University shifts from Windows PCs to Apple’s Macintosh
March 17, 2007
Wilkes University pulled the plug on PCs on its campus in favor of Apple’s Macintosh machines. Wilkes University is now being touted by Apple as one of the first American Colleges who acted in favor of a campus-wide shift from Windows PCs to Macs.
The move by Wilkes will save the Pennsylvania liberal arts college more than $150,000 through reduced inventory from nearly 1,700 computers to around 1,450. . According to Scott Byers, Vice President for Finance and Head of Campus IT,
” This is an aggressive technology refresh. We will be able to reduce the number of machines by about 250 campus wide, because labs and classrooms were typically outfitted with an inefficient PC-Mac mix. A class suitable for 30, for instance, might be equipped with 20 PCs and 20 Macs because each class and each department had its own preference for what computers and what software they liked to use. We think it will save $150,000 directly, in buying fewer units – even though the Macs cost more per unit than PCs ” he said.
The shift from Windows PCs to Apple Macs began last year after Apple announced its new Intel-based models and the introduction of Apple’s Boot Camp which allows people to have and run multiple Operating Systems such as Windows and Apple’s OS X on the same computer.
He also cited the additional security of Mac OS X, school-wide access to Apple’s iLife suite, and Apple’s operating system itself as side benefits. “It is, well, the superior OS, isn’t it?” said Byers, who before the switch was a dyed-in-the-wool Windows user.
Although the $1.4 million three-year switch – which started last year with the purchase of approximately 500 Macs – means Wilkes is all-Apple, students are free to choose any operating system, said Byers. “There’s no Mac mandate.”
Most of them pick one anyway: “This generation seems to prefer Macs,” he added.
source [ MacWorld UK ]
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Unmentionables: What you leave out of a resume is often more revealing than what you put in
March 5, 2007
Unmentionables: What you leave out of a resume is often more revealing than what you put in.
A resume tells a story. It’s an idealized tale of professional accomplishment, garnished with action verbs and tasks completed.
But this is a different kind of story, about a job that isn’t on my resume and a task that never was finished:
I spent ten days one June working on an organic farm in New Mexico. On the tenth day, the midday air shimmered with heat waves as I lifted my head to inspect the pathetic progress I had made. Four hours, four rows. Baby eggplants drooped in the glare. My work — loosening dry soil and pulling up weeds that threatened to dwarf the wee plants — made me tense. Jab too aggressively, and I risked severing the very plants I labored to help. Hold back, and I was practically inviting the weeds to take over. How, I wondered wearily, would I ever get through this acre of organic eggplants?
As it turned out, lunch brought all the answers I would need.
“I don’t think this is working out,” said Eremita, the owner of the organic farm I had pledged my services to as an “intern,” and one tough cookie. “You just aren’t getting it and I don’t have time to keep watching you.”
I had to admit that Eremita was right. I wasn’t getting it. The baby plants seemed unworthy of my heroic labors, and anyway, this was her farm, not mine. My only profit was an education (read: period of indentured servitude) in organic farming and free room and board.
We parted ways after lunch. I took one more look at the wavering field, wished the tiny plants well and hoped to meet them again in some late-summer eggplant parmesan.
Can it be a surprise that my brief dalliance with organic farming never made the cut onto my resume? Like a rotten tomato, my picturesque foray into rural New Mexico was heaved into my professional trash bin, to compost with many other career unmentionables.
Recently, as I was examining my resume, that most over-requested and overrated document of professional life, I noticed that most of what I consider the really interesting things that I’ve done are missing. Not just the eggplant farm (which represented a gutsy leap of faith that sadly turned sour), but the construction work stint, the dude ranch summer, the half-year on the Italian farm — all missing. In my effort to describe my journalism and publishing experience, I reluctantly forfeit the space and context to outline my unique experiences.
Interning at the Dallas Morning News and working at High Country News and the University of California Press are qualifying credentials for the kinds of writing and editing jobs I find myself applying for. It’s harder to evaluate the summer I spent driving a trash truck at nearly 10,000 feet in Colorado, or the month I spent helping to build a house out of straw bales.
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March 2, 2007
Smelly feet, cracked heels and scaly skin on your feet are a sign of improper hygiene and neglect. A good pedicure is a must before you slip on those open-toed, summer friendly flip flops again. Here is how you can get your feet smooth and soft, and in the comforts of your home or dorm room.
You WILL need
1. A heavy, rich moisturiser
2. A good pumice stone
3. Nail scissors
4. Nail Buffers
# 1. Before you begin the pedicure, remove old polish from your toenails.
# 2. Soak feet in warm water for 10 to 15 minutes.
# 3. Add epsom salts or any other commercial foot soak to the water. If nothing is around, a moisturising body or head shampoo will do
# 4. Once your feet become softer, clean them by scrubbing the heels and soles with the pumice stone. This step removes the hard, dead skin.
#5. Wash clean with cold water and dry your feet with a big, fluffy towel.
# 6. Now apply some lotion to moisturise your feet.
# 7. Cut and shape your toenails. Use a nail file to smooth the edges, including the sides.
#8. Push back your cuticles. Use a cuticle moisturiser, if they do not push back easily even after the hot water soak.
#9. Moisten a cotton ball and rub it over the toenails to remove any oily residue from the lotions used.
#10. Apply a basecoat, two coats of color and a thin topcoat of nailpolish. Be sure to allow at least a minute between each coat of enamel. Let your polish dry for a few hours before putting on close-toed shoes. Reapply the topcoat every three days after your pedicure. This keeps your polush from chipping.
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January 5, 2007
PCSTATS has a great virtual factory tour on how the Gigabyte motherboards are fully tested, packaged and shipped.
Picture # 1: Here we see Employees adding stickers and accessories to the box
The Complete work of Charles Darwin including Publications, Manuscrips and Biography
December 30, 2006
The largest collection of Darwin’s writings ever published appears on the website The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (http://darwin-online.org.uk/) from 19 October 2006. Never before has so much Darwin material, and so many rare and widely dispersed items, been brought together in one place and made available free of charge. This site currently offers more than 50,000 pages of searchable text and 45,000 images of both publications and transcribed manuscripts. Most of the materials are available both as fully formatted electronic text and colour images of the originals. Darwin’s works are also available as free machine-read audio mp3 files. The project, designed and directed by Dr John van Wyhe of Christ’s College, Cambridge, is hosted by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at the University of Cambridge. The launch marks the end of the first year of the three-year’s funding awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
The website also includes the largest Darwin bibliography ever produced, based on the work of R. B. Freeman, and the largest catalogue of manuscripts (with over 30,000 entries) ever published. More than 150 supplementary documents are also provided, from secondary reference works to contemporary reviews, obituaries, published descriptions of Darwin’s Beagle specimens and important related works for studying and understanding Darwin and his work. Each work containing illustrations or maps is provided with an overview page of thumbnail images allowing readers to see in seconds all the illustrations which are scattered throughout hundreds of pages. The thumbnails take readers directly to the larger version of the image in its context within the original work.
Visit the Complete Works of Charles Darwin here
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December 22, 2006
Reginald Pike’s Tim Piper & Yael Staav take us from model to billboard in under 60 seconds in this impressive new spot from Dove.
The messages the media send through their pictures tells “ordinary” women that they are always in need of adjustment and that the female body is an object that is to be perfected
Check out the evolution of a model from this
to this
AskStudent wishes all its readers a lot of luck for upcoming Finals Week
December 4, 2006
Its the final countdown… we have approached the final stretch of the Fall 2006 semester and a lot of the students across the country begin their Finals week either this week or next week.
Two of our own editors Ajit Gaddam and Alex Smith are in this mix too, studying up and finishing their projects and all…
On Behalf of the entire AskStudent team, we wish our readers
Good Luck on your Finals. Study hard and ace em all….
Make sure you read the tips below to prepare for this week
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