Where people will just download the pirated versions of their favourite movies just so that they can play them without any problems. DRM technology really proves that content providers really don't care about their customers and are willing to punish a majority of legal users to get sales they probably wouldn't have gotten anyway. When are they going to realise that there is no way that they can stop piracy? I mean it's really quite obvious that you can't encrypt something give you the key to the encryption and expect it not to be cracked.
For something like this. Unfortunatly Apple wasn't looking forward at all when they designed this product. There is no 4G let alone 3G. Now I am aware that in the States the 3G network isn't great and I think that the 4G network doesn't exist (I could be wrong) but if I spent $500US on a phone on a 2 year contract I'd want it to be at least usable at the end of that contract, why not include 3G capabilities at least then that gives the user some decent bandwidth, when 3G presumably becomes more availible that is.
Here in Australia the 3G network has been in for quite a while and 4G is availible in I most of the country. A phone that costs presumably close to $1000AUD that uses such an outdated technology (GSM) is most certainly not going to sell well. I hope that apple realise this and include 4G support before they become availible here.
Shouldn't be that great for both admins and for users in my experience. Typically migrations are done by experienced people and the upkeep is done by the "peons" (system admins). I'm yet to see a migration done by windows admins work well. Now from my experience it's really, really easy to teach kids how to use new software and teachers generally aren't that bad either because they by no means are "normal" in the respect that they are use to learning new things.
And the whole argument about training the admins for the use of the new systems should really come down to the admins themselves, if you can't use the system that you are supposed to be supporting then you shouldn't have the job, I think it's as simple as that. How many of you came out of school and expected to be hired right away without training and expected to be trained on the job? As far as I'm concerned this is exactly the same. Training should be done in the admins time and at the cost of the admin. I mean how hard is it really to install Linux on a PC and play around with it for a few weeks? Also if the system is setup correctly then the admins should have all the fancy GUI's for all the admin tools and the OS deployment should be done by the push of a button. I mean lets face it if an admin doesn't know how to work their way around a GUI then they really shouldn't be an admin.
I put in 1984 and it came up with The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams and The lord of the rings by J.R.R. Tolkien... but then again it did return Little Women by Louisa May Alcott...
Frankly I am sick and tierd of these minority groups causing a fuss over anything they can. If you got a problem then fix it yourself or fund the people who can. Why should I waste my time and money making a site that is accessible to blind people when they are such a small portion of the possible market. Sure when there is enough blind people to make a dent in the online market then i think you will see websites making their sites accessible to the blind.
This is not news that there are toads Australia. The article is about the toads growing longer legs. Clearly not many people have actually read the article...
the DoJ supplies a list of phrases that they would like the number of queries for in comparison to the total number of queries. I personally would have no problem with google or any other search engine supplying those details, of course without the infomation of who actually searched for it.
"With products like this available, advances are being made in the storage industry that are not being rivalled by those in other areas of computing"
It's about time that the storage industry has come to the game, for years the hard drive has been the bottleneck in any computer system. The drive benchmarked 52MB/s which is still quite obviously the bottleneck of any system made after 1998. Sure it's great to have faster hard drives but lets be realistic here, hard drives are slow and some improvments have to be made.
I am also somewhat alarmed at how many IT people I have met who do not program, never have programmed and never plan to program.
I am more alarmed at how many people drive cars but have no clue as to what the road rules are.
Having said that, I will admit that I am a crappy coder and the only real use I have for coding is creating scripts (perl, VB, batch, etc...) for doing very simple tasks. Does this mean that I am a crappy tech? I don't believe so, it just means I am a crappy programmer. Unlike road rules and driving, you don't need to be a good programmer to be a good tech. Nor do you need to know how to create trunks on routers to be a good programmer. In this day and age the two are not linked anywhere near as closely as they once were.
But does it seem pointless to anyone else giving screenshots of KDE or gnome when a distro is released? I mean really... it would make more sense just to give screenshots of the configuration tools.
As a former high school network/systems administrator in Australia, this is great news. I worked at a government school and had a windows domain with a number of OSX labs and a couple of Linux servers. All this fuss about "support" is TOTAL claptrap, you want support with windows, it's google or nothing. The whole "support" thing is only for the bureaucrats. Accountability? well Microsoft deny they have any in their EULA. Basically the choices made in government (at least in Australia) from my experience is one of fear of change, even if it is for the better. Hopefully they hear about this in Australia's schooling system and start thinking about other options.
Also novell was/is quite costly for schools, we were thinking of changing but the cost was just too great, if this new deal helps get more novell servers out there instead of windows servers I am all for it. But the real question is who really is going to support this? I mean you do need someone there that knows what they are doing I mean are you going to call novell every time you need a user created? A lot of the tech's that work at schools in Australia are just out of school and are in traineeships, who is going to teach them to use a Novell server or to configure a Linux desktop?
at any rate I'm glad there is finally some action from the Novell front, quite possibly the only real chance for an alternative in the business and governement sector.
Brand recognition. The reason why Microsoft sell their software cheap to schools is because these kids that use the software now, grow up knowing they can trust their products and that they are the industry standard, and even riducule software not made by Microsoft. Even if the programs they develop are totally different by the time the kids actually enter the work place, they know Microsoft is a respectable software development firm and that they can trust their products and Microsoft the company.
Well I'm sure we all know that personal experiences can differ greatly, and although I'm sure Mandrake wasn't stable for you. I have used Mandrake (9) in the past as a squid and http server with uptimes of over 200 days. If thats not what you would call stable I dont know what is.
Surely businesses wouldn't want to use this OS or even XP Home for that matter. The network capabilities of XP Home surely wouldn't be suitable for business and I would imagine the networking tools are even more crippled in Starter Edition.
I think What he means is that like a child, you can see the potential there ready to grow into something great.
Probably should have said something like "Like a baby, we won't really see it's real potential until it has matured a bit". Still it's a silly analogy.
Anyway, I am looking forward to 4.1. I'm not sure if I am game to compile my system with 4.0 until a few more people do it and I hear a little more about what breaks.
I think it's just that debian users like to keep true to form and will vote when every other GNU\Linux distribution votes for their respective team leaders.
You Have got to be kidding me.. Overpriced broadband in the states? sorry, did I read that right? I have been paying around $70us a month for 1.5mbit adsl..
It's about time we get decent broadband, too bad its from some no name company that no one has ever heard of.
I have worked for three years as a network administrator at a highschool, and to the people that say their is filtering already on a state or national scale is slightly wrong. It is true that there is filtering already in place but thats only if you have a contract with a company that provides filtering, which many schools have, at least public schools in South Australia. I can not say that this is what its like in other states but I would assume it is the same case. However, I found like many people have said that sites are blocked that should not be. I have disabled the filtering and decided to do local filtering through squid. I find that it is much better in terms of sites that get blocked that shouldn't be, of course there are always going to be sites that are blocked that shouldn't be but because its local students can come to me and tell me the site and I can un block it on the spot as opposed to the 24hour wait on centeral filters. It takes more effort on the part of the Administrator but after all isn't that what they are there for in the first place?
I can only imagine that sites such as mozilla and sourceforge are banned to stop students from downloading large programs and when schools are charged 13c a meg for downloads I can see the reasoning, particularly in under funded public schools. Also on the mozilla thing, I have blocked the mozilla site because of the fact that I choose to force proxy settings in IE.
Its easy to critise but much harder to understand the reasoning. I am glad that the government understands that education is the right way, personally I would hate to see a national filter for internet traffic.
Anyway I am glad I'm not working in that job anymore, underfunding in schools is whats going to impede on education and not internet filtering. I'm glad they made the right choice but I believe there are more important things to worry about such as upto date text books.
Slashdot Mirror
Where people will just download the pirated versions of their favourite movies just so that they can play them without any problems. DRM technology really proves that content providers really don't care about their customers and are willing to punish a majority of legal users to get sales they probably wouldn't have gotten anyway. When are they going to realise that there is no way that they can stop piracy? I mean it's really quite obvious that you can't encrypt something give you the key to the encryption and expect it not to be cracked.
Here in Australia the 3G network has been in for quite a while and 4G is availible in I most of the country. A phone that costs presumably close to $1000AUD that uses such an outdated technology (GSM) is most certainly not going to sell well. I hope that apple realise this and include 4G support before they become availible here.
And the whole argument about training the admins for the use of the new systems should really come down to the admins themselves, if you can't use the system that you are supposed to be supporting then you shouldn't have the job, I think it's as simple as that. How many of you came out of school and expected to be hired right away without training and expected to be trained on the job? As far as I'm concerned this is exactly the same. Training should be done in the admins time and at the cost of the admin. I mean how hard is it really to install Linux on a PC and play around with it for a few weeks? Also if the system is setup correctly then the admins should have all the fancy GUI's for all the admin tools and the OS deployment should be done by the push of a button. I mean lets face it if an admin doesn't know how to work their way around a GUI then they really shouldn't be an admin.
I put in 1984 and it came up with The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams and The lord of the rings by J.R.R. Tolkien... but then again it did return Little Women by Louisa May Alcott...
Frankly I am sick and tierd of these minority groups causing a fuss over anything they can. If you got a problem then fix it yourself or fund the people who can. Why should I waste my time and money making a site that is accessible to blind people when they are such a small portion of the possible market. Sure when there is enough blind people to make a dent in the online market then i think you will see websites making their sites accessible to the blind.
Really... why would anyone need a backboor to be written purposefully into windows?
This is not news that there are toads Australia. The article is about the toads growing longer legs. Clearly not many people have actually read the article...
the DoJ supplies a list of phrases that they would like the number of queries for in comparison to the total number of queries. I personally would have no problem with google or any other search engine supplying those details, of course without the infomation of who actually searched for it.
I wouldn't mind being one of the guys that has to sift through all the porn to deem what is and what is not suitable for children.
"With products like this available, advances are being made in the storage industry that are not being rivalled by those in other areas of computing" It's about time that the storage industry has come to the game, for years the hard drive has been the bottleneck in any computer system. The drive benchmarked 52MB/s which is still quite obviously the bottleneck of any system made after 1998. Sure it's great to have faster hard drives but lets be realistic here, hard drives are slow and some improvments have to be made.
The one thing stopping my from using IPv6 is the fact that I just can't remember that many characters.
I am more alarmed at how many people drive cars but have no clue as to what the road rules are.
Having said that, I will admit that I am a crappy coder and the only real use I have for coding is creating scripts (perl, VB, batch, etc...) for doing very simple tasks. Does this mean that I am a crappy tech? I don't believe so, it just means I am a crappy programmer. Unlike road rules and driving, you don't need to be a good programmer to be a good tech. Nor do you need to know how to create trunks on routers to be a good programmer. In this day and age the two are not linked anywhere near as closely as they once were.
But does it seem pointless to anyone else giving screenshots of KDE or gnome when a distro is released? I mean really... it would make more sense just to give screenshots of the configuration tools.
Also novell was/is quite costly for schools, we were thinking of changing but the cost was just too great, if this new deal helps get more novell servers out there instead of windows servers I am all for it. But the real question is who really is going to support this? I mean you do need someone there that knows what they are doing I mean are you going to call novell every time you need a user created? A lot of the tech's that work at schools in Australia are just out of school and are in traineeships, who is going to teach them to use a Novell server or to configure a Linux desktop?
at any rate I'm glad there is finally some action from the Novell front, quite possibly the only real chance for an alternative in the business and governement sector.
Brand recognition. The reason why Microsoft sell their software cheap to schools is because these kids that use the software now, grow up knowing they can trust their products and that they are the industry standard, and even riducule software not made by Microsoft. Even if the programs they develop are totally different by the time the kids actually enter the work place, they know Microsoft is a respectable software development firm and that they can trust their products and Microsoft the company.
Well I'm sure we all know that personal experiences can differ greatly, and although I'm sure Mandrake wasn't stable for you. I have used Mandrake (9) in the past as a squid and http server with uptimes of over 200 days. If thats not what you would call stable I dont know what is.
Surely businesses wouldn't want to use this OS or even XP Home for that matter. The network capabilities of XP Home surely wouldn't be suitable for business and I would imagine the networking tools are even more crippled in Starter Edition.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15 083420%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
Anyway, I am looking forward to 4.1. I'm not sure if I am game to compile my system with 4.0 until a few more people do it and I hear a little more about what breaks.
I think it's just that debian users like to keep true to form and will vote when every other GNU\Linux distribution votes for their respective team leaders.
I always prefered vi.
You Have got to be kidding me.. Overpriced broadband in the states? sorry, did I read that right? I have been paying around $70us a month for 1.5mbit adsl..
It's about time we get decent broadband, too bad its from some no name company that no one has ever heard of.
I have worked for three years as a network administrator at a highschool, and to the people that say their is filtering already on a state or national scale is slightly wrong. It is true that there is filtering already in place but thats only if you have a contract with a company that provides filtering, which many schools have, at least public schools in South Australia. I can not say that this is what its like in other states but I would assume it is the same case. However, I found like many people have said that sites are blocked that should not be. I have disabled the filtering and decided to do local filtering through squid. I find that it is much better in terms of sites that get blocked that shouldn't be, of course there are always going to be sites that are blocked that shouldn't be but because its local students can come to me and tell me the site and I can un block it on the spot as opposed to the 24hour wait on centeral filters. It takes more effort on the part of the Administrator but after all isn't that what they are there for in the first place?
I can only imagine that sites such as mozilla and sourceforge are banned to stop students from downloading large programs and when schools are charged 13c a meg for downloads I can see the reasoning, particularly in under funded public schools. Also on the mozilla thing, I have blocked the mozilla site because of the fact that I choose to force proxy settings in IE.
Its easy to critise but much harder to understand the reasoning. I am glad that the government understands that education is the right way, personally I would hate to see a national filter for internet traffic.
Anyway I am glad I'm not working in that job anymore, underfunding in schools is whats going to impede on education and not internet filtering. I'm glad they made the right choice but I believe there are more important things to worry about such as upto date text books.