At my university I get access to the student portal (coded inhouse in.asp) which provides:
- Access to all my modules
- Download electronic format of lecture notes
- Online examinations and tests (Using perception software)
- Outlook web acces (yuk)
- Online timetbale & calendar
- Online enrollment
- Voyager library system:
- Search the library for books/videos/cd/other media online
- Check which books you have out
- Renew existing loans
- Various other little things...
The entire campus now uses electronic swipe cards for everything from self-service library to access to the computer labs, the gym, etc... so it makes providing electronic resources that much easier.
Coupled with wifi access across the entire campus, I'm pretty impressed with the e-services they provide.
The killer for me is probably the electronic lecture notes. It saves going to lectures;) Although missing practicals isn't such a good idea (as I've found out lately...)
Slightly offtopic, but if RHEL isn't an option what are the major differences between CentOS and Whitebox? They both seem to be clones of the same thing.
"However, the UK press have recently been warning that power supply interruptions are likely this winter "
Get your facts right. I don't know what coverage you're reading (the tabloid papers I suspect) but there is no power supply crisis forcast for this winter.
What has been commented on is our increasing reliance on imported power from the continent, and coupled with the decommissiong of several major nuclear power plants over the next decade if we don't act now there could be problems in the future. I don't think UPS'ing your heating system is necessary just yet:)
"But the government said the outlook for power supplies this winter was good and accused the union of "scaremongering""
Re:Once you beat the bottlenecks, it's very snappy
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Yep, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who had problems trying to get this to work.
Seem's it still experimental:
"Option "RenderAccel" "boolean"
Enable or disable hardware acceleration of the RENDER extension. THIS OPTION IS EXPERIMENTAL. ENABLE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. There is no correctness test suite for the RENDER extension so NVIDIA can not verify that RENDER acceleration works correctly. Default: hardware acceleration of the RENDER extension is disabled."
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- Access to all my modules
;) Although missing practicals isn't such a good idea (as I've found out lately...)
- Download electronic format of lecture notes
- Online examinations and tests (Using perception software)
- Outlook web acces (yuk)
- Online timetbale & calendar
- Online enrollment
- Voyager library system:
- Search the library for books/videos/cd/other media online
- Check which books you have out
- Renew existing loans
- Various other little things...
The entire campus now uses electronic swipe cards for everything from self-service library to access to the computer labs, the gym, etc... so it makes providing electronic resources that much easier.
Coupled with wifi access across the entire campus, I'm pretty impressed with the e-services they provide.
The killer for me is probably the electronic lecture notes. It saves going to lectures
I'm a geography student btw.
Slightly offtopic, but if RHEL isn't an option what are the major differences between CentOS and Whitebox? They both seem to be clones of the same thing.
Get your facts right. I don't know what coverage you're reading (the tabloid papers I suspect) but there is no power supply crisis forcast for this winter.
What has been commented on is our increasing reliance on imported power from the continent, and coupled with the decommissiong of several major nuclear power plants over the next decade if we don't act now there could be problems in the future. I don't think UPS'ing your heating system is necessary just yet :)
"But the government said the outlook for power supplies this winter was good and accused the union of "scaremongering""
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3751810.stm
Seem's it still experimental:
"Option "RenderAccel" "boolean" Enable or disable hardware acceleration of the RENDER extension. THIS OPTION IS EXPERIMENTAL. ENABLE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. There is no correctness test suite for the RENDER extension so NVIDIA can not verify that RENDER acceleration works correctly. Default: hardware acceleration of the RENDER extension is disabled."
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-61 11/README.txt