Well, I can add one positive effect -game to the list. I wonder why everyone who said something about Myst or its sequels felt they were horrible games that gave them creeps. Granted, finding chopped off heads from Achenars room on Mechanical Age island gave me The Creeps but otherwise I enjoyed the game serie immensly.
Actually I was completely immersed into the world of Atrus. So much actually that I daydreamed of creating worlds the way Atrus did. And when I discovered the books written by Robyn Miller which deepened the background of the D'ni, I literally hogged them down. This has been a really positive set of experiences for me and I hope it sort of compensates for some of the scared-me-to-death-stories;-)
Our university uses Linux and Unix on the servers and our department (Computer Science) uses Linux on all the desktops. Some some of those PCs run W2k also but as a second alternative only and mostly it's used only because there is some licenced software for it of which the department doesn't want to part with.
Propably this "slight inclination" towards Linux is because Torvalds was a student here at Computer Science/University of Helsinki;-) and of course, it's quite free. We're using our own modified version of RedHat and what an upgrading it must be even now when it's automated.
Other departments and public computer classes use a hodgepodge of terminals (yes, really), Macs, W3.11 and WinNT machines but luckily I don't have to watch after them;-)
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Well, I can add one positive effect -game to the list. I wonder why everyone who said something about Myst or its sequels felt they were horrible games that gave them creeps. Granted, finding chopped off heads from Achenars room on Mechanical Age island gave me The Creeps but otherwise I enjoyed the game serie immensly.
Actually I was completely immersed into the world of Atrus. So much actually that I daydreamed of creating worlds the way Atrus did. And when I discovered the books written by Robyn Miller which deepened the background of the D'ni, I literally hogged them down. This has been a really positive set of experiences for me and I hope it sort of compensates for some of the scared-me-to-death-stories ;-)
Our university uses Linux and Unix on the servers and our department (Computer Science) uses Linux on all the desktops. Some some of those PCs run W2k also but as a second alternative only and mostly it's used only because there is some licenced software for it of which the department doesn't want to part with.
Propably this "slight inclination" towards Linux is because Torvalds was a student here at Computer Science/University of Helsinki ;-) and of course, it's quite free. We're using our own modified version of RedHat and what an upgrading it must be even now when it's automated.
Other departments and public computer classes use a hodgepodge of terminals (yes, really), Macs, W3.11 and WinNT machines but luckily I don't have to watch after them ;-)