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Comment A very expensive router (Score 1) 192

Back in the day, I worked in many school districts in East Texas. This brings back memories.

We sold a device that was basically a router that you can get for $50 today. That wasn't the case back then.

We developed a solution built into a rack mount case with multiple ethernet cards in it. We ran linux and controlled everything with iptables. It cost the school district $10,000, but it did everything they needed and was much cheaper than a lot of the other options out at the time.

Then the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (TIF) money dried up and they couldn't afford to pay anyone to help. I did free work to help these high school lunch districts keep these running for years until I could tell them to just go buy a consumer device.

Comment As a corporate user.... (Score 1) 100

As a corporate user, I find it is just easier to run Windows on my work laptop. Almost all of my work is done on AIX and Linux servers via SecureCRT. I don't have issues with any of the required, Windows only, apps that we have. I know there are workarounds for a lot of this, but our security policies keep us pretty locked down due to the sensitive nature of our work.

There are some that use Macs, but many of them seem to struggle. We have a Mac Support team space that is always abuzz with people having issues with basic apps. There is no such space for Windows users.

Now at home, that's completely different.

Comment Re:"Bottom of the Barrel" (Score 4, Informative) 129

Uh, it says so right there in the statement from NASA.

But the report said the problems at Michoud are largely due to a âoelack of a sufficient number of trained and experienced aerospace workers at Boeing,â which it said was âoein part due to Michoudâ(TM)s geographical location in New Orleans and lower employee compensation relative to other aerospace competitors.â

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