I think what SUSE has going for it is the know how of a corporation that has done work on OS useability for a while and offers them some good input on how to do the GUI really well.
Coming from a IIS world and starting a switch to Apache, we've had nothing but good experiences with SUSE and I would recommend it to anyone...
My main goal (I have a 27 month old now) will be exposure and not to distract (it's a simliar theme to a few people on here). Myspace technology and is a fine distraction but even that will be a teaching tool by talking about what type of information is good to share and what isn't.
By default, especially with alot of blinking lights and cool looking things, your kid is going to be into what you're into. You have to make some intentional teachable moments throughout your time with him/her and expose him/her to things that are important to you.
I'm torn on the whole idea of keeping with new gear for them or old hand me down stuff. I think both would be good, but if he ends up being a gear head, maybe an evening could be spent installing a distro on the box and watching it go (or even just opening the machine and explaining what each of the parts do). I've heard arguments that bad, old gear makes kids afraid of technology because it doesn't work but I really jive with what someone else said regarding new computers making it too easy.
I also wonder how you could integrate technology into stuff they already think is cool. For me, what really got me jazzed about computers was a programming 'class' in 6th grade where we got to color a picture and write a program to make the picture appear on the screen. Mine was of the Tardis and I figured out that I could recolor the picture with black dots and make the tardis dissappear after a few minutes; boy was that an epiphany for me...but if I was into Dr. Who in 6th grade my fate as a geek was pretty well sealed by that point...
I've heard that more than a few times.Isn't that why it's a law? It seems like every 18 months or so, Moore ends up almost petering out (kind of like apple...) and there ends up being a redeeming breakthrough that keeps it around.
If it wasn't a law, we'd just call it Moore's hypothesis, or Moore's pittiful attempt at justifying an upgrade. I remember the day when 50Mhz was the theoretical limit for speed and then they got the grand idea of putting a heat sink on the chip.
I come from a fairly small town in Illinois and the last time I was through there visiting family, I noticed that an ebay call center had cropped up in the middle of town. It's a nice movement in that it revitalizes a realtively depressed town and provides jobs and a higher standard of living.
Is this relevant for slashdot? Mod me down if you wish, but I thought that if there's one thing topics like this bring out is a whole bunch of people on both sides that hate each other...
Unless it was something I *could* burn to DVD, any amount of money is too much. I'm just not in the market to watch something on a computer screen when I could rent it for 2.99 (or 'free' with Netflix) and watch it on my home theater system.
Now, if they offered new releases for download, 8 bucks is *close* to what I'd spend on a download....close, but not really what I'd pay. I'd pay around $5 for a new release download.
I work at Illinois State University and used to work in Williams Hall, which supposedly is haunted by the first librarian @ ISU - Angie Milner. It makes for a pretty creepy building to work in anyway, but I was doing a hardware upgrade one night and ended up @ the building at midnight. As I was leaving, I rounded a corner to go to the door of the parking lot and caught something in the corner of my eye...specifically a figure standing in a doorway...and I ran out of the building at the point:).
It's like an 80s band that maybe stayed around too late. I was at a tech conference in Orlando this week for IT in higher ed. and Novell was representing in the exhibitor hall. Admittedly, they're trying hard, just no one was sitting through their presentations (even with the standard t-shirt/ipod giveaways...
What's especially evil in this version of the copy protection is that the disc doesn't allow any programs that could burn it to run while the disc is in the drive. If you don't close the programs (like itunes/nero/etc.) the disc ejects and won't insert into your computer unless their closed.
I am the real gmail. Larry Page and I were roomates in college and he stole the idea from me while I was sleeping! It's called gmail because I was called 'g' when I checked my e-mail all the time...
1) Instead of saying 'No _________'(insert evil, monopoly here), you need to ask what exchange isn't doing. What specifically is wrong with exchange other than it's parent has the initials b.g. Any management that would start a requirement by casting a curse on a particular company is just asking for trouble. It's a no win situation because in two years if sun one, sendmail, whatever bombs on you, where will you go? Part of IS's duty in an organization is to help management ask better questions.
2) Why are they putting this on one person. I have several friends that work for a large corporation in town that runs a large installation of e-mail and no single person has responsiblity over the entire system; there's probably a staff of 30+ that run their e-mail (and that's just a guess).
Anyone that asks one person to take on a project of that scope is asking not for an answer but a scape goat.
But, the world has pissed on repressive regiemes before. The only thing that seperates China from Iraq is a Billion people, money and no monetary interest in invading/converting the system to democracy.
It seems like America, the corporatations and the like only find ethical behavior and lack free speech useful or worth defending so long as their is a dollar in it for them at the end of the day.
It is all about the pragmatics of the job you go into. I've been in the field for about a decade now and the skill set I graduated with has since been overturned about 3 times; The practicals of what I learned as an undergrad were useless about 6 years ago. To me, if it is a priority of the company, they will give incentives to enter that sector and train people once they get there.
That said, the theory *I* learned in college is still applicable; the osi model, etc. are all still useable.
Personally, I've not used a floppy really since I was in college.
Professionally, there are still a couple of uses. One, being, that fried computer ghost rebuilds still want a bootable ghost floppy. Secondly, as long as there are people who don't trust those new 'fangled' network thingies...we're still stuck with them at some point.
"How much has the corporate desktop PC changed in the last 20 years?"
A bit. The thing though is that this really isn't a new concept; its name has changed a bit, but it boils down to the 3270 concept that IBM made popular. This time you have a mouse and a color monitor instead of a 3270 keyboard and a green screen.
I remember hearing back in college that the trend floats from centralized computing to distributed and then back again, but I'd never thought I'd see it.
Actually, in our situation, it's limiting the rate limits on some types of appllications, such as P2P networks that are actively downloading illegal material. It's like saying..."o.k., so you're driving this car, you and your other 5000 friends that are doing it can use this lane and leave the rest of the highway to everyone else". They aren't limiting the whole bandwidth, just providing more space for the business (Read: educational mission) of the University.
One of the nicer aspects of a Univ. job is transient students.
There are usually forced downtimes such as 'dead weeks' (the weeks between the semesters) and Christmas break.
These are fairly nice times to get things done and you don't have to come in at 3 a.m. (sometimes you still do:)).
The biggest thing for me (and I'm sure others have chimed in regarding other aspects) is the flexibility I get to develop in whatever way I please and I'm not really constrained by anything else than meeting the needs of our clients. The nicer thing about having clueless supervisors is that they're willing to give you some flexibility with what you do and how you do it.
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It's a good choice for a branding.
I think what SUSE has going for it is the know how of a corporation that has done work on OS useability for a while and offers them some good input on how to do the GUI really well.
Coming from a IIS world and starting a switch to Apache, we've had nothing but good experiences with SUSE and I would recommend it to anyone...
--pete
My main goal (I have a 27 month old now) will be exposure and not to distract (it's a simliar theme to a few people on here). Myspace technology and is a fine distraction but even that will be a teaching tool by talking about what type of information is good to share and what isn't.
By default, especially with alot of blinking lights and cool looking things, your kid is going to be into what you're into. You have to make some intentional teachable moments throughout your time with him/her and expose him/her to things that are important to you.
I'm torn on the whole idea of keeping with new gear for them or old hand me down stuff. I think both would be good, but if he ends up being a gear head, maybe an evening could be spent installing a distro on the box and watching it go (or even just opening the machine and explaining what each of the parts do). I've heard arguments that bad, old gear makes kids afraid of technology because it doesn't work but I really jive with what someone else said regarding new computers making it too easy.
I also wonder how you could integrate technology into stuff they already think is cool. For me, what really got me jazzed about computers was a programming 'class' in 6th grade where we got to color a picture and write a program to make the picture appear on the screen. Mine was of the Tardis and I figured out that I could recolor the picture with black dots and make the tardis dissappear after a few minutes; boy was that an epiphany for me...but if I was into Dr. Who in 6th grade my fate as a geek was pretty well sealed by that point...
--pete
And at 3:02 a.m. CST on April 8th, 2037 Windows became self-aware.
"This buys Moore's Law a few more years."
I've heard that more than a few times.Isn't that why it's a law? It seems like every 18 months or so, Moore ends up almost petering out (kind of like apple...) and there ends up being a redeeming breakthrough that keeps it around.
If it wasn't a law, we'd just call it Moore's hypothesis, or Moore's pittiful attempt at justifying an upgrade. I remember the day when 50Mhz was the theoretical limit for speed and then they got the grand idea of putting a heat sink on the chip.
--pete
STOOOPID!
Who the F installs an 'unofficial' patch for this level of a problem?
Also, what's up with MS rolling this out a week from yesterday like it's casual?
--pete
gosh, that just screams hack me. And to think, I've got a two year old to buy happy meals for...
I come from a fairly small town in Illinois and the last time I was through there visiting family, I noticed that an ebay call center had cropped up in the middle of town. It's a nice movement in that it revitalizes a realtively depressed town and provides jobs and a higher standard of living.
Yeah for everyone that does it!
--pete
Is this relevant for slashdot? Mod me down if you wish, but I thought that if there's one thing topics like this bring out is a whole bunch of people on both sides that hate each other...
--pete
Unless it was something I *could* burn to DVD, any amount of money is too much. I'm just not in the market to watch something on a computer screen when I could rent it for 2.99 (or 'free' with Netflix) and watch it on my home theater system.
Now, if they offered new releases for download, 8 bucks is *close* to what I'd spend on a download....close, but not really what I'd pay. I'd pay around $5 for a new release download.
--pete
Good ghost story:
:).
I work at Illinois State University and used to work in Williams Hall, which supposedly is haunted by the first librarian @ ISU - Angie Milner. It makes for a pretty creepy building to work in anyway, but I was doing a hardware upgrade one night and ended up @ the building at midnight. As I was leaving, I rounded a corner to go to the door of the parking lot and caught something in the corner of my eye...specifically a figure standing in a doorway...and I ran out of the building at the point
--pete
It's like an 80s band that maybe stayed around too late. I was at a tech conference in Orlando this week for IT in higher ed. and Novell was representing in the exhibitor hall. Admittedly, they're trying hard, just no one was sitting through their presentations (even with the standard t-shirt/ipod giveaways...
--pete
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What's especially evil in this version of the copy protection is that the disc doesn't allow any programs that could burn it to run while the disc is in the drive. If you don't close the programs (like itunes/nero/etc.) the disc ejects and won't insert into your computer unless their closed.
--pete
I am the real gmail. Larry Page and I were roomates in college and he stole the idea from me while I was sleeping! It's called gmail because I was called 'g' when I checked my e-mail all the time...
From now own, I want to be called gmail!
--gmail
It's a stupid question for two reasons:
1) Instead of saying 'No _________'(insert evil, monopoly here), you need to ask what exchange isn't doing. What specifically is wrong with exchange other than it's parent has the initials b.g. Any management that would start a requirement by casting a curse on a particular company is just asking for trouble. It's a no win situation because in two years if sun one, sendmail, whatever bombs on you, where will you go? Part of IS's duty in an organization is to help management ask better questions.
2) Why are they putting this on one person. I have several friends that work for a large corporation in town that runs a large installation of e-mail and no single person has responsiblity over the entire system; there's probably a staff of 30+ that run their e-mail (and that's just a guess).
Anyone that asks one person to take on a project of that scope is asking not for an answer but a scape goat.
Shop your resume.
--pete
Yes, I'm an American...
:(.
But, the world has pissed on repressive regiemes before. The only thing that seperates China from Iraq is a Billion people, money and no monetary interest in invading/converting the system to democracy.
It seems like America, the corporatations and the like only find ethical behavior and lack free speech useful or worth defending so long as their is a dollar in it for them at the end of the day.
Spin it however you like...boo yahoo
--pete
Your car 'keys' go through the clothes wash. :\
It's not impossible, but they may want to sturdy up the design of their key rather than making it work with existing models of usb drives.
--pete
It is all about the pragmatics of the job you go into. I've been in the field for about a decade now and the skill set I graduated with has since been overturned about 3 times; The practicals of what I learned as an undergrad were useless about 6 years ago. To me, if it is a priority of the company, they will give incentives to enter that sector and train people once they get there.
That said, the theory *I* learned in college is still applicable; the osi model, etc. are all still useable.
--pete
You know, they say a really good place to meet girls is laundromats....maybe the emma peel girls would process your whites for you...
--PeteJ
p.s. They looked like stoves to me.
Personally, I've not used a floppy really since I was in college.
Professionally, there are still a couple of uses. One, being, that fried computer ghost rebuilds still want a bootable ghost floppy. Secondly, as long as there are people who don't trust those new 'fangled' network thingies...we're still stuck with them at some point.
--pete
A bit. The thing though is that this really isn't a new concept; its name has changed a bit, but it boils down to the 3270 concept that IBM made popular. This time you have a mouse and a color monitor instead of a 3270 keyboard and a green screen.
I remember hearing back in college that the trend floats from centralized computing to distributed and then back again, but I'd never thought I'd see it.
--pete
--pete
--pete
The biggest thing for me (and I'm sure others have chimed in regarding other aspects) is the flexibility I get to develop in whatever way I please and I'm not really constrained by anything else than meeting the needs of our clients. The nicer thing about having clueless supervisors is that they're willing to give you some flexibility with what you do and how you do it.
--pete
--pete