My HP LaserJet 1010 sits on top of my 19" tubemonitor.
It doesn't take too much deskspace, does it? Actually, most non-network-printers can be placed in top of something else. I have similar HP printer sitting in top of a 8" + 2" loudspeaker. And no I've not managed to drop them.
I have standalone install of Gnumeric in USB thumbdrive. It is after all nice to be sure that I can open my spreadsheet files in every Windows machine I happen to sit in front of.
Thats not too innovative, old Dos-spreadsheets used to work fine when moved from machine to another, but I'm not too sure that recent MS Excel would do that in those 256 megs I have.
In large parts of the world (Europe, anyone) the more one earns, the more one pays. Eg. in Finland most of the university students pay zero taxes, and for the high end salary taxes can go all the way up to 50%.
Even that system is closer to fair than any flat tax could ever be.
Bought a set-top-box for my grandparents last christmas. Nothing really changed, they use the same TV they have used since early 90's and the same antenna they have used since 80's.
Picture is a lot better, though.
And the price: 75 eur / Finland / 12-2004.
In previous life (pre-sysadmin) I used to be a teacher.
I found out that the best way to motivate learning is giving a few extra points in exam for well done homework. Usually things ended so that those who knew it all didn't do their homework and still passed. The rest did their work, got their bonus points and passed tests.
Yes, there were those who didn't do a thing and didn't pass the tests, but most pupils did better with the carrot than with the stick.
I'm trying to keep ~100 Wintel box network afloat. Oldest machines are running Win 98, newer ones 2k or XP.
Funny thing is that automatic updates keep pushing Windows XP Service Pack 2 to some machines (I've done a lot to keep those forced updates off, but some third party programs will not run without administrator priviledges and thus users tend to update their machines).
That in itself was not too funny, but people manage to get the Windows Firewall installed & blocking antivirus-software from getting updates from our LAN.
All those jokes about insecure and useless wireless networks aside, but I have seen with my own eyes a wlan of desktop machines. Nothing alarming here, but the wlan is not encrypted in any way, it is build in a new building which has a couple of coppers in every room.
To make matters even more entertaining the building is a public school.
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Nygaard & Dahl created Simula 67, the first object oriented language in Norwegian Computing Centre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_oriented#Hist
Don't forget about the hardware. 40 machines in boot time deadlock ain't funny.
Hell, sure, everyone knows that updating operating system demands BIOS upgrade.
(For sake of completeness: said machines have Asus P4S800-MX motherboards.)
Hydrogen is compatible with current vehicles.
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Those clever guys even seem to be solving the storage problem.
Like in Norway. In 2004 ~4.3%
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Have you tried to read a book (as in dead trees) in the sun recently?
My personal experience tells me that the light shines from the paper in the sun with power of thousand suns or so.
It hurts. I'll stay inside with my so-90's-tft-notebook.
My HP LaserJet 1010 sits on top of my 19" tubemonitor.
It doesn't take too much deskspace, does it? Actually, most non-network-printers can be placed in top of something else. I have similar HP printer sitting in top of a 8" + 2" loudspeaker. And no I've not managed to drop them.
This is offtopic, but forgive me.
I have standalone install of Gnumeric in USB thumbdrive. It is after all nice to be sure that I can open my spreadsheet files in every Windows machine I happen to sit in front of.
Thats not too innovative, old Dos-spreadsheets used to work fine when moved from machine to another, but I'm not too sure that recent MS Excel would do that in those 256 megs I have.
"SP2 wa s huge leap forward in security for Windows and for IE, and Blue Hat makes it obvious that Microsoft is just going to get better at it."
SP2 brought us a firewall that blocks some corporate antivirus clients from obtaining new virus databases from local server.
Getting better, are they?
In large parts of the world (Europe, anyone) the more one earns, the more one pays. Eg. in Finland most of the university students pay zero taxes, and for the high end salary taxes can go all the way up to 50%.
Even that system is closer to fair than any flat tax could ever be.
I thought that the axe & hammer analogy would be Linux From Scratch.
Gentoo would surely ship with dozen different brands of the tools. Remember, Gentoo is all about the choice.
Bought a set-top-box for my grandparents last christmas. Nothing really changed, they use the same TV they have used since early 90's and the same antenna they have used since 80's. Picture is a lot better, though. And the price: 75 eur / Finland / 12-2004.
Anyways, I live in Finland, northern Europe. I'm fairly sure that I have never heard about you.
In previous life (pre-sysadmin) I used to be a teacher.
I found out that the best way to motivate learning is giving a few extra points in exam for well done homework. Usually things ended so that those who knew it all didn't do their homework and still passed. The rest did their work, got their bonus points and passed tests.
Yes, there were those who didn't do a thing and didn't pass the tests, but most pupils did better with the carrot than with the stick.
Let the ranting begin, but:
I'm trying to keep ~100 Wintel box network afloat. Oldest machines are running Win 98, newer ones 2k or XP.
Funny thing is that automatic updates keep pushing Windows XP Service Pack 2 to some machines (I've done a lot to keep those forced updates off, but some third party programs will not run without administrator priviledges and thus users tend to update their machines).
That in itself was not too funny, but people manage to get the Windows Firewall installed & blocking antivirus-software from getting updates from our LAN.
I think you all see where this is going.
Have fun.
You have proven me fool.
All those jokes about insecure and useless wireless networks aside, but I have seen with my own eyes a wlan of desktop machines. Nothing alarming here, but the wlan is not encrypted in any way, it is build in a new building which has a couple of coppers in every room. To make matters even more entertaining the building is a public school.