You didn't say what size school it was, but a thousand students? That could be an entire school. So, some kid has told you that his entire school wants to get round the filtering and wants you to help. How are they going to advertise this service without alerting parents or teachers? How can you be sure that one talkative student isn't going to tell her parent's that she can get on MySpace because "some computer guy is helping them out"? How long do you think it'll take those parents to report you as an online MySpace sex pest?
Leave school stuff to school kids. If you really want to help them out, tell your friend about free proxies that he can find via google, or even better, TORpac. Even better still, tell the spoilt brats to wait until they get home. If you want to earn some more money, either work harder at your present job, or look for a new one.
I don't want to sound blunt, but there's better ways of making a living than facilitating kid's "social networking".
Read the article summary again, we're talking about the Earth -- not some fool's cheap stereo. She should buy half decent hifi and stop posting off topic rants, thus shielding us from this crap.
Sorry, but the breakthrough research that explained how some guy's hifi hummed was last week; you probably had a ground loop or something. But this week we're talking about the Earth; it's like your hifi, but more people care.
You're right of course; my university didn't need to buy a toughbook, but some sales swine had talked them into it. In situations mentioned by both yourself and others; in the military for specific purposes, down mines, etc, toughbooks are great. But for constantly updating software in an uncertain environment (that's an uncertain academic, not physical environment) they're too rigid and uncompromising.
Toughbooks have their merits, but if you want a general purpose computer and you don't know what you might be doing with it in two years time, buy something more disposable.
And finally, as to the poster who suggested that a failing laptop is not an option, even if you can get a cheap replacement, I'll just say that that situation is just as hopeless as an old laptop that won't run any modern software. In both instances I can't do what I want.
Their high price is the biggest problem with them, the second problem is their toughness. Sounds strange? Well, I had to use one of the bastards last summer. I was working for my university who had spend a few grand on a toughbook years a go. Of course, now it was too slow to run anything I wanted use, but there was no way the university was getting rid of it; it had cost a fortune and it hadn't broken. That made it useless.
If you want to use a laptop in a field over summer, buy the cheapest you can find and keep buying them every year. 5 years later you'll have spent less money (even if you break a couple and need to go buy some replacements) and you won't be stuck with an outdated, but perfectly functioning, computer.
Like most Slashdot readers I thought "I'll have one of those, it's free!". I'm not too surprised that it hasn't shown up yet, but I got an email confirming my request.
Of course, I could have downloaded it a hundred times by now, but although I'm interested in trying it at home, I'm in no particular rush.
bah, that's why there are editors. Hell if you read either of my two books you'd not have such high expectations for me.
You mean I'd have thought you were a small minded xenophobe who can't believe there's a world outside of the village and "keeping it in the family"? Don't worry! I got that impression from your previous post alone.
Register a.su domain? Have a quick look on google; there's plenty of registrars that'll happily take your cash in exchange for a.su. Better be quick though! If it gets axed you won't be getting any emails.
The week on Big Talk we've collected Britain's four best boffins to tell us which is better, PC or Mac. No debate, you're supposed to be intelligent, just tell me which one is better!
It would shorten the average slashdot article at least.
There's no comments yet and already the server won't send me the pictures from the article. The ultimate stress test? Running a webserver on a phone and front paging it on Slashdot.
Over the last week or so there's been a lot of Slashdot stories about spam, but I guess now it's cool!
1: Get your preppy nerd mates to spam google about your blog 2:Spam/. about your blog 3: ??????? 4: Profit!
Who cares if we have to wait an age to see if Google actually took your photograph? The important thing is that, as with most weekends, news articles are hard to come by and someone who probably describes themselves as "whacky" or "insane"* managed to spam Google and/.. Cool.
*If you're the type of person that introduces themselves as whacky, or insane, please feel insulted by this post. Thanks.
I do believe that the point will come when people will get sick of "coercive" gadgets.
I agree with you completely and look forward to this day. I love all things tech and gadgety, but my TV came out of a skip outside my house. As much as I love new media and the like, I try and stay as analogue as possible. There's no box in my house telling me what to do! Let's hope everyone gets as sick of it as we obviously have.
When you say "kill DRM" I think that "convince customers to buy the DRM update" is more accurate. DRM isn't going anywhere soon, not as long as people keep buying Vista et al because of its pretty graphics and the salesman's assurance that "it will make your computer better", or "Jimmy needs it to browse wikipedia". The same goes for whatever formats we'll be enjoying next.
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In communist Cuba, Stallman switches you!
You didn't say what size school it was, but a thousand students? That could be an entire school. So, some kid has told you that his entire school wants to get round the filtering and wants you to help. How are they going to advertise this service without alerting parents or teachers? How can you be sure that one talkative student isn't going to tell her parent's that she can get on MySpace because "some computer guy is helping them out"? How long do you think it'll take those parents to report you as an online MySpace sex pest?
Leave school stuff to school kids. If you really want to help them out, tell your friend about free proxies that he can find via google, or even better, TORpac. Even better still, tell the spoilt brats to wait until they get home. If you want to earn some more money, either work harder at your present job, or look for a new one.
I don't want to sound blunt, but there's better ways of making a living than facilitating kid's "social networking".
Read the article summary again, we're talking about the Earth -- not some fool's cheap stereo. She should buy half decent hifi and stop posting off topic rants, thus shielding us from this crap.
First post, on a story you submitted? You're all over this one! I've got a strange feeling that this day will forever be known as Matt Sparkes day.
Sorry, but the breakthrough research that explained how some guy's hifi hummed was last week; you probably had a ground loop or something. But this week we're talking about the Earth; it's like your hifi, but more people care.
Would you ride something called Mike?..
So DNS doesn't work? If their system is working as they intended, you'll get redirected no matter what browser you run on what platform.
The news would be pretty dull if I expected all of it. I guess that's why they call it "news".
When the summary said there was a picture, I didn't expect to see a blogger! I thought there'd be a windmill or something.
I think you're being a little unkind. Script is such a strong word...
You're right of course; my university didn't need to buy a toughbook, but some sales swine had talked them into it. In situations mentioned by both yourself and others; in the military for specific purposes, down mines, etc, toughbooks are great. But for constantly updating software in an uncertain environment (that's an uncertain academic, not physical environment) they're too rigid and uncompromising.
Toughbooks have their merits, but if you want a general purpose computer and you don't know what you might be doing with it in two years time, buy something more disposable.
And finally, as to the poster who suggested that a failing laptop is not an option, even if you can get a cheap replacement, I'll just say that that situation is just as hopeless as an old laptop that won't run any modern software. In both instances I can't do what I want.
Their high price is the biggest problem with them, the second problem is their toughness. Sounds strange? Well, I had to use one of the bastards last summer. I was working for my university who had spend a few grand on a toughbook years a go. Of course, now it was too slow to run anything I wanted use, but there was no way the university was getting rid of it; it had cost a fortune and it hadn't broken. That made it useless.
If you want to use a laptop in a field over summer, buy the cheapest you can find and keep buying them every year. 5 years later you'll have spent less money (even if you break a couple and need to go buy some replacements) and you won't be stuck with an outdated, but perfectly functioning, computer.
Toughbooks, I hate them.
Like most Slashdot readers I thought "I'll have one of those, it's free!". I'm not too surprised that it hasn't shown up yet, but I got an email confirming my request.
Of course, I could have downloaded it a hundred times by now, but although I'm interested in trying it at home, I'm in no particular rush.
You mean I'd have thought you were a small minded xenophobe who can't believe there's a world outside of the village and "keeping it in the family"? Don't worry! I got that impression from your previous post alone.
Register a .su domain? Have a quick look on google; there's plenty of registrars that'll happily take your cash in exchange for a .su. Better be quick though! If it gets axed you won't be getting any emails.
It would shorten the average slashdot article at least.
I've had mobile phones for a long time now, never has one performed like this. Neither did your v70 by the sounds of it!
I hate to disagree with you, but there's plenty of very old electronics in my house and I'm not going to put any of it in the bath.
There's no comments yet and already the server won't send me the pictures from the article. The ultimate stress test? Running a webserver on a phone and front paging it on Slashdot.
Over the last week or so there's been a lot of Slashdot stories about spam, but I guess now it's cool!
/. about your blog
/.. Cool.
1: Get your preppy nerd mates to spam google about your blog
2:Spam
3: ???????
4: Profit!
Who cares if we have to wait an age to see if Google actually took your photograph? The important thing is that, as with most weekends, news articles are hard to come by and someone who probably describes themselves as "whacky" or "insane"* managed to spam Google and
*If you're the type of person that introduces themselves as whacky, or insane, please feel insulted by this post. Thanks.
I know Microsoft told us that Vista was new and all, but I didn't know it was this new!
I like it! But, I was also thinking that he suffers from exploitable (pancreatic) overflows.
Bye bye karma...
I'm told he's the irreplaceable core of Apple inc, so I guess he's neither a bug nor a feature; he's Apple's Internet Explorer.
I agree with you completely and look forward to this day. I love all things tech and gadgety, but my TV came out of a skip outside my house. As much as I love new media and the like, I try and stay as analogue as possible. There's no box in my house telling me what to do! Let's hope everyone gets as sick of it as we obviously have.
When you say "kill DRM" I think that "convince customers to buy the DRM update" is more accurate. DRM isn't going anywhere soon, not as long as people keep buying Vista et al because of its pretty graphics and the salesman's assurance that "it will make your computer better", or "Jimmy needs it to browse wikipedia". The same goes for whatever formats we'll be enjoying next.
Grand Parent, unless I've made some awful mistake...
The Grand Parent of my original post on this topic was the parent to your post.
In short, I liked your post and didn't like the post you originally replied to.