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Doesn’t surprise me. Our high school was rated for 1200 students. Right now it has 1600. Voters approved building a second high school two years ago. Estimated cost was 50 million dollars. (At the time the student population was 1500, IIRC, and estimated to be 2000 in 4 years.) Then they took part of the money the voters approved & remodeled the current high school. Then they went back to the voters & asked for another 12 million dollars to build the second high school Then they dedicated part of the money for the new high school to artwork. Then they went back to the voters & asked for another 10 million dollars to build the new high school. Final plan for the new high school was for it to hold 1200 students-not bad if their earlier estimates had been accurate, but a little big for the reality.

Guess what? Last May, in a special election, the voters voted *against* building the new high school they’d approved 2 years ago. Wonder why this so shocked the authorities? Especially after they announced that they were laying off several teachers due to a budget shortfall. (If they had handled the planning correctly they wouldn’t have needed to hire more teachers for the new school-unless they intended to reduce the average class size, in which case they’d need to hire more teachers whether they built the new school or not. In the plan they worked out however, they planned on duplicating a number of ‘special’ teachers like foreign languages. Never mind that there would only be enough foreign language students in each school to occupy those teachers only part of the day, it was still ‘necessary’ that each school have its own full-time teacher. No wonder the vote went against them.)

Some cable ISP’s (mine, for example) provide multiple IP addresses so you don’t need your own router. OTOH a router is/can be cheap enough to make having your own worthwhile even if you don’t ‘need’ it. (It gives you more control, better protection, etc.)

Also, I found out recently that some wireless routers require a wired connection for configuration. If you go wireless I would definitely have a wired connection somewhere. (I have an Ethernet port in my notebook so my ‘wired’ connection is just a patch cable. When I need the wired connection I carry my notebook over to the router & plug it in.)

Some cable ISP’s (mine, for example) provide multiple IP addresses so you don’t need your own router. OTOH a router is/can be cheap enough to make having your own worthwhile even if you don’t ‘need’ it. (It gives you more control, better protection, etc.)

Also, I found out recently that some wireless routers require a wired connection for configuration. If you go wireless I would definitely have a wired connection somewhere. (I have an Ethernet port in my notebook so my ‘wired’ connection is just a patch cable. When I need the wired connection I carry my notebook over to the router & plug it in.)

Good checklist. Only argument I have is your specification of a USB port. AFAIK what’s needed is a NIC. The NIC might be USB, or it might not. Or maybe I’m missing something?

Good checklist. Only argument I have is your specification of a USB port. AFAIK what’s needed is a NIC. The NIC might be USB, or it might not. Or maybe I’m missing something?

You know best what work you do on this machine, what programs you run, etc. but a 780MB pagefile seems rather large to me. If I were to put mine on a separate partition (which I don’t because it wastes too much space) I’d probably make the partition no larger than 750MB. My pagefile is normally 120MB, ballooning to slightly under 400MB when I’m running more tasks than usual.

You know best what work you do on this machine, what programs you run, etc. but a 780MB pagefile seems rather large to me. If I were to put mine on a separate partition (which I don’t because it wastes too much space) I’d probably make the partition no larger than 750MB. My pagefile is normally 120MB, ballooning to slightly under 400MB when I’m running more tasks than usual.

From my position, which includes volunteer maintenance of several web sites, the biggest problem with this Tech is part of what you’ve mentioned-taking down the old site before the new one was ready. Is it possible that there was a requirement to build the new site on the same hardware as was running the old one? That’s still not a very good explanation/excuse, but if that was a requirement it might explain why he took it down. (For my work I ‘test build’ the new site on my own hardware when I have this problem. Then I do take the old site down before putting up the new. But the longest I’ve had a site down for this was 3 days.)

Yes, security & hackers are a major problem-although it depends on what services you run, too. (Windows has far too many services enabled by default-and even worse, some that you disable are re-enabled when you apply an update. So not only is it more difficult to set up securely than most Linux distros, but you also need to keep re-checking it. Not that that’s a bad idea for any security, but sometimes-particularly with a volunteer effort-you just don’t have the time.)

From my position, which includes volunteer maintenance of several web sites, the biggest problem with this Tech is part of what you’ve mentioned-taking down the old site before the new one was ready. Is it possible that there was a requirement to build the new site on the same hardware as was running the old one? That’s still not a very good explanation/excuse, but if that was a requirement it might explain why he took it down. (For my work I ‘test build’ the new site on my own hardware when I have this problem. Then I do take the old site down before putting up the new. But the longest I’ve had a site down for this was 3 days.)

Yes, security & hackers are a major problem-although it depends on what services you run, too. (Windows has far too many services enabled by default-and even worse, some that you disable are re-enabled when you apply an update. So not only is it more difficult to set up securely than most Linux distros, but you also need to keep re-checking it. Not that that’s a bad idea for any security, but sometimes-particularly with a volunteer effort-you just don’t have the time.)

Very interesting. It would appear that they only consider information to be citable is it’s printed. Publishing on the Web would appear to be a no-no in their opinion. Not very progressive, are they?

Very interesting. It would appear that they only consider information to be citable is it’s printed. Publishing on the Web would appear to be a no-no in their opinion. Not very progressive, are they?

For cooking, there are salt substitutes that you use just like you use salt. The one my wife & I use is potassium chloride (Morton’s Salt Substitute).

For eating out we request low salt preparation. We usually get it. Not only do we not return to those places that “can’t provide low salt meals” but we also tell our friends, either way. (I don’t think we’re all that influential but the restaurant business around here is very competitive.)

For cooking, there are salt substitutes that you use just like you use salt. The one my wife & I use is potassium chloride (Morton’s Salt Substitute).

For eating out we request low salt preparation. We usually get it. Not only do we not return to those places that “can’t provide low salt meals” but we also tell our friends, either way. (I don’t think we’re all that influential but the restaurant business around here is very competitive.)

I’m not sure what locally grown has to do with your objection to Picked Fresh. Since the phrase refers to the condition at the time of picking, and not at the time of sale, it would be perfectly applicable to both locally grown & non-locally grown produce if it meant anything. But regarding its meaning, please tell me how you could pick something without it being fresh? (That’s not a rhetocical question-some of you have such ingenious imaginations that I can’t wait to see what you come up with.)

IMO Fresh Packed is different from Packed Fresh. Perhaps Fresh Packed would refer to items that are packed on the premises, just like Fresh Baked would? (We have a couple of local packing plants where you can get ‘Fresh Packed’ salmon and it really is Fresh Packed. But I think that’s the exception rather than the rule.)

I’m not sure what locally grown has to do with your objection to Picked Fresh. Since the phrase refers to the condition at the time of picking, and not at the time of sale, it would be perfectly applicable to both locally grown & non-locally grown produce if it meant anything. But regarding its meaning, please tell me how you could pick something without it being fresh? (That’s not a rhetocical question-some of you have such ingenious imaginations that I can’t wait to see what you come up with.)

IMO Fresh Packed is different from Packed Fresh. Perhaps Fresh Packed would refer to items that are packed on the premises, just like Fresh Baked would? (We have a couple of local packing plants where you can get ‘Fresh Packed’ salmon and it really is Fresh Packed. But I think that’s the exception rather than the rule.)