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The ‘good old days’ never were. The supposedly placid past, a superb new history book reminds us, was just as jarring as the disruptive present

By Robert J. Samuelson
Newsweek- Nov. 29 issue

Picture yourself in the mid-1840s. It’s an exciting time. Fifteen years earlier, railroads barely existed. In 1830 there were only 23 miles of track. By 1840, there were 2,818; by 1850, 9,021. Steamboats ply major rivers—another recent development. In 1844 Samuel Morse had introduced the telegraph by sending this message from Washington to Baltimore:

“What hath God wrought!” For some, it was all too much. “The world is going too fast,” wrote one old-timer, a 69-year-old former mayor of New York named Philip Hone. “Railroads, steamers, packets, race against time … Oh, for the good old days of heavy post coaches and speed at the rate of six miles an hour!”
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BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and WinXX PCs and laptops to a server’s disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

Mondo - Mondo is reliable. It backs up your GNU/Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW, NFS or hard disk partition. In the event of catastrophic data loss, you will be able to restore all of your data [or as much as you want], from bare metal if necessary. Mondo is in use by Lockheed-Martin, Nortel Networks, Siemens, HP (US and France), IBM, NASA’s JPL, the US Dept of Agriculture, dozens of smaller companies, and tens of thousands of users.
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SysAdmin to SysAdmin: SysAdmins in academia

By: Brian Jones

The job of a system and network administrator in academia differs wildly from the job in a corporate environment. Over the past few weeks I have contacted other administrators who have worked in both environments in an effort to make a comparison between the two. I’ve received a lot of feedback from admins all over the country. I hope that you find the results as interesting as I did.

After reading the email I received, I found that the basis for comparison revolved around three main areas, which I’ve broken down below.
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I ran across this today and will have to try it out soon. From the Davenport web site, “Davenport is a servlet which provides a WebDAV gateway to SMB shared resources. Typical usage would be to provide web-based read and write access to Windows shared drives.”

http://davenport.sourceforge.net/

by Scott Belford

We are slowly acquiring a good deal of experience in approaching schools with the benefits of an Open Source Software lab. In a recent presentation at an ilearning conference for our Department of Education, I think I finally found the zone.
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db Wiz 2 - the ntext step in Federated Searching

Presented by Kevin Stranack, SFU

dbWiz2 has been focused on interfaces for over 300 databases.

Target date for completing dbWiz2 is the end of this accademic year. It would be a stand alone product, the work on dbWiz3 would begin.

The URL for the project is: http://dbwiz.lib.sfu.ca/dbwiz/

Incoming Student Computer Survey
UVic Faculty of Law
2004/2003 Comparison

(here is a link to the PDF version of the survey results)

Wireless Laptop owner ship by incoming first year students rose from 66% to 75% this year. The percentage of students with no laptop and no home Computer also declined from 7% to 3%. There was a comment asking if there could be a secure area to store laptops in at the law school so they don’t have to be lugged around all the time (You would think lockers would serve this purpose? Do we need more lockers?)
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