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Educational Software To Donate With Laptop?
SlartibartfastJunior writes "I will be sending my four-year-old laptop to a school in Uganda this fall. I plan to load up an older version of Windows (or something free), and I need suggestions - what should I load on it? I need suggestions for educational games, educational software, etc. that won't drain my battery too much (since the computer will only be able to recharge at night), won't require a CD (since my drive doesn't work 80% of the time), and won't be too America-centered (most of these children have never been more than ten miles out of their own villages, and wouldn't understand "Oregon Trail"). Also, any great ideas on where I can acquire copies of this software?"
OMG WTF!!! You actually managed to post something on Slashdot! In deference to your mighty 1337 h4x0r skills, I humbly invite you to format my hard drive. My IP is 127.0.0.1.
Since America is the leader of the world, it wouldn't hurt for 3rd worlders to take a lesson.
And since their country's technology is behind colonial America, they might learn some good tricks from the game itself!
click grunt click tick grunt
and
grunt click hiss click tick.
In what manner?
I mean seriously, you can even poorly manage your city and not be able to afford running water and electricity, just like 3rd world nations have done.
Unless a piece of software reads from the CD 90-100% of the time, the type of game or other software will use the same amount of power as any other piece of software. In fact as long as the screen is on the laptop uses the same amount of power whether you're running 5 games or none.
The reason is because when your Cpu isn't doing anything it's actually burning up a simple "do nothing" command in Windows, not pausing and saving energy like you might think.
Before a troll points out newer CPUs that slow down to save power: this laptop is 4yrs old.
That is because grammar trolls are right-brained people. They like to attack the grammar of left brained people because they know left brained people are better engineers, and that is their way of compensating. Humans by nature tend to judge others on their own strengths.
Give them an old version of Slackware Linux, the 1.0 Kernel should do nicely.
They will most likely reformat the hard drive and install a pirated copy of DOS and Windows 3.X for their third world language anyway.
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linux, HAH WTF makes anyone think that if they cant use windows now, tey will be able to cfg linux for thir use when the laptop arrives!?!?!??!?! Slap a copy of XP on it, open office, open cd, and set the language for their area and let the linux ms-hate-group stfu for once
select * from Washington DC where clue > 0 || 0 ROWS RETURNED
Only on /. can a post containing the phrase, "Eat my ass" get +1, Insightful.
Cheers to you.
Karma: Dyn-o-mite!(mostly affected by Jimmy Walker reading your comments)
Just set up a nice debian system, install Debian Jr., and load whatever charset and language that they use there... Ugandan?
Seems like a no-brainer. What other choice is there?
Debian Jr
Clickety Click