I've been using an SMC reouter for the past few years, alternately with Comcast & with Verizon DSL. Internally, we have a linux laptop (Debian Etch 2.6.20) and two mac G5s. The macs & laptop take turns losing network- interestingly often not at the same time.
I hardly ever have to reboot the router. I do have to restart the Comcast cable modem about once a month (they actually recommend this) and I occasionally have to restart networking on one or more of the user boxes. Looking at my resolv.conf I found that Comcast changes nameservers on occasion even when the external IP stays the same. Weirdly, the SMC picks up the new info, but doesn't pass it on to the boxes unless I do a dhcp reset.
The other weird thing that I've seen with Comcast is that it occasionally converts some of the IP name resolutions for sites I use most often to IN-ADDR.ARPA addresses. It does this often enough with some of my most-used sites that I manually added them into my/etc/hosts.
Since doing that, I find that I "lose" network less often. I suspect that many of the incidents I had experienced as network failures were actually name resolution failures.
Everyone who already pointed out that we're talking about high school level is right on target. Really what's important at this stage is to learn the principles of what design is, how to see with a critical eye, how to see with an artistic eye, and how to render what you see in a way that resonates with viewers. All of this can be done with a pencil. In my high school design class, that's all we had -- pencils and graph paper.
So now I own a web development company, and we use both Gimp & Photoshop pretty interchangeably. Not so very different from high school, the majority of the work we do with photos and design elements is really basic and hasn't changed much since the first version of the Gimp I used almost 10 years ago. Ok, I like the non-free extensions, and there are certainly features of CS3 that make our work prettier (and easier) but the truth is, we would never succeed as a design firm without talent. And you can't get that from software.
To answer the question directly, I'd make both PS7 and the Gimp available and show the commonalities between them. That way the kids will learn how to use the tools, but more importantly they'll learn how to learn a new tool, so whatever version of whichever program they get handed when they get their first design gig they will be able to use it to apply the solid foundation in design theory that should be the core of what you teach them.
The sidebar "Social Gun Toe" is also telling. Maybe this was actually a shooting death - the bullet fracturing ribs and spine while concurrently deflected by the hapless cell phone, which melted under the strain of the impact. Where is David Caruso when we need his ace detecting skills...
"The components are being licensed under Microsoft's permissive license..."
"To prove his point, Abrams opened up a Virtual PC window where he was running Ubuntu Linux and demonstrated how ASP.NET AJAX could run well on Ubuntu's local server."
Interesting that Microsoft's "permissive license" allows running Linux in a virtual environment with no restrictions, but for a Linux user to run Vista in a virtual environment requires purchase of their most expensive license.
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I've been using an SMC reouter for the past few years, alternately with Comcast & with Verizon DSL. Internally, we have a linux laptop (Debian Etch 2.6.20) and two mac G5s. The macs & laptop take turns losing network- interestingly often not at the same time.
I hardly ever have to reboot the router. I do have to restart the Comcast cable modem about once a month (they actually recommend this) and I occasionally have to restart networking on one or more of the user boxes. Looking at my resolv.conf I found that Comcast changes nameservers on occasion even when the external IP stays the same. Weirdly, the SMC picks up the new info, but doesn't pass it on to the boxes unless I do a dhcp reset.
The other weird thing that I've seen with Comcast is that it occasionally converts some of the IP name resolutions for sites I use most often to IN-ADDR.ARPA addresses. It does this often enough with some of my most-used sites that I manually added them into my /etc/hosts.
Since doing that, I find that I "lose" network less often. I suspect that many of the incidents I had experienced as network failures were actually name resolution failures.
Everyone who already pointed out that we're talking about high school level is right on target. Really what's important at this stage is to learn the principles of what design is, how to see with a critical eye, how to see with an artistic eye, and how to render what you see in a way that resonates with viewers. All of this can be done with a pencil. In my high school design class, that's all we had -- pencils and graph paper.
So now I own a web development company, and we use both Gimp & Photoshop pretty interchangeably. Not so very different from high school, the majority of the work we do with photos and design elements is really basic and hasn't changed much since the first version of the Gimp I used almost 10 years ago. Ok, I like the non-free extensions, and there are certainly features of CS3 that make our work prettier (and easier) but the truth is, we would never succeed as a design firm without talent. And you can't get that from software.
To answer the question directly, I'd make both PS7 and the Gimp available and show the commonalities between them. That way the kids will learn how to use the tools, but more importantly they'll learn how to learn a new tool, so whatever version of whichever program they get handed when they get their first design gig they will be able to use it to apply the solid foundation in design theory that should be the core of what you teach them.
The sidebar "Social Gun Toe" is also telling. Maybe this was actually a shooting death - the bullet fracturing ribs and spine while concurrently deflected by the hapless cell phone, which melted under the strain of the impact. Where is David Caruso when we need his ace detecting skills...
"The components are being licensed under Microsoft's permissive license..."
"To prove his point, Abrams opened up a Virtual PC window where he was running Ubuntu Linux and demonstrated how ASP.NET AJAX could run well on Ubuntu's local server."
Interesting that Microsoft's "permissive license" allows running Linux in a virtual environment with no restrictions, but for a Linux user to run Vista in a virtual environment requires purchase of their most expensive license.
Did anyone else notice this in the source??
/* normalizes ie and ff, else ie sees an additional top margin */
document.write("");
Seems they have the same problems the rest of us have in building sites that actually work in IE...