PXEs is sex-on-toast. I work at a school in New Zealand, where the government pays for licences for MS software. Even with free windows on the client, PXEs is cheaper. Rock on Diego!
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The ideal portable for me would be something along the lines of a cordless phone (not cellular) crossed with VNC in a laptop-style package.
I'm thinking of a base/docking station, with 100 base T, and a big aerial. The removeable partis uber-thin and very light, with no hard drive/CD/floppy/anything. It would have a long life battery, a keyboard, some pointer, and the screen with a built-in aerial (a-la airport.)
This lobotomised device would be used to VNC (or similar protocols) to other machines on the lan. I'd have several sessions open... one to each NT server and one to a Xvnc process on each linux box.
Okay - its not a PDA, and the range would be the limiting factor... but imagine accessing your servers from anywhere in the building...
I am the network admin here at Avonside Girls' High School in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Here's our RC5 ranking
I could be in the same sort of position as this gentleman, having done 13M blocks in 2 1/2 years in this job. My only difference is that we were on a flat-rate internet connection at the time I started.
I'm sitting back in the Operations Armchair, watching the computer room closed circuit TV, which just happens to be connected to the frame-grabber's video player (sent off for repair, due back sometime in 2007) when the phone rings. That must be the 2nd time today, and it's really starting to get to me!
"Hello?" I say.
"Who is this?" they say
"It's me I think" I say, having successfully attended a telephone skills course
"Me Who?"
"Is this like a knock knock joke?" I say, trying to concentrate on the cute secretary picking up a jar of paperclips that somehow fell off her desk, via the security camera I located in her office last night.
"uhhh.... I have a problem here" says the slow drawly voice down the phone.
I hit pause on the video; can't concentrate with this voice whining in my ear. "What is your issue?" I enquire politely.
"I can't reach my keyboard from here - its too far away. Can I use a keyboard extension cable?"
I'm puzzled by this... I've done nothing to this particular beancounter moron lately that I'm aware of.
"Perhaps you've shrunk since you last used your workstation?" I suggest.
"No", says the user. "I'm hiding under my desk, because theres a tall white plastic scary robot wandering around."
I think - shit! is Christine Rankin in the office? Quickly I flick the CCTV on to channel 27, which covers that area of the building to find that its Marvin the new Security Droid (no, too star-warsy) Dalek (no, thats taken too) Big Scarey Robotic Vehicle (yeah) has ended up banging repeatedly against a table.
"I see the problem" I whisper down the phone. "Be very quiet - this unit has fantastic audio tracking techniques."
"errrp" is all I hear
"You need to sneak around your desk, to the rear of the robot, then put your arm around the front and press the button on the front. It's about 50 centimetres above the floor level. Remember - QUIET or else it'll hear you."
God I'm a bastard - the poor moron can't ask me any questions cos Marvin will hear him speak.
"Nod if you understand" On the CCTV I see him slowly lowers his head and raise it again.
"Go to it Tiger!" I encourage.
I can see the pleb clearly on the screen... he is quivvering with fear. He lays the phone handset gently down on the carpet and proceeds to crawl around the end of his desk.
This is amusing! I quickly shove another tape in the video recorder... ya never know when something blackmailworthy will happen...
Beancounter Bob has reached a position behind Marvin. He reaches his hand out slowly and ever so gently presses the button.
Immediately Marvin blurts out "EXTERMINATE!!!" and his head starts to rotate faster and faster. I quickly patch into the office PA system and yell out "RUN FOR IT!!!"
The twit jumps two metres in the air (I know - I measured it later) and runs out of the building screaming "RUN!!! IT'S COMING TO GET US ALL!!!"
Damn that was a good reset routine I slipped into the eprom data files down in the R&D labs.
Most readers of slashdot presume to reside in America and speak English... whereas the rest of the world knows that Americans speak American, which is a descendant of English, and *happens* to be co-understandable, like German/Austrian.
Words are munged and spellings get brutalised. Call it what it is, American, not English.
Elevator/lift, sidewalk/footpath, manual/stick, lazer/laser, the list is huge!
(only semi serious, but my point still holds true)
Cyberpatrol is not exactly wonderful software. In addition to being slow it is also very expensive - we had been quoted $3000 NZ for a years subscription.
Instead I now use squidGuard , a plug-in for squid which blocks or allows URLs based on domain names, domain names with paths, or a small number of regular expressions.
Email me if you want a copy of my PLAIN TEXT site lists.
Well laptops with rc5 are not a good look - the cpu will be working all the time which prevents most of the power saving tricks from coming active. (kinda like NT on laptops)
As for your hardware blowing out... perhaps it was ratshit anyway. Edge gear is crap worldwide.
Whats all the hoo-ha about water guns? Its time you children graduated into the real world of wet wars. I have always noticed that in a water fight someone will go away and find a bucket. Thats right - a bucket of water beats any CPS 3000, and is substantially cheaper.
Or for those who really want to make people wet, then instead of putting the water on the person put the person in the water. Push them in a pool or river or handy ocean. (I always carry a lake when I travel.)
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That makes me feel sad - my bash.org submissions are always "quote was rejected"
PXEs is sex-on-toast. I work at a school in New Zealand, where the government pays for licences for MS software. Even with free windows on the client, PXEs is cheaper. Rock on Diego!
The ideal portable for me would be something along the lines of a cordless phone (not cellular) crossed with VNC in a laptop-style package.
I'm thinking of a base/docking station, with 100 base T, and a big aerial. The removeable partis uber-thin and very light, with no hard drive/CD/floppy/anything. It would have a long life battery, a keyboard, some pointer, and the screen with a built-in aerial (a-la airport.)
This lobotomised device would be used to VNC (or similar protocols) to other machines on the lan. I'd have several sessions open... one to each NT server and one to a Xvnc process on each linux box.
Okay - its not a PDA, and the range would be the limiting factor... but imagine accessing your servers from anywhere in the building...
Try emailing every single senator, member of congress, whip, lord, lady, peer of the relm, minister, chancellor, and representative of your country.
Tally which ones reply personally, by proxy (the secretaries), by autoresponder, and of course those who don't ever respond.
Store that data, and compare it with the same results after the next election.... are our elected leaders getting more Up With The Play? or not?
Another interesting comparison would be to compare which ones respond to paper mail but not email....
Feel free to use these ideas.
twm, xterm, and xclock.
What more do you need?
> and if you throw a .ru or a .uk at them, they can't cope.
.fu or a .ck" ?
Why did I read that as "a
Must be Friday... sometime soon...
I am the network admin here at Avonside Girls' High School in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Here's our RC5 ranking
I could be in the same sort of position as this gentleman, having done 13M blocks in 2 1/2 years in this job. My only difference is that we were on a flat-rate internet connection at the time I started.
I'm sitting back in the Operations Armchair, watching the computer room closed circuit TV, which just happens to be connected to the frame-grabber's video player (sent off for repair, due back sometime in 2007) when the phone rings. That must be the 2nd time today, and it's really starting to get to me!
"Hello?" I say.
"Who is this?" they say
"It's me I think" I say, having successfully attended a telephone skills course
"Me Who?"
"Is this like a knock knock joke?" I say, trying to concentrate on the cute secretary picking up a jar of paperclips that somehow fell off her desk, via the security camera I located in her office last night.
"uhhh.... I have a problem here" says the slow drawly voice down the phone.
I hit pause on the video; can't concentrate with this voice whining in my ear. "What is your issue?" I enquire politely.
"I can't reach my keyboard from here - its too far away. Can I use a keyboard extension cable?"
I'm puzzled by this... I've done nothing to this particular beancounter moron lately that I'm aware of.
"Perhaps you've shrunk since you last used your workstation?" I suggest.
"No", says the user. "I'm hiding under my desk, because theres a tall white plastic scary robot wandering around."
I think - shit! is Christine Rankin in the office? Quickly I flick the CCTV on to channel 27, which covers that area of the building to find that its Marvin the new Security Droid (no, too star-warsy) Dalek (no, thats taken too) Big Scarey Robotic Vehicle (yeah) has ended up banging repeatedly against a table.
"I see the problem" I whisper down the phone. "Be very quiet - this unit has fantastic audio tracking techniques."
"errrp" is all I hear
"You need to sneak around your desk, to the rear of the robot, then put your arm around the front and press the button on the front. It's about 50 centimetres above the floor level. Remember - QUIET or else it'll hear you."
God I'm a bastard - the poor moron can't ask me any questions cos Marvin will hear him speak.
"Nod if you understand" On the CCTV I see him slowly lowers his head and raise it again.
"Go to it Tiger!" I encourage.
I can see the pleb clearly on the screen... he is quivvering with fear. He lays the phone handset gently down on the carpet and proceeds to crawl around the end of his desk.
This is amusing! I quickly shove another tape in the video recorder... ya never know when something blackmailworthy will happen...
Beancounter Bob has reached a position behind Marvin. He reaches his hand out slowly and ever so gently presses the button.
Immediately Marvin blurts out "EXTERMINATE!!!" and his head starts to rotate faster and faster. I quickly patch into the office PA system and yell out "RUN FOR IT!!!"
The twit jumps two metres in the air (I know - I measured it later) and runs out of the building screaming "RUN!!! IT'S COMING TO GET US ALL!!!"
Damn that was a good reset routine I slipped into the eprom data files down in the R&D labs.
(major appologies to Simon)
A billion years early, and there will still be a rush at the last minute to make the Earth Y1B-compliant.
:)
Standardise on outlook if you want... and add a cname for your unix mailserver calling it exchange... the boss will not know the difference.
Who cares?
Most readers of slashdot presume to reside in America and speak English... whereas the rest of the world knows that Americans speak American, which is a descendant of English, and *happens* to be co-understandable, like German/Austrian.
Words are munged and spellings get brutalised. Call it what it is, American, not English.
Elevator/lift, sidewalk/footpath, manual/stick, lazer/laser, the list is huge!
(only semi serious, but my point still holds true)
Error Diagnostic Information
WaitNamedPipe returned FALSE.
Windows NT error number 121 occurred.
I'm easily amused
Instead I now use squidGuard , a plug-in for squid which blocks or allows URLs based on domain names, domain names with paths, or a small number of regular expressions. Email me if you want a copy of my PLAIN TEXT site lists.
Brings a new meaning to that old Doobie Brothers song Jesux Is Just Alright By Me
Well laptops with rc5 are not a good look - the cpu will be working all the time which prevents most of the power saving tricks from coming active. (kinda like NT on laptops)
As for your hardware blowing out... perhaps it was ratshit anyway. Edge gear is crap worldwide.
Whats all the hoo-ha about water guns? Its time you children graduated into the real world of wet wars. I have always noticed that in a water fight someone will go away and find a bucket. Thats right - a bucket of water beats any CPS 3000, and is substantially cheaper.
Or for those who really want to make people wet, then instead of putting the water on the person put the person in the water. Push them in a pool or river or handy ocean. (I always carry a lake when I travel.)