How are schools supposed to manage this?
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I work in a school, with an obviously limited budget, and cheapo Dells as the main workstations. They work fine with XP, and run everything very fast. No complaints. Will they run Vista? Will they bollocks. You're talking about £10,000 of hardware per ICT suite, and we have 7 suites and about another load of machines knocking around in various places (totals about 300). I'm sorry, but we won't be splashing down £70-90k (and the rest!) to buy a whole new load of PCs just to run Vista on. A lot of these new features sound like the biggest waste of resources ever, and they all seem to be taking the Gnome^W^W route of adding things in that they think people will want, then removing the options to stop it.
What the hell is the deal with this "hibernation" mode they're talking about? The DEFAULT option is to NOT shut the computer off? In this day and age with our up-and-coming energy crisis, and MS are going to make all these new 500W+ PCs NOT shut down? Who was on the crack that day at Redmond when they decided to make that the default option.
In my home life, my next step is a Mac. I've "upgraded" from DOS, to 95, then 98, then straight to XP, then an experiment with Linux ended up removing my XP partition.
Not having the reinstallation disks, I've been a happy Linux user for 4 years now. (Though I did get around to reinstalling XP, I never use it - managing 500 XP desktops at work is more than enough XP for me.)
I live in the UK!
I have one of those on my desk here actually, just don't bother with my headphones enough anymore to warrant the effort of putting it in.
Tis a question I have asked myself many times... My 4.1 Creative speakers (old, yeah, meh) don't have a headphone out, meaning I have to reach around to the back of my PC, unplug my 4.1s and plug in the headphones.
More and more are moving over to Portage? Where did you get that idea from? Apart from Netwosix and Gentoo, and maybe a few Gentoo-derivatives, I don't know of any other Linux distros that use Portage - hell, 80% of them all seem to use apt-get!
I use Gentoo and love Portage, but I wouldn't say there are more and more people moving over to it. I would switch to a system with apt-get immediately if I knew the packages were going to be as up-to-date as the Portage tree. (K/Ubuntu isn't as up-to-date, I've tried it, I know.)
I may be using the wrong term here, but why not have some sort of capicitance measuring device on the fingerprint scanner? Something a bit less sensitive than your iPod wheel or a normal laptop touchpad so it has to detect a current on the persons finger before it will even begin to scan?
Not that I've tried it, but I'm pretty sure you can use Playdoh to navigate around your iPod.
As far as I know, it does some black voodoo magic and combines all the C++ source files into one file before compiling for a rather large speedup, or something. The downside is it uses a LOT of RAM (apparently) but I haven't noticed a problem on my laptop (2.6GHz, 512MB RAM, 1GB Swap). Compiled kdelibs, libkdeedu (or something), kstars and arts in about an hour yesterday using kdeenablefinal.
I'd say, if you've got 512MB RAM or more, enable it.
Now, knowing Gentoo this will be in the tree in the next 5 minutes. Woo, emerge is gonna be hot tonight, and tomorrow, and the day after, and probably some time after that too....;)
(Disclaimer: I use Gentoo, it doesn't actually take that long with kdeenablefinal flag on!)
I wasn't so much talking about shows like that as pretty much all you mentioned I watch on a regular basis.. I'm talking about your daytime TV (which sucks in every country, I admit), and sports shows (NASN which we can get over here...), the constant badgering with adverts and even the way things are advertised during a show ("...brought to you by McDonalds!") just doens't happen over here.
Don't even get me started on American Football and Baseball though! How you people watch that is beyond me, they're so boring!
I always find it amusing how American's call us British people "reserved", yet they freak out at a nipple on TV, or, gasp, a few "naked" people showing nothing but a bit of skin and hugging each other.
Then again, I've seen some American TV, and it's awful. "Reserved" isn't the word for us Britons, it's "not making a tit out of ourselves" that is.:p
(I'm not painting all American's with the same brush here, btw. I'm already OT so getting modded troll as well...)
So much for the anti-Linux crowd saying there's far too many distro's...
Anyone know what the major differences are between the versions then? Will schools (which is where I make a living as a sysadmin) and businesses require Enterprise edition for networks or what?
I'm a sysadmin at a school in the UK, and I'd just like to point out that as far as I'm aware this isn't the case. We pay a "MS Schools Agreement" which costs us about £28 per machine (for 500 machines) and somewhere around £50-£60 for a server license. (Not sure of the exact numbers, but it's around that).
I've never heard of anything like them offering free software to an MS-only house. We use Linux boxes for internet content filtering and caching at the minute - and if I have my way, other things in the near future.
They'll have to prive my Linux boxes from my cold dead hands before I give them up.
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I work in a school, with an obviously limited budget, and cheapo Dells as the main workstations. They work fine with XP, and run everything very fast. No complaints. Will they run Vista? Will they bollocks. You're talking about £10,000 of hardware per ICT suite, and we have 7 suites and about another load of machines knocking around in various places (totals about 300). I'm sorry, but we won't be splashing down £70-90k (and the rest!) to buy a whole new load of PCs just to run Vista on. A lot of these new features sound like the biggest waste of resources ever, and they all seem to be taking the Gnome^W^W route of adding things in that they think people will want, then removing the options to stop it.
What the hell is the deal with this "hibernation" mode they're talking about? The DEFAULT option is to NOT shut the computer off? In this day and age with our up-and-coming energy crisis, and MS are going to make all these new 500W+ PCs NOT shut down? Who was on the crack that day at Redmond when they decided to make that the default option.
In my home life, my next step is a Mac. I've "upgraded" from DOS, to 95, then 98, then straight to XP, then an experiment with Linux ended up removing my XP partition.
Not having the reinstallation disks, I've been a happy Linux user for 4 years now. (Though I did get around to reinstalling XP, I never use it - managing 500 XP desktops at work is more than enough XP for me.)
I live in the UK! I have one of those on my desk here actually, just don't bother with my headphones enough anymore to warrant the effort of putting it in.
Tis a question I have asked myself many times... My 4.1 Creative speakers (old, yeah, meh) don't have a headphone out, meaning I have to reach around to the back of my PC, unplug my 4.1s and plug in the headphones.
Pain in the arse.
I second that. I always keep going back to SMAC. Awesome game!
More and more are moving over to Portage? Where did you get that idea from? Apart from Netwosix and Gentoo, and maybe a few Gentoo-derivatives, I don't know of any other Linux distros that use Portage - hell, 80% of them all seem to use apt-get!
I use Gentoo and love Portage, but I wouldn't say there are more and more people moving over to it. I would switch to a system with apt-get immediately if I knew the packages were going to be as up-to-date as the Portage tree. (K/Ubuntu isn't as up-to-date, I've tried it, I know.)
GMail checks the contents of ZIP, TAR.GZ and BZIP2 files. I tried sending an .exe the other day in an archieve. Doesn't work!
I can't begin to imagine why.
I may be using the wrong term here, but why not have some sort of capicitance measuring device on the fingerprint scanner? Something a bit less sensitive than your iPod wheel or a normal laptop touchpad so it has to detect a current on the persons finger before it will even begin to scan?
Not that I've tried it, but I'm pretty sure you can use Playdoh to navigate around your iPod.
As far as I know, it does some black voodoo magic and combines all the C++ source files into one file before compiling for a rather large speedup, or something. The downside is it uses a LOT of RAM (apparently) but I haven't noticed a problem on my laptop (2.6GHz, 512MB RAM, 1GB Swap). Compiled kdelibs, libkdeedu (or something), kstars and arts in about an hour yesterday using kdeenablefinal.
I'd say, if you've got 512MB RAM or more, enable it.
QT has been released under the GPL for years.
Congratulations KDE team!
;)
Now, knowing Gentoo this will be in the tree in the next 5 minutes. Woo, emerge is gonna be hot tonight, and tomorrow, and the day after, and probably some time after that too....
(Disclaimer: I use Gentoo, it doesn't actually take that long with kdeenablefinal flag on!)
Nah, Office 2003 Pro, MS School's License Agreement, volume product key.
I deployed Office 2003 the other day to 50 machines using a custom transform file for setup purposes... or are you reffering to something else?
I thought you couldn't change someones genes 'on-the-fly' - it has to be done before they're born.
Doesn't this mean we'd be breeding our soliders? Opening up a whole can of worms there if that's the case.
(IANAS)
You just made my morning with that comment.
TA is awesome.
I've been goatsed, tubgirled and guy-cutting-penis-off'd far too many times to care anymore...
Mod parent up!
Made my morning...
Man, I wish I still had modpoints...
I've been playing far too much SMAC recently... Seriously, I'm addicted again!
I wasn't so much talking about shows like that as pretty much all you mentioned I watch on a regular basis.. I'm talking about your daytime TV (which sucks in every country, I admit), and sports shows (NASN which we can get over here...), the constant badgering with adverts and even the way things are advertised during a show ("...brought to you by McDonalds!") just doens't happen over here.
Don't even get me started on American Football and Baseball though! How you people watch that is beyond me, they're so boring!
I always find it amusing how American's call us British people "reserved", yet they freak out at a nipple on TV, or, gasp, a few "naked" people showing nothing but a bit of skin and hugging each other.
:p
Then again, I've seen some American TV, and it's awful. "Reserved" isn't the word for us Britons, it's "not making a tit out of ourselves" that is.
(I'm not painting all American's with the same brush here, btw. I'm already OT so getting modded troll as well...)
So much for the anti-Linux crowd saying there's far too many distro's...
Anyone know what the major differences are between the versions then? Will schools (which is where I make a living as a sysadmin) and businesses require Enterprise edition for networks or what?
I should RTFA, eh?
I'm a sysadmin at a school in the UK, and I'd just like to point out that as far as I'm aware this isn't the case. We pay a "MS Schools Agreement" which costs us about £28 per machine (for 500 machines) and somewhere around £50-£60 for a server license. (Not sure of the exact numbers, but it's around that).
I've never heard of anything like them offering free software to an MS-only house. We use Linux boxes for internet content filtering and caching at the minute - and if I have my way, other things in the near future.
They'll have to prive my Linux boxes from my cold dead hands before I give them up.
No, anatomy classes.
Well generally women can't see where they pee, and so need a big target.
The artical says "offers some beta downloads" but they're offering SuSE 9.3 for download?
Is that SuSE 9.3 Professional, or just bog-standard 9.3?