Am I the only person who doesn't care how thin they make these display technologies? In regards to HDTV's, I want it clear, accurate, without lag and cheap. Thin doesn't really matter.
Some of the things you mentioned involve different technologies, and not all of them free or cheap. PC management is different than Internet firewall and filtering, for instance. There is no one silver bullet, save one. Be a good parent and limit them by penalty of death.:)
That being said, at the firewall level, I recommend setting up a PC to run Untangle. It'll help with all the nasties and if you purchase Policy Manager, you can schedule their Facebook (or whatever) time any way you want.
Yah, it's funny how everyone was up in arms about Bush and the Patriot act, and the war, and the unemployment, and the deficit. Nevermind that all these things continue, AND GET WORSE under Obama. Where is the Slashdot outrage over this?! The Patriot Act didn't affect me on iota. This Internet "bill" will.
As if the Democrats don't get enough flack about creating overly large, bureaucratic initiatives, he hires the guy in charge of Norton products!
Does that mean the next Republican President will hire the guy from ESET?
What about these new 30,60,120,250GB type solid state drives? Yah, they aren't that cheap yet, but in a year or two it seems like they will be. No moving parts like hard drives.
Most of the reviews state their longevity over 10 years, but that accounts for daily use and *WRITING* to them. If it were a read-only archive with minimal writing, I wonder how much longer they would be slated to last?
The problems with AMD (ATI), NVidia and especially VIA (though not common much more) chipsets are well documented. I do not need to go into them here. Suffice to say if you aren't encountering any problems with your particular rig, good for you.
Despite any advances AMD makes in CPU's, they still have such a sub par selection of chipset vendors. I'm very happy that Intel makes both the best CPU's and chipsets at the moment. It makes the decision easy. Because if AMD came out with a killer CPU but I had to resort to an NVidia/AMD/VIA chipset to run it, that would be quite a conundrum.
Oh my gosh. You can't be serious? Even liberals think he's a left-wing nut. I live in Cleveland and despite this city's past history, I'm most embarrassed by my representative.
Funny enough, this used to be true in older versions of Windows but not now. I'm on my same installation of Windows XP for almost 2.5 years now. It still runs great, and I install/uninstall stuff constantly. However, I am careful and do know how to keep it clean. I don't have a single Linux install that has been around for more than a year before something bad happens where I need to reinstall. Part of that could be though that I'm not as proficient in Linux, and part of it is because I want to try the next big distro. But whatever the reason, I can say that XP is solid (for me).
I think the Linux zealots are even worse than the Windows ones sometimes.
If all their current, and yes, most likely future educational software will be written for Windows, you would do them a disservice by switching to Linux. And some of your arguments are just bogus. If the OP wants to run Ubuntu, I can confidentally say that any original PC that came with Windows 95 won't handle Ubuntu either without some upgrades. Just like XP, I find Gnome to be pretty slow, or unusable depending on RAM, below a 600-800Mhz PC. And asking kids and teachers to run XFCE, Fluxbox or anything like that will just get them frustrated.
Plus we don't even know if the rest of the school system has Windows or Windows servers. That may factor in.
"OpenGroupware is better than Exchange"
Nope.
"Evolution is better than Outlook."
Nope, nope.
"NDS is better than ActiveDirectory."
Most definitely. Always has been.
"Their TCP/IP is better than the MS stack."
Doubtful. You can tweak the XP stack just as easily.
"SuSE is better than XP"
Oh God no. You are kidding, right? XP does everything I need and also for millions of other people. SuSe sucks big time, and even isn't the premier Linux distro AFAI concerned.
-Rob
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VLB and PCI-X, both being extensions of course to ISA and PCI respectively.
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Am I the only person who doesn't care how thin they make these display technologies? In regards to HDTV's, I want it clear, accurate, without lag and cheap. Thin doesn't really matter.
I'm pretty sure their forums will work with IE. From their point-of-view (and rightly so), it doesn't need to work with anything else.
Some of the things you mentioned involve different technologies, and not all of them free or cheap. PC management is different than Internet firewall and filtering, for instance. There is no one silver bullet, save one. Be a good parent and limit them by penalty of death. :)
That being said, at the firewall level, I recommend setting up a PC to run Untangle. It'll help with all the nasties and if you purchase Policy Manager, you can schedule their Facebook (or whatever) time any way you want.
I'm not advocating this, but doesn't a VPN service like ipredator or strongvpn hide your IP address when using Bittorrent?
Yah, it's funny how everyone was up in arms about Bush and the Patriot act, and the war, and the unemployment, and the deficit. Nevermind that all these things continue, AND GET WORSE under Obama. Where is the Slashdot outrage over this?! The Patriot Act didn't affect me on iota. This Internet "bill" will.
This is typical Democrat behavior. They want their hands in everything to grow the Government. I'm not surprised, just pissed.
I'm starting to think the Moonraker scenario would be a good thing, so long as I make the list for the shuttle.
My favorite way to visualize Python is the DVD set. The Holy Grail is still my favorite, although Life of Brian is a close second.
Seriously, how dumb can Obama and the liberals be? The guy just does not live in our reality.
I couldn't help but notice that he picked the CEO of a company that makes the worst, most bloated, least valuable proprietary products I've ever used.
Democrats/liberals = bloat
Symantec = bloat
Sounds about right.
As if the Democrats don't get enough flack about creating overly large, bureaucratic initiatives, he hires the guy in charge of Norton products! Does that mean the next Republican President will hire the guy from ESET?
What about these new 30,60,120,250GB type solid state drives? Yah, they aren't that cheap yet, but in a year or two it seems like they will be. No moving parts like hard drives. Most of the reviews state their longevity over 10 years, but that accounts for daily use and *WRITING* to them. If it were a read-only archive with minimal writing, I wonder how much longer they would be slated to last?
The problems with AMD (ATI), NVidia and especially VIA (though not common much more) chipsets are well documented. I do not need to go into them here. Suffice to say if you aren't encountering any problems with your particular rig, good for you.
My comment is on the inferiority of AMD chipsets. Can't you read?
You're absolutely right. The flying cars today do suck.
Despite any advances AMD makes in CPU's, they still have such a sub par selection of chipset vendors. I'm very happy that Intel makes both the best CPU's and chipsets at the moment. It makes the decision easy. Because if AMD came out with a killer CPU but I had to resort to an NVidia/AMD/VIA chipset to run it, that would be quite a conundrum.
Oh my gosh. You can't be serious? Even liberals think he's a left-wing nut. I live in Cleveland and despite this city's past history, I'm most embarrassed by my representative.
Funny enough, this used to be true in older versions of Windows but not now. I'm on my same installation of Windows XP for almost 2.5 years now. It still runs great, and I install/uninstall stuff constantly. However, I am careful and do know how to keep it clean. I don't have a single Linux install that has been around for more than a year before something bad happens where I need to reinstall. Part of that could be though that I'm not as proficient in Linux, and part of it is because I want to try the next big distro. But whatever the reason, I can say that XP is solid (for me).
I think the Linux zealots are even worse than the Windows ones sometimes.
If all their current, and yes, most likely future educational software will be written for Windows, you would do them a disservice by switching to Linux. And some of your arguments are just bogus. If the OP wants to run Ubuntu, I can confidentally say that any original PC that came with Windows 95 won't handle Ubuntu either without some upgrades. Just like XP, I find Gnome to be pretty slow, or unusable depending on RAM, below a 600-800Mhz PC. And asking kids and teachers to run XFCE, Fluxbox or anything like that will just get them frustrated.
Plus we don't even know if the rest of the school system has Windows or Windows servers. That may factor in.
"OpenGroupware is better than Exchange" Nope. "Evolution is better than Outlook." Nope, nope. "NDS is better than ActiveDirectory." Most definitely. Always has been. "Their TCP/IP is better than the MS stack." Doubtful. You can tweak the XP stack just as easily. "SuSE is better than XP" Oh God no. You are kidding, right? XP does everything I need and also for millions of other people. SuSe sucks big time, and even isn't the premier Linux distro AFAI concerned. -Rob