This post answers the question as posed, which is a good thing. However, I think the reason most people are favoring server storage and other solutions is that you have 20,000 students! Are each of them who have their own computers going to buy one of these devices to use at home?
Why not just force them to use proper backup procedures by posting in central locations around the computer lab that floppy demise will not be an accepted excuse for losing work?
Novell and Redhat in Bed Together?
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Is Novell Doomed?
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This story prompted a little research and I ran across this ; article which alludes to a rather interesting possibility:
The company's recent announcement of a partnership with Red Hat Software on further development of eDirectory for Linux and Red Hat's commitment to using eDirectory on its forthcoming Red Hat Network is an interesting development. At the press conference I asked Schmidt whether any merger or acquisition discussions were ongoing
between Novell and Red Hat and was told (per Securities and Exchange Commission rules), "I can't talk about that, either to say yes or no." After a short pause, Schmidt added, "We like them a lot."
That one file, huh? What kind of file was it? Is anything else missing? Admins don't want to dick around with a machine someone decided to delete a file from just to find out another is missing five minutes later.
You don't really save your important files on the local drive, do you? Please tell me you save them on the network where they are backed up nightly. Please?
I think your shop is a little different from the one referenced in the prior post. Your IT Hitler (Godwin's law BTW) may very well be just that.
In a "regular office" the IT department is there to make sure the entire organization is able to work via their computers. That organization is often HUGE and is composed of a bunch of business people who don't know their computer from their butt.
Advanced users and programmers are treated differently in my organization since they display something special: competence. Anytime testing is necessary these people are the ones who we ask to test it, with our help. And although all programs not developed in-house must be approved by IT, there is a clear channel to request such installations. Users can always make a case with management for why they need a program; so what is stopping you?
Thanks for all the info. I haven't been there in almost 20 years and when I hear stuff like this I really want to visit.
Re:No. Life does not end when you have kids
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Skiing Down Everest
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I agree that life does not end when you have kids, but do you seriously mean to compare skiing Everest with crossing the street? Some things are more necessary to everyday life than others and are therefore worth the risk.
I absolutely love snow skiing - it is easily my favorite sport. But I see the original poster's point. Skiing anywhere is fairly dangerous and Everest is pretty nuts.:)
In practice, yes, it does prevent the poor and the uneducated from participating in the life online.
Thanks for pointing out that the "entry cost" is not merely financial, but also one of education. A functional computer can be purchased for little more than the cost of a television now, and I bet most people in this country have a television. Whether they are likely to spend that amount of money on something that requires learning to use is another question.
Lockard ridicules the "trickle-down technology" theorem which holds that digital machinery will eventually become cheap enough for everybody, just like phones, electricity and cars.
Lockard makes it sound like money is the main impediment, but methinks it is something else.
Bush's proposal that to "solve" the energy crises, we should go make more oil rigs in Alaska! Instead, of course, of forcing the energy industry to redeem to us our investment in them to create alternative energy solutions.
Oil companies forced to find alternative energy solutions - and by a Texan? Nah. Oil companies make *way* too much money in the current state of affairs. The public is going to have to push, kick and drag politicians into making oil companies find alternative sources of energy, and those companies will only do it when they think they have first milked the public of everything they can get. It's disgusting, but it's business.
Exactly - in fact, I would daresay we would only be colonizing space with people who:
have the money to pay their way
have power (politicians, etc.)
are necessary to keep the colony running (engineers, etc.)
have the potential to continue the species (young, healthy - perhaps even certified-to-be-genetically-superior people representing a sufficiently diverse gene pool)
and that's about it. Hopefully there would also be room for liberal arts types since we will want a way of life worth preserving.
Legality aside, don't forget your end users; not only are win32 wrappers considered to be "cheating" by the Linux community, no one wants to run a native Linux application that looks like a native Windows application. After all, if we wanted to use Windows programs, we'd just run Windows in the first place and save all this hassle. Your users demand more from you. Do not cheat them out of it.
OK - granted, it would be nice if the games had a distinctive Linux look and feel, but I really don't care about that as much as being able to play the bloody game on Linux. If this is the kind of esoteric touching up that makes it impossible to get a game ported to Linux then I am pissed!! Just put out the freaking game already and take the time to make others Linux-distinctive after you have built more of a market for games running on Linux.
Actually sending the million emails may be somewhat less effective than it sounds. However, the publicity of CNN *covering* the sending of a million emails is likely to draw attention, so it is not completely ineffective.
"Internet service providers cannot be held accountable for illegal activity on their networks if they are unaware of the activity")... the awareness of the activity of the issue may be questionable
I don't find that issue questionable at all. Who says it is a university's responsibility to monitor the students' usage of the Internet in the first place? A college is supposed to be a place of learning. Tracking/restricting Internet usage is censorship and flies in the face of a university's mission.
In fact, InterNap's infrastructure uses only OC-3 (622-Mbit/second) or even DS-3 (45-Mbit/s) connections to the various backbones, not the massive OC-192 (10-Gbit/s) routers being installed at the network core.
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Why not just force them to use proper backup procedures by posting in central locations around the computer lab that floppy demise will not be an accepted excuse for losing work?
The company's recent announcement of a partnership with Red Hat Software on further development of eDirectory for Linux and Red Hat's commitment to using eDirectory on its forthcoming Red Hat Network is an interesting development. At the press conference I asked Schmidt whether any merger or acquisition discussions were ongoing between Novell and Red Hat and was told (per Securities and Exchange Commission rules), "I can't talk about that, either to say yes or no." After a short pause, Schmidt added, "We like them a lot."
the ; pictures prove it is a rock.
You don't really save your important files on the local drive, do you? Please tell me you save them on the network where they are backed up nightly. Please?
That is correct - IT works for everyone in the organization - from the mailroom clerk to the CEO. I don't consider it DEmoting, though
In a "regular office" the IT department is there to make sure the entire organization is able to work via their computers. That organization is often HUGE and is composed of a bunch of business people who don't know their computer from their butt.
Advanced users and programmers are treated differently in my organization since they display something special: competence. Anytime testing is necessary these people are the ones who we ask to test it, with our help. And although all programs not developed in-house must be approved by IT, there is a clear channel to request such installations. Users can always make a case with management for why they need a program; so what is stopping you?
I have the same phone, but no headaches. Hmm ...
First Microsoft and now this. I'm actually getting warm fuzzies from the government!
If only I could hear through my nose ...
Thanks for all the info. I haven't been there in almost 20 years and when I hear stuff like this I really want to visit.
I absolutely love snow skiing - it is easily my favorite sport. But I see the original poster's point. Skiing anywhere is fairly dangerous and Everest is pretty nuts. :)
Wear your Down-with-DVD-CCA t-shirt when you visit the store. Explain to anyone who will listen that your t-shirt is illegal ... and why.
That does it - I'm moving to Sweden :)
I received an email at one of my throw-away addresses from NY Times confirming the change of email address to another user. c'est la vie
Quake 4! 3D carnage - I can't wait to see the splash damage in that :)
If you are like me and HATE registering, use slashuser0, pw: slashuser0.
Thanks for pointing out that the "entry cost" is not merely financial, but also one of education. A functional computer can be purchased for little more than the cost of a television now, and I bet most people in this country have a television. Whether they are likely to spend that amount of money on something that requires learning to use is another question.
Lockard ridicules the "trickle-down technology" theorem which holds that digital machinery will eventually become cheap enough for everybody, just like phones, electricity and cars.
Lockard makes it sound like money is the main impediment, but methinks it is something else.
Oil companies forced to find alternative energy solutions - and by a Texan? Nah. Oil companies make *way* too much money in the current state of affairs. The public is going to have to push, kick and drag politicians into making oil companies find alternative sources of energy, and those companies will only do it when they think they have first milked the public of everything they can get. It's disgusting, but it's business.
have the money to pay their way
have power (politicians, etc.)
are necessary to keep the colony running (engineers, etc.)
have the potential to continue the species (young, healthy - perhaps even certified-to-be-genetically-superior people representing a sufficiently diverse gene pool)
and that's about it. Hopefully there would also be room for liberal arts types since we will want a way of life worth preserving.
Legality aside, don't forget your end users; not only are win32 wrappers considered to be "cheating" by the Linux community, no one wants to run a native Linux application that looks like a native Windows application. After all, if we wanted to use Windows programs, we'd just run Windows in the first place and save all this hassle. Your users demand more from you. Do not cheat them out of it.
OK - granted, it would be nice if the games had a distinctive Linux look and feel, but I really don't care about that as much as being able to play the bloody game on Linux. If this is the kind of esoteric touching up that makes it impossible to get a game ported to Linux then I am pissed!! Just put out the freaking game already and take the time to make others Linux-distinctive after you have built more of a market for games running on Linux.
Just my $0.02
Actually sending the million emails may be somewhat less effective than it sounds. However, the publicity of CNN *covering* the sending of a million emails is likely to draw attention, so it is not completely ineffective.
(fires up gnapster ...)
Yeah - good thing 'view source' relieves the eye-strain or I would have nose prints on the monitor.
I don't find that issue questionable at all. Who says it is a university's responsibility to monitor the students' usage of the Internet in the first place? A college is supposed to be a place of learning. Tracking/restricting Internet usage is censorship and flies in the face of a university's mission.
Gee - is that all?