finishing a masters in Ed. (Computers and Ed. Technology) and this book was a big part of my thesis. I have been involved in my school's technology for years. This book should be required reading for every princpal and teacher. Sadly, he exposes the "education industrial complex" (paraphrasing Eisenhower) and highlights many problems with our education system. I could go on, but that's my thesis. Schools need to go back to the basics, readin', writin', 'rithmetic. Literacy and critical thinking should be the goals of school, and if the kids never even touch a computer in school, they won't miss a thing. Though I do believe there should be a technology component, where kids do learn basic computer skills.
I might also suggest Jane Healy's "Failure to Connect" and Clifford Stoll's "Silicon Snake Oil". Please take it from me, I am a high school history teacher, and I see this problem as wide scale.
and a burglar who breaks into my house at night, trips on the stairs, and breaks a leg is entitleds to sue me. holy crap. while i use os x and linux, i don't buy microsoft products, i respect their right to publish thier software under any license they see fit. and if i'm unwilling to agree to the terms, then that's my decision. all this would do is be rewarding people for breaking the law. what a stupid idea.
oh wait, there's this amnesty plan for illegals. shit, there goes that theory.
then the macs would be on many more corporate desktops. they are far esier to maintain and admin. but, businesses are pennywise and pound foolish. admin costs are not necessarily up front costs. so, bottom line bean counters can justify purchase from vendor A because of lower initial cost. also, don't count out the paper mill MCSE's that influence purchasing decisions.
seven clients doesn't sound like much, but that was over a 10MB hub (cheap one at that). and i know i could hook up several more. the point was that a lowly P3 could serve 7 clients simultaneously and not hiccup. i understand (and i could be wrong) that windows term services use tons more hardware resources per client, which can be a factor. part of the problem is that X i don't think was ever intended to be a remote desktop, but rather a network desktop. i haven't used a pure networked client, but what i did was do a base install on the P120/32MB clients, install X, then configure rc.local to go right to X remotely:
/usr/bin/X11/X -query 192.168.0.1
or whatever IP. remove the CD and floppy (pull the cables!!), and there's no access to the hard drive. and it fires up right into GDM logon screen. X might not be great across a phone line, but it is pretty cool across a network. at least in my experience.
no, X doesn't suck. it's based on a client/server model when all computing was networked. the computer on every desk mentality eminated in redmond. X works great across networks. in fact, instead of LTSP, i just used a singe X server and had several X clients running in my classroom last year. (i am at a new school this year.) i had a P3/933 w/512MB running 7 X clients, OO.org, moz, etc., without a hiccup. in fact, i had a knoppix boot cd that i could pop into any old box on campus and get X from anywhere. freaked some people out. X works great across networks. it doesn't suck. most of X's problems are driver related. hardly its fault. just learn how to make it work well.
ntel's even sponsored video gaming competitions in Vietnam
ya think they were playing Battlefield Vietnam?
drive tray, i thought that was a drink holder.
is adobe acrobat reader GPL'd? is it possible to resdistribute this? i know you canpay a license fee, but there's plenty of good pdf viewers out there. and i wouldn't want knoppix to get hammered due to some license crap.
as a java/perl/php/web developer, and linux screwer arounder in C, using linux since '97 (honestly) and a recovering VB luser, i noticed that apple deveopment sits in between the two big models. one, the pure commercial, big shop model with apps like dreamweaver, photoshop, and the movie stuff, and the open source and *nix model. look around at some mac apps from small developers. they all wnat $5 or $10 and they're not very good. since they won't be boxed item software, they could but don't take advantage fo the open source model. while macs have probably more pure desktop share than linux (it's close at least), there ar 100X more linux developers, and the real movement in OS X dev is on the BSD front, the fink and darwin projects. i came to the conclusion that small mac developers don't "get it". i have played with cocoa/obj-c a it is an unbelievable combo. it is truly phenomenal. anyways, the problem isn't apple's developer programs, it's mac developers. at least with linux, if i have a really shitty app, 1) it's open source and 2) there are 20 other like apps that are open source.
although windows doesn't have huge open source legions, it has 90%+ of the desktop market, so 90% + of the developers will target it, and, the tools ar not that expensive, really. plus, there has been nothing like VB to amke us all think we're uber hackers!!! the only thing that would have sustained a huge mac deevlopment process is open source, and it never happened.
How could this get posted? It is just as bad as the stupid BSD are dying trolls.
/. this week. the job of the editors is to get people talking. duh?
because this is a discussion, if you call it that, forum. posting another article that says how wonderful open source is and how great linux is, and how bad microsoft sucks, isn't gonna generate alot of discussion. so, you find an interesting, if controversial article, from a reputable site, and you get discussion. this generates hits, which means more ad revenue to whoever owns
when microsoft started forcing volume licensees to buy office it started. in fact, if you remember, word97 came with wordperfect keystrokes, so you still do everything same in word until you "converted". now, what got office over the top. PIRACY. for all their bitching and whining, microsoft didn't give two shits about piracy, well not at least among individuals. businesses had to pay, but if employee A took the CD home and installed it, BFD. yeah, yeah, lost sales. my arse. if i wasn't going to buy it, and it cost you absolutely nothing, then you lost no money. it isn't like i stole a car, which requires steel, rubber, plastic, etc. now, i am not condoning piracy, but they knew that when you could get their product free, why would you pay efor a competitors. and when you talk schools, holy shit. damn near everyone in my district got an office97 cd. so, when people became proficient in word, then it was expected that the business would have to get word. funny circular pattern really. businesses/schools get word, and "pirate" it to their employees. later, new employees only know word, so business saves shitloads on training, because person knows word. what a fscking business plan. not that office isn't a great product now. but think back to office 95. what a piece of shit. 97 was nice, but had lots of quirks. but, the killer was they were able to eliminate all competition through piracy.
i don't need no stinkin' manual.
i'm well aware of the court packing and jefferson's anger. i just didn't feel like going on for 7 pages. if the only check is the ammendment process, than it is a very weak check. even with overwhelming support for 1M1W marriage, odds are slim that an ammendment will be passed. the judiciary has no checks as jefferson correctly pointed out. think about it: what can the congress do if the supremes decide the |prisoners|detainees|whatever| at the gitmo are free to go? sure, we could just say like andy jackson did, mr. marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it. but few would go for that. i guess the boat they were being shipped back on would mysteriously sink. (maybe an iceberg!!) as for the purse strings, courts have ordered tons of things be done (like busing, overrulling welfare cuts) that the legislature has to do. so no, representatives don't have complete control.
i don't hear the left complaing when the same court ruled that two dudes butt-fucking was a constitutionally protected right. and you don't hear the left complaing when a court in Mass. overrules the will of the vast majority of the people and says gays have a right to marry.
now, i fear a judiciary that has no check or balance. jefferson warned of this repeatedly. and we have seen it totally change our country. for instance, when the supremes decided to start approving fdr's new deal legislation that it had been rejecting, it set a very bad precedent. so now, even though so much of what the gov't does is unconstitutional, it is ingrained in our societal fabric. sad.
and so has dell's.
i had set up lots of experieince setting up ipchains
i'm home sick. it should be:
i had set up lots of routers and have experience setting up ipchains
sorry, but i thought that is what the gpl is about. if they release the source, BFD. i still sometimes go back to older versions of redhat and mandrake because they are better for older harware. in fact, long story short, at my old school, the mac lab had a hard time with its internet connections. so, i just put a router in between, and had the OS 9 clients use that. took pressure off the G4 server (not runnin OS X). but, to do so, i had to scrounge up a P120 32MB ram. kernel 2.2 runs great on old hardware, plus, i had set up lots of experieince setting up ipchains, but had to download old version of RH. so, i scrounge for an old iso to download (mirrors.usc.edu). so, who the fsck cares. it there's demand for 2.4 fine. it's calld the GPL.
also, perl code could be written to be readable
no. it can't.