As someone who has worked as a full time employee at a college computer lab for over 5 years, the reason that this is a bad idea is because...
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The students don't know the first thing about maintaining a lab or administrating computers. Having a new student every six months, even just sitting behind the desk answering the occasional quetion results in TONS of training costs, and lots of mistakes. Stupid things happen when we get a new, unexperianced student coming in as a sysadmin. They will make images that completely break a machine, they don't test them, and upload them to all the machines in the lab. Then they head out for 2 or 3 days (they're all very part time) and the full time staff has to end up fixing it. Plus this causes downtime for hundreds of machines, and a ton of very pissed off lab patrons.
Please - keep the students away from running the labs. Most of them have enough problems just using the damn computers in the first place, even the CompSci students.
Do you know if D-VHS supports variable bit rate encodings? I ask because without VBR support, most DVD's wouldn't be able to be transfered without recompression, as they are typically VBR.
I'm heading down to Florida in about a month for a vacation. The only thing I REALLY want to do is get a picture of me in my DeCSS source code shirt with Mickey Mouse.
I worked for AOL as an outsourced Technical Support agent a few years back. They really have no clue. I have spoken with several people that still work for AOL since 5.0 came out. This has been a known issue for some time, and causes tons of trouble for their techs. The problem started when AOL decided they wanted to become more user friendly. The problem with this is that they implemented it so that it would remove all network connections, so that if someone opened a non-AOL piece of internet software, it wouldn't connect using the other services. The incompatance comes in not from the fact of how they implemented the install, but rather that they didn't fix it as soon as it was brought to light. The fact that when you use AOL and it destroys your additional network settings really reeks of Monopolistic practices. IANAL, but AOL better start watching out for the DOJ - right after they finish with Microsoft.
Keep in mind, this decision is that Microsoft is only a considered a monopoly in the desktop market. Even though we all would love to say that Linux is a power in the desktop market, there just aren't the numbers to prove it. Now, with servers, that's another matter.
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I'm sitting here, reading/. at work, and if my manager would have seen that electrical cord thing, I may have ended up looking for a new job. Man, that's graphic.:-)
There already is an open source 3d engine avaliable, called Crystal Space. From their web page, "Crystal Space is a free (LGPL) and portable 3D engine written in C++. It supports true 6DOF, colored lights, mipmapping, portals, mirrors, alpha transparency, reflecting surfaces, 3D sprites, scripting, 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit display support, Direct3D hardware acceleration on Windows,Glide and OpenGL hardware acceleration on Windows, Linux, OS/2, Macintosh, BeOS" Check out http://crystal.linuxgames.com for more details
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As someone who has worked as a full time employee at a college computer lab for over 5 years, the reason that this is a bad idea is because...
*drum roll*
The students don't know the first thing about maintaining a lab or administrating computers. Having a new student every six months, even just sitting behind the desk answering the occasional quetion results in TONS of training costs, and lots of mistakes. Stupid things happen when we get a new, unexperianced student coming in as a sysadmin. They will make images that completely break a machine, they don't test them, and upload them to all the machines in the lab. Then they head out for 2 or 3 days (they're all very part time) and the full time staff has to end up fixing it. Plus this causes downtime for hundreds of machines, and a ton of very pissed off lab patrons.
Please - keep the students away from running the labs. Most of them have enough problems just using the damn computers in the first place, even the CompSci students.
That's the reason why women don't get men. They listen, but if something gets lost in the communication process, they never ask for clarification!
This is easy. Take all your work frustration out on them. You have to be nice to the customer, but your friends and family will forgive you.
Saves on therapy too.
I want to see the nasty lashback programs that will be created if this bill goes through. Go ahead - hack my machine at your own risk.
Do you know if D-VHS supports variable bit rate encodings? I ask because without VBR support, most DVD's wouldn't be able to be transfered without recompression, as they are typically VBR.
Sure would be fun though.
Pyro didn't create fire with his mutant powers, he used a zippo to start the fire, and then manipulated it.
I'm heading down to Florida in about a month for a vacation. The only thing I REALLY want to do is get a picture of me in my DeCSS source code shirt with Mickey Mouse.
I worked for AOL as an outsourced Technical Support agent a few years back. They really have no clue. I have spoken with several people that still work for AOL since 5.0 came out. This has been a known issue for some time, and causes tons of trouble for their techs. The problem started when AOL decided they wanted to become more user friendly. The problem with this is that they implemented it so that it would remove all network connections, so that if someone opened a non-AOL piece of internet software, it wouldn't connect using the other services. The incompatance comes in not from the fact of how they implemented the install, but rather that they didn't fix it as soon as it was brought to light. The fact that when you use AOL and it destroys your additional network settings really reeks of Monopolistic practices. IANAL, but AOL better start watching out for the DOJ - right after they finish with Microsoft.
I thought Al Gore created the internet!
Keep in mind, this decision is that Microsoft is only a considered a monopoly in the desktop market. Even though we all would love to say that Linux is a power in the desktop market, there just aren't the numbers to prove it. Now, with servers, that's another matter.
I'm sitting here, reading /. at work, and if my manager would have seen that electrical cord thing, I may have ended up looking for a new job. Man, that's graphic. :-)
There already is an open source 3d engine avaliable, called Crystal Space. From their web page, "Crystal Space is a free (LGPL) and portable 3D engine written in C++. It supports true 6DOF, colored lights, mipmapping, portals, mirrors, alpha transparency, reflecting surfaces, 3D sprites, scripting, 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit display support, Direct3D hardware acceleration on Windows,Glide and OpenGL hardware acceleration on Windows, Linux, OS/2, Macintosh, BeOS" Check out http://crystal.linuxgames.com for more details