As a technical writer turned English teacher I couldn't imagine pushing papers all day long. I built an LTSP network in my HS lit. class, with the support of my administration, and loved it. The tools available for evaluating papers and providing speedy feedback to students is nothing compared to my new environment. I'm a computer teacher now in a Windows environment. I've never had so many problems doing what was easy under Linux. A few simple scripts under Linux to gather up students work takes hours to do under Windows, not to mention the cost of every little bit of software I need to make my job easier under Linux is very expensive under Windows. Go LTSP. Learn a little scripting and you'll be golden.
If I may add right now, one of the reasons Linux is not getting the play it so rightly deserves in schools is that most teachers are not trained on how to use computers or software. More screencasts of software training, I feel, is definitely needed. Teachers are chronically overworked, definitely under appreciated, and they don't want to sit and read a manual online or offline. Let's help out and publish screencasts for them. Let's show them how technology can take the secretarial tasks out of teaching and promote them to the knowledge managers they should be.
Skolelinux http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/ will probably be the first to bring NX to the schools that really need this technology *simply* packaged. There is also k12LTSP but they are based on Fedora. Skolelinux is debian based.
Noone has spoken about LTSP. I use it all of the time and I could certainly use technology that would squeeze more client sessions on my aging network. Secondly, is there any mention of how this would work on a multiple processor system? Is there any use of SMP?
As an English teacher I have my students use style and diction all of the time. Style gives statistics that really help us quickly analyze a student's paper for passive voice, pronouns and sentence beginnings. I've set my rubrics by meeting X or Y value for any combo of the stats from style and students rewrite papers until they reach that goal. Yes, I said rewrite. High school students, and most adults I find, rarely rewrite to hone their papers, so setting a numerical goal to the paper allows the students to 'know' where they are at any time during the writing process. It is NOT the only tool to use in teaching writing BUT it gives us, the teacher and the student, a baseline from which we can begin to discuss improvements.
Diction needs support for word lists and regular expressions... it's helpful but rather clumsy in presentation and handling of rules.
Of course, both are OS. I have 35 K12LTSP clients in my class and I'm the happiest teacher in the county. dgd
LTSP is by far the most interesting and easiest way to get a lot of older boxes running quickly. K12LTSP. Well worth the time at your local school districts. In this age of cut-backs the easiest cut is on the exhorbitant prices school's pay for proprietary apps. Look around in some of the under-funded school districts in the 'developed world' and you'll see the same have and have-not situation. K12LTSP is an ethical solution meeting the need for better distribution of tools for education for everyone everywhere.
I thought the same thing when I read this... perhaps even more sinister... using RFIDs. Shoot anyone in possession of XYZ RFID and on impact and verification release a nerve agent or other nasty. The next nasty level of sophistication will be a DNA verification? If DNA =X then KILL.
How long until we get those nifty hunter/ killer bullets we saw in Runaway?
s/paranoia/righteous fear of rising police states/
Ok, electricity has to come from somewhere, batteries have to be produced, pollution happens everywhere along the production chain and in usage of electric anything, including the little box you're looking at now. A little search on the web turned up some really pricey bikes from tidalforce that have specially engineered gearing that passes energy back to the battery, apparently, when coasting. I called an ebike dealer here in the states; he told me that when he sees these chinese bikes they are in pieces and hard to fix because they're not that robust nor are parts available. I've been shopping for a bike for my commute, 20+ miles, partly because I hate driving, hate making oil companies even richer, have solar powered dreams of living off the grid, and love being out in the open instead of in a mobile rat cage. The tidalforce bikes are pricey now but there'll be one of ebay any day now and I'll be able to afford one! Maybe some ubernerd will engineer a folding solar panel that I can use to cover my new e-bike so it charges off the grid while I'm in the office... there is a demand for alternative fuel and transportation.
Wim Wenders's Until the End of the World came up immediately when I saw the article... though this machine doesn't come close to the device in the movie, you'll have to see the movie!, I do recall that once I got a handle on my dreams many of my day-time 'stuff', 'issues', 'problems' were somehow clarified and easier to manage. I kept a dream journal for about six months and those six months were the sanest of my life. I'd be curious to try the dream machine only to see if I could get that kind of clarity back without having to wake up half an hour earlier everyday to write down my dreams...
Heck, wikipedia helped me pass my CSET exam for English. That certification entitled me to a US40K$ job which I'm enjoying today. It's free and it's a decent resource for the cash strapped info hungry. The best part is that if you see an error in your domain of knowledge you can fix it.:)
yeh, that's a definite limitation of OO... I think I posted that RFE years ago... the data is compressed... you have to uncompress it to see the xml... for a simple one word document there are 5 xml files in the compressed file... content manifest meta settings styles I haven't bothered with creating an xsd or dtd but the files can be viewed as xml... but clearly not as easily as it should IMHO.
The fry's in san diego sold out of their Thizlinux boxes quickly. One of the local LUG guys bought one, struggled with the interface (he couldn't find the counsel) then stripped the OS and installed RH. He was very happy with his ~100$ box afterwards.
The irony here is that the improvement from within you mention is the direct DOD and DOE funding that the UC system in California gets for managing and supplying brains to Lawrence Livermore. The money that comes from funding munitions and nuclear bomb design gets funneled into the UC system of California. Ethically challenging but, it helps keep California and the rest of the US stocked with some of the best trained and funded evil geniuses in the world.
Only if they are wrong... I wonder what diffs have been done on the kernel to see what code 'hasn't' been touched in a long while. There may be a smoking gun. I would also think that if there is any legacy code in the kernel the devs would be working at expunging same.
I was wondering the same thing... but maybe midori could be replaced with a diff. v. of linux? I'm not familiar with the technology but can't you flash a Chip with a different OS?
Wiki's are very cool. I use them all of the time for lesson plans. I like Tiki myself. Easier to get going.
Something I've chewed on often, imagine if all curricula was free, built on a Wiki like format. Kind of like Wikipedia but with an agenda. A community, teachers, parents, students, could build the curricula from the most concerned sources. Everyone.
Combine a wiki with a chatterbot individually tailored to watch all of a student's input and you've got the beginnings of a knowledge bot. A knowledge bot and tutor bot.
You've got to see what bored kids do when they're put in front of a computer. They are not bored anymore.
Is migration to linux a cost issue or a culture issue? What pushes hardest for migration? Cost? Availability? Language? Gov't structure? Is there a pattern in the news about linux migrating to XYZ type of organization? Which slice of the community has the largest possible impact in terms of migration?
Clearly when a gov't embraces linux the news is pretty loud. But, who were the people who put the linux idea into the gov't officials heads'? Was it grass roots? In who's backyard? Technicians? Academia? Industry?
Typical of the washington post's slant. They leave the last words to a bishop "The one thing that's true of embryo research," Doerflinger said, "is that once people have done a little of it, they want to do more.
I'm always curious to see how the mega-medias treat stories to reflect their stockholders/ chairpersons political and religious interests.
Does anyone know where I can find a topic map of the big media ownership and their political affiliations?
Does anyone know if the new java will be using a higher v. of gcc? Right now, if I'm not mistaken, sun is using gcc 2.95. For the moz folks out there it means that java applets and moz don't get along (moz is using gcc3.2x). And what of the talk a year ago? two years ago? That sun would Open source java? Nothing came of that has it?
one of the biggest hurdles for schools in terms of getting internet into the class is the incredibly expensive prospect of wiring class rooms. If this idea takes off, and then we'll be floating internet balloons over campuses soon... just a thought dgd
I've been asking the same thing lately... the 'cancer' project, last I cked, didn't have a linux client... maybe it's time to come up with a distributed app. that anwers the question, "Why are the rich getting richer, the poorer getting poorer, and why do so few seem to care?" Don't mind my bleeding heart.
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As a technical writer turned English teacher I couldn't imagine pushing papers all day long. I built an LTSP network in my HS lit. class, with the support of my administration, and loved it. The tools available for evaluating papers and providing speedy feedback to students is nothing compared to my new environment. I'm a computer teacher now in a Windows environment. I've never had so many problems doing what was easy under Linux. A few simple scripts under Linux to gather up students work takes hours to do under Windows, not to mention the cost of every little bit of software I need to make my job easier under Linux is very expensive under Windows. Go LTSP. Learn a little scripting and you'll be golden.
If I may add right now, one of the reasons Linux is not getting the play it so rightly deserves in schools is that most teachers are not trained on how to use computers or software. More screencasts of software training, I feel, is definitely needed. Teachers are chronically overworked, definitely under appreciated, and they don't want to sit and read a manual online or offline. Let's help out and publish screencasts for them. Let's show them how technology can take the secretarial tasks out of teaching and promote them to the knowledge managers they should be.
Skolelinux http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/ will probably be the first to bring NX to the schools that really need this technology *simply* packaged. There is also k12LTSP but they are based on Fedora. Skolelinux is debian based.
bad form but who cares
Noone has spoken about LTSP. I use it all of the time and I could certainly use technology that would squeeze more client sessions on my aging network. Secondly, is there any mention of how this would work on a multiple processor system? Is there any use of SMP?
Could you provide the full name of the person you are referring to, please.
As an English teacher I have my students use style and diction all of the time. Style gives statistics that really help us quickly analyze a student's paper for passive voice, pronouns and sentence beginnings. I've set my rubrics by meeting X or Y value for any combo of the stats from style and students rewrite papers until they reach that goal. Yes, I said rewrite. High school students, and most adults I find, rarely rewrite to hone their papers, so setting a numerical goal to the paper allows the students to 'know' where they are at any time during the writing process. It is NOT the only tool to use in teaching writing BUT it gives us, the teacher and the student, a baseline from which we can begin to discuss improvements.
Diction needs support for word lists and regular expressions... it's helpful but rather clumsy in presentation and handling of rules.
Of course, both are OS. I have 35 K12LTSP clients in my class and I'm the happiest teacher in the county.
dgd
LTSP is by far the most interesting and easiest way to get a lot of older boxes running quickly. K12LTSP. Well worth the time at your local school districts. In this age of cut-backs the easiest cut is on the exhorbitant prices school's pay for proprietary apps. Look around in some of the under-funded school districts in the 'developed world' and you'll see the same have and have-not situation. K12LTSP is an ethical solution meeting the need for better distribution of tools for education for everyone everywhere.
I couldn't agree with you more.
I thought the same thing when I read this... perhaps even more sinister... using RFIDs. Shoot anyone in possession of XYZ RFID and on impact and verification release a nerve agent or other nasty. The next nasty level of sophistication will be a DNA verification? If DNA =X then KILL. How long until we get those nifty hunter/ killer bullets we saw in Runaway? s/paranoia/righteous fear of rising police states/
Ok, electricity has to come from somewhere, batteries have to be produced, pollution happens everywhere along the production chain and in usage of electric anything, including the little box you're looking at now. A little search on the web turned up some really pricey bikes from tidalforce that have specially engineered gearing that passes energy back to the battery, apparently, when coasting. I called an ebike dealer here in the states; he told me that when he sees these chinese bikes they are in pieces and hard to fix because they're not that robust nor are parts available. I've been shopping for a bike for my commute, 20+ miles, partly because I hate driving, hate making oil companies even richer, have solar powered dreams of living off the grid, and love being out in the open instead of in a mobile rat cage. The tidalforce bikes are pricey now but there'll be one of ebay any day now and I'll be able to afford one! Maybe some ubernerd will engineer a folding solar panel that I can use to cover my new e-bike so it charges off the grid while I'm in the office... there is a demand for alternative fuel and transportation.
Yeh, what a jab at Sun eh?
Wim Wenders's Until the End of the World came up immediately when I saw the article... though this machine doesn't come close to the device in the movie, you'll have to see the movie!, I do recall that once I got a handle on my dreams many of my day-time 'stuff', 'issues', 'problems' were somehow clarified and easier to manage. I kept a dream journal for about six months and those six months were the sanest of my life. I'd be curious to try the dream machine only to see if I could get that kind of clarity back without having to wake up half an hour earlier everyday to write down my dreams...
Heck, wikipedia helped me pass my CSET exam for English. That certification entitled me to a US40K$ job which I'm enjoying today. It's free and it's a decent resource for the cash strapped info hungry. The best part is that if you see an error in your domain of knowledge you can fix it. :)
yeh, that's a definite limitation of OO... I think I posted that RFE years ago... the data is compressed... you have to uncompress it to see the xml... for a simple one word document there are 5 xml files in the compressed file...s
content
manifest
meta
settings
style
I haven't bothered with creating an xsd or dtd but the files can be viewed as xml... but clearly not as easily as it should IMHO.
yeh, thanks. console. spell check anyone?
The fry's in san diego sold out of their Thizlinux boxes quickly. One of the local LUG guys bought one, struggled with the interface (he couldn't find the counsel) then stripped the OS and installed RH. He was very happy with his ~100$ box afterwards.
The irony here is that the improvement from within you mention is the direct DOD and DOE funding that the UC system in California gets for managing and supplying brains to Lawrence Livermore. The money that comes from funding munitions and nuclear bomb design gets funneled into the UC system of California. Ethically challenging but, it helps keep California and the rest of the US stocked with some of the best trained and funded evil geniuses in the world.
Only if they are wrong... I wonder what diffs have been done on the kernel to see what code 'hasn't' been touched in a long while. There may be a smoking gun. I would also think that if there is any legacy code in the kernel the devs would be working at expunging same.
I was wondering the same thing... but maybe midori could be replaced with a diff. v. of linux? I'm not familiar with the technology but can't you flash a Chip with a different OS?
Wiki's are very cool. I use them all of the time for lesson plans. I like Tiki myself. Easier to get going.
Something I've chewed on often, imagine if all curricula was free, built on a Wiki like format. Kind of like Wikipedia but with an agenda. A community, teachers, parents, students, could build the curricula from the most concerned sources. Everyone.
Combine a wiki with a chatterbot individually tailored to watch all of a student's input and you've got the beginnings of a knowledge bot. A knowledge bot and tutor bot.
You've got to see what bored kids do when they're put in front of a computer. They are not bored anymore.
Remember the article about the Spanish gov'ts decision to move to Linux?
Is migration to linux a cost issue or a culture issue? What pushes hardest for migration? Cost? Availability? Language? Gov't structure? Is there a pattern in the news about linux migrating to XYZ type of organization? Which slice of the community has the largest possible impact in terms of migration?
Clearly when a gov't embraces linux the news is pretty loud. But, who were the people who put the linux idea into the gov't officials heads'? Was it grass roots? In who's backyard? Technicians? Academia? Industry?
dgd
Typical of the washington post's slant. They leave the last words to a bishop
"The one thing that's true of embryo research," Doerflinger said, "is that once people have done a little of it, they want to do more.
I'm always curious to see how the mega-medias treat stories to reflect their stockholders/ chairpersons political and religious interests.
Does anyone know where I can find a topic map of the big media ownership and their political affiliations?
I found this one pretty easily...
Washington Post's Media interests
Does anyone know if the new java will be using a higher v. of gcc? Right now, if I'm not mistaken, sun is using gcc 2.95. For the moz folks out there it means that java applets and moz don't get along (moz is using gcc3.2x). And what of the talk a year ago? two years ago? That sun would Open source java? Nothing came of that has it?
one of the biggest hurdles for schools in terms of getting internet into the class is the incredibly expensive prospect of wiring class rooms. If this idea takes off, and then we'll be floating internet balloons over campuses soon...
just a thought
dgd
I've been asking the same thing lately... the 'cancer' project, last I cked, didn't have a linux client... maybe it's time to come up with a distributed app. that anwers the question, "Why are the rich getting richer, the poorer getting poorer, and why do so few seem to care?"
Don't mind my bleeding heart.
Sounds like a fine RFE for Mozilla. They'd be the ones to do it right without planting some nasty stuff inside. I think I'll go do that now...