For those who have been windows users:
Out of curiosity, how many people had popup blockers installed before service pack 2 came around? I fiddled with a few different kinds back before google came around and I decided I really liked none of them at all... they were variously: useless, impractical, or spyware laden... to the point that I got a good deal annoyed and chose to instead make instruction of the people who's computers I had the care of, the primary focus... Back then it was mostly family, and I had the run of the computers at any time I wanted (between the hours of 10pm and 10am, garunteed all mine;) )
The point I'm making is that I taught proper use of the computers and made regular sweeps of the computers, and had a router/switch w/ strict rules, between the cable modem and the home network and a minimal ad-blocking hosts file, and I've haven't had real problems since then... Every so often X, Y, or Z made it through, but those that did came via downloaded games... (damn bonzi buddy,gator). So we have never had popup blocking till now, and as long as the computers were clean, we didn't have problems...
At the same time every so often I help some clueless collegiate freshie (mostly girls) and my jaw drops at how bad their computers get...
So what are the stats? popup blocking on MS Windows before SP2 vs not?
At my university, the math courses are often big fans of making students use Maple and Matlab alternately... With this in mind they are pretty good at providing us with a large number of computer labs equipped with both those two as well as Mathematica (though I haven't played with that one yet).
Maple and Mathlab are both crazy powerful, sometimes nearly too much so when all you want is a short and simple operation...
Due to that, in conjunction with those programs, (or in their absence) and with my Ti-89, I have sometimes used: http://zen.uta.edu/
or more specifically: http://zen.uta.edu/math/
Which is good for a few sets of patterns of operations from differential equation solving to laplace transforms...
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For those who have been windows users: ;) )
Out of curiosity, how many people had popup blockers installed before service pack 2 came around? I fiddled with a few different kinds back before google came around and I decided I really liked none of them at all... they were variously: useless, impractical, or spyware laden... to the point that I got a good deal annoyed and chose to instead make instruction of the people who's computers I had the care of, the primary focus... Back then it was mostly family, and I had the run of the computers at any time I wanted (between the hours of 10pm and 10am, garunteed all mine
The point I'm making is that I taught proper use of the computers and made regular sweeps of the computers, and had a router/switch w/ strict rules, between the cable modem and the home network and a minimal ad-blocking hosts file, and I've haven't had real problems since then... Every so often X, Y, or Z made it through, but those that did came via downloaded games... (damn bonzi buddy,gator). So we have never had popup blocking till now, and as long as the computers were clean, we didn't have problems...
At the same time every so often I help some clueless collegiate freshie (mostly girls) and my jaw drops at how bad their computers get...
So what are the stats? popup blocking on MS Windows before SP2 vs not?
At my university, the math courses are often big fans of making students use Maple and Matlab alternately... With this in mind they are pretty good at providing us with a large number of computer labs equipped with both those two as well as Mathematica (though I haven't played with that one yet).
Maple and Mathlab are both crazy powerful, sometimes nearly too much so when all you want is a short and simple operation...
Due to that, in conjunction with those programs, (or in their absence) and with my Ti-89, I have sometimes used:
http://zen.uta.edu/
or more specifically:
http://zen.uta.edu/math/
Which is good for a few sets of patterns of operations from differential equation solving to laplace transforms...