Have you ever tried logging into a box at runlevel 3 and typing "startx"?
On the super rare occasions where I'd need a GUI at the console of a system, this would work well enough for me (assuming all of the proper packages were installed).
A regular practice for me was to do installs as "minimal desktop" and then during the final configuration, change runlevel to 3 in inittab.
The impression I get (since I'm part of the group that runs the network for a major southeastern university) is that everyone should be running dual-stack for a while. Any infrastructure equipment you get that runs v6 should also be able to run v4 fairly easily. Any time we upgrade all the equipment in a building, or put in a new building, the addressing for the switches gets done via IPv6. For a majority of desktops, dual stack is available. For servers... it depends (the issues there being more human than technical).
But we have the money available to us to have IPv6 capable equipment. At home, FiOS has yet to provide me anything that provides IPv6 connectivity natively (ignoring tunneling). From what I've ready recently, say what you will about Comcast, at least they're deploying it.
The impression I get from your post is that you have equipment (both infrastructure and otherwise) that's more than 10 years old. I feel for you; we do, too. To a large extent, I'm not so sure you want an OS that old to have any kind of Internet access anyway. From a "It makes me feel good" stand-point, it would be nice if there were an easily implemented v4-v6 translation method available, but there just isn't.
So, what am I trying to say? Well, I've never talked to the "IPv6 crowd," but I don't doubt that they can be obsessive. But need to maintain an internal IPv4 network? Oh my, that can't be that hard. IPv4 isn't going away any time soon, and I seriously doubt there's anything out there on the services side (IE, a website) that you couldn't easily get to via IPv4 (unless it's an IPv6 proof of concept site).
It's going to be outside-in. Until all the major providers of home internet are providing at least a majority of their customer base IPv6 access, it's not going to be that big a deal. And even after they're doing that, you've got to assume that they'll be dual-stacking it, too. At least for a while.
Having worked for a university for 18 years (-1 for the recent year I spent working for corporate America/India) I can easily see how something like that (university not doing things they way a company would suggest) would happen.
Read some of the iPhone 4S doco/articles, and you'll discover that it's not a 4G device. On *anyone's* network.
It will do HSPA+ 14.4, but that's supposedly only marginally faster than 3G speeds (I haven't done more than read an article or two about it).
One would theorize that when Apple finally makes a 4G device, it will be LTE (which is what Verizon and AT&T are already deploying) and not WiMAX (which is what Sprint deployed and will probably abandon by 2014). So, best that Sprint at least have some LTE deployed by the time Apple releases a 4G capable iPhone.
On a personal note, I've been a Sprint user for eons, and got an Epic 4G on release day. I've got until probably second quarter 2012 on the contract, so I'll probably wait to see what's available and if my area has LTE before I upgrade. The Epic Touch 4G is nice, but I'd rather save the money (and wait to see how things are next year).
And it probably won't be an iPhone when I do upgrade.
Disclaimer: No, I didn't RTFA, but I've worked in an academic Library for a good portion of my Systems Admin career (and for a short time before it).
I would say that any higher level degree is likely to result in a fair amount of copying. Any seminar or research methods course is going to have the student doing a fair amount of copying of materials from periodicals. Just think of anything requiring a literature review...
However, this is the Internet age. A majority now of what most students would be copying from is not actually a physical journal or book, but highly likely a whole mess of electronically available materials (that is, as long as your university library is properly funded and properly run). From the view of the publisher, this counts as copying.
And while a lot of "hard" science undergraduate degrees almost certainly can be taught pretty much from a book (unless you're lucky enough to be involved in a class that covers some cutting edge, only available in journal, just researched stuff), a lot of the rest of a university involves writing the equivalent of book reports/critiques that require reading someone else's reports/critiques, or literature (meaning journal articles about something, not just "classical literature") research... and maybe I'm just old school, but I can easily see someone wanting to print the stuff out for reading later (yes, I know it sounds archaic, but while writing my papers, I had a majority of my research not on the screen in front of me, but scattered around me in stacks of printed out articles).
Two of my early pre-sysadmin jobs involved the "Reserves" and "Inter-Library Loan" sections of the Library, and I can tell you that there is no end to the amount of copies of (mainly) articles requested either (particularly in the case of Reserves) by professors for students as part of the "required reading" for a given course, or by professors and students as part of their research. Yes, in both cases, in the past decade there have been serious moves to "electronify" the results of these requests, but you can be sure A) a fair number of the people are printing copies of these things off, and B) the publishers are already considering the electronic versions as non-Fair Use, subject-to-copyright "copies" of the materials.
So, I think one of the key things here to keep in mind is that these people probably consider any paper version of something not on the media on which it was originally produced (examples being a print out of a PDF from an electronic resource, or paper spit out by a copier of an actual hard copy of the journal) to be a "copy". And they want their $2.
They should not win this. These things should be covered by Fair Use and if they win this, then they'll start wanting their $2 for every electronic copy of a PDF downloaded from an electronic resource - no matter what the use agreement for said resource says.
If 10,000 other people have installed it and everybody rates it 5-stars and there are no issues mentioned with it on the web, you can probably guess that it's not doing anything nasty with your information.
The way my mind works - when I read this, I couldn't help but think: "What, if any, kind of permissions warning do you get if the app is capable of going on to the market as you and rating itself 5 stars in your name?"
Disclaimer for the humor impaired: Mind you this is more of a joke than a suggestion of something that's at all likely.
Well, I loved Firefly, but I really don't see the appeal of Buffy. Just didn't grab me. Dr. Horrible was cool for a web thing, but, as much as I admire Wheadon's creativity, I sometimes feel like telling the fanatics, "Okay, back off, he's pretty good but he has yet to walk on water or write four out of five seasons of a show. All I said was 'I liked "Firefly".' I don't want to join your Buffy discussion group."
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Have you ever tried logging into a box at runlevel 3 and typing "startx"?
On the super rare occasions where I'd need a GUI at the console of a system, this would work well enough for me (assuming all of the proper packages were installed).
A regular practice for me was to do installs as "minimal desktop" and then during the final configuration, change runlevel to 3 in inittab.
yoPhone!
Shocking!
In an interview one of the designers of IPv6 admitted that they should have made it backwards compatible. Hindsight being 20/20 and all that.
... it depends (the issues there being more human than technical).
The impression I get (since I'm part of the group that runs the network for a major southeastern university) is that everyone should be running dual-stack for a while. Any infrastructure equipment you get that runs v6 should also be able to run v4 fairly easily. Any time we upgrade all the equipment in a building, or put in a new building, the addressing for the switches gets done via IPv6. For a majority of desktops, dual stack is available. For servers
But we have the money available to us to have IPv6 capable equipment. At home, FiOS has yet to provide me anything that provides IPv6 connectivity natively (ignoring tunneling). From what I've ready recently, say what you will about Comcast, at least they're deploying it.
The impression I get from your post is that you have equipment (both infrastructure and otherwise) that's more than 10 years old. I feel for you; we do, too. To a large extent, I'm not so sure you want an OS that old to have any kind of Internet access anyway. From a "It makes me feel good" stand-point, it would be nice if there were an easily implemented v4-v6 translation method available, but there just isn't.
So, what am I trying to say? Well, I've never talked to the "IPv6 crowd," but I don't doubt that they can be obsessive. But need to maintain an internal IPv4 network? Oh my, that can't be that hard. IPv4 isn't going away any time soon, and I seriously doubt there's anything out there on the services side (IE, a website) that you couldn't easily get to via IPv4 (unless it's an IPv6 proof of concept site).
It's going to be outside-in. Until all the major providers of home internet are providing at least a majority of their customer base IPv6 access, it's not going to be that big a deal. And even after they're doing that, you've got to assume that they'll be dual-stacking it, too. At least for a while.
Having worked for a university for 18 years (-1 for the recent year I spent working for corporate America/India) I can easily see how something like that (university not doing things they way a company would suggest) would happen.
Um ...
"and girl!"
I disagree. This sounds more like the Orange Propulsion Gel than the blue stuff.
"The only problem may be that the sauce may come out a little too easily on to their food."
Now, if it comes shooting out of the top after you open it, that would be the blue gel.
Because there's a fiscal penalty for failure when it's found!
Read some of the iPhone 4S doco/articles, and you'll discover that it's not a 4G device. On *anyone's* network.
It will do HSPA+ 14.4, but that's supposedly only marginally faster than 3G speeds (I haven't done more than read an article or two about it).
One would theorize that when Apple finally makes a 4G device, it will be LTE (which is what Verizon and AT&T are already deploying) and not WiMAX (which is what Sprint deployed and will probably abandon by 2014). So, best that Sprint at least have some LTE deployed by the time Apple releases a 4G capable iPhone.
On a personal note, I've been a Sprint user for eons, and got an Epic 4G on release day. I've got until probably second quarter 2012 on the contract, so I'll probably wait to see what's available and if my area has LTE before I upgrade. The Epic Touch 4G is nice, but I'd rather save the money (and wait to see how things are next year).
And it probably won't be an iPhone when I do upgrade.
Six if they don't. ;)
Rumor had it before the AT&T deal was announced that Sprint was negotiating with T-Mobile.
It could easily be one of the reasons why Sprint is so vocal about their opposition to the AT&T deal.
Story was also used in a movie with Gary Sinise named IMPOSTOR.
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Disclaimer: No, I didn't RTFA, but I've worked in an academic Library for a good portion of my Systems Admin career (and for a short time before it).
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... and maybe I'm just old school, but I can easily see someone wanting to print the stuff out for reading later (yes, I know it sounds archaic, but while writing my papers, I had a majority of my research not on the screen in front of me, but scattered around me in stacks of printed out articles).
I would say that any higher level degree is likely to result in a fair amount of copying. Any seminar or research methods course is going to have the student doing a fair amount of copying of materials from periodicals. Just think of anything requiring a literature review
However, this is the Internet age. A majority now of what most students would be copying from is not actually a physical journal or book, but highly likely a whole mess of electronically available materials (that is, as long as your university library is properly funded and properly run). From the view of the publisher, this counts as copying.
And while a lot of "hard" science undergraduate degrees almost certainly can be taught pretty much from a book (unless you're lucky enough to be involved in a class that covers some cutting edge, only available in journal, just researched stuff), a lot of the rest of a university involves writing the equivalent of book reports/critiques that require reading someone else's reports/critiques, or literature (meaning journal articles about something, not just "classical literature") research
Two of my early pre-sysadmin jobs involved the "Reserves" and "Inter-Library Loan" sections of the Library, and I can tell you that there is no end to the amount of copies of (mainly) articles requested either (particularly in the case of Reserves) by professors for students as part of the "required reading" for a given course, or by professors and students as part of their research. Yes, in both cases, in the past decade there have been serious moves to "electronify" the results of these requests, but you can be sure A) a fair number of the people are printing copies of these things off, and B) the publishers are already considering the electronic versions as non-Fair Use, subject-to-copyright "copies" of the materials.
So, I think one of the key things here to keep in mind is that these people probably consider any paper version of something not on the media on which it was originally produced (examples being a print out of a PDF from an electronic resource, or paper spit out by a copier of an actual hard copy of the journal) to be a "copy". And they want their $2.
They should not win this. These things should be covered by Fair Use and if they win this, then they'll start wanting their $2 for every electronic copy of a PDF downloaded from an electronic resource - no matter what the use agreement for said resource says.
Do a little reading - you might be surprised at how often people get shot and don't realize it right away.
Oh my God, you've killed getty! You bastard!
If I had mod points I don't know how I would mod this. Up because it's funnily stupid, or down because it's just stupid.
The only explanation of your wrongness I'm going to provide is:
dimensions != measurements
Me, I just had visions of a lot of people ending up at whitehouse.com, instead of where they wanted to go ...
You obviously didn't find the car scene in PULP FICTION funny. Or, for that matter, the scene leading up to that in the apartment.
I, and a lot of the people I know, did.
If 10,000 other people have installed it and everybody rates it 5-stars and there are no issues mentioned with it on the web, you can probably guess that it's not doing anything nasty with your information.
The way my mind works - when I read this, I couldn't help but think: "What, if any, kind of permissions warning do you get if the app is capable of going on to the market as you and rating itself 5 stars in your name?"
Disclaimer for the humor impaired: Mind you this is more of a joke than a suggestion of something that's at all likely.
ROCK! Call it fudametal!
No, sorry. I'm Jesus. The one the other savior doesn't believe in.
;)
j/k. You did get the reference though.
Well, I loved Firefly, but I really don't see the appeal of Buffy. Just didn't grab me. Dr. Horrible was cool for a web thing, but, as much as I admire Wheadon's creativity, I sometimes feel like telling the fanatics, "Okay, back off, he's pretty good but he has yet to walk on water or write four out of five seasons of a show. All I said was 'I liked "Firefly".' I don't want to join your Buffy discussion group."
Boobs are the people who already purchased one simply because "it's a new device put out by Apple."
And yes, they drive me a bit crazy.
I so wanted marines to show up in the background going "Hi Mom!" when that guy was saying "There are no allied soldiers in Baghdad!"