ipods are not dangerous, wet lithium is, if it gets wet you remove the battery asap with tweesers, it's not hard to open an ipod you just run a knife through the crack.
i personally cant wait for this to come in to effect, i'm tired of getting continuous error messages and not being allowed to check my email because of fear of viruses
now i can look forward to staring at a red screen of death on my way to college on the bus (they have adverts playing on screens) about half of all the buses have BSOD on there screens not even 9x ones they run on 2k.
"Can't comment on Mac though, never used it."
the mac (OS X) is freeBSD with some clever hacks a super slick gui compiled and optimised for the ppc,
for a school transitioning from Microsoft to open source the mac is a nice compromise, it'll run 90% of open source apps (fink is a nice program that recompiles software that dose not provide a ppc version) and if the school really cannot live without office there is a mac version of it.
my school uses windows XP RM POS pc's, the whole system is so slow that the admin cannot run antivirus without takeing down the network for 12 hours and thus he wont let us check our email or download anything, thankfully i have been takeing my ibook into school for the last 3 years dual booting gentoo and OS X.
all they use the computers for is word excel flash games and running smart boards (projector + giant track pad) which work on windows mac OS X and linux/BSD so there is no excuse, the amount which the school pays microsoft is obscene, the school dose have a few linux boxes which on cisco students (aka me) are allowed to use and they could do anything and more than the wintels could do on 600MHz celerys, and if a teacher wants to run some new software they dont have to first pay for it second get permission from the system admin, third wait three weeks for it to be deployed on the school network, heck the admin runs linux at home, just the idiot head teachers and his bosses lock the school into accepting the microsoft crap.
(end of rant)
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ipods are not dangerous, wet lithium is, if it gets wet you remove the battery asap with tweesers, it's not hard to open an ipod you just run a knife through the crack.
i personally cant wait for this to come in to effect, i'm tired of getting continuous error messages and not being allowed to check my email because of fear of viruses
now i can look forward to staring at a red screen of death on my way to college on the bus (they have adverts playing on screens) about half of all the buses have BSOD on there screens not even 9x ones they run on 2k.
"Can't comment on Mac though, never used it." the mac (OS X) is freeBSD with some clever hacks a super slick gui compiled and optimised for the ppc, for a school transitioning from Microsoft to open source the mac is a nice compromise, it'll run 90% of open source apps (fink is a nice program that recompiles software that dose not provide a ppc version) and if the school really cannot live without office there is a mac version of it.
my school uses windows XP RM POS pc's, the whole system is so slow that the admin cannot run antivirus without takeing down the network for 12 hours and thus he wont let us check our email or download anything, thankfully i have been takeing my ibook into school for the last 3 years dual booting gentoo and OS X. all they use the computers for is word excel flash games and running smart boards (projector + giant track pad) which work on windows mac OS X and linux/BSD so there is no excuse, the amount which the school pays microsoft is obscene, the school dose have a few linux boxes which on cisco students (aka me) are allowed to use and they could do anything and more than the wintels could do on 600MHz celerys, and if a teacher wants to run some new software they dont have to first pay for it second get permission from the system admin, third wait three weeks for it to be deployed on the school network, heck the admin runs linux at home, just the idiot head teachers and his bosses lock the school into accepting the microsoft crap. (end of rant)