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Comment Re:Shiny Object Syndrome (Score 1) 293

I work for one of the companies that does the *large* proxies for education.

Until iOS 4 even the Apple apps don't use proxies correctly, with iOS 4 apps *can*, but pretty much *don't* use them.

The big problem with this is people buying tech and just expecting it to work. Sure this *should* be the case, but it's not, and people seem to have grasped that about PC OS', why not other devices that try to use the Internet.

Hardware

Oscilloscopes For Modern Engineers? 337

Every few years someone asks this community for advice on oscilloscopes. Reader dawning writes "I've just graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering (and did a Comp Sci one while I was at it) and I'm finding myself woefully under-equipped to do some great hardware projects. I'm in major need of a good oscilloscope. I'm willing to put down $2,000 for a decent one, but there are several options and they all seem so archaic and limited. I'm happy to use something that must be controlled through a PC if that gives me more measuring features. What would you, my esteemed Slashdot colleagues, get for yourself?"

Comment Re:huh? (Score 1) 196

Yes.

Seriously you could put a bid in to have it in a field in Texas, and, if you're the best bid they'd give you the conf.

I was on the 2008 team, and putting on a conf to the level LCA does is a huge amount of work, so if you can bid and do it you have a real chance.

Of course not being in Australia (or New Zealand) makes it very expensive for those people to attend, so unless you can find a sponsor for flights you really aren't likely win for LCA2012 in Texas.

Comment Re:Statistics? (Score 1) 144

I also run several large Australian educational networks, and while a little low that figure is believable.

Only this year have several of them started upgrading above 100Mbit.

Also the QLD system doesn't do *every* school, it might do every *public* school but that's less then two thirds of the total number of schools.

Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft release their ASP.NET MVC as open source

blowdart writes: Since its initial release the Microsoft MVC package has been free (as in gratis) with the source available on Microsoft's own open source hosting platform, CodePlex. Scott Guthrie blogged yesterday that it was now licensed under the MS-Pl, an OSI approved open source license. The MS-Pl has no platform restrictions and provides broad rights to modify and redistribute the source code. It's another example of toe dipping into open source with developer tools and platforms, MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) is another .NET Framework component that's MS-PL, as is the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime), IronRuby, the Ajax Control Toolkit and Silverlight Toolkit. WiX, a toolset to write install packages, is licensed under the Common Public License.

Is this now the start of a trend, with a major platforms released under an open source license? Does it make sense for developer tools to be open sourced without affecting their core business of selling operating systems and software?

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