I think its all about your comfort level with a class. Are you somewhat familiar with the information, do you soak it up easily? good, then you can handle being distracted by your laptop. Other classes, especially ones where its less appropriate (read: liberal arts), its a non issue: you leave the laptop in the bag.
I attend Rochester Institute of Technology, in the Information Technology department. Our entire building (three floors, just recently expanded) is covered with 802.11b connectivity. Many of the students, including myself bring laptops to class. Sure, some kids abuse them, and surf or play games during lecture (I've been known to do the former during a very boring Intro to System Administration 1 class), but there are some excellent uses.
I think the best is checking on something taught in class. More than once in that System Administration class the teacher has mentioned something, I doubted it, googled for it, and either learned it to be true (there was a use for the sticky bit to keep programs memory resident, but in current linux the sticky bit's purpose has changed), or false (Windows 2K does NOT require NTFS to do software RAID -- you can use FAT just as easily). This is an excellent way to reinforce information being taught. Had I not had my laptop in class I would've gotten sidetracked, forgotten about it, and never learned the truth about these and other things.
In another class I took, Network Administration, the teacher, Bill Stackpole, would often take advantage of those in class with laptops. If he brought up a topic and wasn't sure about something he mentioned, he'd encourage those of us with laptops to research it quickly, and let the class know the correct technical data. If a student would ask him a question in class that he couldn't answer, he'd encourage anyone with a laptop to help out and find the answer.
From even those few excellent uses of wireless connectivity in the classroom I feel its been a great addition to the technology classes at RIT. If someone is going to goof off using a laptop, then they are the same person who was going to goof off doodling in their notebook, nothing lost, nothing gained. I could go on and on about the times the Wifi access has saved my ass in one way or another in the GCCIS building. (and maybe I will later) Come out of the wood-work RIT students -- I know you have more stories!
But do they use it for anything besides physics? In the IT Department they use turnitin.com to combat plagiarism. Students submit both program code and papers there. (Along with usually submitting them to a first-class folder).
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FreeBSD 5.1 Released
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· Score: 4, Informative
Actually if you go to the link off my name in the post
I setup a Bittorrent server with links to the ISO Image before the FTP permissions were released. If anyone cares to try out bittorrent for this one -- go for it!
As a perfect example of P2P: Lets show some legit usage.
You can get 5.1-RELEASE i386 ISOs right now -- before they're publicly available on the FreeBSD FTP mirror at glow.rh.rit.edu
What do we think? What do we know? What can we prove? I'm so sick of that. I mean, the only thing we know for sure is that we don't know anything, which also happens to be the only thing we can prove. - Dr. Don Francis (Matthew Modine) - And The Band Played On
I'm quite sure PA is desperate to keep people there:
Stay, Invent PA
I'm from the Reading area; and yes -- PA is nothing to brag about. Lots of Amish, farmers, people who are clueless about technology, hicks, and those who graduate HS and work at gas stations for the rest of their lives.
why do they even try? everything but the contact info must remain available to actually use the resources; and then there are a million sources out there for the contact info.
if I give chalk to a kid, and he warchalks -- am I aiding and abetting a criminal?
Re:Google cache links to the first few pages
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When Users Attack
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· Score: 1
so be a productive member of slashdot; and if you got to the page before everyone slasdhtoted it -- cache the images and host them somewhere and help distribute the traffic;)
didn't your mother ever teach you that coding with line numbers and go to statements is evil?
rem RIAA strategy as a BASIC program rem written in BASIC to illustrate rem how truly silly these people can be do print "Complain about piracy" print "Purchase laws, scream for enforcement" print "Spend money on protection technology" print "Raise prices" print "Oh no! protection is defeated!" loop end
and more importantly -- they can bandwidth limit during peak times; and let it go full during non-peak times -- their bandwidth during non-peak would go unused anyways, so what should they care?
apparently in my intro to physics book I'm reading -- upon further research the 25 hours was wrong, and is actually closer to 24 hours and 18 minutes? (on average) -- how they peg it down so accurately noone knows, but on a side note - since that doesn't match the typical 24 hours day quite right... you can supposedly be exposed to extremely bright light, and that'll reset your little bio-rhythm clock. Just make sure you don't live in a secluded room without sunlight and it sounds like you should be fine.
For the record, XP does not natively support 137GB+ Drives -- see this knowledge base article and accompanying registry hack for how to enable it:
Okay, as I went to find that article.. I found it had been deleted.. here is a
Deja reference
Another search produced this similar link
and what if the machine had a massive amount of ram 2GB or > and you created a ramdisk from which the kenerl httpd would read the content -- would the ramdisk die when in runlevel 0? can it be kept up? would this work?
Last I checked the specific requirements of a.edu were that it could only be approved for a higher education institution (2-4 colleges, technical schools, etc.) I'd never heard of a high school getting a.edu? how might I go about getting one for my high school? we currently use conradweiser.org/.net but.edu would be awesome.
Thanks for any help.
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May this post be indexed by spiders, and archived for all to see as my internet epitaph.
I too have gotten a few free domains from the first offer; but I still am ticked off over this current offer. They charge $19.95 BTW. Did you use a different URL than the main one to get your domains with their current free period?!? What gives?
--- May this post be indexed by spiders, and archived for all to see as my internet epitaph.
ok, this may be slightly off topic, but atleast this is about domains, and I need to vent my frustration somewhere...
On April 29th I got this e-mail from Registerfree since I had signed up to be notified of more free domain periods: RegisterFREE, in our attempt to make all domain name registrations free, intends to offer FREE DOMAIN REGISTRATION for 5 to 20 minutes AT LEAST ONCE every day for 30 days, starting today. Because you asked to be notified of our next promotion, we are notifying you before the general public. We will offer two ten minute FREE periods between 6 p.m. (US eastern daylight time) Saturday, April 29, 2000 and 6 p.m. Sunday, April 30, 2000. RegisterFREE was the first to offer FREE domain registrations on the Internet. During our first FREE promotion hundreds of thousands showed up at our site and we gave away more than 5000 domains. To give everyone an opportunity this time we're doing it differently. We are not giving the exact time of the free promotion, but instead we're promising that we'll give away domains at random intervals EVERYDAY.
Now, I was very impressed by this move, as I was one of those frustrated by not being able to get to their site the first time. I was also lucky enough to catch one of these first periods of free domain registrations. Immediatly after filling out the form I received an e-mail which said the domain will be registered, gave me a key to change my info for it, and said it should show up in the whois database in a few days. A few friends of mine also filled out the forms to get their free domains.
That was two weeks ago. I still don't have my free domain. It never showed up in the whois database, my key to edit the info doesn't work, and my friends haven't gotten their either. They also stopped having free periods after the first few days. My one friend e-mailed them and they claimed they had no record of his domain registration. My e-mails have gone unanswered.
The shoddy service I've received from registerfree, which is supposed to help win them customers has only convinced me further to never use their services.
Does anyone else have any insight into this matter? Has anyone gotten any free domains? Could this go as to constitute false advertising?
Thanks in advance
--- May this post be indexed by spiders, and archived for all to see as my internet epitaph.
Anyone realize all this traffic doesn't affect just those sites... but routers that legit traffic is flowing through? Has anyone seen the InternetTrafficReport so bad? http://www.internettrafficreport.com/cgi-bin/tr_ chartpage.pl?NorthAmerica As of now (11:53PM EST) Fddi0.AR1.CHI1.Alter.Net has a rating of 11 (!?!?!) and numerous routers have packet loss of up to 40%! That's insane!
The Internet may be able to survive a nuclear attack.. but if things keep like they're going we won't be able to survive the DoS kiddie wars of 2000.
Also, incase anyone missed it.. CERT announced the distributed DoS attack TWO MONTHS ago!
If you're unfamiliar with what the DoS is, want more info, and also they're updating it as these attacks are happening, visit: http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html# distributed
Good God! Looks like adobe didn't want to put themselves through the torture and just PULLED THE PLUG! unreachable.. and if you do a traceroute... they stopped the routing really far up.. someone went and cried to their uplink:(
go read about it... Cert warned about this TWO MONTHS ago... didn't do much good, eh?
and it's not THAT easy... they're spoofed IPs... I'm thinking a lot of this is from schools... they don't pay their tech people enough, they're overworked, and don't have as much knowledge... they have huge bandwidth... and open systems. Right there is cause for trouble. Then all these attacks are comming from Spoofed IPs, which are prob. changing as the attack is continuing.
So basically they've gotta block out a moving target... and 50 (or more) of those moving targets from the distributed attack. like the article says... at one point over 1GB/s of traffic... that's frickin' intense... lets ponder that number for a moment... 1GBit/s... (I'm hoping bit and not byte) t3 = 45Mbit/s == 22 t3s... that's some amazing bandwidth being shoved in there...
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I think its all about your comfort level with a class. Are you somewhat familiar with the information, do you soak it up easily? good, then you can handle being distracted by your laptop. Other classes, especially ones where its less appropriate (read: liberal arts), its a non issue: you leave the laptop in the bag.
I attend Rochester Institute of Technology, in the Information Technology department.
Our entire building (three floors, just recently expanded) is covered with 802.11b connectivity. Many of the students, including myself bring laptops to class. Sure, some kids abuse them, and surf or play games during lecture (I've been known to do the former during a very boring Intro to System Administration 1 class), but there are some excellent uses.
I think the best is checking on something taught in class. More than once in that System Administration class the teacher has mentioned something, I doubted it, googled for it, and either learned it to be true (there was a use for the sticky bit to keep programs memory resident, but in current linux the sticky bit's purpose has changed), or false (Windows 2K does NOT require NTFS to do software RAID -- you can use FAT just as easily). This is an excellent way to reinforce information being taught. Had I not had my laptop in class I would've gotten sidetracked, forgotten about it, and never learned the truth about these and other things.
In another class I took, Network Administration, the teacher, Bill Stackpole, would often take advantage of those in class with laptops. If he brought up a topic and wasn't sure about something he mentioned, he'd encourage those of us with laptops to research it quickly, and let the class know the correct technical data. If a student would ask him a question in class that he couldn't answer, he'd encourage anyone with a laptop to help out and find the answer. From even those few excellent uses of wireless connectivity in the classroom I feel its been a great addition to the technology classes at RIT. If someone is going to goof off using a laptop, then they are the same person who was going to goof off doodling in their notebook, nothing lost, nothing gained.
I could go on and on about the times the Wifi access has saved my ass in one way or another in the GCCIS building. (and maybe I will later) Come out of the wood-work RIT students -- I know you have more stories!
But do they use it for anything besides physics? In the IT Department they use turnitin.com to combat plagiarism. Students submit both program code and papers there. (Along with usually submitting them to a first-class folder).
Actually if you go to the link off my name in the post
I setup a Bittorrent server with links to the ISO Image before the FTP permissions were released.
If anyone cares to try out bittorrent for this one -- go for it!
As a perfect example of P2P: Lets show some legit usage.
You can get 5.1-RELEASE i386 ISOs right now -- before they're publicly available on the FreeBSD FTP mirror at
glow.rh.rit.edu
What do we think?
What do we know?
What can we prove?
I'm so sick of that. I mean, the only thing we know for sure is that we don't know anything, which also happens to be the only thing we can prove.
- Dr. Don Francis (Matthew Modine)
- And The Band Played On
I'm quite sure PA is desperate to keep people there: Stay, Invent PA I'm from the Reading area; and yes -- PA is nothing to brag about. Lots of Amish, farmers, people who are clueless about technology, hicks, and those who graduate HS and work at gas stations for the rest of their lives.
a whole lot of red over at the InternetTrafficReport any other good informative sites?
why do they even try? everything but the contact info must remain available to actually use the resources; and then there are a million sources out there for the contact info.
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: whitehouse.gov
Address: 198.137.240.92
whois -h whois.arin.net 198.137.240.92
OrgName: Executive Office Of The President USA
OrgID: EXOP
NetRange: 198.137.240.0 - 198.137.241.255
CIDR: 198.137.240.0/23
NetName: NETBLK-EOPNET-C
NetHandle: NET-198-137-240-0-1
Parent: NET-198-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: DNSAUTH1.SYS.GTEI.NET
NameServer: DNSAUTH2.SYS.GTEI.NET
NameServer: DNSAUTH3.SYS.GTEI.NET
Comment:
RegDate: 1993-05-21
Updated: 2000-12-27
TechHandle: WDR1-ARIN
TechName: Reynolds, William
TechPhone: +1-202-395-6975
TechEmail: william_d._reynolds@oa.eop.gov
# ARIN Whois database, last updated 2002-09-20 19:05
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's Whois database.
if I give chalk to a kid, and he warchalks -- am I aiding and abetting a criminal?
so be a productive member of slashdot; and if you got to the page before everyone slasdhtoted it -- cache the images and host them somewhere and help distribute the traffic ;)
didn't your mother ever teach you that coding with line numbers and go to statements is evil?
rem RIAA strategy as a BASIC program
rem written in BASIC to illustrate
rem how truly silly these people can be
do
print "Complain about piracy"
print "Purchase laws, scream for enforcement"
print "Spend money on protection technology"
print "Raise prices"
print "Oh no! protection is defeated!"
loop
end
Those ratings are just marketing. You'll have no problem using the same media at any faster speed.
Who cares -- that whole media rating is all marketing. You can use 4x Media in a 40x burner; I do it all the time.
and more importantly -- they can bandwidth limit during peak times; and let it go full during non-peak times -- their bandwidth during non-peak would go unused anyways, so what should they care?
apparently in my intro to physics book I'm reading -- upon further research the 25 hours was wrong, and is actually closer to 24 hours and 18 minutes? (on average) -- how they peg it down so accurately noone knows, but on a side note - since that doesn't match the typical 24 hours day quite right... you can supposedly be exposed to extremely bright light, and that'll reset your little bio-rhythm clock. Just make sure you don't live in a secluded room without sunlight and it sounds like you should be fine.
SNL Skit featuring Cameron Diaz, refering infact to cell phones.
For the record, XP does not natively support 137GB+ Drives -- see this knowledge base article and accompanying registry hack for how to enable it: Okay, as I went to find that article.. I found it had been deleted.. here is a Deja reference Another search produced this similar link
and what if the machine had a massive amount of ram 2GB or > and you created a ramdisk from which the kenerl httpd would read the content -- would the ramdisk die when in runlevel 0? can it be kept up? would this work?
Last I checked the specific requirements of a .edu were that it could only be approved for a higher education institution (2-4 colleges, technical schools, etc.) I'd never heard of a high school getting a .edu? how might I go about getting one for my high school? we currently use conradweiser.org/.net but .edu would be awesome.
Thanks for any help.
--- May this post be indexed by spiders, and archived for all to see as my internet epitaph.
I too have gotten a few free domains from the first offer; but I still am ticked off over this current offer. They charge $19.95 BTW.
Did you use a different URL than the main one to get your domains with their current free period?!? What gives?
--- May this post be indexed by spiders, and archived for all to see as my internet epitaph.
ok, this may be slightly off topic, but atleast this is about domains, and I need to vent my frustration somewhere...
On April 29th I got this e-mail from Registerfree since I had signed up to be notified of more free domain periods:
RegisterFREE, in our attempt to make all domain name registrations free, intends to offer FREE DOMAIN REGISTRATION for 5 to 20 minutes AT LEAST ONCE every day for 30 days, starting today. Because you asked to be notified of our next promotion, we are notifying you before the general public. We will offer two ten minute FREE periods between 6 p.m. (US eastern daylight time) Saturday, April 29, 2000 and 6 p.m. Sunday, April 30, 2000. RegisterFREE was the first to offer FREE domain registrations on the Internet. During our first FREE promotion hundreds of thousands showed up at our site and we gave away more than 5000 domains. To give everyone an opportunity this time we're doing it differently. We are not giving the exact time of the free promotion, but instead we're promising that we'll give away domains at random intervals EVERYDAY.
Now, I was very impressed by this move, as I was one of those frustrated by not being able to get to their site the first time. I was also lucky enough to catch one of these first periods of free domain registrations. Immediatly after filling out the form I received an e-mail which said the domain will be registered, gave me a key to change my info for it, and said it should show up in the whois database in a few days. A few friends of mine also filled out the forms to get their free domains.
That was two weeks ago. I still don't have my free domain. It never showed up in the whois database, my key to edit the info doesn't work, and my friends haven't gotten their either. They also stopped having free periods after the first few days. My one friend e-mailed them and they claimed they had no record of his domain registration. My e-mails have gone unanswered.
The shoddy service I've received from registerfree, which is supposed to help win them customers has only convinced me further to never use their services.
Does anyone else have any insight into this matter?
Has anyone gotten any free domains?
Could this go as to constitute false advertising?
Thanks in advance
--- May this post be indexed by spiders, and archived for all to see as my internet epitaph.
Anyone realize all this traffic doesn't affect just those sites... but routers that legit traffic is flowing through? Has anyone seen the InternetTrafficReport so bad?_ chartpage.pl?NorthAmerica
# distributed
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/cgi-bin/tr
As of now (11:53PM EST) Fddi0.AR1.CHI1.Alter.Net has a rating of 11 (!?!?!) and numerous routers have packet loss of up to 40%! That's insane!
The Internet may be able to survive a nuclear attack.. but if things keep like they're going we won't be able to survive the DoS kiddie wars of 2000.
Also, incase anyone missed it.. CERT announced the distributed DoS attack TWO MONTHS ago!
If you're unfamiliar with what the DoS is, want more info, and also they're updating it as these attacks are happening, visit: http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html
Good God! :(
Looks like adobe didn't want to put themselves through the torture and just PULLED THE PLUG!
unreachable.. and if you do a traceroute... they stopped the routing really far up.. someone went and cried to their uplink
http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html# distributed
go read about it... Cert warned about this TWO MONTHS ago... didn't do much good, eh?
and it's not THAT easy... they're spoofed IPs...
I'm thinking a lot of this is from schools... they don't pay their tech people enough, they're overworked, and don't have as much knowledge... they have huge bandwidth... and open systems. Right there is cause for trouble. Then all these attacks are comming from Spoofed IPs, which are prob. changing as the attack is continuing.
So basically they've gotta block out a moving target... and 50 (or more) of those moving targets from the distributed attack. like the article says... at one point over 1GB/s of traffic... that's frickin' intense... lets ponder that number for a moment... 1GBit/s... (I'm hoping bit and not byte) t3 = 45Mbit/s == 22 t3s... that's some amazing bandwidth being shoved in there...