My knowledge is also limited, but if I understand correctly: if a process under the new CFS system requests more processing time (like say a realtime application) it will have a better chance of getting that time in a timely fashion.
I've never used the package you reference.
However, I have been fairly successful in rebuilding Ubuntu ISO's with my own package selection.
Try this page if you decide to look at Ubuntu for your Custom Installer.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomi zation
What do you mean, "Movies might not be real". But, I believe everything I see in the movies. I find it funny that Indiana Jones' twin is really Han Solo, I think Indiana would have shot first too.
I agree long-term surveillance should always require a warrant. I would think in this case the police would want to get a warrant because it could fall under police harassment otherwise.
And who would want to see a long-term case fall through because the suspect claimed harassment?
But can't an officer follow a suspect without a warrant as it is. The difference in this case is that the officer wouldn't need to be there. (I'm basing this on the assumption that an officer can follow a suspect by traditional methods without a warrant)
All the GPS unit does is report where the vehicle is. Besides, it can be easily circumvented by changing vehicles. Get on a bike, bus, train, boat, or horse.
I actually see this as being a good thing. It allows officers to follow a suspect without putting themselves in danger or alerting the suspect to being followed. Plus, it allows for the historical GPS info to be submitted to court as evidence beyond "Well, yer honor, we follerd him down to the docks... I think that was around 3ish... maybe 4ish... and that's where he's been blah blah blahblah..." It makes for a good witness. More power to it.
Assuming that the universe is not expanding faster than the speed of light, we should always be able to see the center of the universe (assuming there is something to see)
Everything past that point will be made visible at a slower rate because it is moving away from us.
I should have answered your question correctly. We assume that our calculation of the speed of light is accurate. So, the real variable is how accurately they triangulate the source of light.
Technically, you could triangulate the origin of the light by using two separate cameras. From that distance calculation you do the math. We know the speed of light (Roughly 300 MegaMeters Per Second), from this we know the distance light travels in one year (A Light Year - Measurement of Distance, not time). So, we could figure out that a source of light is 14 Billion Light Years Away, Which also tells us that the Light originated 14 Billion Years ago.
Not necessarily. Just because we look at the center of the universe and we see 14 Billion Years "back" does not mean we can look the opposite direction and see the currently expanding universe (At least not as it IS-RIGHT-NOW) because however far we are from the edge, we still have to contend with the time it takes light to travel the distance.
Pretending for a second we can see the edge of the universe as being 200 light years from here, that would mean that the edge of the universe was in that position 200 years ago. (If I understand my theory of relativity correctly)
Am I making any sense with what you are asking?
I suppose that if you figured out where the universe's center was, and assuming that the universe is a perfect sphere, then we predict from what we know of the curvature of the universe's edge and how fast it is expanding, the current size (and where the edges really are) of it.
But, why would we really care about what is at the outer edges... the juicy stuff is in the middle!
Oh, I'm by no means a physicist nor a scientist in any related field. So, I could be full of it,
Last school year we started using Ubuntu Linux (Tied in with our AD structure) in a computer lab. The number of machines grew from 30 to 45 when we added the library and just yesterday we added another ten to the list out of a teacher's classroom (she volunteered). For those that can't count, that's 55 machines converted to Linux (voluntarily) since the end of April 2006 (Subtract 3 months for summer and we have a conversion to 55 machines in 2 1/2 months. Not too shabby for a bunch of people who didn't know what linux was nine months ago).
All of the machines in question ran Windows 98 or Windows 2000. Our slowest machine we are willing to run on is an 800Mhz Pentium III with 256 Megs of ram and a 40 gig drive. You can probably fudge the processor speed down to about 400 Mhz IF you have at least the 256 megs of ram.
We have found that this machine, while not the fastest on the planet, does very well with Ubuntu.
Naturally, you could use a stripped down version of Ubuntu or a less intensive flavor of linux (Say Slackware with xfce), but if you have never worked with linux, Ubuntu makes it very easy for "converts" to get used to the system.
Someone mentioned that if the machines can't hack a decent flavor of linux, then it could do a disservice to the entire process.
(By the way, we host our own internal mirror of the Ubuntu archives and do all of our installations via TFTP)
At my district we gave a good portion of teachers laptops. We discovered that a large percentage of the laptops were in some state of expensive disarray within 18 months.
Laptops are expensive to repair, new screen $400 if you find it used.
No option to upgrade, just replace.
I don't suggest doing it.
You do get breaks, you may work more days out of the year than the teachers, but 3 months of it: students and teachers are gone. This is when you get some of your best work done. Plus, if your boss is cool with it, you can shift your summer schedule to fit the things you like to do by working 4 10 hour shifts instead of 5 8 hour shifts. If you make good friends with the right staff, you can make some real decisions about how the network runs and how to make it better.
In addition, if you play your cards right, you can develop pet projects like converting all the servers over to linux from win2k.
Sure, the kids glue the mouseballs or steal them, but you can always replace them with infrared mice and save yourself the hassle next time.
The job can be really sweet some days, especially when you can convince your regular vendors to let you "test" a peice of equipment for a few months.
My best advice to you is still get that Bachelors degree, here's why:
If you become a k12 network admin, and you have a Bachelors degree, in some states you can get a vocational teaching cert. and teach some of the fun tech classes. You'll get a little better pay and sometimes you can make friends with some of the students, which will in turn help you out by keeping some of the student population on your side.
My best advice for cutting down spyware: Use your content filter to block all the advertising servers you have. Protect your network by blocking things like hotbar and other software you don't want installed.
Oh btw, forcing proxy through Active Directory is futile, students can just install firefox/opera/pick a browser and cruise past your proxy if they have a direct connection to the firewall.
This makes the assumption that school districts use hardware that can network boot.
I've run into this problem many times. Plus, as cool as terminal clients are, it is hard to muster up the hardware to support the server side. Remember your budget is often somewhere close or below 0.
I admin a 1200 node network for a small sized school district. 5 buildings in all. A lot of our time is spent on very small irritating tasks, mostly problems caused by mal-intending students, or under informed staff. Like any admin, we have the occasional drive failure, and we have to cater to the systems our predecessors setup because our users are accustomed to the "old" environment. You have to be very good people person to make any drastic changes to your network without feeling the pain back from the staff (and your boss). If you want to upgrade the mail server, or switch to a new fileserver because the old one is on its last legs, you either have to bite the bullet and be a bad guy, or you need to play politics for 2 months in advance. Student management systems are a pain in the rear and usually don't integrate well with any of your existing systems... especially your login system (ldap, Active Directory, ANYTHING). The most hectic time of year is the first two weeks of school... this is when you find out about things that have been broken for "2 years" and "why haven't you fixed it yet". Also, unlike the private sector, the federal government requires you to filter the net for porn etc. Full compliance with this will take a little work as the "default" filters usually don't do the job right.
In regards to unique things, you will find that you will have almost unlimited amounts of http traffic over your internet connection. Invest in a packet shaping device of some kind (we use a packeteer) to segment your traffic it WILL save your butt when some punk decides to fire up bit torrent.
Once at one of my buildings, a principal was having issues connecting to the internet, so he unlocked the network closet and started re-arranging the cabling on the switches. When he was done, he had managed to plug most of the switches into themselves, unplugged the fiber that connected his building to the main server closet (the connect to the internet for him) and them managed to plug the fiber in backwards. Needless to say, he screwed up a lot. The real problem: he changed his proxy settings on accident.
If you want to have it easy: find a way to convert EVERYTHING over to a single platform, and automate everything you can. Expect to work in an environment where you don't have the budget to upgrade anything at a regular pace, expect to have to know Mac OS 7-X, Windows 9x-XP (and then vista), all of your server quirks, and spend a lot of time finding ways to save your precious bandwidth.
My advice: don't do the job unless you have a degree. Cause if you ever want to leave that district, or get better pay, you'll have a hard time without it.
I see a flaw in your logical assessment of this woman's lawyer:
But in case you (and the people who modded you up) weren't aware, of course her lawyer is going to try to convince people that she's innocent. That's what lawyers are paid to do.
What does this mean for the wolfpack of lawyers the RIAA has? Because this woman's lawyer may be lying, that must mean that the RIAA's lawyers are innocent.
Here are the names, locations, and frequencies of all the US Spy Satellites:
Freq Az Dir Velocity Alt [Edited by NSA] [Edited by NSA] [Edited by NSA] [Edited by NSA] [Edited by NSA] [Edited by NSA]
Maybe it's one thing to find this stuff out for yourself, but posting it online? Thats just giving away information. Of course, there are some 8,000 man made objects in orbit right now that are tracked by our government... most of it is just trash though. http://www.stratcom.mil/fact_sheets/fact_spc.html
I have decided to become a reliable source of statistical information and post the results from the webserver logs on my internal webserver. I have decided that this audience is an appropriate representation of the world's population and will thus announce that 50% of the world uses IE 5.0 Mac on OS 9, 30% uses Firefox (PC or Mac) and 10% uses Safari for Mac, and 10% use IE for PC.
There, you have it. The world predominantly uses IE. From the results of my INTRANET server, I have decided that Africa holds 12% of the users on the world, China a good 132.452324%, Canada is at -.4123%, and the USA takes the head with 4005.2342% of the users. You do the math.
Now that I have trolled, I'm going to get to my point. Who cares what X company says the current statistic is. If I cared enough, I'd ask for the results from Slashdot, Digg, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, and a few other companies and throw it together. Otherwise, I'd assume that the stat is BOGUS!
Slashdot Mirror
Hrm, Bring Your Own Broadband?
My knowledge is also limited, but if I understand correctly: if a process under the new CFS system requests more processing time (like say a realtime application) it will have a better chance of getting that time in a timely fashion.
Please someone correct me if you know more.
I had always been impressed with Linux's scheduler. The fact that it is getting better, just makes me happy.
--Insert Microsft Bash Here... not the CLI
I've never used the package you reference. However, I have been fairly successful in rebuilding Ubuntu ISO's with my own package selection. Try this page if you decide to look at Ubuntu for your Custom Installer. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomi zation
First Post! I would guess because most people have never heard of these projects.
What do you mean, "Movies might not be real". But, I believe everything I see in the movies. I find it funny that Indiana Jones' twin is really Han Solo, I think Indiana would have shot first too.
I agree long-term surveillance should always require a warrant. I would think in this case the police would want to get a warrant because it could fall under police harassment otherwise.
And who would want to see a long-term case fall through because the suspect claimed harassment?
But can't an officer follow a suspect without a warrant as it is. The difference in this case is that the officer wouldn't need to be there. (I'm basing this on the assumption that an officer can follow a suspect by traditional methods without a warrant)
All the GPS unit does is report where the vehicle is. Besides, it can be easily circumvented by changing vehicles. Get on a bike, bus, train, boat, or horse.
I actually see this as being a good thing. It allows officers to follow a suspect without putting themselves in danger or alerting the suspect to being followed. Plus, it allows for the historical GPS info to be submitted to court as evidence beyond "Well, yer honor, we follerd him down to the docks... I think that was around 3ish... maybe 4ish... and that's where he's been blah blah blahblah..." It makes for a good witness. More power to it.
But but but... someone else already made this post!
Mmmmm.... squid shark sandwich...
Assuming that the universe is not expanding faster than the speed of light, we should always be able to see the center of the universe (assuming there is something to see) Everything past that point will be made visible at a slower rate because it is moving away from us.
I should have answered your question correctly. We assume that our calculation of the speed of light is accurate. So, the real variable is how accurately they triangulate the source of light.
Technically, you could triangulate the origin of the light by using two separate cameras. From that distance calculation you do the math. We know the speed of light (Roughly 300 MegaMeters Per Second), from this we know the distance light travels in one year (A Light Year - Measurement of Distance, not time). So, we could figure out that a source of light is 14 Billion Light Years Away, Which also tells us that the Light originated 14 Billion Years ago.
Not necessarily. Just because we look at the center of the universe and we see 14 Billion Years "back" does not mean we can look the opposite direction and see the currently expanding universe (At least not as it IS-RIGHT-NOW) because however far we are from the edge, we still have to contend with the time it takes light to travel the distance. Pretending for a second we can see the edge of the universe as being 200 light years from here, that would mean that the edge of the universe was in that position 200 years ago. (If I understand my theory of relativity correctly) Am I making any sense with what you are asking? I suppose that if you figured out where the universe's center was, and assuming that the universe is a perfect sphere, then we predict from what we know of the curvature of the universe's edge and how fast it is expanding, the current size (and where the edges really are) of it. But, why would we really care about what is at the outer edges... the juicy stuff is in the middle! Oh, I'm by no means a physicist nor a scientist in any related field. So, I could be full of it,
Last school year we started using Ubuntu Linux (Tied in with our AD structure) in a computer lab. The number of machines grew from 30 to 45 when we added the library and just yesterday we added another ten to the list out of a teacher's classroom (she volunteered). For those that can't count, that's 55 machines converted to Linux (voluntarily) since the end of April 2006 (Subtract 3 months for summer and we have a conversion to 55 machines in 2 1/2 months. Not too shabby for a bunch of people who didn't know what linux was nine months ago).
All of the machines in question ran Windows 98 or Windows 2000. Our slowest machine we are willing to run on is an 800Mhz Pentium III with 256 Megs of ram and a 40 gig drive. You can probably fudge the processor speed down to about 400 Mhz IF you have at least the 256 megs of ram.
We have found that this machine, while not the fastest on the planet, does very well with Ubuntu.
Naturally, you could use a stripped down version of Ubuntu or a less intensive flavor of linux (Say Slackware with xfce), but if you have never worked with linux, Ubuntu makes it very easy for "converts" to get used to the system.
Someone mentioned that if the machines can't hack a decent flavor of linux, then it could do a disservice to the entire process.
(By the way, we host our own internal mirror of the Ubuntu archives and do all of our installations via TFTP)
1. Receive E-Mail infected with virus
./configure --compile_for_linux
2. Open E-Mail with Pine E-Mail Client
3. Download Attachement
4. tar -vxzf virus.tgz && cd virus/
5.
6. make && make install && Virus.Linux.Bi.a\/Virus.Win32.Bi.a.py
7. Forward E-Mail to all your friends.
You can also install the virus using Apt!
apt-get install Virus.Linux.Bi.a\/Virus.Win32.Bi.a
Not too long ago, we were looking at a similar solution to our DVR problems.
http://www.sonerik.com/linux.asp
There hasn't been a purchase yet, but we have been looking at the solution mentioned above.
At my district we gave a good portion of teachers laptops. We discovered that a large percentage of the laptops were in some state of expensive disarray within 18 months. Laptops are expensive to repair, new screen $400 if you find it used. No option to upgrade, just replace. I don't suggest doing it.
You do get breaks, you may work more days out of the year than the teachers, but 3 months of it: students and teachers are gone. This is when you get some of your best work done. Plus, if your boss is cool with it, you can shift your summer schedule to fit the things you like to do by working 4 10 hour shifts instead of 5 8 hour shifts. If you make good friends with the right staff, you can make some real decisions about how the network runs and how to make it better. In addition, if you play your cards right, you can develop pet projects like converting all the servers over to linux from win2k. Sure, the kids glue the mouseballs or steal them, but you can always replace them with infrared mice and save yourself the hassle next time. The job can be really sweet some days, especially when you can convince your regular vendors to let you "test" a peice of equipment for a few months. My best advice to you is still get that Bachelors degree, here's why: If you become a k12 network admin, and you have a Bachelors degree, in some states you can get a vocational teaching cert. and teach some of the fun tech classes. You'll get a little better pay and sometimes you can make friends with some of the students, which will in turn help you out by keeping some of the student population on your side. My best advice for cutting down spyware: Use your content filter to block all the advertising servers you have. Protect your network by blocking things like hotbar and other software you don't want installed. Oh btw, forcing proxy through Active Directory is futile, students can just install firefox/opera/pick a browser and cruise past your proxy if they have a direct connection to the firewall.
I see a missing part in the statement. It should be:
Trying to protect itself from its users, and trying to protect the internet from its users.
I find my biggest uphill battle is students trying to circumvent local-machine security/functionality.
But otherwise, you are very correct.
This makes the assumption that school districts use hardware that can network boot. I've run into this problem many times. Plus, as cool as terminal clients are, it is hard to muster up the hardware to support the server side. Remember your budget is often somewhere close or below 0.
I admin a 1200 node network for a small sized school district. 5 buildings in all. A lot of our time is spent on very small irritating tasks, mostly problems caused by mal-intending students, or under informed staff. Like any admin, we have the occasional drive failure, and we have to cater to the systems our predecessors setup because our users are accustomed to the "old" environment. You have to be very good people person to make any drastic changes to your network without feeling the pain back from the staff (and your boss). If you want to upgrade the mail server, or switch to a new fileserver because the old one is on its last legs, you either have to bite the bullet and be a bad guy, or you need to play politics for 2 months in advance.
Student management systems are a pain in the rear and usually don't integrate well with any of your existing systems... especially your login system (ldap, Active Directory, ANYTHING). The most hectic time of year is the first two weeks of school... this is when you find out about things that have been broken for "2 years" and "why haven't you fixed it yet". Also, unlike the private sector, the federal government requires you to filter the net for porn etc. Full compliance with this will take a little work as the "default" filters usually don't do the job right.
In regards to unique things, you will find that you will have almost unlimited amounts of http traffic over your internet connection. Invest in a packet shaping device of some kind (we use a packeteer) to segment your traffic it WILL save your butt when some punk decides to fire up bit torrent.
Once at one of my buildings, a principal was having issues connecting to the internet, so he unlocked the network closet and started re-arranging the cabling on the switches. When he was done, he had managed to plug most of the switches into themselves, unplugged the fiber that connected his building to the main server closet (the connect to the internet for him) and them managed to plug the fiber in backwards. Needless to say, he screwed up a lot. The real problem: he changed his proxy settings on accident.
If you want to have it easy: find a way to convert EVERYTHING over to a single platform, and automate everything you can. Expect to work in an environment where you don't have the budget to upgrade anything at a regular pace, expect to have to know Mac OS 7-X, Windows 9x-XP (and then vista), all of your server quirks, and spend a lot of time finding ways to save your precious bandwidth.
My advice: don't do the job unless you have a degree. Cause if you ever want to leave that district, or get better pay, you'll have a hard time without it.
What does this mean for the wolfpack of lawyers the RIAA has? Because this woman's lawyer may be lying, that must mean that the RIAA's lawyers are innocent.
Corruption comes in numbers my friend.
Here are the names, locations, and frequencies of all the US Spy Satellites:
Freq Az Dir Velocity Alt
[Edited by NSA]
[Edited by NSA]
[Edited by NSA]
[Edited by NSA]
[Edited by NSA]
[Edited by NSA]
Maybe it's one thing to find this stuff out for yourself, but posting it online?
Thats just giving away information. Of course, there are some 8,000 man made objects in orbit right now that are tracked by our government... most of it is just trash though.
http://www.stratcom.mil/fact_sheets/fact_spc.html
I have decided to become a reliable source of statistical information and post the results from the webserver logs on my internal webserver. I have decided that this audience is an appropriate representation of the world's population and will thus announce that 50% of the world uses IE 5.0 Mac on OS 9, 30% uses Firefox (PC or Mac) and 10% uses Safari for Mac, and 10% use IE for PC.
There, you have it. The world predominantly uses IE. From the results of my INTRANET server, I have decided that Africa holds 12% of the users on the world, China a good 132.452324%, Canada is at -.4123%, and the USA takes the head with 4005.2342% of the users. You do the math.
Now that I have trolled, I'm going to get to my point. Who cares what X company says the current statistic is. If I cared enough, I'd ask for the results from Slashdot, Digg, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, and a few other companies and throw it together. Otherwise, I'd assume that the stat is BOGUS!