I think you'll find a lot of distros these days have these repositories, and for me its much easier for me to install stuff under my Debian box at times than it is under Windows. In fact, if I want a program, I more or less use APT to grab it. The issues they cited (Trinity College) is office incompatibilities and a few management tools. Slick interface? GNOME or KDE have a slick interface, they might have still been on the old Debian stable. Who knows, but if that is the case, then I agree that I can see why a 2002 to 2005 os switch was called for.
I can get my Palm Zire 31 to sync under Debian Sarge without issues, using evolution and gpilotd.
I did, however, have to add a line to a configuration file somewhere, I found the answer on a ubuntu forum. Now I try to avoid sync'ing under Windows!
...I didn't realize all of this wonderful open source software that I was using was closed source. Apache, Linux, Mambo, MySQL and many more. Get out into the real world, open source software is being used, you just have to know where to look. The reason holding a lot of it back isn't just the managers (just finished talking about patents with my manager an hour or so ago), but a lot of perceptions and users. We could switch to Linux tomorrow. Our tech support department would also go on a killing spree after answering the calls from everyone. Our closed source document management system died this afternoon too. We're discussing problems with not only the fact that its closed source, but the fact that it doesn't work for what we need. Scratch that, the users don't use it properly. Much better.
"be heard" sounds a bit familiar, in fact it was part of the jingle of an australian youth IT show: "Radioactive.net.au, Don't just listen, be heard!". What I'd call an example of interactive radio. It teamed conventional radio, internet radio and IRC to create a community. Its the first radio station I've heard where a song was pulled off halfway through because nobody wanted to listen to it - thats interactive. Shame it had to come to an end, no commercial stations wanted a youth IT show (but they wanted the technology, funny that).
This is only rebranding a radio station that nobody wanted to listen to in the beginning and trialing it in another project. No net loss, and they get to throw in a lot of buzz words too. In Australia (again), the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) has not only been streaming its radio live (Radio National, Triple J and Radio Australia to name a few) but has its own internet radio station "Dig". They're not doing some work and trials with podcasting with Dig, RN and Triple J
Those are real stations that people actually listen to (and get ratings), instead of a pathetic station that nobody listens to.
I'm doing both an IT degree (Applied Computer Science) and an Engineering degree (Computer Systems Engineering), which should give me a good founding in both camps. Personally I rather being a software person, but parts of the hardware world also interest me as well, which is why I did the dual degree.
I'm only a piddly student in the scheme of things, but at my uni we have the 'normal' ITS department. They maintain the primary servers (I'd note here that the webserver isn't properly configured and passwords are stored in plain text somewhere) and the Windows machines that run all over the campus. In the Maths and Computing department we have two labs of our own (in addition to the swag of other Windows based labs). In these labs we have one dedicated Linux room (that NEVER get shutdown, usually as they are used for some number crunching by other members of the faculty) running a version of Debian Sarge. In another room we have dual boot Debian Sarge and Windows XP. Needless to say these computers rarely use Windows. We also produce a special four CD set of Debian Sarge with specific packages that you can apt-get (ie for the unit CSC1401, apt-get install csc1401 to get _everything_ needed for that subject). We also ran an installing Debian session where students could bring in their PC's and we walked through a Linux install. I helped out, and we got all but one PC running perfect (the exception was a cheap laptop that died during boot up, I installed coLinux with a Debian image anyway. The Windows installation was also backwards, but thats not our area). In addition to all of this support, we also have our own dedicated support people (seperate to the main Uni ITS department) and our own servers. Needless to say, I haven't seen one of the Debian boxes out of order, nor has any of the support techs had a revisit after Debian has been installed on student PCs.
On the other side of the fence, I have lots of complaints from people using Windows and having issues (text editors, compiling, etc). In this case, Debian is used on the lab computers and on their own PC's - lets people work much easier when they can use it at home and at uni.
IMAP isn't really a word, its an anocrym.
But I agree, IMAP is the way I use, it helps for the relevant email and on my network I use both Linux and Windows (with a dedicated Linux box). I have Evolution set up to continually check and sort my email into IMAP folders and I generally read them off my linux box. If I need to click on links, I generally open up any Windows email client (from Thunderbird to Outlook) and it'll connect to IMAP and my emails will all appear (nicely sorted too!).
If I need webmail, I have squirrelmail (which I use) to access my IMAP system remotely using any web browser and I can get at my hotmail email (from the old days, but my accounts are still active) using freepops or some other Web Email to POP3 gateway. Everything (but gmail, my mailing list archive), is in my IMAP server - I just backup one area.
Good to see that the worlds playing catchup, my old institution, QANTM provided Games Programming as a Degree Course. They're been doing it for the last five years or more. QANTM (Queensland and Northern Territory Multimedia) is a special multimedia school, but games programming has been on the menu and its well established.
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I know, it got modded funny, I AGREE! Silly American lack of education :p
Why is the CEO, CIO and every other person involved with Kazaa and in Australian courts and having their houses raided and this bloke gets in on the BBC. Its interesting to see where things go. These guys are being hauled through Australian courts and this bloke is no where to be seen. Check out http://www.apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/0/412A621F4556A65 FCA256E77001DD222 and http://www.apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/0/7CC596EF71F41B3 4CA256E77001E31D0 for some information (they're a bit old, but do the trick)
Try this. Original links back to the already dead page, but there are a few others that appear not to. http://impstherelentless.com/tek9.asp?pg=chapter1_ download
I think you'll find a lot of distros these days have these repositories, and for me its much easier for me to install stuff under my Debian box at times than it is under Windows. In fact, if I want a program, I more or less use APT to grab it. The issues they cited (Trinity College) is office incompatibilities and a few management tools. Slick interface? GNOME or KDE have a slick interface, they might have still been on the old Debian stable. Who knows, but if that is the case, then I agree that I can see why a 2002 to 2005 os switch was called for.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been trialling podcasting for a few weeks now. DIG, an Internet only station has podcasting (http://www.abc.net.au/dig/podcast/), Triple J, a youth orientated station (http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/listen/podcast.htm) and Radio National, content orientated to older audiences (http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/listen/podcast.htm) are all running trials for podcasting. Good to see the Candian public broadcasters are joining the Aussies ;)
I can get my Palm Zire 31 to sync under Debian Sarge without issues, using evolution and gpilotd. I did, however, have to add a line to a configuration file somewhere, I found the answer on a ubuntu forum. Now I try to avoid sync'ing under Windows!
I paid 50 cents, certainly sounds like the locals saw this guy coming and jacked up the prices!
...I didn't realize all of this wonderful open source software that I was using was closed source. Apache, Linux, Mambo, MySQL and many more. Get out into the real world, open source software is being used, you just have to know where to look. The reason holding a lot of it back isn't just the managers (just finished talking about patents with my manager an hour or so ago), but a lot of perceptions and users. We could switch to Linux tomorrow. Our tech support department would also go on a killing spree after answering the calls from everyone. Our closed source document management system died this afternoon too. We're discussing problems with not only the fact that its closed source, but the fact that it doesn't work for what we need. Scratch that, the users don't use it properly. Much better.
"be heard" sounds a bit familiar, in fact it was part of the jingle of an australian youth IT show: "Radioactive.net.au, Don't just listen, be heard!". What I'd call an example of interactive radio. It teamed conventional radio, internet radio and IRC to create a community. Its the first radio station I've heard where a song was pulled off halfway through because nobody wanted to listen to it - thats interactive. Shame it had to come to an end, no commercial stations wanted a youth IT show (but they wanted the technology, funny that). This is only rebranding a radio station that nobody wanted to listen to in the beginning and trialing it in another project. No net loss, and they get to throw in a lot of buzz words too. In Australia (again), the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) has not only been streaming its radio live (Radio National, Triple J and Radio Australia to name a few) but has its own internet radio station "Dig". They're not doing some work and trials with podcasting with Dig, RN and Triple J Those are real stations that people actually listen to (and get ratings), instead of a pathetic station that nobody listens to.
I'm doing both an IT degree (Applied Computer Science) and an Engineering degree (Computer Systems Engineering), which should give me a good founding in both camps. Personally I rather being a software person, but parts of the hardware world also interest me as well, which is why I did the dual degree.
I'm only a piddly student in the scheme of things, but at my uni we have the 'normal' ITS department. They maintain the primary servers (I'd note here that the webserver isn't properly configured and passwords are stored in plain text somewhere) and the Windows machines that run all over the campus. In the Maths and Computing department we have two labs of our own (in addition to the swag of other Windows based labs). In these labs we have one dedicated Linux room (that NEVER get shutdown, usually as they are used for some number crunching by other members of the faculty) running a version of Debian Sarge. In another room we have dual boot Debian Sarge and Windows XP. Needless to say these computers rarely use Windows. We also produce a special four CD set of Debian Sarge with specific packages that you can apt-get (ie for the unit CSC1401, apt-get install csc1401 to get _everything_ needed for that subject). We also ran an installing Debian session where students could bring in their PC's and we walked through a Linux install. I helped out, and we got all but one PC running perfect (the exception was a cheap laptop that died during boot up, I installed coLinux with a Debian image anyway. The Windows installation was also backwards, but thats not our area). In addition to all of this support, we also have our own dedicated support people (seperate to the main Uni ITS department) and our own servers. Needless to say, I haven't seen one of the Debian boxes out of order, nor has any of the support techs had a revisit after Debian has been installed on student PCs. On the other side of the fence, I have lots of complaints from people using Windows and having issues (text editors, compiling, etc). In this case, Debian is used on the lab computers and on their own PC's - lets people work much easier when they can use it at home and at uni.
My university runs and supports Debian Sarge.
thanks for that, i was wondering why it looked wrong when i wrote it
IMAP isn't really a word, its an anocrym. But I agree, IMAP is the way I use, it helps for the relevant email and on my network I use both Linux and Windows (with a dedicated Linux box). I have Evolution set up to continually check and sort my email into IMAP folders and I generally read them off my linux box. If I need to click on links, I generally open up any Windows email client (from Thunderbird to Outlook) and it'll connect to IMAP and my emails will all appear (nicely sorted too!). If I need webmail, I have squirrelmail (which I use) to access my IMAP system remotely using any web browser and I can get at my hotmail email (from the old days, but my accounts are still active) using freepops or some other Web Email to POP3 gateway. Everything (but gmail, my mailing list archive), is in my IMAP server - I just backup one area.
Good to see that the worlds playing catchup, my old institution, QANTM provided Games Programming as a Degree Course. They're been doing it for the last five years or more. QANTM (Queensland and Northern Territory Multimedia) is a special multimedia school, but games programming has been on the menu and its well established.