It's amazing how cheaply a university can get this for its students that qualify to have it shoved down their throats throughout their studies. At McGill anyways, only electrical (not absolutely sure, haven't asked one), computer, and software engineers as well as CS students have access. Still, it only costs the school a few hundred bucks a year for all of us and there's a lot more than copies of all windows xp-7 pro-extreme+ danger edition available for download.
As one who hasn't had windows as a primary OS (and consequently hasn't legally owned a version) since windows 98, I was a a bit skeptical when my university dropped a license (through MSDNAA) on my lap. It wasn't until reading this post that I was convinced (either way) that it was the RTM build, though it didn't make much difference to me as, in the worst case, they would provide the final for free when it was released.
Anyways, I had to try it out in vmware, if nothing else to make use of my newfound legal copy of an operating system a few days ago and was pleasantly surprised. As I only gave it 1GB of RAM, 1 of my not-so-blindingly-fast cores, and no graphics acceleration, I could feel it lagging a bit but *not that badly*. It was an overall pleasant experience, though productivity was hardly a factor in this call. Windows-only FPGA and DSP/embedded development software installed and working, I'm not sure what else I'd want to do on it. I'm sorry to those who feel more passionately about wanting to use Windows 7 and care to use it regularly.
Even when disallowed, my school of similar size would run into this problem every few weeks because some of the more inept users wanting a wireless connection in their room. Tech staff was pretty wuss so it could be a day or two before they actually knocked on the culprit's door.
Does this mean that when ff goes out of control that it will instead of using up 99% of one cpu, use up 99% of each one?! I guess it's only on one machine that I currently have that problem, but it seems that it's stability on a single cpu ought to be a higher priority.
In Montreal, we are bound to either Bell (or someone who wholesales from Bell) or Videotron. I've taken all three routes at some point or another and have yet to have a stable connection.
Videotron would sell 10Mb and give you 3-4 max. Support sucked.
Bell was the worst. It didn't work for the first month because they had been ripping up wires in our area and they just never got around to our case. After that it was only out any time it rained or snowed. 30GB cap and their 15Mb really meant 5.
Electronic Box resells from Bell and has generally been good. It's more expensive ($45 for 5Mb, unlimited and without dealing directly with Bell). At least support is good, though all of our requests get forwarded to Bell because they have frequent outages. I'm otherwise just contented to not be dealing directly with Bell and their outrageous prices for exceeding their traffic limit.
Anyone got anything better around here?
Agreed. Our clients are predominantly real estate companies. They and their clients are effectively bricks when it comes to using a computer and most have never even heard of this firesomething or considered using an alternate browser. IE6 is still standard among most of them and a lot of pain goes into making sure that a site renders nicely in IE6/7 and FF when working on otherwise trivial aesthetics issues.
That said, I wouldn't call it the standard on the internet that most/.ers look at, but there are a majority of internet users that see a computer as just a black box and expect everything in it to "just work". If it doesn't, they just won't use it.
Yeah. Probably just after learning to spell 'grammar'.
But yeah, emails from my boss are constantly confusing due to misspellings, incomplete sentences, and abbreviations, resulting in a phone call just to figure out what he was trying to save time saying by sending an email instead.
The goal is not always to get data to a customer. What if I want to store some files for myself, as I often do or perhaps am transferring data to a computer that I know supports a given compression. While I will agree that for mass data distribution, more common formats like.zip are the way to go, one should not make a habit of compressing zip in all cases.
I think a friend of mine built one for about $50 last year. Motherboard with integrated 1.2ghz cpu came to $5 after a rebate. Case was $10 or so. 128mb pc133 came to another $10 and a 2gb hard drive can be counted as free these days. I know that doesnt even come close to adding up but the point is that it was cheap.
they are horribly similar. Staroffice is supported by sun if you ever need help. It is also more complete, as it supports sun's adabas database and contains some clipart and such. Other than that, if you already have openoffice, dont bother switching. However, if it isn't any trouble, I would stick with staroffice.
StarOffice is downloadable for free (not evaluation) to those affiliated with educational institutions. It takes a bit of navigation around the sun site but for students like myself it isnt a bad deal.
At school we have a techmaster organization where to go and fix people's computers when they have problems. I'd say about 80% or so of the texh requests are directly related to spyware. What's worse is that none of them will listen to what we tell them. Even with Spybot on their systems, they never run it or update it. Also, they stick with IE and always out of curiosity run that.exe email attachment that we warned them of so many times. It's damn depressing.
So what is to happen to the use of handheld computers whose browsers are already hugely limited by screen size? I'd hate to have to use a computer on which literally half of the screen was consumed by advertisements. Still not too bad of a deal for laptop users though. But one would have to be on crack to tolerate that on a CE machine.
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It's amazing how cheaply a university can get this for its students that qualify to have it shoved down their throats throughout their studies. At McGill anyways, only electrical (not absolutely sure, haven't asked one), computer, and software engineers as well as CS students have access. Still, it only costs the school a few hundred bucks a year for all of us and there's a lot more than copies of all windows xp-7 pro-extreme+ danger edition available for download.
As one who hasn't had windows as a primary OS (and consequently hasn't legally owned a version) since windows 98, I was a a bit skeptical when my university dropped a license (through MSDNAA) on my lap. It wasn't until reading this post that I was convinced (either way) that it was the RTM build, though it didn't make much difference to me as, in the worst case, they would provide the final for free when it was released.
Anyways, I had to try it out in vmware, if nothing else to make use of my newfound legal copy of an operating system a few days ago and was pleasantly surprised. As I only gave it 1GB of RAM, 1 of my not-so-blindingly-fast cores, and no graphics acceleration, I could feel it lagging a bit but *not that badly*. It was an overall pleasant experience, though productivity was hardly a factor in this call. Windows-only FPGA and DSP/embedded development software installed and working, I'm not sure what else I'd want to do on it. I'm sorry to those who feel more passionately about wanting to use Windows 7 and care to use it regularly.
Even when disallowed, my school of similar size would run into this problem every few weeks because some of the more inept users wanting a wireless connection in their room. Tech staff was pretty wuss so it could be a day or two before they actually knocked on the culprit's door.
Wasn't it only fairly recent that dynamic ticks (CONFIG_NO_HZ) became available in x86_64?
Does this mean that when ff goes out of control that it will instead of using up 99% of one cpu, use up 99% of each one?! I guess it's only on one machine that I currently have that problem, but it seems that it's stability on a single cpu ought to be a higher priority.
$16k for the old sparcstation 2's I found to buy some IBM crap?
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The other sense of 'free' is important too.
In Montreal, we are bound to either Bell (or someone who wholesales from Bell) or Videotron. I've taken all three routes at some point or another and have yet to have a stable connection.
Videotron would sell 10Mb and give you 3-4 max. Support sucked.
Bell was the worst. It didn't work for the first month because they had been ripping up wires in our area and they just never got around to our case. After that it was only out any time it rained or snowed. 30GB cap and their 15Mb really meant 5.
Electronic Box resells from Bell and has generally been good. It's more expensive ($45 for 5Mb, unlimited and without dealing directly with Bell). At least support is good, though all of our requests get forwarded to Bell because they have frequent outages. I'm otherwise just contented to not be dealing directly with Bell and their outrageous prices for exceeding their traffic limit.
Anyone got anything better around here?
Agreed. Our clients are predominantly real estate companies. They and their clients are effectively bricks when it comes to using a computer and most have never even heard of this firesomething or considered using an alternate browser. IE6 is still standard among most of them and a lot of pain goes into making sure that a site renders nicely in IE6/7 and FF when working on otherwise trivial aesthetics issues.
/.ers look at, but there are a majority of internet users that see a computer as just a black box and expect everything in it to "just work". If it doesn't, they just won't use it.
That said, I wouldn't call it the standard on the internet that most
Yeah. Probably just after learning to spell 'grammar'.
But yeah, emails from my boss are constantly confusing due to misspellings, incomplete sentences, and abbreviations, resulting in a phone call just to figure out what he was trying to save time saying by sending an email instead.
The goal is not always to get data to a customer. What if I want to store some files for myself, as I often do or perhaps am transferring data to a computer that I know supports a given compression. While I will agree that for mass data distribution, more common formats like .zip are the way to go, one should not make a habit of compressing zip in all cases.
Read the manual? I'm sorry, Manuel is not home now.
I can't wait to put goatse up on some poor hippie's windshield...
At least I know somebody else is keeping logs of my AIM conversations so I dont have to use the disk space.
I think a friend of mine built one for about $50 last year. Motherboard with integrated 1.2ghz cpu came to $5 after a rebate. Case was $10 or so. 128mb pc133 came to another $10 and a 2gb hard drive can be counted as free these days. I know that doesnt even come close to adding up but the point is that it was cheap.
they are horribly similar. Staroffice is supported by sun if you ever need help. It is also more complete, as it supports sun's adabas database and contains some clipart and such. Other than that, if you already have openoffice, dont bother switching. However, if it isn't any trouble, I would stick with staroffice.
StarOffice is downloadable for free (not evaluation) to those affiliated with educational institutions. It takes a bit of navigation around the sun site but for students like myself it isnt a bad deal.
Badmovies.org has quite a good list. Of which 'elves' appears to be my favorite
so how would one program this device to find kitten?
At school we have a techmaster organization where to go and fix people's computers when they have problems. I'd say about 80% or so of the texh requests are directly related to spyware. What's worse is that none of them will listen to what we tell them. Even with Spybot on their systems, they never run it or update it. Also, they stick with IE and always out of curiosity run that .exe email attachment that we warned them of so many times. It's damn depressing.
So what is to happen to the use of handheld computers whose browsers are already hugely limited by screen size? I'd hate to have to use a computer on which literally half of the screen was consumed by advertisements. Still not too bad of a deal for laptop users though. But one would have to be on crack to tolerate that on a CE machine.