It's pretty damned difficult to get freebie financial assistance as an incomming Freshman.
To misquote "Better Off Dead",:
I've been going to this school for 12 years. I'm no dummy.
The best thing that you can do is KICK academic ASS as a freshman and softmore. I realize that that might not help you ATM, but if you do well, it may give you massive financial assistance for JR/SR years.
And as for grad-school... I was accepted into all of the Top-10 schools (and #16) except for MIT (rank #1) in Elec Eng for my Master's. Grad school was EASY to not only get into, but to get $$$ aid for. - Be in the top couple % of your graduating class, and you'll get nice offers from many places.
Because I went to my school as an undergrad, did well, and am a U.S. national, I was able to... ermm... haggle, for a better offer. Research Assistant stipend + free tuition + $3500 = I'll stay. Mind you, my research funding died on 9/11 and I'm living on Ramen noodles again.
Point here being: HS grades + SAT = tiny assistance. The longer you stay at an academic institution, and the better you do there, the greater the aid you'll be getting. Suck it up, they'll try to weed you out as a freshman, both academically and scholastically. Progress, and the school may end up paying you to attend!
This is for already clean systems and new installs. Grandma/n would have probably not have a pervious bootmanager installed. One hundred corporate machines though, that's a fresh install.
Your grandparents would be fine. They'd just lose all previous information.
Mom finally got a new pc. Dell with WinXP installed, no MS-Office so put on OpenOffice. She was so confused by the new interface changes from win95, a penguin-desktop wouldn't have made much difference. Make sure that she knows how to open OO, save her
files, show where the solitare and simple games are.
One OS for mom, no worries on grub/lilo. Grandma is GTG.
You bought Rainbow on tape? OMG, I'm so jealous. I used to sit and type in all of those myself. What was worse, when the bulk of the code was in HEX. It was hours of data-entry, and you hoped you didn't put in typos (check-sums rocked!) 'Course, occasionally you needed to wait till the next month for any misprints.
When I got the CoCo 3, I only had one diskdrive, but two cartridge controllers. If you could hold the cartridge in tightly, you could pull out the ribbon and switch it to the other machine!
And it interfaced so easily little experiments using the joystick pots.
Man, I now miss that thing. And to think, my parents actually SOLD it at a yardsale a couple years ago for $10!
I was fortunate enough to have gotten a Tandy Color Computer (CoCo) as a youngin'.
It had a whopping 16k, we had it modded to 32k after a while! Eventually replaced with a CoCo 3
Hehee, Gentgeen. Small world. My mom's school is also in the 'Burgh.
AFAIK, their comp guy who's helped in the past has had his children enrolled in the school. They're all gone now, so he's trying to get away from supporting them.
I'll see if they'd let me set up a couple PCs with Linux on em. Some of the children are really quite bright, so perhaps those few will play with them more! At least it might be an alternative, but the OpenCDs sound like a start, regardless.
My dear old mom has taught at a little Catholic Elementary School for years. Their computers are horribly outdated, and the software (MS) is a hodgepodge of various versions from the past 10 years.
I've considered trying to explain to them that the switch to OSS might be preferrable. Since they can't really ever afford new hardware (raise tuition? neg.) and costs of software licences, OSS sounds like it might be a nice alternative. Generally the same stuff running on 486s to P3s, free upgrades when needed, OpenCD stuff would work on the kids/teachers machines at home (probably.)
What are your thoughts on this? If the PCs are there for kids to write reports, learn the basics of PCs, some educational software useage (typing? Alphabet learning?) would it make sense to wait until a summer, and wipe all machines and dump on a Linux Distro?
Regardless, I think I'll burn a few OpenCDs, let mom play with the software (she's getting a new PC soon anyways!) and let the other teachers there experiment.
We need more laws like this! Then, all those broadband connections won't be getting used, and some company might pay me to get off this silly dial-up.
We need more laws like this! The U.S. prisons are almost EMPTY as is! Some are so unpopulated that they have to share cots with just TWO inmates sleeping on different shifts. This can EASILY be brought to 3 inmates, each getting 8 hours of sleep, for a 50% increase in housing space efficiency.
Ok, I don't download music/movies that would incarcerate me. However, if I was going to be tossed into a PYITA Prison, for something so innane, I'd make sure to go out and do something that was more relavant to the time I was sentenced to serve.
Bubba: Wut'joo in 'ere fer, skinny-boy?
Me: My FTP had a copy of "Terminator 4: The Gubernatorial Machines" But I made sure to kill a few random people first!
Bubba: Wut's da Effteepee? Ner' mind. Take yer pants off.
Can the probe be considered to have conquered the property? Does NASA own the moon or Mars? Will China be violating any treaty, or declaring war, by invading (landing) on either?
I recall, years ago, the international treaty on Antartica which stated that no country was able to lay claim to that land. I think it had an expiration date on it, was it renewed? I always wanted to go raft to an island there, plant my flag, and claim it as mine. I never signed that treaty! Invade me, if you dare! Ahhhrrrr!
I'd think that for any reasonable claim to space property, you'll need to land a PERSON on it. Only the moon, then, is owned by NASA.
A single distribution focused towards mass acceptance on the desktop would NOT limit your choice. It might, however, narrow your vision.
The current state of eleventy bagillion distros is one (of many) reasons why we don't see Linux on the desktop both at work, and on YourMom's PC.
If you want to see the penguin in more places, it really needs to find a single habitat to live in. Then they may multiply, and live spread to the 4 corners!
As wonderful as the diversity is, it will cause confusion for YourMom and Joe. When an 8th grader tosses Flavor-Z on the home PC, YourMom's friends might want to know where to get it. There IS a need for a single, unified, easy-to-use distro. That would cause even greater adoption of Linux as a desktop OS.
I love the diversity as much as any geek, but that same diversity makes Linux look daunting to most.
"Because I helped to found Debian! (then dropped out.)"
or perhaps:
"Mandrake is based off of RedHat, which is going Enterprise only. Unless you count Fedora, which is beta-testing for the enterprise ed."
Seems more suitable to take a super stable distro and modify it for the desktop. You'd rather use what might soon become a distro based on a beta version of someone's server stuff?
Did I really miss the point, or just not read into it as much?? Agreed, this could mean many things, however:
UserLinux should be available in six months, and discs containing a consumer version of UserLinux could hit retail store shelves shortly thereafter. Those discs would basically sell at cost, or as little as $10.
Can't really put alot of $$$ proprietary stuff in there for $10. Acrobat? JRE/JDK? You have the option to install these now, this would help to simplify it for Mom and Average Joe.
Perens called for Linux distributors to unite behind a single distribution based on the Debian version of Linux, which he helped to develop.
Namely, UserLinux.
This doesn't NEED to have stable/testing/unstable mixes. It'd just be based off of the way Debian already works their flavor.
I'd like to think that if there is a specific single distribution focused towards the desktop, you'll see much development on it. From all sides: app coders, Debian maintainers, and UserLinux interaction. There can always be a single CURRENT version, provided you keep your *.ULD (User Linux Debs?) updated.
UserLinux would only depart from Debian for software that is not open source, such as 3-D drivers, said Perens.
SUCH AS 3-D DRIVERS.
Like for this nVidia card. Debian already includes non-free packages, if you let it.
They've recently talked about not wanting to worry about maintaining the non-free stuff, but that doesn't mean its gonna up and disappear, either. It's not a step-back from the quote's description. I read it as: UserLinux = Debian(free)+Debian(non-free)
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It's pretty damned difficult to get freebie financial assistance as an incomming Freshman.
:
To misquote "Better Off Dead",
I've been going to this school for 12 years. I'm no dummy.
The best thing that you can do is KICK academic ASS as a freshman and softmore. I realize that that might not help you ATM, but if you do well, it may give you massive financial assistance for JR/SR years.
And as for grad-school... I was accepted into all of the Top-10 schools (and #16) except for MIT (rank #1) in Elec Eng for my Master's. Grad school was EASY to not only get into, but to get $$$ aid for. - Be in the top couple % of your graduating class, and you'll get nice offers from many places.
Because I went to my school as an undergrad, did well, and am a U.S. national, I was able to... ermm... haggle, for a better offer. Research Assistant stipend + free tuition + $3500 = I'll stay. Mind you, my research funding died on 9/11 and I'm living on Ramen noodles again.
Point here being: HS grades + SAT = tiny assistance. The longer you stay at an academic institution, and the better you do there, the greater the aid you'll be getting. Suck it up, they'll try to weed you out as a freshman, both academically and scholastically. Progress, and the school may end up paying you to attend!
Good Luck in all your studies! =)
... as soon as they can get those things to flap.
Wrong.
This is for already clean systems and new installs. Grandma/n would have probably not have a pervious bootmanager installed. One hundred corporate machines though, that's a fresh install.
Your grandparents would be fine. They'd just lose all previous information.
Mom finally got a new pc. Dell with WinXP installed, no MS-Office so put on OpenOffice. She was so confused by the new interface changes from win95, a penguin-desktop wouldn't have made much difference. Make sure that she knows how to open OO, save her files, show where the solitare and simple games are.
One OS for mom, no worries on grub/lilo. Grandma is GTG.
tricksee trolls
Better yet, each of the movies could've been 2x as long. Six movies, and we'd get to have lots more of what is missing!
Have you even read the book? Condensing that into one movie (and I bet you'd prefer it to be only 90mins long) would be futile.
AFAIK, this isn't new. This technique has been in use for years, at least theoretically.
IIRC, this was first tested on random samplings of classical music. Beethoven and Mozart scored significantly better that others.
Even that isn't a very good title. As has been said, the TRS-80, AppleII's, Commodores, orig Mac... the list bites.
You bought Rainbow on tape? OMG, I'm so jealous. I used to sit and type in all of those myself. What was worse, when the bulk of the code was in HEX. It was hours of data-entry, and you hoped you didn't put in typos (check-sums rocked!) 'Course, occasionally you needed to wait till the next month for any misprints.
When I got the CoCo 3, I only had one diskdrive, but two cartridge controllers. If you could hold the cartridge in tightly, you could pull out the ribbon and switch it to the other machine!
And it interfaced so easily little experiments using the joystick pots.
Man, I now miss that thing. And to think, my parents actually SOLD it at a yardsale a couple years ago for $10!
I was fortunate enough to have gotten a Tandy Color Computer (CoCo) as a youngin'.
It had a whopping 16k, we had it modded to 32k after a while! Eventually replaced with a CoCo 3
I learned a ton on that little monster!
Hehee, Gentgeen. Small world. My mom's school is also in the 'Burgh.
AFAIK, their comp guy who's helped in the past has had his children enrolled in the school. They're all gone now, so he's trying to get away from supporting them.
I'll see if they'd let me set up a couple PCs with Linux on em. Some of the children are really quite bright, so perhaps those few will play with them more! At least it might be an alternative, but the OpenCDs sound like a start, regardless.
My dear old mom has taught at a little Catholic Elementary School for years. Their computers are horribly outdated, and the software (MS) is a hodgepodge of various versions from the past 10 years.
I've considered trying to explain to them that the switch to OSS might be preferrable. Since they can't really ever afford new hardware (raise tuition? neg.) and costs of software licences, OSS sounds like it might be a nice alternative. Generally the same stuff running on 486s to P3s, free upgrades when needed, OpenCD stuff would work on the kids/teachers machines at home (probably.)
What are your thoughts on this? If the PCs are there for kids to write reports, learn the basics of PCs, some educational software useage (typing? Alphabet learning?) would it make sense to wait until a summer, and wipe all machines and dump on a Linux Distro?
Regardless, I think I'll burn a few OpenCDs, let mom play with the software (she's getting a new PC soon anyways!) and let the other teachers there experiment.
Any thoughts, help, tips, greatly appreciated!
We need more laws like this! Then, all those broadband connections won't be getting used, and some company might pay me to get off this silly dial-up.
We need more laws like this! The U.S. prisons are almost EMPTY as is! Some are so unpopulated that they have to share cots with just TWO inmates sleeping on different shifts. This can EASILY be brought to 3 inmates, each getting 8 hours of sleep, for a 50% increase in housing space efficiency.
Ok, I don't download music/movies that would incarcerate me. However, if I was going to be tossed into a PYITA Prison, for something so innane, I'd make sure to go out and do something that was more relavant to the time I was sentenced to serve.
Bubba: Wut'joo in 'ere fer, skinny-boy?
Me: My FTP had a copy of "Terminator 4: The Gubernatorial Machines" But I made sure to kill a few random people first!
Bubba: Wut's da Effteepee? Ner' mind. Take yer pants off.
seems the previous poster already answered my one query
NASA wins, if they "squat" there long enough.
Can the probe be considered to have conquered the property? Does NASA own the moon or Mars? Will China be violating any treaty, or declaring war, by invading (landing) on either?
I recall, years ago, the international treaty on Antartica which stated that no country was able to lay claim to that land. I think it had an expiration date on it, was it renewed? I always wanted to go raft to an island there, plant my flag, and claim it as mine. I never signed that treaty! Invade me, if you dare! Ahhhrrrr!
I'd think that for any reasonable claim to space property, you'll need to land a PERSON on it. Only the moon, then, is owned by NASA.
A single distribution focused towards mass acceptance on the desktop would NOT limit your choice. It might, however, narrow your vision.
The current state of eleventy bagillion distros is one (of many) reasons why we don't see Linux on the desktop both at work, and on YourMom's PC.
If you want to see the penguin in more places, it really needs to find a single habitat to live in. Then they may multiply, and live spread to the 4 corners!
As wonderful as the diversity is, it will cause confusion for YourMom and Joe. When an 8th grader tosses Flavor-Z on the home PC, YourMom's friends might want to know where to get it. There IS a need for a single, unified, easy-to-use distro. That would cause even greater adoption of Linux as a desktop OS.
I love the diversity as much as any geek, but that same diversity makes Linux look daunting to most.
hrmmm....
"Because I helped to found Debian! (then dropped out.)"
or perhaps:
"Mandrake is based off of RedHat, which is going Enterprise only. Unless you count Fedora, which is beta-testing for the enterprise ed."
Seems more suitable to take a super stable distro and modify it for the desktop. You'd rather use what might soon become a distro based on a beta version of someone's server stuff?
Can't really put alot of $$$ proprietary stuff in there for $10. Acrobat? JRE/JDK? You have the option to install these now, this would help to simplify it for Mom and Average Joe.
This doesn't NEED to have stable/testing/unstable mixes. It'd just be based off of the way Debian already works their flavor.
I'd like to think that if there is a specific single distribution focused towards the desktop, you'll see much development on it. From all sides: app coders, Debian maintainers, and UserLinux interaction. There can always be a single CURRENT version, provided you keep your *.ULD (User Linux Debs?) updated.