When teachers ask for assignments to be turned in, especially in Excel, they don't want it in a PDF because they want to make sure your formulas are correct, not just the numbers that are on the spreadsheet. I've been teaching an MSO class for two years now at my university, and if the file submitted is not in it's standard document type (doc, xls, ppt, mdb), then it gets deleted before we ever open it. That policy was adopted long ago with Works files, and has been carried through ever since.
In fact, all the roll sheets distributed to professors (and handled by 2-5 people before it hits their hands) have the last 4 of our SSN on it, and it's used as a main identifier for students.
Yes, but life of a computer is about 5 years in most minds, and all of the last models with 98 and Me are now being thrown out, as it is almost 6 years since *gasp* since XP was sent out.
I was 'randomly selected' when traveling because I just happened to have an air cast on my leg fron a fall I had taken a couple of weeks prior. When I made my return trip, I didn't have said cast on, and didn't get selected. But I had to take my shoe off and put more wear and tear on my sprained ankle and be swiped with the bomb sniffing wand just because I was randomly selected. But coming back through with a limp didn't tip them off any....
Yeah. It's really random.
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I was in high school (3 years ago) and was tapped by out district admin to help him, so I got to see what he sees from the viewpoint of you (the question asker). Here's what I found:
Hectic times of the year: beginning and ending of every semester. Between the influx of new students that had to have user accounts and e-mail accounts created for them, and removing the ones that had graduated from the previous semester to keep the accounts right with the students in the district, those times were really straining. Also, the student grade/attendance system (STI, that piece of shit) would really put a huge load on our servers from all the data going in and out of it as well.
Network size: We had ~400 computers in the high school that I was in charge of, that was 6 separate labs, and at least 1 computer in each classroom, most had 2. Then there were 4 big IBM servers and 2 smaller ones (big: district webserver, STI server, teacher e-mail server, teacher file server; small: backup file server, student e-mail server)
You are also more than likely some form of tech support for every one that you manage. For one of my 4 periods a day my last three semesters at high school, I did the tech support and management stuff. Most of the time it was fixing problems for the faculty who had hosed soemthing up on accident, or fixing something a student did on purpose.
It was fun doing the work. So fun, I've found the same thing at the university I am a student at, helping to manage another network, for the college that houses Computer Science and 5 other departments. Bigger network (4x), more headaches, but alot more leeway in what I can do, and something that may turn into a job offer when I graduate soon.
Too many comments to read the whole tree, but did anyone catch the fact in the two Apple articles posted this morning had the same paragraph near the end of each story?
The program in my reply (above|below, depending on your page layout) does allow for changes to it's database. In the top half of the program you have the files you are working with, in the bottom you have the web database, and if something isn't right, you have the ability to "moderate" the listing for consistency (just like we have the meta-moderate function on here)
+1 funnay to the parent.
I've actually wondered about all the junk out there. I know it's had to be alot between all the manned and unmanned spacecraft taht have left their mark in the atmosphere just from this country. Then add Soviet Russia and the rest of the Eurasians, and there has to be alot up there.
...that started on Yahoo, added MSN a year later, and was so tired of running two different messenger systems that when he found Trillian he liked it so much he paid for it, this has been a long time coming for me. The feature sets are almost the same, so really it's not that surprising.
It'll be interesting to see if we have to add '@yahoo.com' to our YID's to sign in.
I block ads is because they don't entertain me. The ads that you find on the Internets are not ones that are designed to stimulate the mind and make you think or laugh. They're just there to hock some god-forsaken product and try to shove it in your face as hard as they can. I used to block via the hosts file, and now I go with Adblock plus for FF. It works just awesomely for me.
The television goes the same way. I'll change channels to get away from stupid, overplayed commercials, and may never make it back to the program that I was watching. Who cares if it was good if I get bogged down and mad at the commercials that run between the breaks?
Newspaper? I hardly ever read it, but when I do, I've learned to skim over all of it. It's part of how I learned to read the newspaper in the first place. If it really pops at me, I'll read, but I'll never fall for the same ad twice.
Anywho, unless it's really great, it will be looked over one way or another, no matter the medium.
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Came in here to post the same thing.
Time to start whoring it up
Move everyone up 30 minutes permanently. In the winter, things get dark a little early. In the summer, it stays dark a little more into the morning.
Like the parent, I've installed and uninstalled things since Patch Tuesday. I don't see the issue here.
whoops. Total misread. That's what staying up until GOD in the morning working on a paper for class will get you.
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Works great. Haven't been able to play with it in a while due to school policies on networking (give me my hub back, fackers), but there ya go.
When teachers ask for assignments to be turned in, especially in Excel, they don't want it in a PDF because they want to make sure your formulas are correct, not just the numbers that are on the spreadsheet. I've been teaching an MSO class for two years now at my university, and if the file submitted is not in it's standard document type (doc, xls, ppt, mdb), then it gets deleted before we ever open it. That policy was adopted long ago with Works files, and has been carried through ever since.
Mod Parent Up! I was having the same idea.
An IBM PC/XT, a Commodore 64, and one of the original runs of the Macintosh, or the Apple II?
In fact, all the roll sheets distributed to professors (and handled by 2-5 people before it hits their hands) have the last 4 of our SSN on it, and it's used as a main identifier for students.
Yes, but life of a computer is about 5 years in most minds, and all of the last models with 98 and Me are now being thrown out, as it is almost 6 years since *gasp* since XP was sent out.
I was 'randomly selected' when traveling because I just happened to have an air cast on my leg fron a fall I had taken a couple of weeks prior. When I made my return trip, I didn't have said cast on, and didn't get selected. But I had to take my shoe off and put more wear and tear on my sprained ankle and be swiped with the bomb sniffing wand just because I was randomly selected. But coming back through with a limp didn't tip them off any.... Yeah. It's really random.
Designing from Both Sides of the Screen. Worked really well for the project I worked on, and it's a great process and implementation book.
Avast anti-virus: AVG is becoming a real piece, finding much better results with this program. Firefox: nuff said Thunderbird: again, it sells itself FileZilla: for FTP goings-on Nero: for doing CD/DVD burning OpenOffice: Still wish OO had full Access support, but it's the best we can do. iTunes: But you should know this already 7-zip: handles all your zip/rar/tar.gz/ file needs GoogleDesktop: to do all those widgety type things Acrobat Reader: stock install TextPad: Much richer than Notepad, and will even do some Java compiling, if that's your thing. Paint.Net: Beats the hell out of MSPaint, and you don't have to pay PhotoShop prices.
And I am agreeing with everything that Parent has to say.
I was in high school (3 years ago) and was tapped by out district admin to help him, so I got to see what he sees from the viewpoint of you (the question asker). Here's what I found: Hectic times of the year: beginning and ending of every semester. Between the influx of new students that had to have user accounts and e-mail accounts created for them, and removing the ones that had graduated from the previous semester to keep the accounts right with the students in the district, those times were really straining. Also, the student grade/attendance system (STI, that piece of shit) would really put a huge load on our servers from all the data going in and out of it as well. Network size: We had ~400 computers in the high school that I was in charge of, that was 6 separate labs, and at least 1 computer in each classroom, most had 2. Then there were 4 big IBM servers and 2 smaller ones (big: district webserver, STI server, teacher e-mail server, teacher file server; small: backup file server, student e-mail server) You are also more than likely some form of tech support for every one that you manage. For one of my 4 periods a day my last three semesters at high school, I did the tech support and management stuff. Most of the time it was fixing problems for the faculty who had hosed soemthing up on accident, or fixing something a student did on purpose. It was fun doing the work. So fun, I've found the same thing at the university I am a student at, helping to manage another network, for the college that houses Computer Science and 5 other departments. Bigger network (4x), more headaches, but alot more leeway in what I can do, and something that may turn into a job offer when I graduate soon.
Too many comments to read the whole tree, but did anyone catch the fact in the two Apple articles posted this morning had the same paragraph near the end of each story?
I'd also put DevC++ in the same category as well.
The program in my reply (above|below, depending on your page layout) does allow for changes to it's database. In the top half of the program you have the files you are working with, in the bottom you have the web database, and if something isn't right, you have the ability to "moderate" the listing for consistency (just like we have the meta-moderate function on here)
http://www.musicbrainz.org Haven't used the new picard looker-upper, but I know the original works wonders. Check that out.
+1 funnay to the parent. I've actually wondered about all the junk out there. I know it's had to be alot between all the manned and unmanned spacecraft taht have left their mark in the atmosphere just from this country. Then add Soviet Russia and the rest of the Eurasians, and there has to be alot up there.
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...that started on Yahoo, added MSN a year later, and was so tired of running two different messenger systems that when he found Trillian he liked it so much he paid for it, this has been a long time coming for me. The feature sets are almost the same, so really it's not that surprising.
It'll be interesting to see if we have to add '@yahoo.com' to our YID's to sign in.
I block ads is because they don't entertain me. The ads that you find on the Internets are not ones that are designed to stimulate the mind and make you think or laugh. They're just there to hock some god-forsaken product and try to shove it in your face as hard as they can. I used to block via the hosts file, and now I go with Adblock plus for FF. It works just awesomely for me. The television goes the same way. I'll change channels to get away from stupid, overplayed commercials, and may never make it back to the program that I was watching. Who cares if it was good if I get bogged down and mad at the commercials that run between the breaks? Newspaper? I hardly ever read it, but when I do, I've learned to skim over all of it. It's part of how I learned to read the newspaper in the first place. If it really pops at me, I'll read, but I'll never fall for the same ad twice. Anywho, unless it's really great, it will be looked over one way or another, no matter the medium.