The Gateway One appears to be a formidable competitor for the Apple iMac. The entire front area of the computer is a speaker, the keyboard and seamless mouse are both wireless, it comes with a remote control for Windows Media Center and makes it easy to upgrade components such as storage and memory. If only Gateway new how to market such a nice product...
Dr. Sameer Verma teaches, educates, and uses open source products at San Francisco State University. He also maintains a drupal-powered website named Open Source @ SFSU. At the September Campus Computing Coordinating Council (CCCC) meeting he presented the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). Everyone got to touch and use an OLPC. Here are the slides from that presentation.
Labels: Google, GrandCentral, VoIP
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6 in 10 Americans
don't support the Iraq War.
So where are
the anti-war anthems
about Iraq?
Labels: KTVU
Default Route
A default route, also known as the gateway of last resort, is the network route used by a router when no other known route exists for a given IP packet's destination address. All the packets for destinations not known by the router's routing table are sent to the default route. This route generally leads to another router, which treats the packet the same way: If the route is known, the packet will get forwarded to the known route. If not, the packet is forwarded to the default-route of that router which generally leads to another router. And so on. Each router traversal adds a one-hop distance to the route.
Once the router with a known route to a host destination is reached, the router determines which route is valid by finding the "most specific match". The network with the longest subnet mask that matches the destination IP address wins.
The default route in IPv4 (in CIDR notation) is 0.0.0.0/0, often called the quad-zero route. Since the subnet mask given is /0, it effectively specifies no network, and is the "shortest" match possible. A route lookup that doesn't match anything will naturally fall back onto this route. Similarly, in IPv6 the default address is given by ::/0.
Routers in an organization generally point the default route towards the router that has a connection to a network service provider. This way, packets with destinations outside the organization's local area network (LAN)—typically to the Internet, WAN, or VPN—will be forwarded by the router with the connection to that provider.
Host devices in an organization generally refer to the default route as a default gateway which can be, and usually is, a filtration device such as a firewall or Proxy server.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_route
[ default route ]
With the help of an independent fact finding recommendation the California Faculty Association has a tentative deal with an effective 24% increase over 4 years.
[ SFSU ]
Labels: everythingtechnology
I'm happy to announce that I've just accepted not 1, not 2, but 3 new jobs; one each at Microsoft, Google, and Apple, Inc. While I will continue to fulfill my role as lead seat warmer at San Francisco State "Working Together to be a" University here are my new roles effective immediately:
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If I had to guess I would say that most flickr users don't know what Creative Commons (CC) is let alone that flickr makes it easy for them to apply CC licenses to their photos. That guess may or may not be true but what is interesting is the growth of CC licensed content. Note that Wikipedia can only use CC-BY and CC-BY-SA, which account for ~3.5M and ~2.5M photos, respectively.
Ref: http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/3507198/
[ CreativeCommons ]Labels: CreativeCommons, flickr
ArsGeek reports that a Linux+ Study Guide is now available. This may be a good primer for those moving to Ubuntu and other Linux distros.
[ linux ]Labels: linux, study guide
Labels: virtualization, Vista
Steve Jobs may be doing a great job of running Apple, Inc. but he sure doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to education. Speaking at an event sponsored by the Texas Public Education Reform Foundation he said unionization was "off-the-charts crazy" and compared schools to small companies with the principal analogous to the CEO. I would respectfully submit to Mr. Jobs that many of the problems come from management above the principal and go all the way up to the Governor. The district offices, the legislature, and the Governor are the ones who do the most harm to our education system and not the hard working teachers who put much more into their jobs than they receive in compensation.
Labels: education
There are some things about Windows Vista that I like but at this point they are few compared to the dislikes. The new volume licensing is a mess; the control panel would be simply unusable were it not for the search feature that was copied from OSX; the boot screen is a boring, ugly green progress bar something-or-other; and the glitches, glitches, glitches. I just can't stand those GLITCHES, GLITCHES, GLITCHES!
Do I dare even mention how chaty and annoying UAC is? Oh, and I still suffer the app that pops up in front while I'm typing only to be dismissed before I can read it because it thought one of the keys I pressed was meant for it. How sad.
So, are you one of the brave souls using Vista? Can you really find the single thing you dislike most about Windows Vista? I sure can't.
Labels: annoyances, Vista
[ Severud ]Labels: Expressoin Web, FrontPage, Office 2007, SharePoint
What changes are in store for the year ahead?
According to CBS5.com, 250 students may have been exposed to a person with an active case of tuberculosis and only "those who may have been exposed" have been told. Excuse me? What's sad is the communication to staff, faculty, and students about this did not occur. Instead, we get unsolicited emails from above about Israel/Palestine issues and the Governor's fabulous budget but not about this. Maybe it's management's way of saying "Happy Holidays".
Only those who have been exposed have been tested? How do they know who has been exposed? Did they ask me if I have been in the Psychology and Ethnic Studies building at the time this person was there? No. Were only students tested? Are faculty and staff immune to the bacterium? Maybe the asbestos we're inhaling protects us???
The silence is deafening.
[ tuberculosis ]
Labels: tuberculosis
This isn't the last release of Network Monitor but it's certainly a huge improvement over the last version and definately one to add to your toolbox. Go read more at Network Monitor : Network Monitor 3.0 has released!!
Have you ever read this blonde joke? If the answer is yes or no you may also want to bookmark del.icio.us.
[ humor ]Labels: Humor
vmwarez.com reports in Beware the long snapshot! of something to keep in mind if you use a snapshot of a Virtual Machine.
[ VMWare ]Labels: Virtual Machine, VMWare
Intel's doing its darnedest to thwart AMD by flooding the market with every possible processor configuration it can think of. At the low end is now the Pentium E series which is Conroe based but sans VT, Viiv, and vPro.
[ Intel ]
Look at the title above. Do you see a problem? Sever should be spelled "Server".
Recently, Microsoft issued a press release with that exact spelling mistake and later had to issue a correction. Too bad they weren't using Office 2007. If they had the new contextual speller would have caught the mistake for them. That's pretty cool.
[ Office2007 ]Labels: Contextual Speller, Office 2007
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