1.) Use TXT records in the DNS to give people who come behind you a clue.
2.) The first thing you should be doing when you get a new network admin position is digging around in the DNS server a bit to get the lay of the land and pay attention to CNAME records.
3.) The next thing I usually do is run nmap on the subnet to see what's open where.
4.) Usually someone will have at least a slight clue. Usually.... Ask around.
5.) If the dude wasn't a complete incompetent dumbass, he would have left some documentation. I document my networks extremely thoroughly and have an NMS set up which will have extensive text information on hosts as well. I also make sure a couple of key personnel have passwords to the NMS. I even have a binder labeled in big letters with a sharpie on the bookshelf "READ ME IF KEVIN DIES IN TRAGIC CAR ACCIDENT". Not kidding.
If you don't have thorough documentation, this is not a form of job security. You are not special. Someone can and will ensure they survive without you. Or they'll simply reinvent the wheel. All you're doing is being a dick to your fellow IT brethren.
If all of the above fail, chances are you'll need to recreate the network in your own image anyway. They don't teach how to write good documentation in MCSE study guides. There's a reason I refer to the MCSE cert as "Must Call Somebody Experienced".
When you are young with crap credit due to medical bills that piled up shortly your parents gave you the boot the day after you turned 18 with no vehicle because they lost THEIR house and moved onto their boat, you don't really have the option of buying a house. Fortunately I had an IT job at the time with benefits but it didn't last and I was laid off.
After I was laid off from my first IT job, I had a hard time finding anything but bench tech work for about a year until I was about 20. Again, couldn't afford insurance and still make basic living expenses on $12/hr.
Got a real job again at 20 but by then the damage was done to my credit. I actually took a massive paycut in exchange for job security by going into education. I made around $50k at 22. Six years later, I make around $30k now plus some sidework when I have time.
Don't go without insurance. This will cost you money.
Easier said than done when you have a family. Family coverage through my employer would be $1300/mo. If I take the crappy plan with the $3,000 deductible it's around $950. Went up 21% this year. Roughly an entire paycheck. Try supporting a family of four on what remains. But better to have job security than BS contract work or a shaky position somewhere in a shaky economy.
SC isn't known for its booming tech industry either.
Your financial ineptitude is not the grandparent's fault.
Nope, but they helped contribute and they are happy to help. She borrows money from me on occasion as well if she's hurting and I have it. I'm a symbiotic relationship, not a parasitic one. No need for the arrogant tone.
We usually spend about $8 on the dollar menu when we're really poor. More when we're not as poor. 4-piece nugget for each kid w/ a small fry. 2 double cheeseburgers for me and the wife. We take it home and drink tea or kool-aid.
Pasta with homemade sauce, or enhanced cheap sauce in a crockpot with meat, spices, onion and a bell pepper added. The cheapo fatty tube-o-ground beef can be pretty cheap to add to the sauce. We eat that once a week. Usually lasts a day or 3 as well.
Really? XP out of the box is not stable without third party software? I have never had an issue. Your experience maybe different. You cannot tell me that XP is not secured by default in sp2 or 3(I did not say the most secure OS on the planet). I run it currently in a VM - with no AV and don't have any issues. No spyware, etc. I have been using computers (mostly windows OS) for years and never, NEVER gotten a virus. I know how to setup my PCs to do what they need to do, and not get infected by things.
You've probably got something. You just don't know it. Even if you don't, you're the exception, not the norm.
I agree with you - teaching with DOS would be nice, however, I have never found a DOS based "learn to type" app.
There's many. Several of which are now abandonware. Where do you think Mavis Beacon started? It's also possible to teach with the DOS-like CLI environment with XP in full screen mode.
I have never seen a DOS based app that has pretty graphics, to show a 7 year old a game.
Ummm..... Doom and Quake were DOS games and were certainly fairly pretty. Descent and Descent II were very pretty DOS games as well.
Yeah, when we were kids - we had crap, but when your kids are in school - and they are required to take typing, and also required to play Oregon trail and other games like that, which are all GUI based,
Wrong again, I took typing classes in elementary school in the late 80's on Apple IIe's (most certainly with no GUI) and later again on Mac LC's. You must have been in school in the 70's or went to a poor school district. Oregon Trail dates back to the Apple II days in the mid 80's. The original version was developed in 1971 but I'm not sure on what platform. The mac port came later. I've never seen the Windows version. All were essentially the same game though the Apple IIe had much cheesier graphics than the mac. It's been ported, re-ported, and re-ported to several different platforms including cell phones.
then I guess you have passed your window to teach DOS first.
What makes you think you need games to teach basic computing concepts anyway? Kids like them but they aren't necessary.
Anyway, my students are adults at a college, not elementary school kids anyway. I have a hard enough time with my own brats. I'd go postal if I had to deal with 30 of them.
$30,000 on the fringes of a city in SC when you have next to no health benefits and are on the brink of bankruptcy because of medical bills for your family. Credit for ANYTHING is no longer an option. Throw two young children and a wife who developed some health issues after 2 kids and a car accident into the mix.
More like a 1100 sq ft fairly beat up duplex rental home in a neighborhood you *MIGHT* not get shot in.
An 8 year old 24" CRT TV.
No landline, be happy to have cheap VoIP via MagicJack.
Cheapest cell phone plan you can get your hands on.
Beat up vehicle with 200,000 miles on it you can barely afford to keep running and pay for basic liability insurance on.
Can't afford real food so you live off the dollar menu at McDeath, $1 banquet TV dinners and Ramen noodles. Real food becomes a weekend luxury. Eating out at a real restaurant is for anniversaries or when a check for some side work comes in.
But at least your close enough to downtown to get a cheap cable modem.
A "vacation" becomes a 40 mile trip to Grandma's to borrow $50 for gas for the week and let the kids ride a pony.
Do I put in 80 hours every week? Not really. I put in more like 50-60 usually unless something big is going on. I don't get paid for most of my class prep time though.
At this point I'm just happy to be working. SC isn't exactly known for it's booming tech industry but the cost of living here is quite low compared to VA, MD, or CT for example.
If I had real health coverage I would not be in such bad shape. Family coverage is just not available for a reasonable price to people in my income bracket. People that make $5000/yr less get Medicaid. People that make $10000/yr more can afford insurance. It only takes a couple ER visits to run up $20,000 in bills and here they can get liens on tax returns and/or property to recover it. A chunk of my check just goes to keeping them from stealing what little I have left.
More qualified on paper or more qualified in general? Lots of people are very qualified for positions that HR monkeys pass them over for because they lacked a keyword on a resume or lacked a degree from a major university.
I don't think that Apple and MS could have survived if the price of a cheap desktop was still $1000+, similarly Google and the internet businesses would also be gone.
They would have easily survived. The profit margins were greater on machines and they were also generally of much higher overall quality and far less disposable. They wouldn't sell as many but they also wouldn't need Indian call centers to tell hundreds of thousands of users to reboot their computer about 15 times.
The companies might not be as large, but they'd still be around and I'd have to answer less stupid ass questions for people who either lack the desire or mental capacity to actually learn anything about the shiny box they purchased.
I was happier when home computing was a semi-expensive hobby rather than mainstream. The industry wasn't as large but it still certainly made ends meet and there were a lot more new and innovative platforms available.
Gonna mandate that public construction be done with US steel, even if the cost is a little higher?
I'm perfectly OK with that.
It'll help american companies and american jobs, sure. But then the europeans decide that if you're not playing fair then they won't buy stuff you make, they'll use their own.
I'm ok with that too.
Result? We lose out on the global economy, which is largely responsible for the last 20/30 years of growth, everyone pays higher prices and things are no longer done best or cheapest, they're done in isolation.
If it means that a lower-middle-class worker gets to quit feeding his kids Ramen noodles and gets decent benefits instead of being consistently shafted and told he is the only one to blame for his problems then yeah, I'm fine with that.
If that person gets a raise instead of a paycut with cheap "better-qualified" foreign labor being the excuse then yeah, I'm fine with that.
I'm tired of starving because of some assholes bottom line. It wasn't like this 15 years ago for people in my income bracket. Seriously, try to support a family of 4 on $30,000/yr that you work 60-80 hrs a week for. Then try not to reach for the gun in your glovebox when your employer bitches about 2 hours of overtime or tries to cut your hours.
And I don't want to hear that "go work somewhere else" crap because most employers are starting to adopt the same type of BS. When every company can get away with it, they all will eventually gravitate in that direction. Now they are even using the "recession" as an excuse to abuse employees for profit.
I hand out Ubuntu CD's to all of my students. Occasionally for the ones genuinely interested in digging deeper and really learning UNIX, I hand out FreeBSD DVD's. Learning how to use GNOME doesn't qualify as learning Linux or UNIX in my book.
They really need exposure to something other than Windows.
I wouldn't call me a "professor" as I teach at a tech college which doesn't offer 4 yr degrees but I try to do my part.
Ummm... PDF export works flawly in OSX in just about every osx app. It's part of the display AND print subsystems. You can just hit print, and there's a little PDF menu right there in the print dialog box.
And no, PDF's don't contain animation or video. Why would they? With the exception of powerpoint, office was designed to deal with static documents. If you need video and animation, Word and Excel are the wrong tools for the job. They really are.
I haven't found any cases where MS Entourage isn't a suitable replacement for Outlook. It's included with Office 2004 and 2008. It's basically Outlook for the mac.
The only thing missing from the mac version of Office 2008 is VBA support which WAS present in Office 2004 for the mac and will be back in the next version of MS Office for the mac.
Snow leopard's "exchange integration" is for things like OSX's bundled mail, address book and calendar apps. NOT office.
The only things that are tough to find MS-compatible replacements for are Access and Visio. Omnigraffle is heading toward Visio compatibility though and I'm pretty happy with it. To me, it's MORE useful than Visio in ways. Access is such a POS that most people don't care. There are much better simple database solutions than Access for OSX.
IMHO booting a VM to run Office for daily use is silly. I would either run Windows or just get a copy of Office for the mac and boot the VM for special cases.
Ever dub one of those vinyl records to a reel without written permission? Make a reel of mixed songs and play it at a party or play it too loud with your windows open?
As far as the RIAA is concerned, that makes you a pirate.
BTW, oddly enough, reel-to-reel is still used extensively at radio stations. It's not quite dead yet. Most production is done digitally but they still use reels to send ads back and forth between stations quite a bit. I don't know if the effort for the Wikipedia link was necessary;-) I'm not quite that young.
My primary PC in 1996 was a 133MHz AMD K5 w/ 64MB of RAM. I had some macs around with more RAM but anyway....
I was able to do just about everything I do now on that machine. X11 ran fine under FreeBSD. KDE2 and Gnome 1.x ran great. I had a usable web browser. I could watch crappy low framerate streaming video. I had StarOffice 5 running (via Linux binary compat). It was perfectly usable and friendly enough for my little 12 yr old sister to sit down at and use without assistance.
Just because it's old doesn't mean it's worthless. And just because it's new doesn't mean a giant leap forward in usability. If anything most commercial OS's now are much LESS user friendly than they used to be. Linux distros tend to be more friendly out of the box now but you've always been able to set up a Linux install that idiots can get around in.
Hell, classic MacOS is more "usable" to morons than MacOS X is. OS X is much nicer and I like it but average people struggled less with the old UI.
Holy crap..... I hope they're at least using disk quotas. That's awful. I can just see someone with a bunch of MP3's in "My Documents" and CD images on the desktop taking 3 hours to log in.
Honestly, I don't know one single person who doesn't have an illegitimate copy of something.
An unlicensed Windows install on an old piece of crap Pentium II in the closet. An old bootleg cassette from a friend. A bad VHS copy of a movie. Everyone has pirated something at some point.
Don't try to sound so righteous. You've done it and you know it.
Does anyone here really think you could run a large company without being able to monitor emails sent by company representatives, using company resources? Does this really seem right to you?
Yes. If you have reason to suspect the individual, you can ask him to turn over the e-mails or ask him to leave. Going behind someone's back and spying on them creates undue stress and a backstabbing working environment where noone can trust anyone. Been there. Done that.
A corporation doesn't have the right to step on the rights of individuals just because the individual has been granted the "privilege" to make them money.
If the government isn't supposed to do it on a whim, why should the company be allowed to?
Corporations do not deserve rights. People deserve rights.
The games I play the most are Urban Terror (based on Quake 3 engine) and the IL2 flight sim series which IMHO is the best damn WW2 flight sim ever written.
Both run pretty well with a GMA950.
You won't be playing Doom 3, Unreal III or Crysis on a GMA950 however.
On your 2001 iBook it was a mobile Rage 128-based GPU and it wasn't capable of using Quartz Extreme for 3D-accelerated compositing. They went from the Rage 128-based chip to a Radeon 7000 I believe in the G3 iBooks.
It was done in software with Quartz and some 2D acceleration. Still worked f**king great though. Impressively snappy even on an old 350mhz G3 tower. Much more usable than the XRender-based compositing offered as an alternative to XComposite in KDE4.
it would only last a few million years, because as methane escapes into Titan's atmosphere, it breaks down and escapes into space.
Does that suggest that Titan itself is rather young compared to the planet it orbits? Or was Titan much more active and possibly larger 50 million years ago?
I'm not a geologist or astrophysicist so I'm rather ignorant in this department.
Probably because the more intelligent (or richer) students, though not tech savvy, buy macs. Pretty common in a university setting. My students, in a tech college setting, buy PC's because they are affordable and a complete 1.8Ghz P4 machine can be had for less than $100 via state surplus and they are still capable of running modern software.
My students tend to be broke adults with jobs where you probably have more of the spoiled rich kids with money to burn.
Macs were the original machine geared towards less tech-savvy folks.
Just because more people with macs come in for help doesn't mean they are harder to set up. It means they are lazy brats who would rather make YOU do it than figure it out on their own.
OS X is usually only that nice if using an Apple-supplied wireless card (or one that's compatible) using the Apple-supplied UI.
Using a USB Netgear interface however isn't quite as pleasant. Or the open source third party prism II driver (for cards like the Linksys WPC11). They don't use the Airport config UI and are more of a bitch.
The Apple-supplied UI doesn't suck but only if you use cards supported out of the box by OS X. Cards requiring a third party driver are at the mercy of a third party configuration UI.
The difference is the Apple-supplied UI is decent and intuitive. The MS supplied wireless config UI SUCKS the chrome off a trailer hitch.
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1.) Use TXT records in the DNS to give people who come behind you a clue.
2.) The first thing you should be doing when you get a new network admin position is digging around in the DNS server a bit to get the lay of the land and pay attention to CNAME records.
3.) The next thing I usually do is run nmap on the subnet to see what's open where.
4.) Usually someone will have at least a slight clue. Usually.... Ask around.
5.) If the dude wasn't a complete incompetent dumbass, he would have left some documentation. I document my networks extremely thoroughly and have an NMS set up which will have extensive text information on hosts as well. I also make sure a couple of key personnel have passwords to the NMS. I even have a binder labeled in big letters with a sharpie on the bookshelf "READ ME IF KEVIN DIES IN TRAGIC CAR ACCIDENT". Not kidding.
If you don't have thorough documentation, this is not a form of job security. You are not special. Someone can and will ensure they survive without you. Or they'll simply reinvent the wheel. All you're doing is being a dick to your fellow IT brethren.
If all of the above fail, chances are you'll need to recreate the network in your own image anyway. They don't teach how to write good documentation in MCSE study guides. There's a reason I refer to the MCSE cert as "Must Call Somebody Experienced".
Don't rent. This will cost you money.
When you are young with crap credit due to medical bills that piled up shortly your parents gave you the boot the day after you turned 18 with no vehicle because they lost THEIR house and moved onto their boat, you don't really have the option of buying a house. Fortunately I had an IT job at the time with benefits but it didn't last and I was laid off.
After I was laid off from my first IT job, I had a hard time finding anything but bench tech work for about a year until I was about 20. Again, couldn't afford insurance and still make basic living expenses on $12/hr.
Got a real job again at 20 but by then the damage was done to my credit. I actually took a massive paycut in exchange for job security by going into education. I made around $50k at 22. Six years later, I make around $30k now plus some sidework when I have time.
Don't go without insurance. This will cost you money.
Easier said than done when you have a family. Family coverage through my employer would be $1300/mo. If I take the crappy plan with the $3,000 deductible it's around $950. Went up 21% this year. Roughly an entire paycheck. Try supporting a family of four on what remains. But better to have job security than BS contract work or a shaky position somewhere in a shaky economy.
SC isn't known for its booming tech industry either.
Your financial ineptitude is not the grandparent's fault.
Nope, but they helped contribute and they are happy to help. She borrows money from me on occasion as well if she's hurting and I have it. I'm a symbiotic relationship, not a parasitic one. No need for the arrogant tone.
You make a good point. That sounds pretty good.
We usually spend about $8 on the dollar menu when we're really poor. More when we're not as poor. 4-piece nugget for each kid w/ a small fry. 2 double cheeseburgers for me and the wife. We take it home and drink tea or kool-aid.
Pasta with homemade sauce, or enhanced cheap sauce in a crockpot with meat, spices, onion and a bell pepper added. The cheapo fatty tube-o-ground beef can be pretty cheap to add to the sauce. We eat that once a week. Usually lasts a day or 3 as well.
Really? XP out of the box is not stable without third party software? I have never had an issue. Your experience maybe different. You cannot tell me that XP is not secured by default in sp2 or 3(I did not say the most secure OS on the planet). I run it currently in a VM - with no AV and don't have any issues. No spyware, etc. I have been using computers (mostly windows OS) for years and never, NEVER gotten a virus. I know how to setup my PCs to do what they need to do, and not get infected by things.
You've probably got something. You just don't know it. Even if you don't, you're the exception, not the norm.
I agree with you - teaching with DOS would be nice, however, I have never found a DOS based "learn to type" app.
There's many. Several of which are now abandonware. Where do you think Mavis Beacon started? It's also possible to teach with the DOS-like CLI environment with XP in full screen mode.
I have never seen a DOS based app that has pretty graphics, to show a 7 year old a game.
Ummm..... Doom and Quake were DOS games and were certainly fairly pretty. Descent and Descent II were very pretty DOS games as well.
Yeah, when we were kids - we had crap, but when your kids are in school - and they are required to take typing, and also required to play Oregon trail and other games like that, which are all GUI based,
Wrong again, I took typing classes in elementary school in the late 80's on Apple IIe's (most certainly with no GUI) and later again on Mac LC's. You must have been in school in the 70's or went to a poor school district. Oregon Trail dates back to the Apple II days in the mid 80's. The original version was developed in 1971 but I'm not sure on what platform. The mac port came later. I've never seen the Windows version. All were essentially the same game though the Apple IIe had much cheesier graphics than the mac. It's been ported, re-ported, and re-ported to several different platforms including cell phones.
then I guess you have passed your window to teach DOS first.
What makes you think you need games to teach basic computing concepts anyway? Kids like them but they aren't necessary.
Anyway, my students are adults at a college, not elementary school kids anyway. I have a hard enough time with my own brats. I'd go postal if I had to deal with 30 of them.
$30,000 on the fringes of a city in SC when you have next to no health benefits and are on the brink of bankruptcy because of medical bills for your family. Credit for ANYTHING is no longer an option. Throw two young children and a wife who developed some health issues after 2 kids and a car accident into the mix.
More like a 1100 sq ft fairly beat up duplex rental home in a neighborhood you *MIGHT* not get shot in.
An 8 year old 24" CRT TV.
No landline, be happy to have cheap VoIP via MagicJack.
Cheapest cell phone plan you can get your hands on.
Beat up vehicle with 200,000 miles on it you can barely afford to keep running and pay for basic liability insurance on.
Can't afford real food so you live off the dollar menu at McDeath, $1 banquet TV dinners and Ramen noodles. Real food becomes a weekend luxury. Eating out at a real restaurant is for anniversaries or when a check for some side work comes in.
But at least your close enough to downtown to get a cheap cable modem.
A "vacation" becomes a 40 mile trip to Grandma's to borrow $50 for gas for the week and let the kids ride a pony.
Do I put in 80 hours every week? Not really. I put in more like 50-60 usually unless something big is going on. I don't get paid for most of my class prep time though.
At this point I'm just happy to be working. SC isn't exactly known for it's booming tech industry but the cost of living here is quite low compared to VA, MD, or CT for example.
If I had real health coverage I would not be in such bad shape. Family coverage is just not available for a reasonable price to people in my income bracket. People that make $5000/yr less get Medicaid. People that make $10000/yr more can afford insurance. It only takes a couple ER visits to run up $20,000 in bills and here they can get liens on tax returns and/or property to recover it. A chunk of my check just goes to keeping them from stealing what little I have left.
More qualified on paper or more qualified in general? Lots of people are very qualified for positions that HR monkeys pass them over for because they lacked a keyword on a resume or lacked a degree from a major university.
You never know until you actually TALK to them.
I don't think that Apple and MS could have survived if the price of a cheap desktop was still $1000+, similarly Google and the internet businesses would also be gone.
They would have easily survived. The profit margins were greater on machines and they were also generally of much higher overall quality and far less disposable. They wouldn't sell as many but they also wouldn't need Indian call centers to tell hundreds of thousands of users to reboot their computer about 15 times.
The companies might not be as large, but they'd still be around and I'd have to answer less stupid ass questions for people who either lack the desire or mental capacity to actually learn anything about the shiny box they purchased.
I was happier when home computing was a semi-expensive hobby rather than mainstream. The industry wasn't as large but it still certainly made ends meet and there were a lot more new and innovative platforms available.
The problem is, so does everyone else.
Gonna mandate that public construction be done with US steel, even if the cost is a little higher?
I'm perfectly OK with that.
It'll help american companies and american jobs, sure. But then the europeans decide that if you're not playing fair then they won't buy stuff you make, they'll use their own.
I'm ok with that too.
Result? We lose out on the global economy, which is largely responsible for the last 20/30 years of growth, everyone pays higher prices and things are no longer done best or cheapest, they're done in isolation.
If it means that a lower-middle-class worker gets to quit feeding his kids Ramen noodles and gets decent benefits instead of being consistently shafted and told he is the only one to blame for his problems then yeah, I'm fine with that.
If that person gets a raise instead of a paycut with cheap "better-qualified" foreign labor being the excuse then yeah, I'm fine with that.
I'm tired of starving because of some assholes bottom line. It wasn't like this 15 years ago for people in my income bracket. Seriously, try to support a family of 4 on $30,000/yr that you work 60-80 hrs a week for. Then try not to reach for the gun in your glovebox when your employer bitches about 2 hours of overtime or tries to cut your hours.
And I don't want to hear that "go work somewhere else" crap because most employers are starting to adopt the same type of BS. When every company can get away with it, they all will eventually gravitate in that direction. Now they are even using the "recession" as an excuse to abuse employees for profit.
I hand out Ubuntu CD's to all of my students. Occasionally for the ones genuinely interested in digging deeper and really learning UNIX, I hand out FreeBSD DVD's. Learning how to use GNOME doesn't qualify as learning Linux or UNIX in my book.
They really need exposure to something other than Windows.
I wouldn't call me a "professor" as I teach at a tech college which doesn't offer 4 yr degrees but I try to do my part.
Ummm... PDF export works flawly in OSX in just about every osx app. It's part of the display AND print subsystems. You can just hit print, and there's a little PDF menu right there in the print dialog box.
And no, PDF's don't contain animation or video. Why would they? With the exception of powerpoint, office was designed to deal with static documents. If you need video and animation, Word and Excel are the wrong tools for the job. They really are.
I haven't found any cases where MS Entourage isn't a suitable replacement for Outlook. It's included with Office 2004 and 2008. It's basically Outlook for the mac.
The only thing missing from the mac version of Office 2008 is VBA support which WAS present in Office 2004 for the mac and will be back in the next version of MS Office for the mac.
Snow leopard's "exchange integration" is for things like OSX's bundled mail, address book and calendar apps. NOT office.
The only things that are tough to find MS-compatible replacements for are Access and Visio. Omnigraffle is heading toward Visio compatibility though and I'm pretty happy with it. To me, it's MORE useful than Visio in ways. Access is such a POS that most people don't care. There are much better simple database solutions than Access for OSX.
IMHO booting a VM to run Office for daily use is silly. I would either run Windows or just get a copy of Office for the mac and boot the VM for special cases.
Ever dub one of those vinyl records to a reel without written permission? Make a reel of mixed songs and play it at a party or play it too loud with your windows open?
As far as the RIAA is concerned, that makes you a pirate.
BTW, oddly enough, reel-to-reel is still used extensively at radio stations. It's not quite dead yet. Most production is done digitally but they still use reels to send ads back and forth between stations quite a bit. I don't know if the effort for the Wikipedia link was necessary ;-) I'm not quite that young.
My primary PC in 1996 was a 133MHz AMD K5 w/ 64MB of RAM. I had some macs around with more RAM but anyway....
I was able to do just about everything I do now on that machine. X11 ran fine under FreeBSD. KDE2 and Gnome 1.x ran great. I had a usable web browser. I could watch crappy low framerate streaming video. I had StarOffice 5 running (via Linux binary compat). It was perfectly usable and friendly enough for my little 12 yr old sister to sit down at and use without assistance.
Just because it's old doesn't mean it's worthless. And just because it's new doesn't mean a giant leap forward in usability. If anything most commercial OS's now are much LESS user friendly than they used to be. Linux distros tend to be more friendly out of the box now but you've always been able to set up a Linux install that idiots can get around in.
Hell, classic MacOS is more "usable" to morons than MacOS X is. OS X is much nicer and I like it but average people struggled less with the old UI.
Holy crap..... I hope they're at least using disk quotas. That's awful. I can just see someone with a bunch of MP3's in "My Documents" and CD images on the desktop taking 3 hours to log in.
Honestly, I don't know one single person who doesn't have an illegitimate copy of something.
An unlicensed Windows install on an old piece of crap Pentium II in the closet. An old bootleg cassette from a friend. A bad VHS copy of a movie. Everyone has pirated something at some point.
Don't try to sound so righteous. You've done it and you know it.
Almost makes me want to move there. I'm getting a little sick of the situation in the US.
They get to treat me like shit and then the government gives them all of my tax dollars.
Does anyone here really think you could run a large company without being able to monitor emails sent by company representatives, using company resources? Does this really seem right to you?
Yes. If you have reason to suspect the individual, you can ask him to turn over the e-mails or ask him to leave. Going behind someone's back and spying on them creates undue stress and a backstabbing working environment where noone can trust anyone. Been there. Done that.
A corporation doesn't have the right to step on the rights of individuals just because the individual has been granted the "privilege" to make them money.
If the government isn't supposed to do it on a whim, why should the company be allowed to?
Corporations do not deserve rights. People deserve rights.
I agree.
The games I play the most are Urban Terror (based on Quake 3 engine) and the IL2 flight sim series which IMHO is the best damn WW2 flight sim ever written.
Both run pretty well with a GMA950.
You won't be playing Doom 3, Unreal III or Crysis on a GMA950 however.
On your 2001 iBook it was a mobile Rage 128-based GPU and it wasn't capable of using Quartz Extreme for 3D-accelerated compositing. They went from the Rage 128-based chip to a Radeon 7000 I believe in the G3 iBooks.
It was done in software with Quartz and some 2D acceleration. Still worked f**king great though. Impressively snappy even on an old 350mhz G3 tower. Much more usable than the XRender-based compositing offered as an alternative to XComposite in KDE4.
I don't know about "fine". Mediocre or "barely adequate" might be better choices. :-)
They suck for gaming or any serious 3D chores but for daily computing tasks, old games and GL screen savers, the GMA950 works great.
it would only last a few million years, because as methane escapes into Titan's atmosphere, it breaks down and escapes into space.
Does that suggest that Titan itself is rather young compared to the planet it orbits? Or was Titan much more active and possibly larger 50 million years ago?
I'm not a geologist or astrophysicist so I'm rather ignorant in this department.
LOL That would get REAL exciting REAL quick. You might see that from your back yard.
I can see Dubya now.... "I'm da War Presodent! We need to liberate the Titaniums from their Carbohydroid-hoarding oppressorers!"
Hell if Perot got elected those years back before Clinton we'd probably have already found a profitable way to mine it.
Probably because the more intelligent (or richer) students, though not tech savvy, buy macs. Pretty common in a university setting. My students, in a tech college setting, buy PC's because they are affordable and a complete 1.8Ghz P4 machine can be had for less than $100 via state surplus and they are still capable of running modern software.
My students tend to be broke adults with jobs where you probably have more of the spoiled rich kids with money to burn.
Macs were the original machine geared towards less tech-savvy folks.
Just because more people with macs come in for help doesn't mean they are harder to set up. It means they are lazy brats who would rather make YOU do it than figure it out on their own.
OS X is usually only that nice if using an Apple-supplied wireless card (or one that's compatible) using the Apple-supplied UI.
Using a USB Netgear interface however isn't quite as pleasant. Or the open source third party prism II driver (for cards like the Linksys WPC11). They don't use the Airport config UI and are more of a bitch.
The Apple-supplied UI doesn't suck but only if you use cards supported out of the box by OS X. Cards requiring a third party driver are at the mercy of a third party configuration UI.
The difference is the Apple-supplied UI is decent and intuitive. The MS supplied wireless config UI SUCKS the chrome off a trailer hitch.