if you can get that kind of bandwidth, then why does the front page of your website say "This site is hosted at home on a 512/128KiBit/s line. It might be slow if there is lots of traffic. Sorry about that."?
Well,in your example, personally I'd probably buy the $40 vcr, 'cos even with replacing the thing once a year you still come out $100 better off. Since you said it was 1 to 4 years that's a whole lot cheaper.
Back to the original topic, in the UK the responsability eventually ends up with the manufacturers. The people who make the "plastic junk".
Er, I think it can, don't know which model but I've most certainly seen a smart going considerably more than 80, in fact I was passed by one when I was doing about 90.
Just 'cos it's small doesn't require that it's slow.
Well, as a IT Manager at a school, nothing in the school is without a usb drive.
Crikey, I've not seen a pc without a usb port in years!
We've just given all the teachers a 64meg usb drive, and given the kids the option to buy them at a good price.
If you'd had to deal with the number of "my homework is on this disk" and "my only copy of my GCSE coursework is on this disk and it doesn't work" requests for help that my team have you wouldn't be giving your kids floppy disks.
And don't get me started on things stuffed into floppy drives! You wouldn't believe the things we've found.
Hmm... let me think a tiny little electric motor with a weight on one side of the shaft, or the stonking big electric motor that you use to start the car... which is more likely to spark?
Also consider which one is more enclosed, the actual chance of getting a petrol vapour/air mix to the inside of your phone is rather less than underneath the car don't you think?
If petrol was as explosive as some people like to make out then we'd blow ourselves up every time we filled up.
1) The teachers know how to teach the apps on a Windows pc - if I move an icon on the start menu one down I get complaints.
2) We own a lot of windows only software. A lot.
3) I know how to admin Windows networks.
4) Cost - windows boxes are cheap to buy.
5) Licensing issues, slightly odd one this, but it explains why we don't use linux - whatever pc's we own we MUST have a windows license regardless of if it runs windows. For this we get all windows software for a big discount.
Despite all that - I would love to have a suite of apples, and possibly will invest in some at a later date if I can convince the management.
Like it or not, MS has a monopoly on schools in this country (the UK).
A few people in other threads have brought up the "but we all use X in industry and you aren't serving people properly not teaching them X" - this is a conversation I've had with my teaching colleagues in the past, and they quite rightly brought up the issue of teaching vs. training.
I think that if you are reasonably capable of using a windows machine, you could be reasonably expected to be able pick up anything in fairly common use. (I'm talking about using, not admining!)
Whooh, I've rambled a bit there, but I hope you get my drift.
SME Linux is odd, if you intend to actually learn about how to admin a linux box properly, don't use SME Linux.
It does have an admin interface, which is nice, but if you want to do anything slightly differently to the way it wants you to, it gets all huffy.
All the files in/etc/ have big "Don't touch these!" comments in them, and it's a weird setup anyway.
Go for something a bit more standard (Debian being my choice) with webmin and I suspect you will learn a lot more without the learning curve being too steep.
I took a 1250va APC UPS with dead bateries, stuck 2 "lesiure" batteries (caravan style, so more likely to be ok with deep cycle) underneath it, and the thing runs like a dream.
I get at least a good 4 hours battery life out of it, and I think more if I left the monitors off of it.
The charger seems to cope ok, although it does take a long time to fill these batteries.
BTW, the original batteries were something like 20ah and I replaced them with 85ah batteries. They also have a nice design where any gas is expelled through a tube, so I can point it away from the bits that might get hot.
I've got a spare 900va here that I'm going to do the same to when I move house, then I can probably run everything I need from battery power!
1. If you were sitting next to me typing away on your laptop and did not have a quiet keyboard, I would politely ask you to find a quieter way of taking notes so as to not interfere with my education.
I think you might want to get used to that sound, because if you are going to work anywhere with computers, you might be hearing it a lot!
A keyboard doesn't make that much noise, now if you couldn't hear what the teacher was saying then that's a different matter, but I would think you would need many, many keyboards all being hammered on before that was the case.
I used a keyboard all through secondary school (highschool) and even quite a bit in the last years of primary school! My handwriting has always been terrible, and slow and keeping typed notes has helped immensley. I used a psion palmtop right from the first year of secondary school, through to uni - worked a treat.
Quick honest question, in that area with house prices at those levels, can you get broadband? What I mean is, are we talking in the sticks, or in a reasonably populated area?
I live in the cotswolds, about 15 minutes from Cheltenham, about 2 and a half hours from London, and houses here (in the whole area) start at about £110,000 for a mid terrace 2 bed. I still have great difficulty trying to get a place, partly because I need broadband to work, and partly 'cos houses cost so much.
Of course moving to Wales has some big advantages, but the local support gigs I do here might not be to happy!
P.S. I can't believe that I'm responding to a post by the Alan Cox!
Then you could walk up to their desk in a black suite...
I read this and had a strange image of a sofa and 2 chairs turning up at my desk... Maybe that's the lack of coffee this morning.
Probably has somthing to do with you posting from quite a few years in the future... Last time I checked Linux was at version 2.4 for the stable tree and 2.5 for the unstable.
If however you mean Redhat 9 or Mandrake 9 or somthing similar then that's a different matter.
Close, problem is that (in natural caves at least) normal paper doesn't last too long, you need some waterproof paper, and special pencil/crayon to write on it.
You also need a 'Clino (inclinometer (sp?)), and a compass, and a tape measure.
This has been done thousands of times, google for cave surveying, I'm sure you'll find plenty of ways to do it.
The hi-tech aproaches I've thought about all fall down on one crucial point - very little electronic gear survives caving. Hell, even caving lamps have a limited life span if you are crawling around in abrasive gravel, water and mud usually causes things to wear a bit quickly.
For what you are talking about I imagine that those problems would be greatly reduced - but think about the survivability of your equipment!
Fantastic car to tinker with, in fact it's pretty much mandatory! If it goes a few months without something strange happening with it then you've not looked at it properly!
I had (and probably still do) a fantastic problem with my series III, the indicators stop working when you pull out the choke! That sounds fairly sensible until you realise that the choke on mine is not connected to anything electronic, at all! It's not even mounted near anything electronic.
I remember when I'd driven to a local beauty spot, lovely view, about a 600ft hill, with a road running almost the whole drop pretty steeply. I parked, went for a walk. When I came back and turned the key to start there was just a whirring, nothing else. So thought I, just bump start it - no problem, sounds like the starter motor isn't engaging. Now it was a little strange that trying to bump start down this very steep road that when I lifted the clutch, one of the back wheels went backwards, and made skidding noises... and this was with FAT tires too...
Eventually I got a tow home, and when I got there I removed the starter motor housing and the bendix fell out... in half!
Gotta love a repair job like that which takes 5 minutes flat!
Oh, and you'll need a whole new tool kit, Series landrovers use AF spanners, a "standard" all but forgotten...
That and they do 0-60 in about a week, although mine once got over 80... lost my hearing for about an hour, but it got there...
So much fun, I need to get some welding done on it to play again!
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One2One? They became T-Mobile years ago, and are still as crap AFAIK.
The 500n (n for network) version works under linux and accepts postscript from the network fine.
It does cost a bit more however.
if you can get that kind of bandwidth, then why does the front page of your website say
"This site is hosted at home on a 512/128KiBit/s line. It might be slow if there is lots of traffic. Sorry about that."?
Much confusion.
Pissed in the British sense of the word, or the USA sense of the word?
I can't understand it using the British sense so I guess you mean pissed as in angry?
Er, I can't quite figure out if this is a joke or if you haven't used ghost enterprise.
How is building a compressed tarball going to be able to install a machine from an image, then apply configuration parameters to it?
Much faster to build? Bollocks is it.
Ghost has it's flaws, but it's still a hell of a lot better than pissing about with tarballs of files.
Ever heard of permissions? Not a lot of use on fat32 filesystems.
Also, if the coffee is that hot I bet it tastes like shit.
Not that I'd even consider drinking anything called coffee that's supplied by a company like macdonalds.
Of course none of that is relevant in the slightest.
What's your point?
Possibly because the EU agrees with the parent poster. Not with you.
Well,in your example, personally I'd probably buy the $40 vcr, 'cos even with replacing the thing once a year you still come out $100 better off.
Since you said it was 1 to 4 years that's a whole lot cheaper.
Back to the original topic, in the UK the responsability eventually ends up with the manufacturers. The people who make the "plastic junk".
Oh, wait -- it can't go 80mph.
Er, I think it can, don't know which model but I've most certainly seen a smart going considerably more than 80, in fact I was passed by one when I was doing about 90.
Just 'cos it's small doesn't require that it's slow.
Ahh, I see.
It works a bit differently here, we're funded through central government (on the whole) and money we do get is for specific purposes.
It's a totally bizzare system, this year the English department got about £2000 to run on, ICT Services got about £90,000.
There's a lot more to it than that simplistic statement though!
I guess your bond levies pass, don't they?
Sorry, I can't make head nor tail of that sentence...
Maybe it's cos I'm from the UK.
I forgot to mention - at the moment we don't have front panel usb on a lot of machines, but will be putting extension cables onto the desk.
Well, as a IT Manager at a school, nothing in the school is without a usb drive.
Crikey, I've not seen a pc without a usb port in years!
We've just given all the teachers a 64meg usb drive, and given the kids the option to buy them at a good price.
If you'd had to deal with the number of "my homework is on this disk" and "my only copy of my GCSE coursework is on this disk and it doesn't work" requests for help that my team have you wouldn't be giving your kids floppy disks.
And don't get me started on things stuffed into floppy drives! You wouldn't believe the things we've found.
Hmm... let me think a tiny little electric motor with a weight on one side of the shaft, or the stonking big electric motor that you use to start the car... which is more likely to spark?
Also consider which one is more enclosed, the actual chance of getting a petrol vapour/air mix to the inside of your phone is rather less than underneath the car don't you think?
If petrol was as explosive as some people like to make out then we'd blow ourselves up every time we filled up.
There are a few reasons for this that I can see:
1) The teachers know how to teach the apps on a Windows pc - if I move an icon on the start menu one down I get complaints.
2) We own a lot of windows only software. A lot.
3) I know how to admin Windows networks.
4) Cost - windows boxes are cheap to buy.
5) Licensing issues, slightly odd one this, but it explains why we don't use linux - whatever pc's we own we MUST have a windows license regardless of if it runs windows. For this we get all windows software for a big discount.
Despite all that - I would love to have a suite of apples, and possibly will invest in some at a later date if I can convince the management.
Like it or not, MS has a monopoly on schools in this country (the UK).
A few people in other threads have brought up the "but we all use X in industry and you aren't serving people properly not teaching them X" - this is a conversation I've had with my teaching colleagues in the past, and they quite rightly brought up the issue of teaching vs. training.
I think that if you are reasonably capable of using a windows machine, you could be reasonably expected to be able pick up anything in fairly common use. (I'm talking about using, not admining!)
Whooh, I've rambled a bit there, but I hope you get my drift.
Nice assumption there, have you considered that the poster might have a MSDN Subscription?
I just checked and MCE is included in at least one of the levels. So he could easily have a legal version.
Not everyone gets their operating systems from kazaa lite or whatever it's called now.
I'm amazed no-one else has said this.
Rsync over SSH is amazingly efficient, even with one time copies, I've moved files in the multi gigabyte range with this, and it absolutely flies.
Loads of them exist - Here you go:
http://www.freedom-mobiles.co.uk/bpremicl.htm
You'll probably need to find a supplier in the US, and maybe a GSM provider would be useful too ;-)
Please god no!
/etc/ have big "Don't touch these!" comments in them, and it's a weird setup anyway.
SME Linux is odd, if you intend to actually learn about how to admin a linux box properly, don't use SME Linux.
It does have an admin interface, which is nice, but if you want to do anything slightly differently to the way it wants you to, it gets all huffy.
All the files in
Go for something a bit more standard (Debian being my choice) with webmin and I suspect you will learn a lot more without the learning curve being too steep.
I took a 1250va APC UPS with dead bateries, stuck 2 "lesiure" batteries (caravan style, so more likely to be ok with deep cycle) underneath it, and the thing runs like a dream.
I get at least a good 4 hours battery life out of it, and I think more if I left the monitors off of it.
The charger seems to cope ok, although it does take a long time to fill these batteries.
BTW, the original batteries were something like 20ah and I replaced them with 85ah batteries. They also have a nice design where any gas is expelled through a tube, so I can point it away from the bits that might get hot.
I've got a spare 900va here that I'm going to do the same to when I move house, then I can probably run everything I need from battery power!
1. If you were sitting next to me typing away on your laptop and did not have a quiet keyboard, I would politely ask you to find a quieter way of taking notes so as to not interfere with my education.
I think you might want to get used to that sound, because if you are going to work anywhere with computers, you might be hearing it a lot!
A keyboard doesn't make that much noise, now if you couldn't hear what the teacher was saying then that's a different matter, but I would think you would need many, many keyboards all being hammered on before that was the case.
I used a keyboard all through secondary school (highschool) and even quite a bit in the last years of primary school!
My handwriting has always been terrible, and slow and keeping typed notes has helped immensley.
I used a psion palmtop right from the first year of secondary school, through to uni - worked a treat.
Quick honest question, in that area with house prices at those levels, can you get broadband?
What I mean is, are we talking in the sticks, or in a reasonably populated area?
I live in the cotswolds, about 15 minutes from Cheltenham, about 2 and a half hours from London, and houses here (in the whole area) start at about £110,000 for a mid terrace 2 bed. I still have great difficulty trying to get a place, partly because I need broadband to work, and partly 'cos houses cost so much.
Of course moving to Wales has some big advantages, but the local support gigs I do here might not be to happy!
P.S. I can't believe that I'm responding to a post by the Alan Cox!
Then you could walk up to their desk in a black suite...
I read this and had a strange image of a sofa and 2 chairs turning up at my desk... Maybe that's the lack of coffee this morning.
Probably has somthing to do with you posting from quite a few years in the future...
Last time I checked Linux was at version 2.4 for the stable tree and 2.5 for the unstable.
If however you mean Redhat 9 or Mandrake 9 or somthing similar then that's a different matter.
Close, problem is that (in natural caves at least) normal paper doesn't last too long, you need some waterproof paper, and special pencil/crayon to write on it.
You also need a 'Clino (inclinometer (sp?)), and a compass, and a tape measure.
This has been done thousands of times, google for cave surveying, I'm sure you'll find plenty of ways to do it.
The hi-tech aproaches I've thought about all fall down on one crucial point - very little electronic gear survives caving. Hell, even caving lamps have a limited life span if you are crawling around in abrasive gravel, water and mud usually causes things to wear a bit quickly.
For what you are talking about I imagine that those problems would be greatly reduced - but think about the survivability of your equipment!
Gotta agree with the Landrover.
Fantastic car to tinker with, in fact it's pretty much mandatory!
If it goes a few months without something strange happening with it then you've not looked at it properly!
I had (and probably still do) a fantastic problem with my series III, the indicators stop working when you pull out the choke!
That sounds fairly sensible until you realise that the choke on mine is not connected to anything electronic, at all! It's not even mounted near anything electronic.
I remember when I'd driven to a local beauty spot, lovely view, about a 600ft hill, with a road running almost the whole drop pretty steeply. I parked, went for a walk. When I came back and turned the key to start there was just a whirring, nothing else. So thought I, just bump start it - no problem, sounds like the starter motor isn't engaging. Now it was a little strange that trying to bump start down this very steep road that when I lifted the clutch, one of the back wheels went backwards, and made skidding noises... and this was with FAT tires too...
Eventually I got a tow home, and when I got there I removed the starter motor housing and the bendix fell out... in half!
Gotta love a repair job like that which takes 5 minutes flat!
Oh, and you'll need a whole new tool kit, Series landrovers use AF spanners, a "standard" all but forgotten...
That and they do 0-60 in about a week, although mine once got over 80... lost my hearing for about an hour, but it got there...
So much fun, I need to get some welding done on it to play again!