Well, it/is/ Open Source. You can always tweak it and provide patches, or make a spin-off... or just tweak it for your own amusement and never release any changes.;^)
Apple provided mouse training in an application that was included in the diskettes shipped with the very first Macintosh in early 1984.
Yeah, I remember running it for my Dad back in the late 90s when my mom passed away and he started using the Mac we bought her a few years prior.
'course, nowadays, even though he is far from computer saavy, I've got him hooked up with a Debian Linux system running KDE. It's been working great for him for, what, a year now? (Damn!)
A few months ago I started plans to learn Python (once and for all!) and begin writing a book for young kids on the subject. (Probably just publish it online...)
Anyway, sadly, I haven't had the time, due to work (and Tux Paint, of course), but already have a few people gathered who have offered to help.
My thought is to write something similar to the old "Atari BASIC: A Self-Teaching Guide," which I read as a kid back when I was 9 or 10 years old.
Email me privately if you're interested in helping or can offer resources (like mailing lists, web space, editing skills, kids to beta-read bits, etc.)
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Earlier this year, I made some non-Linux-geek-friendly handouts about Open Source software (focusing on some stuff for Windows) to hand out at various events my local LUG held/attended.
Print some out! Put them up at your local library, like I did!:^)
Download.com and Open Source (Was re:Azureus...)
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After releasing the latest version of Tux Paint (open source paint program for kids), I decided to post it to various download sites.
I went to Download.com, and you actually have to pay (something like $70!) to get listed!
When you're filling out the form, and get to choose how much you pay to get listed, there's a little pop-up "ROI [Return on Investment] Calculator" that you can use to determine just how much profit you'll make.
Strangely enough, it always came back $-70 for me.:^P
Uh... maybe they meant 8-bits per channel? And if so, there's always FilmGimp... err, I mean... CinePaint, which does 16-bits per channel (so 48 or 64 bpp).
Also, maybe the fact that the summary said: "The original didn't work outside of IE on Windows" (rather than "doesn't") may have given me a different impression.
What a pile of useless shit that site is to begin with (excuse my language)... Gigantic spiderman banner is apparently the thing you click to get in (it says it in tiny text, inside a _JPEG_). I think most would assume that clicking a gigantic spiderman banner would jump you to some spiderman content (like the 'intersticial(?)' ads seen on numerous other sites). *sigh*
Of course, when I DID get in there (using the latest Mozilla under WinXP, mind you), all I got was a black screen with a blurry "ODEON" in the middle. No actual CONTENT.
Morons! >:^(
-bill! (I didn't think I'd STILL be complaining about utterly unusable websites _8 years later_!!!)
Tux Paint isn't a teaching tool, but it contains educational aspects. It's already been translated into 40+ languages, and we're always happy to accept more!
Other stuff from Tux4Kids would be good, as well. All/most of it is cross-platform and, of course, open source.:^)
Since I use NT 5 here at work, I am almost excited to get home and work on my system running KDE.
I've been forced into the Windows world for my new job (cellphone app development), and I agree. When I get to sit back down on my stable, fast, well-intergated KDE desktop, I feel like I'm visiting a good friend I hadn't seen in a while.
With Windows XP, everything's a fucking battle. Uphill, even. *sigh*
people may make fun of the DS, but it's a system with a hell lot more innovation and potential than anyone has done to date, and is something nintendo hasnt done before to date.
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Cool - Tux Paint 0.9.15 will be translated into Swahili! (It's already in CVS)
Well, it /is/ Open Source. You can always tweak it and provide patches, or make a spin-off... or just tweak it for your own amusement and never release any changes. ;^)
But it's worth it! Have you even played Defendguin!? :^)
Not being at all familiar with Settlers of Catan, I did a quick search at The Linux Game Tome and found Gnotan.
Perhaps you can suggest the LLGP folks add it...?
s/tile editor/level editor/ ;^)
First of all, Super-Tux is an alpha game - their site screenshots still show the tiling grids. Not very impressive.
What, do you mean this?
That's the freakin' built-in tile editor! SHEESH!
(Notice how I was on the Internet within minutes, registering my disgust!)
What's this!? No Defendguin!?
Apple provided mouse training in an application that was included in the diskettes shipped with the very first Macintosh in early 1984.
Yeah, I remember running it for my Dad back in the late 90s when my mom passed away and he started using the Mac we bought her a few years prior.
'course, nowadays, even though he is far from computer saavy, I've got him hooked up with a Debian Linux system running KDE. It's been working great for him for, what, a year now? (Damn!)
A few months ago I started plans to learn Python (once and for all!) and begin writing a book for young kids on the subject. (Probably just publish it online...)
Anyway, sadly, I haven't had the time, due to work (and Tux Paint, of course), but already have a few people gathered who have offered to help.
My thought is to write something similar to the old "Atari BASIC: A Self-Teaching Guide," which I read as a kid back when I was 9 or 10 years old.
Email me privately if you're interested in helping or can offer resources (like mailing lists, web space, editing skills, kids to beta-read bits, etc.)
-bill!
Heheh. Thanks for the vote of confidence. ;)
I know if I told her that some people just enjoy the work, or do it to hone skills, or for common good, she would just give me a funny look.
Didn't this just get talked about recently? Send your mom this link:
"Pro-Ams" - amateurs who pursue a hobby or pastime to a professional standard...
Earlier this year, I made some non-Linux-geek-friendly handouts about Open Source software (focusing on some stuff for Windows) to hand out at various events my local LUG held/attended.
:^)
Print some out! Put them up at your local library, like I did!
After releasing the latest version of Tux Paint (open source paint program for kids), I decided to post it to various download sites.
:^P
I went to Download.com, and you actually have to pay (something like $70!) to get listed!
When you're filling out the form, and get to choose how much you pay to get listed, there's a little pop-up "ROI [Return on Investment] Calculator" that you can use to determine just how much profit you'll make.
Strangely enough, it always came back $-70 for me.
I don't know of a single graphic design firm that uses Linux for anything of importance in the production pipeline [other than CG render farms]
Actually, at least one 'blockbuster' movie was edited using SpectSoft's RaveHD system.
The majority of us use Mac/Photoshop
Which is probably why that old Time Magazine cover about The Love Bug virus showed Mac hardware, instead of a PC.
*boggle*
-bill!
I need. ISC's checker found one 'vulnerable' copy of gdiplus.dll on my system.
Great! Now what?
-bill!
The real solution is to use some sort of distributed mirroring facility so everyone could connect to a nearby copy of the feed and spread the load.
:^)
Like Akamai and other similar distributed content providers. That's what they were invented for.
-bill!
spend $500/mo on Akamai or Speedera
:)
Exactly. First thing to pop into my head was distributing the content via Akamai.
-bill!
Hehe, I must've been blinded by the rage.
Also, maybe the fact that the summary said: "The original didn't work outside of IE on Windows" (rather than "doesn't") may have given me a different impression.
Yeah... yeah... THAT's the TICKET!
What a pile of useless shit that site is to begin with (excuse my language)... Gigantic spiderman banner is apparently the thing you click to get in (it says it in tiny text, inside a _JPEG_). I think most would assume that clicking a gigantic spiderman banner would jump you to some spiderman content (like the 'intersticial(?)' ads seen on numerous other sites). *sigh*
Of course, when I DID get in there (using the latest Mozilla under WinXP, mind you), all I got was a black screen with a blurry "ODEON" in the middle. No actual CONTENT.
Morons! >:^(
-bill!
(I didn't think I'd STILL be complaining about utterly unusable websites _8 years later_!!!)
Tux Paint isn't a teaching tool, but it contains educational aspects. It's already been translated into 40+ languages, and we're always happy to accept more!
:^)
Other stuff from Tux4Kids would be good, as well. All/most of it is cross-platform and, of course, open source.
-bill!
Since I use NT 5 here at work, I am almost excited to get home and work on my system running KDE.
I've been forced into the Windows world for my new job (cellphone app development), and I agree. When I get to sit back down on my stable, fast, well-intergated KDE desktop, I feel like I'm visiting a good friend I hadn't seen in a while.
With Windows XP, everything's a fucking battle. Uphill, even. *sigh*
people may make fun of the DS, but it's a system with a hell lot more innovation and potential than anyone has done to date, and is something nintendo hasnt done before to date.
Uh... Virtual Boy?
-bill!