You'll enjoy the trip. Africans are some of the nicest people I've met. I was just in Kampala, Uganda a few weeks ago. I know it's not the same country, but maybe some of my observations could be helpful.
The purpose of my trip wasn't really computer related, but here are a few things I noticed.. Power can be unreliable at times, so always take the opportunity to charge your laptop when the lights are on. All of the people that I talked about computers had only seen Windows. That's not to say they wouldn't be interested in open source software, but most of the people I talked to only used computers at internet cafes. Very few had the money to buy a computer of their own. Internet access is slow and expensive.
The people there want to learn about computers, because they know they need to to participate in a world economy. If you spread the word that you were going to teach a free computer training class, you could draw a crowd pretty easily--even if the class was about something simple like surfing the web or using a word processing program.
If the city you're visiting is like Kampala, there will be mobile phone shops everywhere, so you can take your GSM phone with you and buy a SIM card fairly easily if you need a local phone number.
I got the e-mail, followed the link, entered my user name and password (fortunately written down a while ago, since I've not bought anything from them in tears) and they claim I've been removed.
Okay, so it's not as sexy and it's not water-cooled, but Egghead has a Fujitsu-Siemens network terminal called the Scovery.
It comes with an integrated 10/100 NIC, Rage IIC video card, 64 megs of ram, a 200 mHZ processor and a 16meg Sandisk with Linux, Netscape, and terminal emulators already installed. I have two of these. I took the Sandisk out of one and put in a hard drive, floppy, and CDROM, and use it as my portable Linux box that I can take to work in my backpack. (I'm too cheap to just buy a laptop.) The other one will eventually be a router for my network at home.
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That may be. However, I'm in the US, and every DBA I've worked with has pronounced it "sequel." I think it sounds a lot better than another TLA too.
I call it "squeal" just to piss off my DBA.
Should have looted one like the rest of the refugees did.
The purpose of my trip wasn't really computer related, but here are a few things I noticed.. Power can be unreliable at times, so always take the opportunity to charge your laptop when the lights are on. All of the people that I talked about computers had only seen Windows. That's not to say they wouldn't be interested in open source software, but most of the people I talked to only used computers at internet cafes. Very few had the money to buy a computer of their own. Internet access is slow and expensive.
The people there want to learn about computers, because they know they need to to participate in a world economy. If you spread the word that you were going to teach a free computer training class, you could draw a crowd pretty easily--even if the class was about something simple like surfing the web or using a word processing program.
If the city you're visiting is like Kampala, there will be mobile phone shops everywhere, so you can take your GSM phone with you and buy a SIM card fairly easily if you need a local phone number.
...Darren Reed and Daniel Hartmeier in seats right next to each other ...
That would be fun to watch.
Here is the Tennessee Department of Revenue press release on the matter.
we've created a monster
Just move to Tennessee. Motorcycles here are allowed to run red lights if they first stop and verify that nobody is coming on the cross street.
Crazy, but true.
Because my employer would fire me....
-Mark
I'm just glad I was able to pull a copy off the usa mirror before the announcement made it to slashdot. :o}
-Mark
What does 'PSS' stand for in that Microsoft Knowledgebase article? [P]lease [s]top [s]niffing? ([s]poofing? '[s]ploiting?)
Pretty Sucky Security?
A webcast of today's conference call announcing Opteron is available here
-Mark
I was in Nashville last summer, and almost saw Elvis, but my shovel broke
No wonder it broke. You had a long way to dig, considering Elvis is buried in Memphis. :)
www.lisa2.com isn't a Lisa, but it gives an HTTP redirect to an IP address.
:o} Thanks!
I suppose that does make more sense than my jumped-to conclusion.
-Mark
Killing boxes at NetSol? Nothing wrong with that :-)
:o}
As long as it's not a gratuitous killing.
-Mark
It looks to me like this box is not, in fact, a Lisa. We're killing some poor box at Netsol for no reason at all! :o}
%nslookup
Default Server: uinus.pair.com
Address: 209.68.2.73
> www.lisa2.com
Server: uinus.pair.com
Address: 209.68.2.73
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.lisa2.com
Address: 216.168.224.70
> 216.168.224.70
Server: uinus.pair.com
Address: 209.68.2.73
Name: wf.networksolutions.com
Address: 216.168.224.70
>
I got the e-mail, followed the link, entered my user name and password (fortunately written down a while ago, since I've not bought anything from them in tears) and they claim I've been removed.
So, do you normally cry when you buy things?
-Mark
cool
You know, they should make it so that you can just right-click on the disk and then.. oh wait.... nevermind.
-Mark
Someone give me ONE good reason we shouldn't have a cartoon talking dog for president. I dare you.
Turpentine. Didn't you ever see "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"?!
-Mark
Here's a mirror of the animated gif: http://www.markhopkins.org/t ack staples_q150x150.gif
Not true! Check out the Scovery. It has serial, parallel, usb, ps/2, vga, and ethernet ports on board.
-Mark
Okay, so it's not as sexy and it's not water-cooled, but Egghead has a Fujitsu-Siemens network terminal called the Scovery.
It comes with an integrated 10/100 NIC, Rage IIC video card, 64 megs of ram, a 200 mHZ processor and a 16meg Sandisk with Linux, Netscape, and terminal emulators already installed. I have two of these. I took the Sandisk out of one and put in a hard drive, floppy, and CDROM, and use it as my portable Linux box that I can take to work in my backpack. (I'm too cheap to just buy a laptop.) The other one will eventually be a router for my network at home.
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