So is slashdot going to get slashdotted, since it mentions a site on which it is mentioned, and the site encourages people to visit the sites it mentions? This could just go on and on and on.... (Quiz: What's worse than infinite recursion?)
Yes, I know this is a little off-topic, but I didn't know where to put it.
For those few of you who do play around with Linux on Macs, what's your favorite distribution? I'm on a PowerMac, not a 68K, so I have a little more freedom, but I haven't been able to get good opinions either way.
If anything, I'd say this is the community I want my responses from.
I attended a public high school in NYC and had the joys of encountering corporate interest in the school environment. One key topic that this article does not touch on is the effect that large amounts of proprietary hardware or software have on schools, especially large schools. Because we were subsidized by various companies, offering us large amounts of services for a discount, we ended up choosing the route most economic without enough regard for effectiveness, reliability or educational benefits.
I was good friends with a lot of the techies and some of the computer people in the faculty, and I saw some of the weird stuff they had to fix, the strange networking problems they had to deal with, etc. Open Source software would have not only made their projects (and lives) easier due to the reliability, but would have let the students learn more and become more familiar with something that is very useful.
I know I'm pretty much preaching to the choir, but I just wanetd to share my thoughts on Linux in High Schools and especially on the level of interaction and learning of the students.
By having free OSes we can get so much of the world on the net that eventually we'll run out of Linux names. IndLinux, AfghanLinux, ZimbaLinux, UzbekiLinux... When will it all end?
Slashdot Mirror
This site is totally wanged. Anyone got a mirror? I'd love to watch these sometime, but it's always so overloaded...
...while waiting in line, on the subway, on hold...
...
:-)
10) Pong
9) Backgammon
8) Nethack
7) Poker
6) Bomberman
5) Scrabble
4) Hearts
3) Columns
2) Go
and
1) FreeCiv
that would make me want to wait on long lines.
So is slashdot going to get slashdotted, since it mentions a site on which it is mentioned, and the site encourages people to visit the sites it mentions? This could just go on and on and on....
(Quiz: What's worse than infinite recursion?)
-Max
Yes, I know this is a little off-topic, but I didn't know where to put it.
For those few of you who do play around with Linux on Macs, what's your favorite distribution? I'm on a PowerMac, not a 68K, so I have a little more freedom, but I haven't been able to get good opinions either way.
If anything, I'd say this is the community I want my responses from.
-Max
I attended a public high school in NYC and had the joys of encountering corporate interest in the school environment. One key topic that this article does not touch on is the effect that large amounts of proprietary hardware or software have on schools, especially large schools. Because we were subsidized by various companies, offering us large amounts of services for a discount, we ended up choosing the route most economic without enough regard for effectiveness, reliability or educational benefits.
I was good friends with a lot of the techies and some of the computer people in the faculty, and I saw some of the weird stuff they had to fix, the strange networking problems they had to deal with, etc. Open Source software would have not only made their projects (and lives) easier due to the reliability, but would have let the students learn more and become more familiar with something that is very useful.
I know I'm pretty much preaching to the choir, but I just wanetd to share my thoughts on Linux in High Schools and especially on the level of interaction and learning of the students.
I say let's see more of this!
-Max
By having free OSes we can get so much of the world on the net that eventually we'll run out of Linux names. IndLinux, AfghanLinux, ZimbaLinux, UzbekiLinux... When will it all end?
-Max