[funsec] Tablet PCs required for Virginia Tech engineers...

[Fergie]

What about Lane Stadium? :-)

- ferg

-- Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:53:58 -0000, Fergie said:
> Hey, Valdis -- did you get to play with these? :-)

No, because I haven't seen a good Linux for them yet. ;)

>  http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6090046.html

Incidentally, there's a *lot* of people unhappy with this, because they
wanted the requirement to be laptops instead.  The tablets may be 
"cool",
but they're way underpowered compared to a similar price laptop, and
there's
no clear objective for the use of a tablet's special features...

> Also, how has it/will it impact your university network policies
> and security implementation(s)?

Somewhere between diddly and squat, given that we've *already* covered
basically the entire campus with wireless, and a good chunk of the students
and staff are laptop users already.  As far as the net is concerned, a
tablet is the same problem as a laptop....

OK.. So I lied.  We haven't covered the *whole* campus yet.  You still
get crap for a signal in the middle of the Drill Field:

http://www.unirel.vt.edu/vtsnaps/images/bldgs/125.jpg

(Big 22 acre space in the middle of campus.  And no, no matter how crowded
construction gets around it, there will *never* be a building on it other
than the War Memorial Chapel.

http://www.unirel.vt.edu/vtsnaps/aerials/2.html#Anchor-604709-46919


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