For me it was magazine cover discs. I got my first two or three versions of Mandrake that way. That was my introduction to Linux, and I gave up dual booting soon after, and haven't looked back since. I agree about the excitement - you never knew what was going to be on those discs, and installing the stuff on them was like opening presents.
I found the actual article quite dull - nothing to reminisce on there, really (except linuxconf - that what where I couldn't get anything configured properly). However, the comments here have made an interesting read. Perhaps we could do this now and then without having to wait for an actual story?
You're not reading between the lines. The reasons given are extremely vague and obviously bogus. How many years have they been using FOSS - do you seriously believe they can remember the old system after all that time of using FOSS all day every working day? The reason is much more likely to be, as others have pointed out, that new politicians have been lobbied/ had their campaign funded/ etc. After all its embarassing for MS to not have a monopoly in government ministries, isn't it? There have been big deployments of FOSS in schools in Germany recently. MS needs to stop the rot. There is surely no major difference between a linux desktop and windows xp, other than that the linux desktop has a sensibly organised menu and other improved usability. There is no criticism to take to heart here. There is only vague nonsense that doesn't ring true.
So in fact what is going on is probably hydrogen bonding with the water molecules, which is an intermolecular force (a kind of electrostatic attraction). Of course there are no hydrogen molecules in water - that's a clear error.
I teach high school chemistry. Lab reports and other hwk are done on OOo writer, using the excellent (math) formula editor, then submitted to me through Moodle. I overlay my comments with text boxes and upload the response. Kids enjoy the paperless experience, and I never lose their work.
Unlike LaTeX, you can teach OOo formula editor in about 10 minutes.
We do real experiments. We do a bit of data logging and graphing, but not that much. There are some online java apps for things like gas laws and molelcular models that I use occasionally, but mostly real experiments.
When teaching theory, I use my laptop and type notes directly into a wiki on Moodle. Kids are then assigned to clean it up a bit later, and to upload any sketches I do in Kolourpaint. (They also maintain a glossary there and contribue their own notes to the wiki.) I often jump into Google images to find something that will illustrate what we are talking about.
We have some chem draw type software (linux stuff), but I don't use it much at all. Its faster for me to use kolourpaint (just a kids' paint program for the couple of you who don't know linux)
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you know that if you alt-drag anywhere in the dialogue, you can move it as if you were grabbing the title bar?
For me it was magazine cover discs. I got my first two or three versions of Mandrake that way. That was my introduction to Linux, and I gave up dual booting soon after, and haven't looked back since. I agree about the excitement - you never knew what was going to be on those discs, and installing the stuff on them was like opening presents.
I found the actual article quite dull - nothing to reminisce on there, really (except linuxconf - that what where I couldn't get anything configured properly). However, the comments here have made an interesting read. Perhaps we could do this now and then without having to wait for an actual story?
You're not reading between the lines. The reasons given are extremely vague and obviously bogus. How many years have they been using FOSS - do you seriously believe they can remember the old system after all that time of using FOSS all day every working day? The reason is much more likely to be, as others have pointed out, that new politicians have been lobbied/ had their campaign funded/ etc. After all its embarassing for MS to not have a monopoly in government ministries, isn't it?
There have been big deployments of FOSS in schools in Germany recently. MS needs to stop the rot.
There is surely no major difference between a linux desktop and windows xp, other than that the linux desktop has a sensibly organised menu and other improved usability. There is no criticism to take to heart here. There is only vague nonsense that doesn't ring true.
So in fact what is going on is probably hydrogen bonding with the water molecules, which is an intermolecular force (a kind of electrostatic attraction). Of course there are no hydrogen molecules in water - that's a clear error.
I teach high school chemistry. Lab reports and other hwk are done on OOo writer, using the excellent (math) formula editor, then submitted to me through Moodle. I overlay my comments with text boxes and upload the response. Kids enjoy the paperless experience, and I never lose their work. Unlike LaTeX, you can teach OOo formula editor in about 10 minutes. We do real experiments. We do a bit of data logging and graphing, but not that much. There are some online java apps for things like gas laws and molelcular models that I use occasionally, but mostly real experiments. When teaching theory, I use my laptop and type notes directly into a wiki on Moodle. Kids are then assigned to clean it up a bit later, and to upload any sketches I do in Kolourpaint. (They also maintain a glossary there and contribue their own notes to the wiki.) I often jump into Google images to find something that will illustrate what we are talking about. We have some chem draw type software (linux stuff), but I don't use it much at all. Its faster for me to use kolourpaint (just a kids' paint program for the couple of you who don't know linux)