Chris Hocking
Get involved and share your knowlege. You know more than me and i know more than you. Lets know the same!
Thursday 27 December 2007, 5:33 PM
Problem with governments IT future
There are many reasons why government organizations IT standards are poor. I however don’t see how they intend to resolve these issues.
One way in which they could do this is to have a government academy where they would take the best performers in colleges such as mine and fund them to use them for the future.
Take myself for example I work full time and go to university to further my career in IT. I pay £3000 a year plus the cost of living. Yet with current education the government will happily pay for an idiot to do a course they are going to fail or never take anything onboard from, rendering said person un employable. But they are happy to do this and then pay them benefits for the rest of their adult life. Someone like me who has the ability is trodden on. If there were such an academy where you received accommodation and learning and then had to work for the government for say six years they would have a chance in the long term.
Sunday 9 December 2007, 8:13 PM
Computer Science At the London Science Museum
This Saturday i decided to take a trip to the Science Museum for some inspiration for an assignment. When i got there i was pretty disappointed, I'm not saying it wasn't interesting because it was. There some excellent Charles Babbage Machines and Pegasus that was about it. The biggest issue i have taken away with me is although this was interesting to me it would have been boring for any potential Computer Scientists on a school trip for the day.
It just wasn't exciting or engaging for youngsters like say the section on energy. It has eye catchers, interactive activities and what is being looked for in the future. If i were ten I'd want to be looking at the future of energy.
I believe the reason this was successful is largely to do with the fact that it had sponsorship from BP and Shell who are obviously looking to amaze and inspire. This didn't appear to be the case for computer science. I think it could really benefit from a quality sponsor who are able to showcase the further of computing as well as the past and present.
Thursday 6 December 2007, 3:50 PM
Helpfull Tools That ar Handy to Have
This is only the beginning so don't be disappointed. What i have decided to do is share with everyone some of my favorite tools, it consists of a c cleaner and Spybot download but i will be adding more useful tools. So keep checking :
http://chrishocking.20m.com/box_widget.html
Tuesday 4 December 2007, 12:57 PM
Suse Linux 10.3 I Beleive In You
Recently as I may have mentioned, I have been trying to put Suse Linux 10.3 through its paces and establish whether it is a viable option for my companies needs.
I have so far managed to install it on a laptop which until today has been stationed at our Heathrow offices. Its looking very good I’m on the domain and able to map to files on our file server which is key, however when it comes to being able to see printers on the Microsoft network it’s a real struggle. In fact I can’t connect to a network printer only locally. I had started off using gnome but network functionality was poor so I have swapped it for kde which is much better but still no joy with gaining access to network printers.
Now I come to today. Although it is only likely that my company would look to use it on desktops that would never move I happen to have come to another office to day and want to see if I can join that domain. I think my biggest problem in these offices is there is no DHCP I may be wrong but I think this is why I cannot successfully join the domain. However I tried everything I could think of to join the domain (obviously I have added everything that needs to be in place manually) but no luck.
My two Questions from this therefore are:
1. Does anybody know how to print through a printer on a Microsoft network
2. Not too important but does having no DHCP present create any issues joining a windows domain from Linux.
