Yea, Hemos updated it. It used to be really really really bad gramatically, unreadable almost (hence why I asked for a translastion). To picture what it used to look like, just think "AOL Chatroom".
Thanks for the praise : ) I just do that because I know I would appriciate it if I was the newbie, and I know what it's like to be new to Linux. And I knew that bashing him would be the quickest way for him to learn to hate Linux (and from his post, it seemed like he hasn't even ever run a Unix, so bashing him would keep him away from it). So I just try to be helpful at what I can. I do my linux website, and answer tech support questions on the Mandrake mailing list, for the exact same reasons. I know when I was a newbie I really really liked it when someone helped me. And since I can't really code, this is my way to give back to the community.
"su" is the command to switch users. If you use no arguements, just plain "su", then it assumes you want root. Then it'll ask for a password, and then you're root.
BTW root is the super user of the computer, he has total control over every aspect of the system. Regular users basically can only modify their own home directory, whereas root can modify any directory.
I sent in my email and all, and still no account yet. I don't really care though, I can wait. But I'm just anxious to try it out so I can tell other people about it, and spread the word about Linux. I see this thing as a great and easy way to introduce the average Joe to Linux, before they go through the trouble of installing it on their own computer.
Well, I probally wouldn't have ever considered OSU, much less go there, but I definitly won't now. I want a college where I'm guarenteed a broadband network in the dorms. Anything else just isn't acceptable anymore.
And the particulary sad thing about it is that Slashdot has already covered the X-Box unveiling. Come on guys, it was only 2 weeks ago, surely you could have remebered that far back!
This thing could be quite benificial for the Linux movement. Now I could just give "regular" people a URL to go try Linux, instead of having to install it on their system first. And then if they like that browser experiance, then maybe they can install it on their own computer. Pretty damn cool if you ask me.
I would love if my teachers did that, or at least for math. But of course, I'm the exception, most of the students (even in advanced classes) wouldn't understand, and would whine about it. But I like to discover some of these things on my own, I feel as if I really learned something important by doing that. And frankly, half the stuff we learn in math you could figure out on your own given enough time.
And I also HATE it when teachers just "teach the test". Standarized testing is a very evil thing, at least for me. Instead of learning something new, I have to waste time going over fractions to make sure we don't fail. But I do understand why the state has them, I just wish I was exempted from taking them : )
when you need to press "START" to end your session?
I HATE that analogy. The very first time I had ever booted Linux, I had no fscking idea how to get it to reboot so my dad could use the computer (for Windows). A big foot is no more initive than a Start button. But at least to the very beginner, they see "Start", and think "oh, I must have to click this". Then hopefully they'll see a "Shut Down" option in that start menu. I'd say it's a lot more initutive to the vigin newbie than a big foot or big K.
Also, you run "exit" from the command prompt, not from X. So I don't see how that as any reverance to how easy Linux/Windows is to a newbie, as a newbie would stay in X.
Most such things for Linux are distributed as source code, and so can be examined for malicious content.
Ah, but we have Joe "New to Linux" Doe who can't program to save his life. How is he supposed to know what a "good" program or "bad" program is? He can't, he's just as helpless on Windows as he is on Linux.
I was going to ask teh same exact thing. I'm just curious about other OS's, and I figure I might as well try some other Unixes other than Linux. So I'm guessing FreeBSD is the most user friendly? How does it comparet to the "ease" of Linux today? Does it come with X, and do you set it up during installation, or do you have to compile it yourself later on after installation? If you can run Linux "fairly well", would a *BSD be easy enough to install and use?
About the valedictorian part, I agree whole heartedly. The way that kind of thing is calculated at my school is so screwed up, taht some of the smartest people I know have no chance of becoming the validictoran. It's SOLEY based on how many honors/AP classes you took (assuming you get a A in every course, every semester, which isn't TOO hard to do, and which quite a few people, including me, do). True, they are hard workers, but the person currently in one of the top spots is one of the last I'd pick to be validitictoran out of all the smart people in our school.
I was wondering that too, because there is no way a regular public high school would have the neccasary equipment to interact with genes the way she did. I guess she could have done it at a local university, but again, I'm wondering how she would gain access to the equipment neccasary to do that stuff (I'm assuming that the equipment is fairly expensive and complicated)
Yep. Bill Gates "The Road Ahead" book was on the CD-Rom that came with the printed book. And you can read Brave New World, or any of the books by these Authors online too. Plus 1984 is somewhere on the net, but I can't remember the link.
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We celebrated PI day in school today also. Our's wasn't as extravagent though. We just wrote songs about PI and brought pies to eat in class. It was a lot of fun though.
Hmmmm, that's a bit scary because that's what we basically did the first semester of CS. We still haven't ever used printf() in school, it's all cout cin. And yep, for most of the first semester a lot of our programs had to do with basic mathmatical stuff. NOt all, but a good chunk. Of course, the teacher isn't all that good either, so it doesn't suprise me much.
But NT is what the kids are going to use in the Real World.
Heh, that's exactly what my dad said when I told him I wanted to install Linux on our PC. I eventually got him to let me, but he was very steadfast in his belief that the linux skills I would gain by using Linux would have no use later on in life. Of course, to help solve this particular problem, you could should them all the Linux Jobs avaliable, plus the fact that Linux also gives valuable UNIX experiance which will also come in handy for a lot of jobs.
I know there is at least one guy on the Mandrake mailing list who runs Mandrake on his 486. I'm not sure how well it runs or anything, but he once posted that he got Mandrake to work on his 486.
You're right, they probally shouldn't be teaching software devlopment. But if they don't, then who will? All the good programmers are sucked up by high paying jobs in the private sector, we (the high schools) get the left overs most of the time. I'd rather have a poor teacher and maybe learn something, or someone else learn something (anything!), than no teacher at all and have to take PE or some equally useless class in it's place.
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Yea, Hemos updated it. It used to be really really really bad gramatically, unreadable almost (hence why I asked for a translastion). To picture what it used to look like, just think "AOL Chatroom".
What the hell? Is it supposed to be that badly written, or is Hemos drunk? Can someone provide a translation?
And check out fun with Microwaves link that is on the Altoids page.
Thanks for the praise : ) I just do that because I know I would appriciate it if I was the newbie, and I know what it's like to be new to Linux. And I knew that bashing him would be the quickest way for him to learn to hate Linux (and from his post, it seemed like he hasn't even ever run a Unix, so bashing him would keep him away from it). So I just try to be helpful at what I can. I do my linux website, and answer tech support questions on the Mandrake mailing list, for the exact same reasons. I know when I was a newbie I really really liked it when someone helped me. And since I can't really code, this is my way to give back to the community.
Also, I believe that Gnome (I've seen this in RedHat too) pops up a warning to the screen if you are running as root
Yep, still does it. A window pops up telling you you are running as root and could damage your system by doing it.
"su" is the command to switch users. If you use no arguements, just plain "su", then it assumes you want root. Then it'll ask for a password, and then you're root.
BTW root is the super user of the computer, he has total control over every aspect of the system. Regular users basically can only modify their own home directory, whereas root can modify any directory.
I sent in my email and all, and still no account yet. I don't really care though, I can wait. But I'm just anxious to try it out so I can tell other people about it, and spread the word about Linux. I see this thing as a great and easy way to introduce the average Joe to Linux, before they go through the trouble of installing it on their own computer.
Well, I probally wouldn't have ever considered OSU, much less go there, but I definitly won't now. I want a college where I'm guarenteed a broadband network in the dorms. Anything else just isn't acceptable anymore.
And the particulary sad thing about it is that Slashdot has already covered the X-Box unveiling. Come on guys, it was only 2 weeks ago, surely you could have remebered that far back!
The console market will be crowded enough as is, we wont need a 5th contender.
For the 32/64 bit wars we had:
Sega Saturn
Sony Playstation
Nintendo 64
Atari Jaguar
3DO
Face it, some of these consoles will fail. The question is just which ones.
This thing could be quite benificial for the Linux movement. Now I could just give "regular" people a URL to go try Linux, instead of having to install it on their system first. And then if they like that browser experiance, then maybe they can install it on their own computer. Pretty damn cool if you ask me.
I would love if my teachers did that, or at least for math. But of course, I'm the exception, most of the students (even in advanced classes) wouldn't understand, and would whine about it. But I like to discover some of these things on my own, I feel as if I really learned something important by doing that. And frankly, half the stuff we learn in math you could figure out on your own given enough time.
And I also HATE it when teachers just "teach the test". Standarized testing is a very evil thing, at least for me. Instead of learning something new, I have to waste time going over fractions to make sure we don't fail. But I do understand why the state has them, I just wish I was exempted from taking them : )
when you need to press "START" to end your session?
I HATE that analogy. The very first time I had ever booted Linux, I had no fscking idea how to get it to reboot so my dad could use the computer (for Windows). A big foot is no more initive than a Start button. But at least to the very beginner, they see "Start", and think "oh, I must have to click this". Then hopefully they'll see a "Shut Down" option in that start menu. I'd say it's a lot more initutive to the vigin newbie than a big foot or big K.
Also, you run "exit" from the command prompt, not from X. So I don't see how that as any reverance to how easy Linux/Windows is to a newbie, as a newbie would stay in X.
Most such things for Linux are distributed as source code, and so can be examined for malicious content.
Ah, but we have Joe "New to Linux" Doe who can't program to save his life. How is he supposed to know what a "good" program or "bad" program is? He can't, he's just as helpless on Windows as he is on Linux.
POKEY THE PENGUIN!!
I was going to ask teh same exact thing. I'm just curious about other OS's, and I figure I might as well try some other Unixes other than Linux. So I'm guessing FreeBSD is the most user friendly? How does it comparet to the "ease" of Linux today? Does it come with X, and do you set it up during installation, or do you have to compile it yourself later on after installation? If you can run Linux "fairly well", would a *BSD be easy enough to install and use?
WOO HOO! I got an English lesson for free from an AC!
About the valedictorian part, I agree whole heartedly. The way that kind of thing is calculated at my school is so screwed up, taht some of the smartest people I know have no chance of becoming the validictoran. It's SOLEY based on how many honors/AP classes you took (assuming you get a A in every course, every semester, which isn't TOO hard to do, and which quite a few people, including me, do). True, they are hard workers, but the person currently in one of the top spots is one of the last I'd pick to be validitictoran out of all the smart people in our school.
I was wondering that too, because there is no way a regular public high school would have the neccasary equipment to interact with genes the way she did. I guess she could have done it at a local university, but again, I'm wondering how she would gain access to the equipment neccasary to do that stuff (I'm assuming that the equipment is fairly expensive and complicated)
Yep. Bill Gates "The Road Ahead" book was on the CD-Rom that came with the printed book. And you can read Brave New World, or any of the books by these Authors online too. Plus 1984 is somewhere on the net, but I can't remember the link.
We celebrated PI day in school today also. Our's wasn't as extravagent though. We just wrote songs about PI and brought pies to eat in class. It was a lot of fun though.
Hmmmm, that's a bit scary because that's what we basically did the first semester of CS. We still haven't ever used printf() in school, it's all cout cin. And yep, for most of the first semester a lot of our programs had to do with basic mathmatical stuff. NOt all, but a good chunk. Of course, the teacher isn't all that good either, so it doesn't suprise me much.
But NT is what the kids are going to use in the Real World.
Heh, that's exactly what my dad said when I told him I wanted to install Linux on our PC. I eventually got him to let me, but he was very steadfast in his belief that the linux skills I would gain by using Linux would have no use later on in life. Of course, to help solve this particular problem, you could should them all the Linux Jobs avaliable, plus the fact that Linux also gives valuable UNIX experiance which will also come in handy for a lot of jobs.
I know there is at least one guy on the Mandrake mailing list who runs Mandrake on his 486. I'm not sure how well it runs or anything, but he once posted that he got Mandrake to work on his 486.
You're right, they probally shouldn't be teaching software devlopment. But if they don't, then who will? All the good programmers are sucked up by high paying jobs in the private sector, we (the high schools) get the left overs most of the time. I'd rather have a poor teacher and maybe learn something, or someone else learn something (anything!), than no teacher at all and have to take PE or some equally useless class in it's place.