People like your parents are easy. They don't need to know about viruses & worms. You just set anti-virus to run and automatically update & have them use a mail client other than Outlook (e.g., Thunderbird or Euroda). You set up the firewall & just leave it.
And buy them a router. I was going to add "..for Christmas".. but then I just though about the bemused look on my parents faces if I did that.
Make sure network is isolated from rest of campus. (In case of virus's) Make the machines rebuild overnight.
OS install from network bootstrap kinda thing.. Remind students to take their work home before leaving!
Presumably, they don't want students stealing electronic copies of their work and training others, as it is a lucrative source of revenue. The downside is that it is often impractical to refer to these training notes after the course is over.
You are not buying a book. The fees paid to trainers are for their knowledge and skills at presentation. Handouts or binders are at best a bonus. Please don't confuse training with shopping at Amazon.com.
The reason why they hand out mostly paper based copies is that a good student can easily produce high quality electronic copies, and then train their colleagues, using the materials + their new found knowledge. This is potentially lost revenue for the training company. As another poster pointed out, it also means a bad student could do a bad job, and sully the training companies reputation.
I admit to wondering how referring to printed handouts after the fact can be seen as "impractical."
Bulk mostly. These are often not neatly bound books but big ugly folders. I'd rather a pdf (with option to print). And lests face it. They do have it in electronic form anyway. Dont you think it would be cheaper (piracy issues aside) and more environmentally sound to just give everyone an electronic copy. And people could still print it out as an option.
Also the pages often tear out of their binders with half hearted use. These are not professionally bound books. Searching is a moot point as a good index and table of contents works well with paper obviously. Ironically these are usually the first pages to go missing. And index's vary in quality. (coverage)
Do you have rare paper allergy? Are you illiterate or an individual with a visual impairment that makes reading text difficult?
No see points above. I dont like wasting paper on low quality binding when the
tutor has electronic on right there. (with option to print) Do you find that offensive somehow?
Many Linux distros require you to install a new kernel to get your hardware working.
Usually, that is part of the evolutionary process for new types of hardware. or for hardware for which only closed
source drivers are available. In these cases, more often than not, the next release of the distro will have
appropiate kernel modules bundled. Two recent examples.. Happauge TV cards, Broadcom WIFI. Both required faffing about
with modules just last year. Both installed automagically during installation with Mandriva 2007. (Granted, the
Broadcom installation needed to ask me for the windows Broadcom files, but it was still all part of the main installation., "a few button clicks" as you put it.)
How come an eight year old version of Windows gets my ADSL working with a few button clicks, whilst a mere two year old version of Linux needs a new kernel?
Because PCI ADSL cards, which I suspect you are talking about, are the worst offenders for closed source drivers, and there is little motivation to work on such hardware with routers selling for the same price? Also you are veering off subject slightly because there are NO
drivers for such hardware in XP , to my knowledge, you still had to go and get the drivers from elsewhere, which was the whole point of this sub-thread.
Apparently so. You do know most Linux distros will also install drivers for printers, scanners, analogue TV cards and now Digital TV cards during installation. Seen that on XP too? I haven't. And heck people even forget, even XP didnt have a basic DVD player ready after installation. You had to get the vendor video card drivers or very recent media player. Mandriva now has LinDVD.
Your sound and video were the gimped versions that are installed with the Linux distro.
Some non-free Linux distros (eg Mandriva Powerpack) do come with official nvidia drivers. Does XP?
You still need to go out and download the proper 3d accelerated optimized drivers from the chipset vendors.
just like XP, IF you needed it. For office work and simple games the Linux GPL drivers are just fine.
Same for sound.
Er no actually. Most of the GPL drivers for most sound chips are perfectly adequate.
Sorry, but that's just a fact of life for Linux, at least it was the last time I installed it.
Apparently so. You do know most Linux distros will also install drivers for printers, scanners, analogue TV cards and now Digital TV cards during installation. Seen that on XP too? I haven't. And heck people even forget, even XP didnt have a basic DVD player ready after installation. You had to get the vendor video card drivers or very recent media player. Mandriva now has LinDVD.
Only one. Performance. I had Firefox 2.0 RC3? and Opera 9.0.2 running side by side. (on Mandriva 2006) . With the majority of links I could click on firefox, move the mouse over to Opera, and click the same link and opera would still render the page faster. This is with http pipelining enabled on Firefox.
It assumes that rich people will stop having sex with poor people. Anybody see any logic flaws here?
Also there is a counter argument that actually mixing the genes across "races" or "sub-species" reduces the impact of facial mutations that make people less attractive. That is why women of mixed races/backgrounds often seem more attractive on average than women whose parents are from the same 'stock'. (or is it just a fetish of mine?)
I am thinking of settling down, and I have been fortunate enough to receive offers of marriage from both a Brazilian supermodel and an Italian supermodel.
The big difference with this analogy is who get fscked in the end.
The online repository never worked and it relies on high bandwidth to do its job. The vast majority of people still are on dial-up. Some can't afford high speed and others can't get it. Those majority won't ever be able to use linux when the idea is that the updates should come from on line.
How do you get updates/software for your other OS's? By post?
RSS in Firefox is not very exciting. However I've recently migrated from Firefox to Opera and it handles RSS much better
RSS headlines appear in a subject window similar to a mail/news reader.
Clicking on a RSS subject shows you the overview of the story without having to go to the website.
Some sites even give the whole story. eg Daily WTF, although I dont know how this helps
them with their ad-revenue!
Opera will notify you when new news has arrived on a particular feed, without having to keep looking at changing menus ala firefox. For example you can get automatic notifications when "stories" change on - ahem - vcdquality
Opera tracks which ones you've already read and shows a summary of unread news (ala any mail client)
Opera holds a history of stories until you delete them. (useful but also need an autoexpire feature unless I missed it somewhere)
I've probably missed some other features, but the default Firefox RSS handling seems to do the whole concept a disservice.
I disagree with this statement.... It doesn't matter if your auction is listed for 10 days if no one sees it until the 10th day.
I think the point is that a longer auction generates more potential bidders/watchers who may then hold off bidding until the final hours. People do see it they just dont bid on it right away.
If you already own an ipod and you want to get into linux, life sucks, get started reverse engineering iTunes.
While you're at it, Logitech Harmony please. Thanks.
Ydrol
Google for "text adventure games" or "text based adventure games".
Even if you find dos ones , shouldn't be too difficult to get running under Linux??
They've been around for a long time.
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Except that you can install whatever you want on your own Linux computer now, as you could for the last 14 years or so.
True but some of us have to work on other poeples machines as part of our day job. If you work on production servers for different flavours of Un*x (esp as a consultant / contractor ), then knowing your way around vi is very important.
Not only does it waste charagable time, and put production machines at riskn, but it would SERIOUSLY dent your credibility if you have to ask the sysadmin to install some other editor because you dont know/use vi.
Of course it would look just as bad asking for vim if only vanilla vi is installed.
It also talks about some of the most common linux features (ability to write to FAT partitions) that are disabled and you have to compile from source to change it.
I can write to fat without having to change anything.
though it does appear to have stagnated a bit of late there is Amaya
Last release 6 days ago.. but every time I tried Amaya in the past it just crashed fast and hard under windows. I gave up trying about 2004. Maybe I'll give it another shot under Linux.. Not sure why though!
Not only are the fat clients clunky. The Web client sucks too. The've got all bases covered.
Its slow and just about runs under FF.
Its also ironic that IBM are pushing Notes and have thus far refused to release a decent Linux client, and the web client only runs at a decent speed under IE.
I completely agree. However, you clearly haven't seen any modern pornography. It's not just naked human beings. It's guys cumming on womens faces saying, "Take that bitch, want some more?"
Not to mention this fascination with buggering women. What is that all about? When did vaginal sex go out of fashion?
And see how kissing is frowned upon. Sometimes, if two "participants" are into each other, and kiss, you can almost feel the "director" tearing their hair out...
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Make sure network is isolated from rest of campus. (In case of virus's) Make the machines rebuild overnight. OS install from network bootstrap kinda thing.. Remind students to take their work home before leaving!
Some non-free Linux distros (eg Mandriva Powerpack) do come with official nvidia drivers. Does XP?
just like XP, IF you needed it. For office work and simple games the Linux GPL drivers are just fine.
Same for sound.
Er no actually. Most of the GPL drivers for most sound chips are perfectly adequate.
Apparently so. You do know most Linux distros will also install drivers for printers, scanners, analogue TV cards and now Digital TV cards during installation. Seen that on XP too? I haven't. And heck people even forget, even XP didnt have a basic DVD player ready after installation. You had to get the vendor video card drivers or very recent media player. Mandriva now has LinDVD.
Only one. Performance. I had Firefox 2.0 RC3? and Opera 9.0.2 running side by side. (on Mandriva 2006) . With the majority of links I could click on firefox, move the mouse over to Opera, and click the same link and opera would still render the page faster. This is with http pipelining enabled on Firefox.
Also there is a counter argument that actually mixing the genes across "races" or "sub-species" reduces the impact of facial mutations that make people less attractive. That is why women of mixed races/backgrounds often seem more attractive on average than women whose parents are from the same 'stock'. (or is it just a fetish of mine?)
The big difference with this analogy is who get fscked in the end.
The online repository never worked and it relies on high bandwidth to do its job. The vast majority of people still are on dial-up. Some can't afford high speed and others can't get it. Those majority won't ever be able to use linux when the idea is that the updates should come from on line. How do you get updates/software for your other OS's? By post?
Either Microsoft explicitly made an exception for Yahoo or Yahoo found a workaround
Or a bug..
- RSS headlines appear in a subject window similar to a mail/news reader.
- Clicking on a RSS subject shows you the overview of the story without having to go to the website.
Some sites even give the whole story. eg Daily WTF, although I dont know how this helps
them with their ad-revenue!
- Opera will notify you when new news has arrived on a particular feed, without having to keep looking at changing menus ala firefox. For example you can get automatic notifications when "stories" change on - ahem - vcdquality
- Opera tracks which ones you've already read and shows a summary of unread news (ala any mail client)
- Opera holds a history of stories until you delete them. (useful but also need an autoexpire feature unless I missed it somewhere)
I've probably missed some other features, but the default Firefox RSS handling seems to do the whole concept a disservice.No disrespect to poster, but how/why is this modded +5 insightful ? It was the whole point!
I disagree with this statement. ... It doesn't matter if your auction is listed for 10 days if no one sees it until the 10th day.
I think the point is that a longer auction generates more potential bidders/watchers who may then hold off bidding until the final hours. People do see it they just dont bid on it right away.
If you already own an ipod and you want to get into linux, life sucks, get started reverse engineering iTunes.
While you're at it, Logitech Harmony please. Thanks. Ydrol
Also, get a router.
Google for "text adventure games" or "text based adventure games". Even if you find dos ones , shouldn't be too difficult to get running under Linux?? They've been around for a long time.
Not only does it waste charagable time, and put production machines at riskn, but it would SERIOUSLY dent your credibility if you have to ask the sysadmin to install some other editor because you dont know/use vi.
Of course it would look just as bad asking for vim if only vanilla vi is installed.
I can write to fat without having to change anything.
Last release 6 days ago .. but every time I tried Amaya in the past it just crashed fast and hard under windows. I gave up trying about 2004. Maybe I'll give it another shot under Linux.. Not sure why though!
I was trying to think of some +5 Funny about this made up word .. but found out it was real.
Not only are the fat clients clunky. The Web client sucks too. The've got all bases covered. Its slow and just about runs under FF.
Its also ironic that IBM are pushing Notes and have thus far refused to release a decent Linux client, and the web client only runs at a decent speed under IE.
I think every long term notes reader has read its entry in The Interface Hall Of Shame.
The only reason most corporates keep it is to reduce the chance of getting hit by email viruses looking for Exchange/Outlook hosts...
Not to mention this fascination with buggering women. What is that all about? When did vaginal sex go out of fashion? And see how kissing is frowned upon. Sometimes, if two "participants" are into each other, and kiss, you can almost feel the "director" tearing their hair out ...