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Setting Up Mac OS X for a Teenage Coffeehouse?
WCityMike writes "I plan to donate a grape iMac to a local church-run non-profit coffeehouse for teenagers, and would like to give it to them appropriately set up for the atmosphere it'll be in. I'm seeking advice on a number of fronts - what freeware or shareware applications would be good for such an environment? Should visitors be allowed to have their own accounts (presumably created by the administrator), or should I just set up one 'student' account and one 'administrator' account? If the latter, is there a way to prevent students from saving things on the hard drive (thus forcing them to use a diskette and/or the CD drive?), and/or a 'Simple Finder' interface extant for OS X? Is there existing software that makes this easier or more configurable, or is it all inside the OS? I'm fairly familiar with Mac OS X, but have never needed to run anything outside a single-user environment."
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I'd hazard a guess this isn't an LDS (Mormon) cafe.
Karl Marx and as I always say... To each according to his ability, from each according to his need.
Why doesn't anyone ever give ME a mac? I mean, I have STACKS of PC's, but I can never score a mac... someone either throws it out, or gives it to a place like a church.
Im not greedy... something that will run OS X, so I can do some development on it.
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I'd also suggest setting up Airport Express and stream audio to whatever stereo system you may have.
I haven't done this with a mac, but what about using a Linux Live CD distrobution (ex. Knoppix, Feather, etc.)? We have a coffee shop in town that has a donated computer running Knoppix and it has been great. There is no hard drive, so nobody is saving wierd files, viruses, cookies, etc. To clean up any "damage" the owners just reboot the computer.
Does anyone have any knowledge of Live CD distros for a Mac?
As long as you promise never to EVER share, impose, explain, or stand up for ANYTHING you believe in ever again.
In fact, if you never spoke, wrote, or communicated a single word in your misbegotten, miserable, pathetic existence ever again, we'd be even.
This is way OT (go, go gadget karma!), but couldn't the same thing be said about politics, or any strongly-held belief?
Is it at all reasonable to expect that what people believe will not affect what they do in the public sphere?
Non sequitur. Whether the beliefs affect them is irrelevant to whether they force their beliefs on others. This isn't about people claiming "morality" (claiming it could be secualr or religious) in order to force their specific religious beliefs on others. That is religion shaping their public actions. However, adding "fucking liberals" to any conversation regarding the Democratic party is not just the beliefs shaping their actions, but their actions being specifically voiced in a confrontational manner. And yes, leaving religious pamphlets anonymously in a common area (or visible in a private area) in a work environment is confrontational.
I'm all for private beliefs influencing public actions. Any less, and we'd all be identical. However, I object to being told what I should believe. I even object to being told what to believe when I already believe what the person talking is stating. There are forums where such discussions are appropriate, and work is not one of them.
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