So you think p2p would be the answer? How about load balancing the servers for the admins there. Look I don't want to sound grinchy or anything but p2p is definitely not the answer to the problems you're mentioning.
Probably not the best one, but it could work.
Considering the pranksters running around such schools, think about someone getting into one of the machines and changing everything you read to something else.
But said pranksters would be identified if there is tracking, as they say there will be. Although a well executed prank could be catastrophic, and the guilty party found out after he poisoned everybody's study material... unless the material were secured with PGP-signatures or the like...
As for spoofs, it could also lead to people cheating by sharing answers, etc, which one would have to normally research, which is one of the pros about getting an education. Wouldn't you want to learn it as opposed to being spoon fed it?
People who will copy work will do it, no matter what medium used. I wasn't thinking of those spoofs, anyway. (Although that *is* a serious issue with this).
Again sorry to sound trollish if I do, but if you don't remember apparently you need to do a better job for yourself instead of being too dependent on technology.
I don't know what do you study, but my engineering studies span six years and diverse subjects from advanced calculus to physics to economics and then the CS part spans a LOT of ground. If you can remember clearly some complicated thing you learned five years ago, kudos to you. And that's not "dependent on technology". If I can't get it that way, I'll find a book. There's no way this technology will substitute my understanding, but it could help me find the material I need to brush up on faster.
In some ways I often think that the older generation scholars were much more smarter than we are.
I agree with this. I used to be an auxilary teacher (the guy who does "practical classes" to complement the professor's "theorical classes") of an algorithms course, and each year it seemed they wanted easier, easier, easier. It's not that they weren't smart, but kind of had an attitude that "ease of use" that permeates everywhere should apply to scholar work.
Wouldn't you rather socialize with someone instead of being crammed up on a machine?
God yes! Alas, my thesis has me holed up in front of my PC, as the due date looms close (too close for comfort).
Well, I have seen my university's servers "slashdotted" just before tests and such (when the _humble_ box serving the course management pages get lots of hits)
This would be a way to ease up on that. Plus, a well-done system would have very good classification of material and no spoofs (no porn instead of lecture notes), so that one can download all of the pertinent materials of a given course, easy.
Plus, think of the sharing potential. One could share class notes (I have a friend who takes his class notes using a pda, writes straight to latex. The resulting.dvi files were VERY much sought after), material between universities, get data from a course I don't remember and I need to remember *right now*, etc.
I agree with AvengerXP. On a 40GB disk, I use a
4GB Partition for windows. A 640MB partition used ONLY for swap space, formatted with FAT32 fs to get max speed. One temporary 2GB Fat32 partition, to shuffle things between windows and linux, and a 25GB partition for programs and games and stuff.
IIRC, it's an april's fools interview. It ranks up there as one of the best ones I've ever seen, along with Linus' April 1st discussion of who should take the role of kernel mantainer.
I found it kind of sad reading one of the articles covering SCO's latest conference. Within the piece were quotes from resellers expressing relief and gushing about the future of SCO's products.
Probably has the opinions of other resellers cut out, as it doesn't help SCO. In the Slashdot story about SCO's roadshow you can see that there are a few vendors that are smelling rat in the whole deal ("What you are profitable in will not make me profitable.")
But why are they afraid ? They claim that their product (OS X) is superior to Windows.
This is false. Apple's product is NOT OsX. Apple's product is the Apple computer. One must take the systemic approach with this. An "Apple Computer" is more than the sum of its parts (design, hardware, os, etc). Apple claims that "the Apple Computer" is superior to the wintel combo. OsX probably is a better Os than Windows, but to experience it, you need the whole thing. I'm betting that a good part of "just works" is the issue-free hardware. How hard is to test 30 HW configurations for "just works"?
well, I've always bought nokia because they survive any fall (I even saw a nokia 3320 fall four floors and survive... cracked shell, but the phone worked)
but now you've kind of made me nervous...
However, two separate cards will all but guarantee different colors. I had that setup, and with two equal monitors (samsung 750s) one of the screens was "yellower" than the other. Swapped the monitors, but the colors stayed the same.
Put it in the main CPU, not just the GPU. That way we can get rid of the screaming banshees/cooling fans in our towers. (So you can leave your favorite p2p running overnight without the whirrrrrrrring)
If you take the time to learn how to use the Filters feature, Eudora's pretty good at filtering spam. Especially if you crank up the size of the History of addresses you sent to and store your contacts in the address book. You can then filter messages whose sender "doesn't intersect" your address book or history into a spam folder.
Mozilla (and the Thunderbird Standalone Mail Client)
do spam detecting with bayesian filters. It works wonders for me. AND it's too easy to use. You just say "enable junk mail filtering", choose the folder for spam, and off you go. After a week the filter will have learned what your spam looks like. Plus you can tell it to not filter adresses on your address book. I have my parents using Thunderbird and it works great. And it takes care of my 80% spam rate.
Off topic - if Apple were to port OSX to X86 commodity hardware, I'm sure that we'd have a lot of businesses jumping on board - especially in the light of the "Homogenous Windows Environments Are Bad" article. It just makes good sense.
And there goes all the Apple hardware business... *poof*!
If people can get OsX with powerful but cheaper x86 hardware, the only remaining customers of apple hardware would be the ones who do it for the "cool" factor.
You shouldn't need to reach for a calculator or paper & pen, or maths-website
I have a calculus ruler, you insensitive clod!
Huh? WHat do you mean, "this is not a poll"?
Seriously, though, I can't seem to find a decent reason for the drive capacity to be calculated with base 10. My puny 40Gb drive is really 37GB! They make my computer punier!
Does greed count as a reason? It does? HA! I knew it!
You'd know it wasn't a good idea to serve Joe if he'd been to several bars.
If Joe has been to several bars and the bartender will still give him alcohol, I don't know who's the biggest asshole. Can't he see the bastard's tanked?
This is really bad. ActiveX exploits will have a field day with this one.
Right now, it is a rare event when IE pops the "security alert". Rare enough that, if it does pop up, my father/mother/sister will be surprised, call me and ask me what the fuck is that. If it is kosher, I authorize it. If it isn't (as is the case, 90% of times) I refuse it. The point is, it is a "rare and unknown" event in the browsing experience and it raises alarm flags.
But now, if it becomes a commonplace ocurrence, people will (in bigger numbers than before!) click on yes without ever reading the warning. Say hello to ActiveX 0wn3r5h1p of your windows box.
i think at least some internet users will find Site Finder a good service
This is the misconception that initially brought us SiteFinder. The World Wide Web (as in, the pretty pages you load with a browser) is a subset of the Internet. While this travesty on the DNS root servers may be "good" for WWW use, it completely breaks applications and systems relying on DNS to return an error when you enter a nonexistent name. You know, the ones that run over the Internet, not the WWW.
But your honor. I didn't sign that non-compete. See!
Better yet!
Sorry, Darl baby, but I didn't sign your NDA.:D
I sure love those Pilot Gel pens for taking notes at classes and all, but when it comes to checks, I like my parker (wich is a fancy wrapper for a cheap ballpoint pen. But I like that kind of ink for checks)
to Microsoft on this. Their problem is that, in 99% of the times, a windows box looks like ass, and TV/Movies are all about visuals. Apple has got them beat, beat, beat. It would need shots of the desktop, and, unless somebody in the movie is USING the computer, that won't be easy...
Sorry Billy-boy, but you must get a cool box first before somebody thinks MS is cool.
Slashdot Mirror
...is feeling the love from slashdot already. Anybody got a mirror or .torrent for these software gems?
Probably not the best one, but it could work.
Considering the pranksters running around such schools, think about someone getting into one of the machines and changing everything you read to something else.
But said pranksters would be identified if there is tracking, as they say there will be. Although a well executed prank could be catastrophic, and the guilty party found out after he poisoned everybody's study material... unless the material were secured with PGP-signatures or the like...
As for spoofs, it could also lead to people cheating by sharing answers, etc, which one would have to normally research, which is one of the pros about getting an education. Wouldn't you want to learn it as opposed to being spoon fed it?
People who will copy work will do it, no matter what medium used. I wasn't thinking of those spoofs, anyway. (Although that *is* a serious issue with this).
Again sorry to sound trollish if I do, but if you don't remember apparently you need to do a better job for yourself instead of being too dependent on technology.
I don't know what do you study, but my engineering studies span six years and diverse subjects from advanced calculus to physics to economics and then the CS part spans a LOT of ground. If you can remember clearly some complicated thing you learned five years ago, kudos to you. And that's not "dependent on technology". If I can't get it that way, I'll find a book. There's no way this technology will substitute my understanding, but it could help me find the material I need to brush up on faster.
In some ways I often think that the older generation scholars were much more smarter than we are.
I agree with this. I used to be an auxilary teacher (the guy who does "practical classes" to complement the professor's "theorical classes") of an algorithms course, and each year it seemed they wanted easier, easier, easier. It's not that they weren't smart, but kind of had an attitude that "ease of use" that permeates everywhere should apply to scholar work.
Wouldn't you rather socialize with someone instead of being crammed up on a machine?
God yes! Alas, my thesis has me holed up in front of my PC, as the due date looms close (too close for comfort).
Guess I got carried away by the legitimate uses of p2p... :)
I stand corrected. Now, if there's no sharing, and only the profs get to publish content, how does this do something that a frigging web page doesn't?
Oh, he writes directly to LaTeX source code... (it sure WOULD be a wet dream if a PDA could translate handwritten equations to LaTeX)
If it's not p2p... and only profs will be able to post content... and there's auth and central server...
They need a grant to make a website? Sheesh!
Well, I have seen my university's servers "slashdotted" just before tests and such (when the _humble_ box serving the course management pages get lots of hits)
This would be a way to ease up on that. Plus, a well-done system would have very good classification of material and no spoofs (no porn instead of lecture notes), so that one can download all of the pertinent materials of a given course, easy.
Plus, think of the sharing potential. One could share class notes (I have a friend who takes his class notes using a pda, writes straight to latex. The resulting .dvi files were VERY much sought after), material between universities, get data from a course I don't remember and I need to remember *right now*, etc.
...that P2P has legitimate uses, and is not some tool for thieves and hax0rs and rebels and whatnot...
:(
Expect p2p to become ilegal, in a store near you...
What a whiner!
I agree with AvengerXP. On a 40GB disk, I use a 4GB Partition for windows. A 640MB partition used ONLY for swap space, formatted with FAT32 fs to get max speed. One temporary 2GB Fat32 partition, to shuffle things between windows and linux, and a 25GB partition for programs and games and stuff.
Oh lookitall those little partitions! boo hoo!
Of course, IMBFOS. (I Might Be Full Of Shit)
Probably has the opinions of other resellers cut out, as it doesn't help SCO. In the Slashdot story about SCO's roadshow you can see that there are a few vendors that are smelling rat in the whole deal ("What you are profitable in will not make me profitable.")
This is false. Apple's product is NOT OsX. Apple's product is the Apple computer. One must take the systemic approach with this. An "Apple Computer" is more than the sum of its parts (design, hardware, os, etc). Apple claims that "the Apple Computer" is superior to the wintel combo. OsX probably is a better Os than Windows, but to experience it, you need the whole thing. I'm betting that a good part of "just works" is the issue-free hardware. How hard is to test 30 HW configurations for "just works"?
well, I've always bought nokia because they survive any fall (I even saw a nokia 3320 fall four floors and survive... cracked shell, but the phone worked) but now you've kind of made me nervous...
However, two separate cards will all but guarantee different colors. I had that setup, and with two equal monitors (samsung 750s) one of the screens was "yellower" than the other. Swapped the monitors, but the colors stayed the same.
We can stop imagining a beowulf cluster of pocket PCs. It's here!
Put it in the main CPU, not just the GPU. That way we can get rid of the screaming banshees/cooling fans in our towers. (So you can leave your favorite p2p running overnight without the whirrrrrrrring)
Mozilla (and the Thunderbird Standalone Mail Client) do spam detecting with bayesian filters. It works wonders for me. AND it's too easy to use. You just say "enable junk mail filtering", choose the folder for spam, and off you go. After a week the filter will have learned what your spam looks like. Plus you can tell it to not filter adresses on your address book. I have my parents using Thunderbird and it works great. And it takes care of my 80% spam rate.
And there goes all the Apple hardware business... *poof*!
If people can get OsX with powerful but cheaper x86 hardware, the only remaining customers of apple hardware would be the ones who do it for the "cool" factor.
I have a calculus ruler, you insensitive clod!
Huh? WHat do you mean, "this is not a poll"?
Seriously, though, I can't seem to find a decent reason for the drive capacity to be calculated with base 10. My puny 40Gb drive is really 37GB! They make my computer punier!
Does greed count as a reason? It does? HA! I knew it!
If Joe has been to several bars and the bartender will still give him alcohol, I don't know who's the biggest asshole. Can't he see the bastard's tanked?
This is really bad. ActiveX exploits will have a field day with this one.
Right now, it is a rare event when IE pops the "security alert". Rare enough that, if it does pop up, my father/mother/sister will be surprised, call me and ask me what the fuck is that. If it is kosher, I authorize it. If it isn't (as is the case, 90% of times) I refuse it. The point is, it is a "rare and unknown" event in the browsing experience and it raises alarm flags.
But now, if it becomes a commonplace ocurrence, people will (in bigger numbers than before!) click on yes without ever reading the warning. Say hello to ActiveX 0wn3r5h1p of your windows box.
This is the misconception that initially brought us SiteFinder. The World Wide Web (as in, the pretty pages you load with a browser) is a subset of the Internet. While this travesty on the DNS root servers may be "good" for WWW use, it completely breaks applications and systems relying on DNS to return an error when you enter a nonexistent name. You know, the ones that run over the Internet, not the WWW.
Better yet!
Sorry, Darl baby, but I didn't sign your NDA. :D
I sure love those Pilot Gel pens for taking notes at classes and all, but when it comes to checks, I like my parker (wich is a fancy wrapper for a cheap ballpoint pen. But I like that kind of ink for checks)
Woohoo! Now they'll throw those annoying "White Stripes" in jail!
to Microsoft on this. Their problem is that, in 99% of the times, a windows box looks like ass, and TV/Movies are all about visuals. Apple has got them beat, beat, beat. It would need shots of the desktop, and, unless somebody in the movie is USING the computer, that won't be easy...
Sorry Billy-boy, but you must get a cool box first before somebody thinks MS is cool.
oh well... back to playing my "fake" UT2003 on debian...