rdesktop is a superb piece of software, but it's backwards for solving his problem. He wants to start with an entirely Windows based thin network and then slowly move it to Linux, not the other way round.
We've done something similar in building ISDN test rigs to carry about.
Basically, take a small form factor PC, and a small LDC monitor, and get the people who build the flight cases for your musical instruments to build a case around them.
Such an arrangement doesn't weigh an awful lot, you get full size(an hence high capacity) disks; PCI slots; even a CD-R. And it will probably work out cheaper than a laptop would.
True. The point is that we didn't elect all of them. Analogy for the Americans: The distinction between Federal and state government. I imagine most of you prefer stuff to be decided at the state level, rather than Federal, so that the decisions are made as close to you as possible.
I must take issue with your statement that increased federalism is unrelated to the Euro.
Firstly, membership of the Eurozone prevents governments using certain financial controls to run their economy. So already theres a loss of sovreignty.
Secondly, shared currencies are bound to lead to tighter integration. It's a small step to, for example, harmonizing tax. (actually already on the way - but the euro makes it a simpler proposition)
Oh no, it's already affecting prices. It's putting them up.
Shopkeeper:
"lets see, this camembert costs 75 Francs. Thats comes to 11.43 Euros...hell, call it 12!"
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Er... we do have nukes, you know? And we are a pioneer of biological warfare? And I seem to recall us holding Hitler back single-handedly for quite a while...
Sure, you could slap us down eventually, probably by killing all of us, but you'd be missing a few cities and 40% of your population before you were done.
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Bollocks! The Punt was a completely independant currency. However. most Irish shops are quite happy to allow you to pay in sterling at parity exchange; due to the fact that fleecing idiot brit tourists is always pleasant;-)
Real rate has varied over the years. The prevalance of gas smuggling (I speak here in American, mindful of our core audience; the rest f you know I mean petrol) would suggest a good understanding of the rates.
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Closer to saying Mexico is part of New York. Ireland is an entirely indepenant country with very much their own ideas of how to run their country.
As an example...let me see... oh yes, Ireland has entered the Eurozone and the UK hasn't. can't get much more fundamental that that.
If you're a sys admin and need to learn a language, you're much better with Perl or Python or similar, since they are more useful for actual systems administration work.
I cna see though if you were the kind of heavy sysadmin who gets into the bowels of the system and also works on bug fixing in-house software, assembler might help, although I tink you'd want to get very up on C first.
My faking won't be that clever. I've got an external modem attached to COM1 on the box, and I will dial across my switchboard at work into my RAS server (so making an internal call, that costs nothing) and hence out to the net.
If I were to be clever, a null modem cable between the serial ports of the laptop and my regular machine, PPP over that, and route out that way.
The actual box will need almost nothing. A base system, something to make the PPP easier if needed (I normally use wvdial, but pon and poff will be in the abse install) and then some arrangement to read POP messages. My preference is for a full POP client, although thats not the Linux way I know.
Oh, and if I can get a ZX Spectrum emulator on it, that would be cool, as my brother is a Jet Set Willy level designer.;-)
"use GIMP for image editing"? Thanks guys, would never have thought of that one. Better yet: "install KDE even if you don';t use it as the apps are good"
Look, I found in the back of my dead machine closet an old 386 laptop (woo, way back) and I want to set it up for my brother to encourage him to not email me instead of not calling, so I need a really low-fat linux. Whats the advice there? No PCMCIA or CD-ROM and about 4Mb of RAM, so KDE is out. Suspect X might be too. I'm going to try debian via floppy and fake a PPP connection via COM1 into my LAN for apt-get goodness.
Also, since when have newbies needed guides to setting up unusual configs? I'm an experienced systems engineer, I run a laptop thats well documented, whose manufacturer puts millions into Linux, and happens to be a model Alan Cox personally owns. Despite all this, I can't get the fecking sound card to work. (It works now, because I wanted to listen to MP3 using it pver the holidays, so I uninstalled Linux and put Win2K on it, which detects and configures and makes work all the hardware out of the box) You have more problems than "newbies can't work out which window manager to put KDE on top of to save on space", people.
You're best doing it remotely, via post and internet and so on. The UK's Open University are experts at this - http://computing.open.ac.uk/home/
If you can find something like this near you - (actually I'm assuming you're an american - the OU itself generally is only open to EU citizens) it's perfect, because they are aimed at people who, for whatever reason, did not take a conventional undergrad degree. So they wil be interested in the fact that you have years of prcatical experience.
But it will take time. There's a reason undergrad degrees take 3 years - that's how much work there is in them. It'll take longer afterwards.
I think also you are possibly underestimating the importnace of your considerable experience! By which I mean, you may be surprised at how much of a CS degree will be entirely new to you.
One last suggestion - must it be a CS degree? Would, for example, an MBA work for you (anyone know if you can take those without a first degree?)
I ask as if you've got the Math you can probably leverage almost any undergrad degree into a Masters in CS. If all you want is the paper, then be prepared to fight dirty.
Hmmm. It sounds like it might be as much trouble to set up your system to batch convert all your MP3 to OGG as it is to set-up mixed format streaming, and since that is the way you want to go, bite the bullet. Of course, ?I can imagine that if you have a huge collection it could take a lot of time. However, if you set your machine up to just chug through the MP3s when idle you'll mkae real inroads. Set it up so your streaming server just streams the Oggs, then you'l have the delight of more music coming on-line every day;-)
This trick is well understood by the crackers of the world, who do not discount passwords to try because they aren't in the OED. They have wordlists of Tolkein, and Dune, and Star Trek, and Star Wars, etc. etc. You'd be better going for something less Geeky.
For me, I use strings of characters based on a keyboard shape. Example: gfhbt makes a sort of star on your keyboard. I add some punctuation in there too of course. You can quickly learn a sort of muscle memory of the movement you make to type it. Doubtless now someone will post explaining how crackers beat this one.
This abstract art sounds a good idea, but surely there's a better way? The human capacity to recognize faces is one of the most effective known. So, make my ATM password Margaret Thatcher, Abe Lincoln, Spock and Graham Chapman(wasn't that an actual plot of an episode?)
Gb Uplink ports wouldn't really help - the traffic pattern inside KLAT2 is flat, where all nodes are equal. Not like a LAN where it helps to not have a bottleneck at the switch interconnects.
It should perhaps be pointed out to those not watching this market closely (just went thru a pda upgrade cycle meself) that after the sucess of the ipaq 36xx every single Pocket PC manufacturer is going for an ipaq clone as the PockerPC 2002. This is not anything spcial or surprising that they are doing.
So they all have memory slots, tft screens, expansion capabilities of some sort, 206MHz processors. People are even throwing away their USPs to get on the ipaq bandwagon - the older casios were famed for high quality of their reflective screens. Now they're TFT too.
There are differences of course, but it's thinkgs like size, form factor, how much in the way of accessories are ut there, battery life.
Oh, and what did I pick? Palm M500. Does everything I need in a box that is so tiny I can barely tell if its in my pocket or not and that costs £200 instead of £500.
OK, doesn't run Linux and it doesn't really do multimedia. Mind you, that £300 difference will buy me rather a lot of MP3 player;-) And failing to get the sound to work on my thinkpad 600 under Linux meets my cursing needs.
You don't even need the ipod particularly. There are many ways to expand storage in Pocket PC's from SD card up to PC cards. OK, you won't get a whole season of shows on one, but you'll get enough that power becomes your worry.
Most of the latest-gen PocketPC have voice control. They don't transcribe yet, but you can say "RIAA" at them to make the MP3 player start up, etc.
There's a dead giveaway in the article itself...
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... where this looney says they planned to attack the Houses of Parliament and Tower Bridge.
Parliament perhaps, but not Tower Bridge. If they were interested in tourist attractions in the US, they would have put a plane into the statue of Liberty. It doesn't fit their pattern. Tower Bridge isn't even that big a deal as a symbol of the City. The Tower itself, or St Pauls, or Buck Huse, would be more likely.
Their thesis is that giving users access to the file system is bad, because they fill their directories with crap.
So, since people don't fill their desktops with quite as much crap simply because it has an visual limit. I can get about 100 icons on mine.
So, since 100 files isn't enough for my data needs, they suggest I have multiple desktops.
I get a feeling that this will over-complex things.
Also, the standard "file manager" type view is a staple of e-mail systems. How do the authors suggest replacing this?
Hmmm. I dunno. Won't it add extra complexity as you have to distinguish between persistant icons that are on every desktop, and the transient ones that are just on one. Since everything the user sees is a shortcut, you also have to distinguish between deleting the shortcut and deleting the file. (delete once the last link is gone? maybe)
Anyhow, easy enough to test their theory, since you can configure both Linux and XP to work exactly like thay describe.
I was watching an old Airwolf the other day where that was being used as data cable in a hi-tech comms room. All I can do is reset the hubs to a beat to get a flashing effect. (accompanied by screams froom the users....)
Its not even old stuff. You just have to have unpopular tastes;-)
I've been looking forever for a nice new CD of T-Bone Burnett's "The Talking Animals" but can't find it anywhere. I don't even mind paying full price for it - despite already owning it on tape - 'cause I want a nice shiny copy of it.
Now this isn't an old record at all - 1987.
Hang on though, while googling the exact date it looks like Barnes and Noble say they have it. Blimey!
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rdesktop is a superb piece of software, but it's backwards for solving his problem. He wants to start with an entirely Windows based thin network and then slowly move it to Linux, not the other way round.
We've done something similar in building ISDN test rigs to carry about.
Basically, take a small form factor PC, and a small LDC monitor, and get the people who build the flight cases for your musical instruments to build a case around them.
Such an arrangement doesn't weigh an awful lot, you get full size(an hence high capacity) disks; PCI slots; even a CD-R. And it will probably work out cheaper than a laptop would.
D'Oh! Beat me to it.
What a brilliant idea Slow Glass was, dontchathink?
OSR2 probably dexerves to be Win97, really.
Similarly, ever noticed that when a print advert mocks up a window it's a MacOS window? Same reason.
True. The point is that we didn't elect all of them. Analogy for the Americans: The distinction between Federal and state government. I imagine most of you prefer stuff to be decided at the state level, rather than Federal, so that the decisions are made as close to you as possible.
I must take issue with your statement that increased federalism is unrelated to the Euro.
Firstly, membership of the Eurozone prevents governments using certain financial controls to run their economy. So already theres a loss of sovreignty.
Secondly, shared currencies are bound to lead to tighter integration. It's a small step to, for example, harmonizing tax. (actually already on the way - but the euro makes it a simpler proposition)
Oh no, it's already affecting prices. It's putting them up.
Shopkeeper:
"lets see, this camembert costs 75 Francs. Thats comes to 11.43 Euros...hell, call it 12!"
Er... we do have nukes, you know? And we are a pioneer of biological warfare? And I seem to recall us holding Hitler back single-handedly for quite a while...
Sure, you could slap us down eventually, probably by killing all of us, but you'd be missing a few cities and 40% of your population before you were done.
Bollocks! The Punt was a completely independant currency. However. most Irish shops are quite happy to allow you to pay in sterling at parity exchange; due to the fact that fleecing idiot brit tourists is always pleasant ;-)
Real rate has varied over the years. The prevalance of gas smuggling (I speak here in American, mindful of our core audience; the rest f you know I mean petrol) would suggest a good understanding of the rates.
Closer to saying Mexico is part of New York. Ireland is an entirely indepenant country with very much their own ideas of how to run their country.
As an example...let me see... oh yes, Ireland has entered the Eurozone and the UK hasn't. can't get much more fundamental that that.
If you're a sys admin and need to learn a language, you're much better with Perl or Python or similar, since they are more useful for actual systems administration work.
I cna see though if you were the kind of heavy sysadmin who gets into the bowels of the system and also works on bug fixing in-house software, assembler might help, although I tink you'd want to get very up on C first.
My faking won't be that clever. I've got an external modem attached to COM1 on the box, and I will dial across my switchboard at work into my RAS server (so making an internal call, that costs nothing) and hence out to the net.
;-)
If I were to be clever, a null modem cable between the serial ports of the laptop and my regular machine, PPP over that, and route out that way.
The actual box will need almost nothing. A base system, something to make the PPP easier if needed (I normally use wvdial, but pon and poff will be in the abse install) and then some arrangement to read POP messages. My preference is for a full POP client, although thats not the Linux way I know.
Oh, and if I can get a ZX Spectrum emulator on it, that would be cool, as my brother is a Jet Set Willy level designer.
Flame on!
"use GIMP for image editing"? Thanks guys, would never have thought of that one. Better yet: "install KDE even if you don';t use it as the apps are good"
Look, I found in the back of my dead machine closet an old 386 laptop (woo, way back) and I want to set it up for my brother to encourage him to not email me instead of not calling, so I need a really low-fat linux. Whats the advice there? No PCMCIA or CD-ROM and about 4Mb of RAM, so KDE is out. Suspect X might be too. I'm going to try debian via floppy and fake a PPP connection via COM1 into my LAN for apt-get goodness.
Also, since when have newbies needed guides to setting up unusual configs? I'm an experienced systems engineer, I run a laptop thats well documented, whose manufacturer puts millions into Linux, and happens to be a model Alan Cox personally owns. Despite all this, I can't get the fecking sound card to work. (It works now, because I wanted to listen to MP3 using it pver the holidays, so I uninstalled Linux and put Win2K on it, which detects and configures and makes work all the hardware out of the box) You have more problems than "newbies can't work out which window manager to put KDE on top of to save on space", people.
That's it, from now on I'm drinking decaf.
You're best doing it remotely, via post and internet and so on. The UK's Open University are experts at this - http://computing.open.ac.uk/home/
If you can find something like this near you - (actually I'm assuming you're an american - the OU itself generally is only open to EU citizens) it's perfect, because they are aimed at people who, for whatever reason, did not take a conventional undergrad degree. So they wil be interested in the fact that you have years of prcatical experience.
But it will take time. There's a reason undergrad degrees take 3 years - that's how much work there is in them. It'll take longer afterwards.
I think also you are possibly underestimating the importnace of your considerable experience! By which I mean, you may be surprised at how much of a CS degree will be entirely new to you.
One last suggestion - must it be a CS degree? Would, for example, an MBA work for you (anyone know if you can take those without a first degree?)
I ask as if you've got the Math you can probably leverage almost any undergrad degree into a Masters in CS. If all you want is the paper, then be prepared to fight dirty.
Hmmm. It sounds like it might be as much trouble to set up your system to batch convert all your MP3 to OGG as it is to set-up mixed format streaming, and since that is the way you want to go, bite the bullet. Of course, ?I can imagine that if you have a huge collection it could take a lot of time. However, if you set your machine up to just chug through the MP3s when idle you'll mkae real inroads. Set it up so your streaming server just streams the Oggs, then you'l have the delight of more music coming on-line every day ;-)
Insecure! Insecure!
This trick is well understood by the crackers of the world, who do not discount passwords to try because they aren't in the OED. They have wordlists of Tolkein, and Dune, and Star Trek, and Star Wars, etc. etc. You'd be better going for something less Geeky.
For me, I use strings of characters based on a keyboard shape. Example: gfhbt makes a sort of star on your keyboard. I add some punctuation in there too of course. You can quickly learn a sort of muscle memory of the movement you make to type it. Doubtless now someone will post explaining how crackers beat this one.
This abstract art sounds a good idea, but surely there's a better way? The human capacity to recognize faces is one of the most effective known. So, make my ATM password Margaret Thatcher, Abe Lincoln, Spock and Graham Chapman(wasn't that an actual plot of an episode?)
Gb Uplink ports wouldn't really help - the traffic pattern inside KLAT2 is flat, where all nodes are equal. Not like a LAN where it helps to not have a bottleneck at the switch interconnects.
It should perhaps be pointed out to those not watching this market closely (just went thru a pda upgrade cycle meself) that after the sucess of the ipaq 36xx every single Pocket PC manufacturer is going for an ipaq clone as the PockerPC 2002. This is not anything spcial or surprising that they are doing.
;-) And failing to get the sound to work on my thinkpad 600 under Linux meets my cursing needs.
So they all have memory slots, tft screens, expansion capabilities of some sort, 206MHz processors. People are even throwing away their USPs to get on the ipaq bandwagon - the older casios were famed for high quality of their reflective screens. Now they're TFT too.
There are differences of course, but it's thinkgs like size, form factor, how much in the way of accessories are ut there, battery life.
Oh, and what did I pick? Palm M500. Does everything I need in a box that is so tiny I can barely tell if its in my pocket or not and that costs £200 instead of £500.
OK, doesn't run Linux and it doesn't really do multimedia. Mind you, that £300 difference will buy me rather a lot of MP3 player
You don't even need the ipod particularly. There are many ways to expand storage in Pocket PC's from SD card up to PC cards. OK, you won't get a whole season of shows on one, but you'll get enough that power becomes your worry.
Most of the latest-gen PocketPC have voice control. They don't transcribe yet, but you can say "RIAA" at them to make the MP3 player start up, etc.
... where this looney says they planned to attack the Houses of Parliament and Tower Bridge.
Parliament perhaps, but not Tower Bridge. If they were interested in tourist attractions in the US, they would have put a plane into the statue of Liberty. It doesn't fit their pattern. Tower Bridge isn't even that big a deal as a symbol of the City. The Tower itself, or St Pauls, or Buck Huse, would be more likely.
Canary Wharf, I could believe.
Gak, and to think I wasted my mod points this morning modding down some porno-crap-flooder.
Their thesis is that giving users access to the file system is bad, because they fill their directories with crap.
So, since people don't fill their desktops with quite as much crap simply because it has an visual limit. I can get about 100 icons on mine.
So, since 100 files isn't enough for my data needs, they suggest I have multiple desktops.
I get a feeling that this will over-complex things.
Also, the standard "file manager" type view is a staple of e-mail systems. How do the authors suggest replacing this?
Hmmm. I dunno. Won't it add extra complexity as you have to distinguish between persistant icons that are on every desktop, and the transient ones that are just on one. Since everything the user sees is a shortcut, you also have to distinguish between deleting the shortcut and deleting the file. (delete once the last link is gone? maybe)
Anyhow, easy enough to test their theory, since you can configure both Linux and XP to work exactly like thay describe.
Rope-light! Yeah! I gotta get me some of that!
I was watching an old Airwolf the other day where that was being used as data cable in a hi-tech comms room. All I can do is reset the hubs to a beat to get a flashing effect. (accompanied by screams froom the users....)
Its not even old stuff. You just have to have unpopular tastes ;-)
I've been looking forever for a nice new CD of T-Bone Burnett's "The Talking Animals" but can't find it anywhere. I don't even mind paying full price for it - despite already owning it on tape - 'cause I want a nice shiny copy of it.
Now this isn't an old record at all - 1987.
Hang on though, while googling the exact date it looks like Barnes and Noble say they have it. Blimey!