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Is your team looking at the cloud version or a local install?

If latter would suggest checking current version of LibreOffice (which is Collabra Office Classic) as a local (i.e. on client computer) install. If former, then I'd imagine you will have to fill the form in to get access.

Edit: https://hackernews.hn/item?id=46901100 Another commenter has summarised the differences between Collabora Office and Collabora Office Classic (aka LibreOffice) for us


Small, medium and large colleges in the UK ran on Novell servers and 386 client machines with windows for workgroups and whatever Office they came with. I think the universities were using unixy minicomputers then though. Late 80s early 90s. Those 386 machines were built like tanks and survived the tender ministrations of hundreds of students (not to mention some of the staff).

My 32 bit laptop is a Thinkpad T42 from 2005 which has a functioning CDROM, and which can run Slackware15 stable 32bit install OKish, so I haven't tried any of this but:

My first thought: How about using a current computer to run qemu then mounting the Lenny iso as an image and installing to a qemu hard drive? Then dd the hard drive image to your 32bit target. (That might need access to a hard drive caddy depending on how you can boot the 32bit target machine, so a 'hardware regress' I suppose).

My second thought: If target machine is bootable from a more recent live linux, try a debootstrap install of a minimal Lenny with networking (assuming you can connect target machine to a network, I'm guessing with a cable rather than wifi). Reboot and install more software as required.


I have OpenBSD running on my old 2004 Centrino notebook (I might be lagging 2-3 versions behind, I don't really use it, just play around with it) and it's fine until you start playing YouTube videos, that is kinda hard on the CPU.

Yes, NetBSD and OpenBSD work fine on the 2005 T42 but as you say video performance is low. Recent OpenBSD versions have had to reduce the range of binary packages (i.e. outside of the base and installed with pkg_add) on i386 because of the difficulty of compiling them (e.g. Firefox, Seamonkey needing dependencies that are hard to compile on i386, a point the poster up thread made).

My ~/yt-dlp.conf:

    #inicio de fichero
    --format=bestvideo[height<=?480][fps<=?30]+bestaudio/best
     #fin de fichero
My ~/.config/mpv/config

#inicio

      ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?480][fps<=?30]+bestaudio/best
      ao=sndio
      vo=gpu,xv
      audio-pitch-correction=no
      quiet=yes
      pause=no
      profile=fast
      vd-lavc-skiploopfilter=all
      #demuxer-cache-wait=yes
     #demuxer-max-bytes=4MiB
     #fin
Usage: mpv $YOUTUBE_URL

Upgrade ASAP.


Quote from OA

"TYCO Print is a printing service where professors can upload course files for TYCO to print out for students as they order. Shorter packets can cost around $20, while longer packets can cost upwards of $150 when ordered with the cheapest binding option."

And later in OA it states that the cost to a student is $0.12 per double sided sheet of printing.

In all of my teaching career here in the UK, the provision of handouts has been a central cost. Latterly I'd send a pdf file with instructions and the resulting 200+ packs of 180 sides would be delivered on a trolley printed, stapled with covers. The cost was rounding error compared to the cost of providing an hour of teaching in a classroom (wage costs, support staff costs, building costs including amortisation &c).

How is this happening?


Two things

Public universities are always underfunded.

Universities can get more money by putting the cost on the students and then they cover it with gov grants and loans.


Except, Yale is a private university, not public, while very few universities in the UK are private (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Private_universities_... lists 8 and https://studying-in-uk.org/private-universities-in-uk/ lists 11) so 2b3a51 almost certainly means public college teaching experience in the UK.


your first link implies the definitions of "private" are different.


Do you think the statement 'Public universities are always underfunded' is relevant when asking how it is that Yale, a private university in the US, requires fees for photocopies of class materials, while in UK universities that appears uncommon?

Yale is private. That comment is therefore not relevant to Yale.

Either the UK experience is with private schools, in which case the statement is irrelevant, or it is with public schools, in which case the statement is either wrong or irrelevant.


> Either the UK experience is with private schools, in which case the statement is irrelevant, or it is with public schools

Amused by your use of two more terms that have different meanings in the UK (although young people are confusing things by adopting the American meanings)!

The point is that British universities are almost entirely private institutions that get a lot government funding, in particular for British students (so they pay much lower tuition fees) and research.

There is a heavy reliance on government funding at British universities so they are probably to some extent comparable to American public universities. On the other hand some have substantial resources of their own. They can also turn down government funding, and some have threatened too at times when unhappy with the terms that come with it.

Given that Yale seems to have had a serious funding gap last year because the government reduced funding it seems comparable to what your sources call a "public" university in the UK

> Either the UK experience is with private schools, in which case the statement is irrelevant, or it is with public schools, in which case the statement is either wrong or irrelevant.

Yale has far more money than any British university so regardless of how you classify them, the question of why Yale charges for things British universities do not is relevant regardless of how you classify them.


Yes. That's why I don't think lokar's first point is relevant to 2b3a51's question.

I misunderstood your intent and I agree with you.

I think the systems are too different to compare that finely. I think the best way of explaining universities here in American terms is that they are all private universities, but almost all get government funding in return for keeping fees at a set price for British students (overseas students can get charged a multiple of that price).

That is over simplified because of differences between England, Scotland, Wales and NI, and historical differences in how different universities were founded etc, but its roughly correct I think.


Oh, apologies for the red herring here. In UK a 'college' is usually a Further Education College or a Sixth Form College. These institutions cater for students from 16 to 19 plus various adult education courses and some degree level work, the latter usually validated by a local university.

So your experience is of colleges? My fault too as I jumped to the conclusion that a previous comment of yours about not having taught in schools as meaning you taught an university. I should know better, especially as my kids both went to sixth form colleges for A levels.

That said, It makes Yale look even worse. They are better funded that British universities, and universities in turn are mostly better funded than HE/sixth form colleges.


Well the writer has had a number of books published which appear to have been successful. So he has found a market and delivered completed work.


So it's okay he's a bad writer? Sales above all?


It's more completing book length works that are published by a publishing house. Therefore subjected to content editing, copy editing and finding an audience. Quite a complex multi-stage process.

What criteria are you using to evaluate writing? Can you point to an example that you think is good writing?

(I say all this as someone who is still working on stringing words into sentences)


I think it depends on what one regards as a minor dispute. The Newton/Leibniz calculus dispute a generation or so earlier was pretty major, with Newton defending his deductive geometrical method of fluxions against Leibniz's more algebraic concepts. Leibniz was also much into his universal calculus. I was wondering what this Fergola would have thought about Newton and his geometrical method (fluxions)!

The Naples state at that time was around 5 million people. You had the landowners (I imagine) looking around at the 'enclosures' of common land in Britain and other parts of Europe and thinking about rents. You had the engineers and Jacobins thinking about new roads and canals and all. The ones who lost out appear to have been the peasants as they lost the feudal protections and access to common lands. And so it goes.


But what percentage of the physical bricks-and-mortar addresses are actually disused telephone exchanges or retired public toilets?

(whistles innocently)


I'm thinking of a menu;

Breakfast: overnight oats with milk (half and half) and a bit of yoghurt and a banana mashed in.

Lunch: Oatcakes with tahini/hummus and a salad??

Dinner: Skirlie with spinach and a couple of poached eggs on top. Along with some roast carrots/courgette/aubergine.

The eggs would be outside the OA diet I suppose. I think I might try this.


I'm not seeing any big problems with the portraits.

Having said that, should this company not be successful, Mr Zbyszek Jędrzejewski-Szmek has potentially a glowing career as an artists' model. Think Rembrandt sketches.

I look forward to something like ChromeOS that you can just install on any old refurbished laptop. But I think the money is in servers.


"We are confident we have a very robust path to revenue."

I take it that you are not at this stage able to provide details of the nature of the path to revenue. On what kind of timescale do you envisage being able to disclose your revenue stream/subscribers/investors?


"Ubuntu Core" is a similar product [1]

As I understand it, the main customers for this sort of thing are companies making Tivo-style products - where they want to use Linux in their product, but they want to lock it down so it can't be modified by the device owner.

This can be pretty profitable; once your customers have rolled out a fleet of hardware locked down to only run kernels you've signed.

[1] https://ubuntu.com/core


This sounds like a net negative for the end user


Not if the end user is an operator of safety critical equipment, such as rail or pro audio or any of a number of industries where stability and reproducibility is essential to the product.


Ever seen a default ubuntu splash screen/wallpaper on a train, coffee machine, airport terminal kiosk, bus, or other big piece of slow moving, appliance-y thing?

That is why Ubuntu Core (and similar) exist. More secure, better update strategy, lower net cost. I don't agree with the licensing or pricing model, but there are perfectly good technical reasons to use it.


That's because it is a net negative to the end user and to society at large.


If the end users do not want the net negative, maybe they should pay for the security features instead of expecting everything for free.


I don't understand. The user will not have a choice.


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