Saturday, June 28, 2008
Integrating Open Source Source Software in Schools
In the article I’ve read about Open Source there’s this question “What if the software become obsolete? Do we have to buy new software upgrades that cost us a lot? Or do we need to buy new softwares?” this may be difficult to us who do not own much money to buy or upgrade this softwares because it’s really expensive. But there is an alternative way to make it easy for us, by using Open Source softwares. What is Open Source software? It is free downloadable softwares developed and produced by companies to provide ways to make our lives easy that’s why it is called Open Source.How can our school gain advantage to these softwares? In my opinion our school will feel more comfortable contributing to Open Source because we are assured of these rights: The right to make copies of the program, and distribute those copies legally. This is because non Open Source softwares are illegal to make copies and distribute it freely. The right to have access to the software's source code, a necessary preliminary before we can change it. Although some Open Source do not include source codes of the program. We have the right to make improvements to the program. If you are familiar to the source code provided you can make changes to these and make improvements for your convenience. Thus this makes us in an advantage, because we will not be afraid of producing copies or editing it based on these rights. And as an individual we can make money out of these softwares. http://perens.com/OSD.html
Friday, June 20, 2008
"green campus computing"
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/enwr/ccs.html
http://www.uoregon.edu/~recycle/Conservation_computing_text.htm
http://www.p2000.umich.edu/energy_conservation/ec7.htm
As I read the content of this sites it tells us the growing and the functions of the Internet around the world and how it helps students, faculties, staff and administrators to be more effective in their studies and works. In my own idea, even in our school we can implement this kind of event or style because I believe that it is really important in our studies specially IT students. Even if we have limited resources or poor resources when in come to computers thus a faster internet connections can help us. But I think it is nice to have fully functional computers with complete hardwares and reliable softwares in our school to properly adopt this kind of strategy.As I first read the content I was shock to read that their campus has over 6000 computers on their campus, well I was thinking about my school’s computers! This URL talks about conserving and taking care of our mother nature in spite of our fast changing technology. In their campus they tried to reduce their waste to save nature and keep it green. Well I think that’s a good idea to be implemented in our school also. And how we will gonna do that? Its simple as this site tell us the exact ways to conserve nature. First in order to make sure the computer you buy is environmentally friendly, ask if the manufacturer has adopted these Silicon Principles, and ask about what steps have been taken to implement them. Next as we all know that when the demand is high, the supply should also high to provide the needs of demand. Thus as the number computers rises, the resources necessary to run these computers will also rise. These resources include electricity, paper, toner cartridges, floppy disks, and other peripheral devices. Still, it's possible to minimize this impact using some very simple means. So you need to conserve electricity by turning off the pc if not in use, save paper by printing necessary documents. So how our school gonna help the environment using our computers? Computers can send reports or emails to our government if you see some abuses around you especially in our nature. So in even if computers have great impact to our mother nature we can minimized it to keep it clean and green.
http://www.uoregon.edu/~recycle/Conservation_computing_text.htm
http://www.p2000.umich.edu/energy_conservation/ec7.htm
As I read the content of this sites it tells us the growing and the functions of the Internet around the world and how it helps students, faculties, staff and administrators to be more effective in their studies and works. In my own idea, even in our school we can implement this kind of event or style because I believe that it is really important in our studies specially IT students. Even if we have limited resources or poor resources when in come to computers thus a faster internet connections can help us. But I think it is nice to have fully functional computers with complete hardwares and reliable softwares in our school to properly adopt this kind of strategy.As I first read the content I was shock to read that their campus has over 6000 computers on their campus, well I was thinking about my school’s computers! This URL talks about conserving and taking care of our mother nature in spite of our fast changing technology. In their campus they tried to reduce their waste to save nature and keep it green. Well I think that’s a good idea to be implemented in our school also. And how we will gonna do that? Its simple as this site tell us the exact ways to conserve nature. First in order to make sure the computer you buy is environmentally friendly, ask if the manufacturer has adopted these Silicon Principles, and ask about what steps have been taken to implement them. Next as we all know that when the demand is high, the supply should also high to provide the needs of demand. Thus as the number computers rises, the resources necessary to run these computers will also rise. These resources include electricity, paper, toner cartridges, floppy disks, and other peripheral devices. Still, it's possible to minimize this impact using some very simple means. So you need to conserve electricity by turning off the pc if not in use, save paper by printing necessary documents. So how our school gonna help the environment using our computers? Computers can send reports or emails to our government if you see some abuses around you especially in our nature. So in even if computers have great impact to our mother nature we can minimized it to keep it clean and green.
Blink 182
One of the most well known punk rock band is Blink 182. The band
started in early 1992 composed with the vocalist and guitarist TomDeLonge and drummer Scott Raynor, who later recruited vocalist andbassist Mark Hoppus. The first name of their band is “Blink” but lateron their career they appended “182” following an objection from theIrish band of the same name. Later on Scott Raynor was replaced byTravis Barker. Blink 182 sold over 22 million records and have a cultfollowing their lead. They created 5 albums which includes 1994:Cheshire Cat, 1997: Dude Ranch (Platinum), 1999: Enema of the State (5xPlatinum), 2001: Take off Your Pants and Jacket (2x Platinum) , 2003:Blink-182 (Platinum) .
started in early 1992 composed with the vocalist and guitarist TomDeLonge and drummer Scott Raynor, who later recruited vocalist andbassist Mark Hoppus. The first name of their band is “Blink” but lateron their career they appended “182” following an objection from theIrish band of the same name. Later on Scott Raynor was replaced byTravis Barker. Blink 182 sold over 22 million records and have a cultfollowing their lead. They created 5 albums which includes 1994:Cheshire Cat, 1997: Dude Ranch (Platinum), 1999: Enema of the State (5xPlatinum), 2001: Take off Your Pants and Jacket (2x Platinum) , 2003:Blink-182 (Platinum) .
Amber Pacific
Amber Pacific is a pop punk band formed in 2002. They released their first album “The Possibility and the Promisein” in 2005 and Truth in Sincerity in 2007. The current members are Will Nutter - guitar, backing vocals, keyboards (2002–Present), Greg Strong - bass (2003–Present), Dango - drums (2004–Present). Two of my favorites in their songs are “Poetically Pathetic” and “Thoughts before me”.
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