Why don't you go somewhere that provides a laptop computer with tuition? You're guaranteed to get the standard that works with the university, they'll take care of warranty repairs and software upgrades (and software support) and the faculty will use the computers in class because they know that everyone's got something and what it is.
You had something to put the punchcards in? I had to play tetris with the punch cards. Whenever I cleared a row I ripped them up or burned them. I had to tape punch cards together to make the pieces. Hurt like hell at level 9.
So, let's say I start a rock band. If I wanted to use something that you had described as a good name for a rock band, what would I have do do to use it?
Palms are great at what they do, but if you want serious wireless and serious browsing, you need the speed and expandability of something like an iPaq.
I've used the Xircom card with an m505 and you get max 112Kbps. It would be almost useless except if you're in an area with 802.11b coverage it's faster and cheaper than something like a CDPD modem. Also, lack of browser's a real concern (although I guess Palm's now selling something that might do the trick.)
The iPaq, however, is a useable browser, and performance is good (I've used both the Compaq clone of the Orinoco and a Cisco Aironet 340 in my iPaq.) I have a double PCMCIA adapter, the second slot has a 5GB Toshiba PC Card. Using both the wireless and the card to listen to music I could get about 5 hours of continuous operation (the PCMCIA sleeve for the iPaq has additional batteries to power the slots, and to charge the main battery if necessary.) You generally can plug in to power before you need it.
Olympia also demonstrated a mobile phone version of Soundbug, that will be aimed at business workers. The device can be stuck to a car windscreen, meaning that drivers can have a hands-free conversation without having to wear a headset. It could be on sale by the end of this summer, and May is aiming for a price of £49.99.
Hmm, great--one of these on the windshield should transmit about as much sound OUTSIDE of the car as in it, if the windscreen's the actual vibrating surface. Do business people really want everyone on the highway hearing their phone conversation?
Professors in our CS department usually have a full disclosure policy--you're welcome to work with other students on some projects, but you must disclose with whom and on what parts. As long as you do that it's not cheating. It's only when you're deliberately stealing someone's work that they care.
We have about 1000 Compaq portables, about 1/4 of them have suspect adapters, and we did have a small fire last year started by an AC adapter from one of these computers. (the public safety officer disposed of the charred remains of the adapter before we could identify it, though.)
This is an intriguing list--mostly because of what it leaves out. There's tons of songs out there far more offensive than these in any situation, and especially in the current climate, but Clear Channel doesn't even bother mentioning them because they're not already part of their mass-produced, homogenized playlists that (despite thoughts of independent program directors at Clear Channel stations) are part of what this company is doing so well--which is reducing the cost of producing radio by centralizing the control and decision making process, realizing that the large majority of people will continue to listen, thus retaining their advertising market. Not that I agree with it, but it is a very well-calculated position. It's also why you hear the same mediocre dreck on commercial radio anywhere in this country.
Having said that, please notice there's a lot of incorrectly titled and attributed songs. "When You're Falling" is by Afro Celt Sound System, not Peter Gabriel (yes, he sings on it, but it's not his song.) If you're going to ban Peter Gabriel, you should consider "Ovo", with such tracks as "The Tower That Ate People" and lyrics that kept giving me chills while listening to it yesterday ( from "Downside-Up": "I looked up at the tallest building/felt it falling down/I could feel my balance shifting./Everything was moving around./These streets so fixed and solid./Ah shimmering haze/And everything that I relied on disappeared.")
There's about half a dozen Marillion songs I can think of that would be disturbing right now, and hey, even Yes' "The Gates Of Delerium" might be a bit too much. I'm sure you all can think of examples from your own record collection.
If I had a radio show now, I'd be playing all sorts of songs. Not offensive ones, but surely touching, poignant ones, some of which are on the list. Clear Channel even is staying away from those, because they're afraid someone will change the station.
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We just give them computers. All of our students receive laptops they keep for all four years. Incoming students receive a custom install CD with all of their configuration settings pre-made (we also use Novell and thus also have a pretty ingriguing Novell client setup.) Students get updates to things like network configuration through ZENWorks.
Sure, students can bring their own computers, and many do, and some upperclassmen buy newer computers, but the catch is we won't support them. We gave them a computer that will meet their educational needs for the four years they're here (although that is certainly getting harder,) and that's what we'll continue to support for them. Our helpdesk and support infrastructure has to deal with no more than 4 models of laptops for students at a time, so we know all the idiosyncracies of those machines. For anything else, we provide some very prelminary documentation, but otherwise you're on your own.
It may seem harsh, but the cost of the computer is part of tuition, so there's no additional out-of-pocket cost for the student. And the model requires significantly less support staff, and lab computing than most other universities our size have. It's actually cost-effective, and we know that every student has access to a computer.
A professor who teaches where I work has the following policy:
"Students in computer science can learn a lot from each other about how to get programs working. While I welcome and encourage this
collaboration, there have to be some limits. Each homework you submit for credit must include an honesty statement. Either affirm that
you worked entirely on your own, or indicate whom you consulted and the nature of your work together. (Naturally, if you consult
another book or any reference besides the text, you will want to include an appropriate citation; the honesty statement is the place to do
that, too.) You must understand homework that you submit for credit. If I have any doubts, I might call you in to explain any such work,
and base your grade on your answers. Violations of these policies will be handled in accordance with the procedures explained in the
College's handbook Standards of Academic Honesty."
Yeah, if you want to get points for posting to web sites, go to Everything and accumulate XP. I like the idea that Karma is finite in Slashdot, and it shouldn't matter--the moderation system is not designed for personal aggrandizement.
Novell has announced a "File Protocol Enhancement Pack," currently in beta, that supports NFS, SMB, and Appletalk on the server, with the clients using their native protocols (no Novell client at all.) Should be out the first half of this year. If it does what they say it will, it will be good. Of course, you'll need NetWare 5.1 or later to run it, and Novell's NSS for the file volumes.
Since I'm a cheapskate, I looked for this book in my public library system, and found one with exactly the same authors--from 1980. So it probably is the guy who was on talk shows in the '70s.
What we don't know is if the book was changed or updated to reflect the last 20 years.
Government thinks that your money is their money. And since we are the
government, your money is my money, and that my friend is called Socialism.
Yawn. Money, especially nowadays, is a social contract. Money only exists because society (and the government) have decided that these numbers in these data banks are shorthand for political, social, and economic capital. It's not your money--you only have money because we've decided as a culture to value it.
People who think money is a tangible thing these days, and that you've earned it in a vacuum without the understanding of the social forces involved in the establishment, production, and credibility of wealth, really aren't thinking things through.
No linking in any Slashdot story to any web page with a damn MIDI file attached. It's never a good idea, people. I don't care how cool you think it is. Really.
And it's not just because they play when you're at work.
I fight pretty hard to make sure no passwords pass over the network unencrypted. I haven't been able to plug all the holes. Some are systems I don't administer, others are things like HTTP authentication without SSL.
We don't have end-user FTP because our average end-user won't want to jump through the hoops necessary to make it work securely. Instead, we use an SSL-enabled website that gives a web view to people's netork spaces and where they can upload and download files. Soon we'll be doing the same thing with SSL-enabled WebDAV.
I think a blanket statement banning all FTP and Telnet, however, is stupid. The idea is to minimize unencrypted password transfer, and the rest of the time make sure people are consciously aware of the risks involved, and encourage them to change their passwords if they've traveled unencrypted over an untrusted network.
At our place, the only thing we use from Microsoft is the desktop OS itself--we still site license WordPerfect, we standardized on Netscape as an email client, all of our other academic software (SPSS, Mathcad, Dreamweaver, etc.) is non-MS.
It's a bit difficult for faculty and staff to exchange files, but I'm willing to blame that on an education issue--the later versions of WP do a fine job reading and writing MS Office documents (test is that I know Microsoft employees read my online resume in Word format!)
Except for specialized applications (our library web catalog is the biggie at this point) our back-end infrastructure is NetWare, Linux, Solaris, Digital Unix, and AIX. Email is IMAP on a Solaris box, all Web services are Linux serving files off of NetWare, etc.
With WP 2000 for Linux, and a few weeks of hard effort, I could probably make a Linux-based config to replace the Windows config, that would work for all but the academic software that doesn't have a Linux version. This also precludes licensing issues being resolved for the commercial software (WP, whatever else.)
I figure in general, it's not a bad thing for students to learn the Windows operating system, it will probably be something they see again...
I think this is a laudable goal. Coming from a NetWare shop, I've been slightly frustrated that we're *this close* to having a viable Linux client system so that we can use Linux as a base desktop OS.
The issue is making something that won't break in the enterprise environment. You need to be able to have seamless access to Novell and NT servers. Theoretically, both Novell and Microsoft are making it easy by supporting LDAP for directory information, and with some careful work with both samba and ncpfs, you could tie it all together pretty well. This is the issue--I could make it work but don't have the time to write the glue code necessary.
No matter what, for Linux to make it in the enterprise you'll need the ability to make single sign-on a reality, and have the "logon to the desktop" paradigm that the Microsoft desktop OSes support (at least with the Novell client.) To be honest, Novell is working harder at making this working than Microsoft is. Novell's already got the NDS solution on Linux--where's the Microsoft Active Directory implementation?
Actually, ICS's cache engine has little to do with BorderManager's, and BM's is still available as part of BorderManager.
ICS is designed for people who don't know NetWare--it's a NetWare kernel with the ICS stuff on top of it. Say what you want about the NetWare file system, it's pretty fast when tuned for stuff like this.
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nyah nyah! Taunt, taunt!
Hey, just buy Mac OS X upgrade protection for all of your Apple servers. You can do that, right? RIGHT?
Why don't you go somewhere that provides a laptop computer with tuition? You're guaranteed to get the standard that works with the university, they'll take care of warranty repairs and software upgrades (and software support) and the faculty will use the computers in class because they know that everyone's got something and what it is.
You had something to put the punchcards in? I had to play tetris with the punch cards. Whenever I cleared a row I ripped them up or burned them. I had to tape punch cards together to make the pieces. Hurt like hell at level 9.
So, let's say I start a rock band. If I wanted to use something that you had described as a good name for a rock band, what would I have do do to use it?
Damn astroturfing.
I've used the Xircom card with an m505 and you get max 112Kbps. It would be almost useless except if you're in an area with 802.11b coverage it's faster and cheaper than something like a CDPD modem. Also, lack of browser's a real concern (although I guess Palm's now selling something that might do the trick.)
The iPaq, however, is a useable browser, and performance is good (I've used both the Compaq clone of the Orinoco and a Cisco Aironet 340 in my iPaq.) I have a double PCMCIA adapter, the second slot has a 5GB Toshiba PC Card. Using both the wireless and the card to listen to music I could get about 5 hours of continuous operation (the PCMCIA sleeve for the iPaq has additional batteries to power the slots, and to charge the main battery if necessary.) You generally can plug in to power before you need it.
Hmm, great--one of these on the windshield should transmit about as much sound OUTSIDE of the car as in it, if the windscreen's the actual vibrating surface. Do business people really want everyone on the highway hearing their phone conversation?
We have about 1000 Compaq portables, about 1/4 of them have suspect adapters, and we did have a small fire last year started by an AC adapter from one of these computers. (the public safety officer disposed of the charred remains of the adapter before we could identify it, though.)
Having said that, please notice there's a lot of incorrectly titled and attributed songs. "When You're Falling" is by Afro Celt Sound System, not Peter Gabriel (yes, he sings on it, but it's not his song.) If you're going to ban Peter Gabriel, you should consider "Ovo", with such tracks as "The Tower That Ate People" and lyrics that kept giving me chills while listening to it yesterday ( from "Downside-Up": "I looked up at the tallest building/felt it falling down/I could feel my balance shifting./Everything was moving around./These streets so fixed and solid./Ah shimmering haze/And everything that I relied on disappeared.")
There's about half a dozen Marillion songs I can think of that would be disturbing right now, and hey, even Yes' "The Gates Of Delerium" might be a bit too much. I'm sure you all can think of examples from your own record collection.
If I had a radio show now, I'd be playing all sorts of songs. Not offensive ones, but surely touching, poignant ones, some of which are on the list. Clear Channel even is staying away from those, because they're afraid someone will change the station.
Sure, students can bring their own computers, and many do, and some upperclassmen buy newer computers, but the catch is we won't support them. We gave them a computer that will meet their educational needs for the four years they're here (although that is certainly getting harder,) and that's what we'll continue to support for them. Our helpdesk and support infrastructure has to deal with no more than 4 models of laptops for students at a time, so we know all the idiosyncracies of those machines. For anything else, we provide some very prelminary documentation, but otherwise you're on your own.
It may seem harsh, but the cost of the computer is part of tuition, so there's no additional out-of-pocket cost for the student. And the model requires significantly less support staff, and lab computing than most other universities our size have. It's actually cost-effective, and we know that every student has access to a computer.
"Students in computer science can learn a lot from each other about how to get programs working. While I welcome and encourage this collaboration, there have to be some limits. Each homework you submit for credit must include an honesty statement. Either affirm that you worked entirely on your own, or indicate whom you consulted and the nature of your work together. (Naturally, if you consult another book or any reference besides the text, you will want to include an appropriate citation; the honesty statement is the place to do that, too.) You must understand homework that you submit for credit. If I have any doubts, I might call you in to explain any such work, and base your grade on your answers. Violations of these policies will be handled in accordance with the procedures explained in the College's handbook Standards of Academic Honesty."
This seems to work just fine, as well as being a succinct way of saying what I think we'd all mean. Reference: http://www.courses.drew.edu/sp2001/csci-101-001/
Yeah, if you want to get points for posting to web sites, go to Everything and accumulate XP. I like the idea that Karma is finite in Slashdot, and it shouldn't matter--the moderation system is not designed for personal aggrandizement.
I hear this one will finally include preemptive multitasking.
Novell has announced a "File Protocol Enhancement Pack," currently in beta, that supports NFS, SMB, and Appletalk on the server, with the clients using their native protocols (no Novell client at all.) Should be out the first half of this year. If it does what they say it will, it will be good. Of course, you'll need NetWare 5.1 or later to run it, and Novell's NSS for the file volumes.
What we don't know is if the book was changed or updated to reflect the last 20 years.
Interesting. . .
Yawn. Money, especially nowadays, is a social contract. Money only exists because society (and the government) have decided that these numbers in these data banks are shorthand for political, social, and economic capital. It's not your money--you only have money because we've decided as a culture to value it.
People who think money is a tangible thing these days, and that you've earned it in a vacuum without the understanding of the social forces involved in the establishment, production, and credibility of wealth, really aren't thinking things through.
And it's not just because they play when you're at work.
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Not only not work, but not fix anything if it breaks.
I think if we all had a day off and all the black hats knew it, we'd be appreciated a whole heck of a lot. . . .
We don't have end-user FTP because our average end-user won't want to jump through the hoops necessary to make it work securely. Instead, we use an SSL-enabled website that gives a web view to people's netork spaces and where they can upload and download files. Soon we'll be doing the same thing with SSL-enabled WebDAV.
I think a blanket statement banning all FTP and Telnet, however, is stupid. The idea is to minimize unencrypted password transfer, and the rest of the time make sure people are consciously aware of the risks involved, and encourage them to change their passwords if they've traveled unencrypted over an untrusted network.
It's a bit difficult for faculty and staff to exchange files, but I'm willing to blame that on an education issue--the later versions of WP do a fine job reading and writing MS Office documents (test is that I know Microsoft employees read my online resume in Word format!)
Except for specialized applications (our library web catalog is the biggie at this point) our back-end infrastructure is NetWare, Linux, Solaris, Digital Unix, and AIX. Email is IMAP on a Solaris box, all Web services are Linux serving files off of NetWare, etc.
With WP 2000 for Linux, and a few weeks of hard effort, I could probably make a Linux-based config to replace the Windows config, that would work for all but the academic software that doesn't have a Linux version. This also precludes licensing issues being resolved for the commercial software (WP, whatever else.)
I figure in general, it's not a bad thing for students to learn the Windows operating system, it will probably be something they see again...
I think this is a laudable goal. Coming from a NetWare shop, I've been slightly frustrated that we're *this close* to having a viable Linux client system so that we can use Linux as a base desktop OS.
The issue is making something that won't break in the enterprise environment. You need to be able to have seamless access to Novell and NT servers. Theoretically, both Novell and Microsoft are making it easy by supporting LDAP for directory information, and with some careful work with both samba and ncpfs, you could tie it all together pretty well. This is the issue--I could make it work but don't have the time to write the glue code necessary.
No matter what, for Linux to make it in the enterprise you'll need the ability to make single sign-on a reality, and have the "logon to the desktop" paradigm that the Microsoft desktop OSes support (at least with the Novell client.) To be honest, Novell is working harder at making this working than Microsoft is. Novell's already got the NDS solution on Linux--where's the Microsoft Active Directory implementation?
--Mike
Actually, ICS's cache engine has little to do with BorderManager's, and BM's is still available as part of BorderManager.
ICS is designed for people who don't know NetWare--it's a NetWare kernel with the ICS stuff on top of it. Say what you want about the NetWare file system, it's pretty fast when tuned for stuff like this.