Perhaps these teams should share some notes. I'm not sure about the web page info inclusion, but I'd love to use a top notch PIM that could data mine MY data.
As for the resources... perhaps you could tell it when you wanted it to data mine, so the mining would ot interfere with other work.
I have had great personal success going back to the "old school" setup of green text on a black background. It has really helped my eyes. (I had laser eye surgery several years ago.) As other posters have mentioned, any time you can use a black background do it. Also, add some plants to your workspace. The green helps the eyes and they help break up all the geometric computer shapes.:)
The military has spent a lot of money in reducing eye strain... and they suggest pausing to look at something green. Apparently that is relaxing to the eye. At NSW sniper school they teach the shoots to look away from their sites and relax their eyes by focusing on something green nearby, bush, leaves, etc. Also, notice how NVG's are green?
My wife and I have these. Lightweight, waterproof, three triple A batteries, dimmable with three power settings, and two blink settings. We got them from Campmore.com for around $30. Excellent buy.
Perhaps try educating your users that some file sharing is illegal. Tell them breaking the law is against University Policy and if they are caught doing illegal file sharing they will be personally at risk. Hold them accountable for their actions. The average starting age of a college student is 18 years old with makes them legally an adult. If they are willfully breaking the law, they should understand they can be held accountable for their actions. If they do not agree with the law they should resort to legal actions to encourage changing the laws. (like supporting the EFF, etc.) Encourage them to understand what the real world is like: you do the crime you do the time. It's just like speeding, no one forced you to go faster then the speed limit, it was your choice. Lead them in growing and understanding personal accountability.
As to whether 18 year olds can be accountable for anything, look at your average US Marine out of bootcamp. They understand action accountability and take it seriously.
As for encrypted P2P, check out freenet. They have been working very hard on a totally encrypted, and therefore private, solution for the entire internet... not just filesharing.
Mostly so... I believe Oracle and IBM have already completed their port to AMD64... and Oracle is recommending using Linux for it's platform.... Check out http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/database/theme_pag es/index.html?linux_02032003.html
It's great to see such big $$ support already.
I have to agree with several of the other posters. Wired is the way to go (if we are talking pre-construction for the building) for serveral reasons.
Bandwidth - 160 wireless / secure nodes will not be able to compete with wire.
Versatility - wireless is really still young. The options, speeds, and prices are changing overnight. With wire you will avoid locking in your tenents with a particular wireless technology.
Future - wire every room in the house with RJ-45 outlets leading back to the utility closet of each condo. This will allow tenents to have their own internal LAN or not, plus they can make any jack "hot" if needed. Run one line from each condo to the central "hub rooms" allowing 10/100/1000 Mbit connectivity. I'm sure you can find 10 Mbit switches for cheap, and 10 Mbit service is better than pretty much any broadband around. VLAN all the condos maybe... I like the earlier comment about telling tenents security is their concern. Run everything through at least a cache, host your own dns, plus provide email service if you like. (Use at least a fractional DS-3.)
Avoid fiber. There is fiber installed to the desktop where I work and it's a mess. Fiber is great for long distance, but stay cheap and easy to fix / troubleshoot and use copper.
During the last decade I've worked for both the government, and the private sector. For both, I have experienced phone, network, and email outages... Perhaps I have just been (un)lucky.:o)
What I observed from the "powers-that-be" (read:management) was a much greater upset from the loss of network and/or email than phones. This would appear to be from the way we have become accustomed to doing business, rarely speaking to others and relying on other methods of communication.
"Basically, my opinion is the following: move your file servers, proxy servers and print servers to Linux. It should be fairly straightforward if you plan it well, or have a decent project manager. Leave Exchange for last and research the subject very well."
Wise advise for many reasons. The migration of the file servers, proxies, and print servers can be much more transparent to the users... and this also allows for a much larger oops factor. (Most users have no idea what gateway thay are using or how their data / traffic is handled, nor do they care. They just want it to work.) These migrations can be set up and tested side by side for a while before moving the users to them. And once you begin the migration, you leave some / all of the old things working until you prove the new things work. (Consider this as CYA and the ability to fall back to your "last known good" / working configuration.;o) Consider also, that people these days are much more bothered when email goes down than when the phones stop working.
One thing Microsoft has done (and it took them several tries and years to figure this one out) is to provide one (relatively) consistant user interface. This all started back with Win95 and Win98 and they carried it into NT 4. Why? So some grey haired, sneaker wearing grandma (think: mom) can surf the web (remember the MSN network??? Microsoft's own version of the www that never took off...) and use an office suite. (Latest stats seem to indicate most users only use Outlook and Word...) This allowed "everyone" to work on a PC at work... because they could do the same thing at home. This allowed for thousands of hours of "free" training is using Microsoft for business because so many people were using it at home.
For Linux to beat M$ at this, a simple and limited distibution is needed to allow these above mentioned users to switch over to Linux. Please remember, many people out there have little to no interest in learning "how to use a computer" they just want to sit down, read email, send pic's of the grandkids, chat with some friends, and plan the next trip to see the family. Most people could not care less about how it happens (on/in the computer) just that it does happen.
Lindows may do it. Tis a good sign Walmart is selling blank PC's... and supposedly Dell is too! *
* the Dell's come with DR-DOS or something similar installed I believe.
-- any errors in the above mentioned are solely the fault of the author (me).
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Sorry for the lack of details.
We're expecting to do around 15,000 color pages per month, double sided. 11"x17" ability needed.
Copier functionality is a possibility... we are just checking our options.
Thanks for the idea of local printing houses... that is actually one of the options we are considering.
Thanks again for all the useful feedback.
Well said.
Great idea... one I had not considered. I think we are looking for greater functionality that the Minolta has. Double sided, and perhaps copying.
Thanks for the response.
Perhaps these teams should share some notes. I'm not sure about the web page info inclusion, but I'd love to use a top notch PIM that could data mine MY data.
As for the resources... perhaps you could tell it when you wanted it to data mine, so the mining would ot interfere with other work.
Correction, shooters...
:)
I have had great personal success going back to the "old school" setup of green text on a black background. It has really helped my eyes. (I had laser eye surgery several years ago.) As other posters have mentioned, any time you can use a black background do it. Also, add some plants to your workspace. The green helps the eyes and they help break up all the geometric computer shapes.
The military has spent a lot of money in reducing eye strain... and they suggest pausing to look at something green. Apparently that is relaxing to the eye. At NSW sniper school they teach the shoots to look away from their sites and relax their eyes by focusing on something green nearby, bush, leaves, etc. Also, notice how NVG's are green?
Correction: www.campmor.com
My wife and I have these. Lightweight, waterproof, three triple A batteries, dimmable with three power settings, and two blink settings. We got them from Campmore.com for around $30. Excellent buy.
As to whether 18 year olds can be accountable for anything, look at your average US Marine out of bootcamp. They understand action accountability and take it seriously.
As for encrypted P2P, check out freenet. They have been working very hard on a totally encrypted, and therefore private, solution for the entire internet... not just filesharing.
Mostly so... I believe Oracle and IBM have already completed their port to AMD64... and Oracle is recommending using Linux for it's platform.... Check out http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/database/theme_pag es/index.html?linux_02032003.html
It's great to see such big $$ support already.
I have to agree with several of the other posters. Wired is the way to go (if we are talking pre-construction for the building) for serveral reasons. Bandwidth - 160 wireless / secure nodes will not be able to compete with wire. Versatility - wireless is really still young. The options, speeds, and prices are changing overnight. With wire you will avoid locking in your tenents with a particular wireless technology. Future - wire every room in the house with RJ-45 outlets leading back to the utility closet of each condo. This will allow tenents to have their own internal LAN or not, plus they can make any jack "hot" if needed. Run one line from each condo to the central "hub rooms" allowing 10/100/1000 Mbit connectivity. I'm sure you can find 10 Mbit switches for cheap, and 10 Mbit service is better than pretty much any broadband around. VLAN all the condos maybe... I like the earlier comment about telling tenents security is their concern. Run everything through at least a cache, host your own dns, plus provide email service if you like. (Use at least a fractional DS-3.) Avoid fiber. There is fiber installed to the desktop where I work and it's a mess. Fiber is great for long distance, but stay cheap and easy to fix / troubleshoot and use copper.
During the last decade I've worked for both the government, and the private sector. For both, I have experienced phone, network, and email outages... Perhaps I have just been (un)lucky. :o)
What I observed from the "powers-that-be" (read:management) was a much greater upset from the loss of network and/or email than phones. This would appear to be from the way we have become accustomed to doing business, rarely speaking to others and relying on other methods of communication.
Wise advise for many reasons. The migration of the file servers, proxies, and print servers can be much more transparent to the users... and this also allows for a much larger oops factor. (Most users have no idea what gateway thay are using or how their data / traffic is handled, nor do they care. They just want it to work.) These migrations can be set up and tested side by side for a while before moving the users to them. And once you begin the migration, you leave some / all of the old things working until you prove the new things work. (Consider this as CYA and the ability to fall back to your "last known good" / working configuration. ;o) Consider also, that people these days are much more bothered when email goes down than when the phones stop working.
One thing Microsoft has done (and it took them several tries and years to figure this one out) is to provide one (relatively) consistant user interface. This all started back with Win95 and Win98 and they carried it into NT 4. Why? So some grey haired, sneaker wearing grandma (think: mom) can surf the web (remember the MSN network??? Microsoft's own version of the www that never took off...) and use an office suite. (Latest stats seem to indicate most users only use Outlook and Word...) This allowed "everyone" to work on a PC at work... because they could do the same thing at home. This allowed for thousands of hours of "free" training is using Microsoft for business because so many people were using it at home. For Linux to beat M$ at this, a simple and limited distibution is needed to allow these above mentioned users to switch over to Linux. Please remember, many people out there have little to no interest in learning "how to use a computer" they just want to sit down, read email, send pic's of the grandkids, chat with some friends, and plan the next trip to see the family. Most people could not care less about how it happens (on/in the computer) just that it does happen. Lindows may do it. Tis a good sign Walmart is selling blank PC's... and supposedly Dell is too! * * the Dell's come with DR-DOS or something similar installed I believe. -- any errors in the above mentioned are solely the fault of the author (me).