ANYONE who uses AOL for their ISP and is running a business needs to run and not look back. It's nice that they are adding this but I think it's stupid (for AOL).
Now on the other hand for my work, I would love to implement this for our logins. It would definitely secure things much better.
Ok, so he changed the film yet again. First off I happen to agree with most of the changes. The Anakin change is a bit suspect, but then again, if you think of it in the ways of the Star Wars Universe, it makes sense. When Anakin makes the full turn towards the Dark Side in Revenge if the Sith, he will cease to be Anakin and will then become Darth Vader. When he turns back to the Light in Jedi, he dies right away. His spirit was as it was when he was still a padawan. I know you won't agree with me, but that's the way I see it and adding Naboo to the celebration scene - a scene not in the original - make sense also if you look at all of the films as a unit. Now the Jabba scene in the first movie will look better as well. Now stop whining about how Lucas changed things and just watch them.
Yes I think that you have that correct. Now, if this WAS a College owned building with ethernet jacks in each room, they would definitely be within their right to forbid them being connected because it's physically being connected to their network. They are not saying you can't buy cable and a cable modem and setup your own in that kind of policy and they are not breaking a FCC law either by regulating what devices can be connected to the campus network.
Weatherbug itself is not spyware. It is Adware though and it does install what could be considered SpyWare in the MySearch Companion toolbar. That can be removed though without affecting weatherbug function. This only happened in the 6.0 version of Weatherbug. I wish they would not install that toolbar, but they do. At least they don't tie weatherbug in so it needs that to function. at work I use Weatherpulse because Pestpatrol is a bit overzealous. It even uninstalls the very useful VNC software (WHICH IS NOT SPYWARE PESTPATROL! It can be used by OTHER spyware/adware/malware...look for those and not VNC itself!)
My guess is comcast does not care. Time Warner will do a Roadrunner only install, but they charge you THE SAME price as if you paid for both the TV ands Cable Modem. So really, to them, they are getting the same amount of money.
Yeah I noticed that now the padlock for SSL sites appears in TWO places on Firefox and the URL changes to yellow when on a SSL site. Nifty! One more way to make it harder for phishing websites to duplicate with detail the browser chrome.
I like the handle on the game cube. That makes it easy to carry from one place to another. I plan on taking mine down with me to my parents house during Turkey Day and playing games with my Neices and Nephews. It's a good idea especially if they are trying for the Nintendo set (usually younger gamers).\
Yet the ling your pointing to offers it for 120 now....Hmmm....anyway, I will agree....BOTH SD and CF have been plummeting. I am wondering what Walmart will run for their Black Friday special?? Last year it was a 128 MB card for 30 which was really good at the time....this year could be 4 times that size for 30.
Ever hear of Datatel's Colleague? It's THE WORST of any ERP solution. Guaranteed. It was based on Unidata (ICK!) many a years ago and now they have released a solution that works with Oracle......except it still needs Unidata and some software they wrote to translate their proprietary programming language (Envision) to be able to use Oracle tables. Then they have messes like multivalued fields and weird ass crap and so much stuff the SA has to try to fit in in a 2-4 hour outage window jsut to keep the damn thing running. The release patches on a monthly basis and it's just CRAP! In fact, they have yet another database in thier EDX product called hsqldb. This is opensource javabased database(never seen the GPL or the source code....hmmmm). In any case, I have NEVER seen more layers to a product then I have with Colleague (Benefactor, their Alumni product which we did not buy is very much alike as well). ERP products require institutions to make change to get the product to work the best. I hope peoplesoft does get bought because it's not very good either. Is ERP just so new that it's immature? Or is it that different companies or schools are just so different that it's impossible to shoehorn them into a out of the box product like Peoplesoft??? Is it that they WANT you to rely on their services? Here's another thing that sucks about Datatel. When doing patches, you need people off the system yet when one blows up and it's becuase of something you have not encountered before and you need to call support...there is none because even though phone support is advertised til 8, it really ends at 5 when the person you need to talk to went home and the idiots are all that are left. It really SUCKS when your at a institutuion that uses Colleague sometims. Then again, as much as it sucks, you sometimes see some great things about it too. I am going to say it still sucks more then it is good but even if the suck was smaller, it would still suck if you know what I mean!
You said that I was wrong for saying religion is part of what makes a person but then state: "George W. Bush and John Ashcroft in particular can't seem to keep their religious views apart from their government duties."
That seems to go with my idea. A big majority of people I know of cling to some faith. Some more then others. If they did not, then why would everyone complain about Janet Jackson's boob? Like it or not, people who do not have a specific religion are really in the minority. Just look at this web page. Christians are about 75 percent of this country. That's an aweful lot of people that claim a religion. Also, Religion forms your ideas of what is right, what is wrong and like it or not your actions. Some people claim religion is brain washing yet, like it or not, religion also had something to do with the establishment of laws and I do not think that George Washington and the rest of our founding fathers, who were all Christian were definitely of sane mind otherwise how would we have lasted this long??
Ok....you see, there's this thing called checks and balances. They are there to prevent what you have said. Noone has to say that Bush and Ashcroft were wrong for doing what they did, they just have to repeal it. Hey I like Bush and will probably vote for him because I think he has done a good job (IMHO) and I could really care less what the dems have dug up to attack him. Sure, Bush may be picking nits when he says that Kerry flip flopped, but the thing is did Kerry say he'd support a bill containing something and then changed because someone added a rider? You bet he probably did. BUT, ALL politicians are guilty of making a choice that may not have been good for America. Hence, the patriot act. Just because it is law now does not mean that it will always hold that way. If we have someone in congress or the presidency and they manage to get some sort of wacked out bill passed that says it's against the law to walk and chew gum at the same time. Moments later, a cop pics someone up because of the new law. They get prosecuted, but this person also happens to be a person who can afford lawyers and all of a sudden the courts see this wacked out case coming at them and they vote 9:1 that the law is Unconstitutional...the law is now no longer a law. They don't even have to hear a case to pass judgement on it to my knowledge. Checks and Balances is what it's about. And if enough people don't like Bush, they will vote that their states electors go to another candidate.
I am a Christian just as much as the lady I once worked with was a Muslim. She wore garb (headress and tunic) to work and I knew she was muslim. I have on occasion brought my bible to read on my lunch hour and it sat on my desk. On those days as well as many others, people can look at me and figure out hey he's a Christian. Do you know that in both of these religions have no clause that says that they are exempt from going to hell for disregarding their religions tenets at work but following them outside of work? (not for sure about Islam, but I am sure about Chrisitianity). It would be wrong for Ashcroft and Bush to just cave and go ahead and accept things like Gay marriages and to negotiate with those who have already killed our people. I ain't saying that God said it was ok to go to war in Iraq either. I don't know what god had planned for them to do. Only they know what god has revealed to them in their prayers. I only hope, in the long run, that what they have done in Iraq proves worthwhile.
We in America are very tolerant of other people religions. 76 percent of this country is Christian so therfore they do get what seems like unfair advantages. What is the use of having anyone come to work on Christmas Day if 70 percent of the people that both work and 70 percent of your own customers are not going to be there? Hence the national Christmas holiday. Is it fair? No. But do we not allow you to follow yo
With NTP this will work. With DNS however I don't see it working. What if I want to have my own, isolated blocks of IP's that only resolve behind my firewall? Granted, this is NO form of security what so ever, but it's damn convenient.
I am salary and get OT pay. BTW, the rules just say that you don't have to give OT. They say nothing about taking it away or making me getting ot is against the law.....but many companies may interpret it that way.
Also to add more to your post....if the Uni has a AP in the building, then WHY would you need another AP? The only thing I think I would need one for is AirTunes.
First...Enterprise sucks for me because I can never see it because it is on the WORST channel there is. Second,I can see a better Star Trek, one that does not try to coddle the number 1 demographic. A Star Trek with great writing as well as great effects so to speak. It is possible. We have seen it with many very good episodes of TNG. My idea....
It can't be done in public school because some ninny will complain about it being taught to their kid. You can't teach any religion(or faith) because some will complain about it. IE if you try and teach a Muslim about Christianity boy you will get read the riot act by the parents. This can only be done in a private school....ergo maybe I DO think public schools should go and the government just fund 90 percent of your education thru grade 12. This way everyone gets what they want.
Um...how are you left holding the bag when RedHat IS a Linux distro with most of it GPL'd? Only thing you may miss is if the software you use is only available in RPM's and that most of your training may go around stuff that they have not GPL'd? And, last I checked, you can load RPM's not just on RedHat but Mandrake and even Debian. Your arguement does not hold wind. Linux is Linux whether it's Red Hat, SuSE or Debian. You can easily move stuff from one to the other and if RedHat fails, then someone else wil take their spot.
All true regarding Opensource. We DO happen to have a service contract with IBM and have had Linux deployed in the past here and there. As a whole though, AIX is very good and I would hate to loose things like HA and all of the just because of my own personal Linux or Mac OS X agenda. Would I love to run a farm full of Xserves? You bet but I can't justify using it in any part of our application suite right now. The IBM/AIX stuff works. If I were to choose a linux solution, I would probably go more towarsds Red Hat and after it has worked successfully, then and only then attempt to use Debian somewhere else. Debian also has it's issues regarding not being up to date in a lot of things, but they are up to date where it counts. I also need to be able to have some help as most IT folks are in making absolutly postive we have all of the issues that have patches patched. I am not saying Debian stinks there, they don't, but at least with Red Hat I can call IBM up and say hey do you know about this issue and they can either tell me yes or no or at least give me something to tell the bosses. With Debian, if I can't write the patch then I can be told to pund sand. With Red Hat, I won't get that.
sydb already replied to this but I will add something else in agreement with this poster. If you have to cut something, then cut it but don't do it because you THINK you can support the software. IBM both software and hardware support is some of the best support I have ever encountered. I would LOVE to just dump Debian PPC on one of my RS/6000's but it ain't happening. If we do do Linux on that platform it's going to be the one IBM supports (which I believe is SuSE). The work place is NOT the place to put your agenda in unless you have MASSIVE data proving it's going to work. Put it on something non critical and show them this non critical server with an incredible uptime or show them how many bytes it's pushed over time. Don't just try and bring Debian right in. Plus, you may find it difficult for IBM to support you if you have a hardware failure. IBM includes alot of diag tools that will help you find SPECIFIC problems in your hardware and those tools may not run on Debian.
Um.....where in the US Constitution does it say anything about separation of Church and State? Everyone purports that this item exists yet it does not. The reference everyone points out is Amendment one (part of the Bill of Rights). It follows below:
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Notice it does NOT say anything about us not using things like "In God we Trust" and "With God, All Things are Possible"(which also happens to be in The Bible) in the things we do daily with our government and our government itself using such phrases. What everyone seems to forget is this is a government of the people and by the people. Right now, the majority of the people claim that they are Chrisitan or are some sect of Chrisitanity (Luthren, Baptist, Presbytarian, Catholic...whatever). When the majority claim they are atheist or Muslim, things can and do change. Religion is part of what makes a person. You hire a Muslim and they have to pray to Mecca certain times of the day and you are obligated to provide that yet Christians also do not get the same treatment yet we are the majority (all we need is a nice quiet space). Amendment I so often gets perverted to mean NO RELIGION yet that's not even why it was there for. The people who came to America were feeing Religious Persecution in England. They were sufferign at the hands of the Church of England where the King could change things on his whim. Amendment I is in the Constitution so that there is NO WAY that Congress or the President can create a Church of the United States of America and not so that there would be no religion at all. This is why its even in there. It's not there so people can whine about having "In God We Trust" on our money. In God We Trust is not establishing a Church! If you think it is, well, you need help.
Amendment I also covers my right to say this, my right to peacable (I say PEACEABLY..not NOISILY unlike some of the Bush protestors) assemble and the right to petition for redress of grievances which makes me wonder....is there a real petition (not a online one) for the repealing of the Patriot Act? It's our RIGHT to do this according to the 1st Amendment. If as many geeks would sign this as bitch about it, it would have already been repealed.
So many people will claim X is in the Constitution and Y isn't when they have never READ the Constitution. This and many other reasons of us just rolling over and letting the vocal minority speak out and get there way. This includes the MINORITY of gays who want to be like a man and a woman yet be man and man or woman and woman. Bush has stated it clearly....he IS against Gay Marriage, but not against Cival Unions. Personally, with all the trouble us heteros have with marriage I have no idea why Gays even want to mess with it!:) IN any case, being against taht does not have to mean we hate gay people. Far from it. It meagse wea re against that specific issue. No more, no less....yet people will ervert this.
IN any case, I am with the EFF on the main point of the frontpage story. Secret laws can never be followed and it looks like the ID check think is one of the "Secret" laws and or it may just be the airlines just using it's the LAW as an excuse. You COULD say that before, but now TSA runs the security show. Not whatever company the airlines hire. So what we all really need to know is is it a law? If it is, then we have no choice but to follow it until we get ir repealed!
True enough, but I am not so sure that private schools are willing to just drop a paying customer.;) I'd be real interested in seeing some survey of private schools that investigate some of tehse issues.
Private schools DO have to do some minimum things so that the state recognizes it's graduates as High School graduates. Things like Math and reading...etc. That's the way it is in Ohio and I am sure many other states. Second, public schools themselves are under no obligation to have things like Art Classes or Music Classes (at least at the High School level). Private schools usually have these classes and more. Privates schools, especially religious ones, usually have additional requirements like, GASP....bible study. Prayer time. Maybe even praise and worhip time. Private schools are the answer to those who want prayer in school (but tell me what school does not have prayer before test time?...maybe not organised prayer but....:)). If I can afford it, my son will go to parochial school and the reason that is because I don't want him to have to struggle with things like not having X sneaker when I can only afford sneaker Z. Not having jean brand X when I can afford plain pockets. When all of the kids have to wear a uniform, those distractions are gone. Also, the teachers won't put up with the stuff that they do in public school either. Plus I want him to be brought up better then I was. I want him to know god at a earlier age so he does not struggle with the sins I have in the past. It's important for people to know what faith is....no matter what religion you are....even if your an atheist you still have somethings that you go on by hunches (on faith....). That cannot be donein public school nor should it.
Diabetes a disability? Explain that to my wife who works 20-30 hours a week AND 40+ taking care of a child and has diabetes. Wow...your right....that's messed up. Does this guy weigh 400+ pounds??
That article was talking about vouchers and the 3000 (only half of what it costs the public district which means the district KEEPS HALF!) voucher would almost PAY for MOST private schools. Sure, they are not the expensive primary equivalent of Yale, but most are better then 80 percent of the public schools.
Oh, and when I was in school, besides the Iowa tests, there was no state required test. The minute one was added, actual teaching went out the window and everything that students are being taught were about the tests. The test should TEST your knowledge not have your knowledge be the test.
No the problem is NOT that the parents are involved....it's that they are NOT involved in their children's life. They are too preoccuipied with getting that Beamer then making sure that Johnny does his homework.
That may or may not be the parent's fault. I have seen some parents who want to spend time with their kid, but can't because they have to go to work at 5 am to beat the traffic and they end up staying past 6 so they can avoid the traffic. Noone eats together any more (even my extended family has great difficulty getting thigns together during the holidays) and we spend many a off day at the office (if your in IT) so you can apply that patch during the downtime(doesn't happen much but it does happen).
I have also seem some parents who don't give a crap about their kids. They figure once they are old enough to go to school that it's the schools problem...but then they come back on the teachers and say don't punish my kid. What are teachers to do? First thing I will tell my son's teacher is that they have my permission to punish him. If he is in a fight, they can put their hands on him and break it up. That's fine by me.
Just curious, but if everything's working ok, do you still flash a BIOS when a new one comes out? Flashing the BIOS is the LAST thing I want to do and in 90 percent of the cases, I don't need to do it. Flashing BIOS is one other reason I switched to a Powerbook. It's not that I don't know how to do it, it's just noone has come up with a great way to make it work on all OS's the machine is capable of be it Linux or whatever.
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You know, you'd think you'd have put BOTH of these items into the story....
ANYONE who uses AOL for their ISP and is running a business needs to run and not look back. It's nice that they are adding this but I think it's stupid (for AOL).
Now on the other hand for my work, I would love to implement this for our logins. It would definitely secure things much better.
Ok, so he changed the film yet again. First off I happen to agree with most of the changes. The Anakin change is a bit suspect, but then again, if you think of it in the ways of the Star Wars Universe, it makes sense. When Anakin makes the full turn towards the Dark Side in Revenge if the Sith, he will cease to be Anakin and will then become Darth Vader. When he turns back to the Light in Jedi, he dies right away. His spirit was as it was when he was still a padawan. I know you won't agree with me, but that's the way I see it and adding Naboo to the celebration scene - a scene not in the original - make sense also if you look at all of the films as a unit. Now the Jabba scene in the first movie will look better as well. Now stop whining about how Lucas changed things and just watch them.
Yes I think that you have that correct. Now, if this WAS a College owned building with ethernet jacks in each room, they would definitely be within their right to forbid them being connected because it's physically being connected to their network. They are not saying you can't buy cable and a cable modem and setup your own in that kind of policy and they are not breaking a FCC law either by regulating what devices can be connected to the campus network.
Weatherbug itself is not spyware. It is Adware though and it does install what could be considered SpyWare in the MySearch Companion toolbar. That can be removed though without affecting weatherbug function. This only happened in the 6.0 version of Weatherbug. I wish they would not install that toolbar, but they do. At least they don't tie weatherbug in so it needs that to function. at work I use Weatherpulse because Pestpatrol is a bit overzealous. It even uninstalls the very useful VNC software (WHICH IS NOT SPYWARE PESTPATROL! It can be used by OTHER spyware/adware/malware...look for those and not VNC itself!)
My guess is comcast does not care. Time Warner will do a Roadrunner only install, but they charge you THE SAME price as if you paid for both the TV ands Cable Modem. So really, to them, they are getting the same amount of money.
Yeah I noticed that now the padlock for SSL sites appears in TWO places on Firefox and the URL changes to yellow when on a SSL site. Nifty! One more way to make it harder for phishing websites to duplicate with detail the browser chrome.
I like the handle on the game cube. That makes it easy to carry from one place to another. I plan on taking mine down with me to my parents house during Turkey Day and playing games with my Neices and Nephews. It's a good idea especially if they are trying for the Nintendo set (usually younger gamers).\
Yet the ling your pointing to offers it for 120 now....Hmmm....anyway, I will agree....BOTH SD and CF have been plummeting. I am wondering what Walmart will run for their Black Friday special?? Last year it was a 128 MB card for 30 which was really good at the time....this year could be 4 times that size for 30.
Ever hear of Datatel's Colleague? It's THE WORST of any ERP solution. Guaranteed. It was based on Unidata (ICK!) many a years ago and now they have released a solution that works with Oracle......except it still needs Unidata and some software they wrote to translate their proprietary programming language (Envision) to be able to use Oracle tables. Then they have messes like multivalued fields and weird ass crap and so much stuff the SA has to try to fit in in a 2-4 hour outage window jsut to keep the damn thing running. The release patches on a monthly basis and it's just CRAP! In fact, they have yet another database in thier EDX product called hsqldb. This is opensource javabased database(never seen the GPL or the source code....hmmmm). In any case, I have NEVER seen more layers to a product then I have with Colleague (Benefactor, their Alumni product which we did not buy is very much alike as well). ERP products require institutions to make change to get the product to work the best. I hope peoplesoft does get bought because it's not very good either. Is ERP just so new that it's immature? Or is it that different companies or schools are just so different that it's impossible to shoehorn them into a out of the box product like Peoplesoft??? Is it that they WANT you to rely on their services? Here's another thing that sucks about Datatel. When doing patches, you need people off the system yet when one blows up and it's becuase of something you have not encountered before and you need to call support...there is none because even though phone support is advertised til 8, it really ends at 5 when the person you need to talk to went home and the idiots are all that are left. It really SUCKS when your at a institutuion that uses Colleague sometims. Then again, as much as it sucks, you sometimes see some great things about it too. I am going to say it still sucks more then it is good but even if the suck was smaller, it would still suck if you know what I mean!
You said that I was wrong for saying religion is part of what makes a person but then state: "George W. Bush and John Ashcroft in particular can't seem to keep their religious views apart from their government duties."
That seems to go with my idea. A big majority of people I know of cling to some faith. Some more then others. If they did not, then why would everyone complain about Janet Jackson's boob? Like it or not, people who do not have a specific religion are really in the minority. Just look at this web page. Christians are about 75 percent of this country. That's an aweful lot of people that claim a religion. Also, Religion forms your ideas of what is right, what is wrong and like it or not your actions. Some people claim religion is brain washing yet, like it or not, religion also had something to do with the establishment of laws and I do not think that George Washington and the rest of our founding fathers, who were all Christian were definitely of sane mind otherwise how would we have lasted this long??
Ok....you see, there's this thing called checks and balances. They are there to prevent what you have said. Noone has to say that Bush and Ashcroft were wrong for doing what they did, they just have to repeal it. Hey I like Bush and will probably vote for him because I think he has done a good job (IMHO) and I could really care less what the dems have dug up to attack him. Sure, Bush may be picking nits when he says that Kerry flip flopped, but the thing is did Kerry say he'd support a bill containing something and then changed because someone added a rider? You bet he probably did. BUT, ALL politicians are guilty of making a choice that may not have been good for America. Hence, the patriot act. Just because it is law now does not mean that it will always hold that way. If we have someone in congress or the presidency and they manage to get some sort of wacked out bill passed that says it's against the law to walk and chew gum at the same time. Moments later, a cop pics someone up because of the new law. They get prosecuted, but this person also happens to be a person who can afford lawyers and all of a sudden the courts see this wacked out case coming at them and they vote 9:1 that the law is Unconstitutional...the law is now no longer a law. They don't even have to hear a case to pass judgement on it to my knowledge. Checks and Balances is what it's about. And if enough people don't like Bush, they will vote that their states electors go to another candidate.
I am a Christian just as much as the lady I once worked with was a Muslim. She wore garb (headress and tunic) to work and I knew she was muslim. I have on occasion brought my bible to read on my lunch hour and it sat on my desk. On those days as well as many others, people can look at me and figure out hey he's a Christian. Do you know that in both of these religions have no clause that says that they are exempt from going to hell for disregarding their religions tenets at work but following them outside of work? (not for sure about Islam, but I am sure about Chrisitianity). It would be wrong for Ashcroft and Bush to just cave and go ahead and accept things like Gay marriages and to negotiate with those who have already killed our people. I ain't saying that God said it was ok to go to war in Iraq either. I don't know what god had planned for them to do. Only they know what god has revealed to them in their prayers. I only hope, in the long run, that what they have done in Iraq proves worthwhile.
We in America are very tolerant of other people religions. 76 percent of this country is Christian so therfore they do get what seems like unfair advantages. What is the use of having anyone come to work on Christmas Day if 70 percent of the people that both work and 70 percent of your own customers are not going to be there? Hence the national Christmas holiday. Is it fair? No. But do we not allow you to follow yo
With NTP this will work. With DNS however I don't see it working. What if I want to have my own, isolated blocks of IP's that only resolve behind my firewall? Granted, this is NO form of security what so ever, but it's damn convenient.
I am salary and get OT pay. BTW, the rules just say that you don't have to give OT. They say nothing about taking it away or making me getting ot is against the law.....but many companies may interpret it that way.
Also to add more to your post....if the Uni has a AP in the building, then WHY would you need another AP? The only thing I think I would need one for is AirTunes.
First...Enterprise sucks for me because I can never see it because it is on the WORST channel there is. Second,I can see a better Star Trek, one that does not try to coddle the number 1 demographic. A Star Trek with great writing as well as great effects so to speak. It is possible. We have seen it with many very good episodes of TNG. My idea....
It can't be done in public school because some ninny will complain about it being taught to their kid. You can't teach any religion(or faith) because some will complain about it. IE if you try and teach a Muslim about Christianity boy you will get read the riot act by the parents. This can only be done in a private school....ergo maybe I DO think public schools should go and the government just fund 90 percent of your education thru grade 12. This way everyone gets what they want.
Um...how are you left holding the bag when RedHat IS a Linux distro with most of it GPL'd? Only thing you may miss is if the software you use is only available in RPM's and that most of your training may go around stuff that they have not GPL'd? And, last I checked, you can load RPM's not just on RedHat but Mandrake and even Debian. Your arguement does not hold wind. Linux is Linux whether it's Red Hat, SuSE or Debian. You can easily move stuff from one to the other and if RedHat fails, then someone else wil take their spot.
All true regarding Opensource. We DO happen to have a service contract with IBM and have had Linux deployed in the past here and there. As a whole though, AIX is very good and I would hate to loose things like HA and all of the just because of my own personal Linux or Mac OS X agenda. Would I love to run a farm full of Xserves? You bet but I can't justify using it in any part of our application suite right now. The IBM/AIX stuff works. If I were to choose a linux solution, I would probably go more towarsds Red Hat and after it has worked successfully, then and only then attempt to use Debian somewhere else. Debian also has it's issues regarding not being up to date in a lot of things, but they are up to date where it counts. I also need to be able to have some help as most IT folks are in making absolutly postive we have all of the issues that have patches patched. I am not saying Debian stinks there, they don't, but at least with Red Hat I can call IBM up and say hey do you know about this issue and they can either tell me yes or no or at least give me something to tell the bosses. With Debian, if I can't write the patch then I can be told to pund sand. With Red Hat, I won't get that.
sydb already replied to this but I will add something else in agreement with this poster. If you have to cut something, then cut it but don't do it because you THINK you can support the software. IBM both software and hardware support is some of the best support I have ever encountered. I would LOVE to just dump Debian PPC on one of my RS/6000's but it ain't happening. If we do do Linux on that platform it's going to be the one IBM supports (which I believe is SuSE). The work place is NOT the place to put your agenda in unless you have MASSIVE data proving it's going to work. Put it on something non critical and show them this non critical server with an incredible uptime or show them how many bytes it's pushed over time. Don't just try and bring Debian right in. Plus, you may find it difficult for IBM to support you if you have a hardware failure. IBM includes alot of diag tools that will help you find SPECIFIC problems in your hardware and those tools may not run on Debian.
Um.....where in the US Constitution does it say anything about separation of Church and State? Everyone purports that this item exists yet it does not. The reference everyone points out is Amendment one (part of the Bill of Rights). It follows below:
:) IN any case, being against taht does not have to mean we hate gay people. Far from it. It meagse wea re against that specific issue. No more, no less....yet people will ervert this.
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Notice it does NOT say anything about us not using things like "In God we Trust" and "With God, All Things are Possible"(which also happens to be in The Bible) in the things we do daily with our government and our government itself using such phrases. What everyone seems to forget is this is a government of the people and by the people. Right now, the majority of the people claim that they are Chrisitan or are some sect of Chrisitanity (Luthren, Baptist, Presbytarian, Catholic...whatever). When the majority claim they are atheist or Muslim, things can and do change. Religion is part of what makes a person. You hire a Muslim and they have to pray to Mecca certain times of the day and you are obligated to provide that yet Christians also do not get the same treatment yet we are the majority (all we need is a nice quiet space). Amendment I so often gets perverted to mean NO RELIGION yet that's not even why it was there for. The people who came to America were feeing Religious Persecution in England. They were sufferign at the hands of the Church of England where the King could change things on his whim. Amendment I is in the Constitution so that there is NO WAY that Congress or the President can create a Church of the United States of America and not so that there would be no religion at all. This is why its even in there. It's not there so people can whine about having "In God We Trust" on our money. In God We Trust is not establishing a Church! If you think it is, well, you need help.
Amendment I also covers my right to say this, my right to peacable (I say PEACEABLY..not NOISILY unlike some of the Bush protestors) assemble and the right to petition for redress of grievances which makes me wonder....is there a real petition (not a online one) for the repealing of the Patriot Act? It's our RIGHT to do this according to the 1st Amendment. If as many geeks would sign this as bitch about it, it would have already been repealed.
So many people will claim X is in the Constitution and Y isn't when they have never READ the Constitution. This and many other reasons of us just rolling over and letting the vocal minority speak out and get there way. This includes the MINORITY of gays who want to be like a man and a woman yet be man and man or woman and woman. Bush has stated it clearly....he IS against Gay Marriage, but not against Cival Unions. Personally, with all the trouble us heteros have with marriage I have no idea why Gays even want to mess with it!
IN any case, I am with the EFF on the main point of the frontpage story. Secret laws can never be followed and it looks like the ID check think is one of the "Secret" laws and or it may just be the airlines just using it's the LAW as an excuse. You COULD say that before, but now TSA runs the security show. Not whatever company the airlines hire. So what we all really need to know is is it a law? If it is, then we have no choice but to follow it until we get ir repealed!
True enough, but I am not so sure that private schools are willing to just drop a paying customer. ;) I'd be real interested in seeing some survey of private schools that investigate some of tehse issues.
Private schools DO have to do some minimum things so that the state recognizes it's graduates as High School graduates. Things like Math and reading...etc. That's the way it is in Ohio and I am sure many other states. Second, public schools themselves are under no obligation to have things like Art Classes or Music Classes (at least at the High School level). Private schools usually have these classes and more. Privates schools, especially religious ones, usually have additional requirements like, GASP....bible study. Prayer time. Maybe even praise and worhip time. Private schools are the answer to those who want prayer in school (but tell me what school does not have prayer before test time?...maybe not organised prayer but....:)). If I can afford it, my son will go to parochial school and the reason that is because I don't want him to have to struggle with things like not having X sneaker when I can only afford sneaker Z. Not having jean brand X when I can afford plain pockets. When all of the kids have to wear a uniform, those distractions are gone. Also, the teachers won't put up with the stuff that they do in public school either. Plus I want him to be brought up better then I was. I want him to know god at a earlier age so he does not struggle with the sins I have in the past. It's important for people to know what faith is....no matter what religion you are....even if your an atheist you still have somethings that you go on by hunches (on faith....). That cannot be donein public school nor should it.
Diabetes a disability? Explain that to my wife who works 20-30 hours a week AND 40+ taking care of a child and has diabetes. Wow...your right....that's messed up. Does this guy weigh 400+ pounds??
How do you explain that even though they get no tax subsidys, most private schools spend LESS per kid then the Public schools do?
Check this out
That article was talking about vouchers and the 3000 (only half of what it costs the public district which means the district KEEPS HALF!) voucher would almost PAY for MOST private schools. Sure, they are not the expensive primary equivalent of Yale, but most are better then 80 percent of the public schools.
Oh, and when I was in school, besides the Iowa tests, there was no state required test. The minute one was added, actual teaching went out the window and everything that students are being taught were about the tests. The test should TEST your knowledge not have your knowledge be the test.
No the problem is NOT that the parents are involved....it's that they are NOT involved in their children's life. They are too preoccuipied with getting that Beamer then making sure that Johnny does his homework.
That may or may not be the parent's fault. I have seen some parents who want to spend time with their kid, but can't because they have to go to work at 5 am to beat the traffic and they end up staying past 6 so they can avoid the traffic. Noone eats together any more (even my extended family has great difficulty getting thigns together during the holidays) and we spend many a off day at the office (if your in IT) so you can apply that patch during the downtime(doesn't happen much but it does happen).
I have also seem some parents who don't give a crap about their kids. They figure once they are old enough to go to school that it's the schools problem...but then they come back on the teachers and say don't punish my kid. What are teachers to do? First thing I will tell my son's teacher is that they have my permission to punish him. If he is in a fight, they can put their hands on him and break it up. That's fine by me.
Just curious, but if everything's working ok, do you still flash a BIOS when a new one comes out? Flashing the BIOS is the LAST thing I want to do and in 90 percent of the cases, I don't need to do it. Flashing BIOS is one other reason I switched to a Powerbook. It's not that I don't know how to do it, it's just noone has come up with a great way to make it work on all OS's the machine is capable of be it Linux or whatever.