I don't know how many children will be in the lab at once, but looks like you already have everything you need.
You have 6 computers with Ubuntu (4 yrs old is still pretty decent), you just need more computers to accommodate more children if necessary.
I recently refurbished a 3-4 yr old Acer Aspire One Netbook (crappy 1,6 ghz, crappy video-card and only 1 GB ram). Bought an SSD, installed latest Ubuntu (12.10) and it works like a charm.
My plan was using it for general usage and some programming (Java (Eclipse), Python, Ruby/Rails, Octave,... ) in general and through free cloud services (Openshift, Heroku,...) and repositories (GitHub). It works great.
I also have a Raspberry Pi, but honestly, wouldn't use it to teach if you already have bigger boxes set up. Maybe they can be used for hardware projects, but with the extra cost of SD cards, keyboards, mouse you should be able to get some old computers for around that price or free.
I'm from Belgium and that story sounds very weird. I'm pretty sure there is more to the story than just ripping up a Koran. The guy already had a jail-sentence in the past for arson. The links you provide also point to extreme-right wing blogs. Supposedly, he went to a 'small rally' and went into a bar afterwards where he got into a fight with 12 Arabs who threw a Koran at him, which he ripped up. This story did not get picked up by the press here. If this really is what happened "dude shocks Arabs by ripping Koran, goes to jail for disrespecting their culture", it would have been all over the news here.
I don't know what that 'small rally' was about, but this has the neo-nazi smell all over it.
keep a 512mb for backwards compatibility? dude, I have the 256mb version. How about making sure the early adopters don't get screwed with the next software release and use the 256 as base;).
Vaporware? hell no! I'm running the new XBMC release on it and it works like a charm (guys, remember I have the 256mb version).
With the TED-talks plugin, I'm hooked!
Are you talking about the Jack Mehoff that uses the same IP-address as Ben Dover?
Simple machine learning algorithms will have you figured out in no time, really. They probably can even tell you the constitution of your household.
And if that's not sufficient, your specific browser configuration won't help either.
Better not have facebook cookies and don't visit any pages with facebook/twitter/LinkdIn/... icons either.
Education should be broad, but how well formed are you really when having a bit of all? Are you really an expert in Economics after taking Economics 101, or sociology after taking Sociology 101, etc... ?
Sure, but automatically deleting temporary files ?!? Was there really a single Google engineer involved in the process thinking "hmmm, this has certainly never been done before!".
Ed Tufte's prank was to build a blue box in '62 allowing him to make free long distance calls on AT&T's network.
I think that's a bit more severe (you know, the fact that you're basically committing fraud on the phone network of a company that had a monopoly in the US) than 'overloading your school server'.
They got a call from AT&T saying that if they didn't sell their blue box and just hand over their stuff, AT&T wouldn't give them any trouble.
I'm pretty sure today, this could have turned out pretty ugly.
And this a couple of days after some other big IT personality gave a speech at the funeral stating he could have been gone the same way as Aaron Swartz if he would have been punished the same way during his hacking and exploring days during College.
Sad.
I knew some good youth players back in the days (I'm talking early '90s, elo ranking around 2000), and of course they analyzed their opponents previous games with Fritz (best Chess program at that time) to see how to play these guys.
That's hardly cheating, it's just a tool in getting better (as long as you don't use it during the game;-)).
Mind that those people know how to play. Even the supposed 'cheater' has an elo ranking of >2200. That's already pretty damn good. It's not like this guy would suddenly start sucking if his 'cheating channel' falls out. Even a tiny board advantage at that level is critical (hell it was already critical at 1600 level).
exactly. he was co-author together with 15 other people He hardly "made" the discovery but still props up to the kid.
Having authored and co-authored a couple of papers, who gets his name on the publication is often function of their networking skills rather than their input in the research, except for those actively doing said research.
I usually had 3 extra people on my papers, that had no real input.
Some theories actually say this (too lazy for references). if you give money to people who need it for basic things (food,clothes,shelter,utilities), they will spend it immediately thus fueling the economy.
aah, the Myth of the dead man switch:)
Back in my C64 and Amiga days (talking '89-'90), we went to this local 'computer club' where you could 'rent' pirated games (and copy them yourself) for 50 cent a game or something like that.
It was really small scale, just the local town kids with Amigas/C64's went there (the guys operating the club were in my high school).
Rumor has it they had some type of pulley lever with a huge magnet at the front door so if there was trouble at the door they could just pull the switch and lower the big magnet on the stock of floppy/3" disks in the back room to erase them:-).
How about this: people that exhibit a high level of multi-tasking have a higher probability of being bored easily. People that are bored easily have a higher probability of being depressed.
I think the HIPAA rules first allowed for this type of third-party loop-hole but it got fixed.
Now all companies (not just healthcare) working with patient data must abide by the HIPAA rules.
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I don't know how many children will be in the lab at once, but looks like you already have everything you need.
... ) in general and through free cloud services (Openshift, Heroku, ...) and repositories (GitHub). It works great.
You have 6 computers with Ubuntu (4 yrs old is still pretty decent), you just need more computers to accommodate more children if necessary.
I recently refurbished a 3-4 yr old Acer Aspire One Netbook (crappy 1,6 ghz, crappy video-card and only 1 GB ram). Bought an SSD, installed latest Ubuntu (12.10) and it works like a charm.
My plan was using it for general usage and some programming (Java (Eclipse), Python, Ruby/Rails, Octave,
I also have a Raspberry Pi, but honestly, wouldn't use it to teach if you already have bigger boxes set up. Maybe they can be used for hardware projects, but with the extra cost of SD cards, keyboards, mouse you should be able to get some old computers for around that price or free.
I'm from Belgium and that story sounds very weird. I'm pretty sure there is more to the story than just ripping up a Koran. The guy already had a jail-sentence in the past for arson. The links you provide also point to extreme-right wing blogs. Supposedly, he went to a 'small rally' and went into a bar afterwards where he got into a fight with 12 Arabs who threw a Koran at him, which he ripped up. This story did not get picked up by the press here. If this really is what happened "dude shocks Arabs by ripping Koran, goes to jail for disrespecting their culture", it would have been all over the news here.
I don't know what that 'small rally' was about, but this has the neo-nazi smell all over it.
keep a 512mb for backwards compatibility? dude, I have the 256mb version. How about making sure the early adopters don't get screwed with the next software release and use the 256 as base;) .
Vaporware? hell no! I'm running the new XBMC release on it and it works like a charm (guys, remember I have the 256mb version).
With the TED-talks plugin, I'm hooked!
I just visited Hollywood studios and drove around my RC car with cam!
Are you talking about the Jack Mehoff that uses the same IP-address as Ben Dover?
Simple machine learning algorithms will have you figured out in no time, really. They probably can even tell you the constitution of your household.
And if that's not sufficient, your specific browser configuration won't help either. Better not have facebook cookies and don't visit any pages with facebook/twitter/LinkdIn/... icons either.
Education should be broad, but how well formed are you really when having a bit of all? Are you really an expert in Economics after taking Economics 101, or sociology after taking Sociology 101, etc... ?
Sure, but automatically deleting temporary files ?!? Was there really a single Google engineer involved in the process thinking "hmmm, this has certainly never been done before!".
Make it 900$ and we have a deal!
Ed Tufte's prank was to build a blue box in '62 allowing him to make free long distance calls on AT&T's network.
I think that's a bit more severe (you know, the fact that you're basically committing fraud on the phone network of a company that had a monopoly in the US) than 'overloading your school server'.
They got a call from AT&T saying that if they didn't sell their blue box and just hand over their stuff, AT&T wouldn't give them any trouble.
I'm pretty sure today, this could have turned out pretty ugly.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/01/20/1823256/edward-tuftes-defense-of-aaron-swartz-and-the-marvelously-different
And this a couple of days after some other big IT personality gave a speech at the funeral stating he could have been gone the same way as Aaron Swartz if he would have been punished the same way during his hacking and exploring days during College.
Sad.
...That way we don't have to invest > 1M$ in R&D to do it ourselves!
I knew some good youth players back in the days (I'm talking early '90s, elo ranking around 2000), and of course they analyzed their opponents previous games with Fritz (best Chess program at that time) to see how to play these guys. That's hardly cheating, it's just a tool in getting better (as long as you don't use it during the game ;-)).
Mind that those people know how to play. Even the supposed 'cheater' has an elo ranking of >2200. That's already pretty damn good. It's not like this guy would suddenly start sucking if his 'cheating channel' falls out. Even a tiny board advantage at that level is critical (hell it was already critical at 1600 level).
That's expensive.
Imagine having to review 20 applicants this way.
You're just going to get 5 developers and have them talk to you for half an hour?
exactly. he was co-author together with 15 other people He hardly "made" the discovery but still props up to the kid.
Having authored and co-authored a couple of papers, who gets his name on the publication is often function of their networking skills rather than their input in the research, except for those actively doing said research.
I usually had 3 extra people on my papers, that had no real input.
Some theories actually say this (too lazy for references). if you give money to people who need it for basic things (food,clothes,shelter,utilities), they will spend it immediately thus fueling the economy.
Also, other consoles already would have had a 1 year lead on the next-gen platform; which would have made it much harder for the PS3 to take a stand.
This news is at least a week old, and I actually read today that the yacht was released again.
I was drinking the cool-aid, until you mentioned Steve Jobs :)
Not really an engineer, was he?
Does it have an ARM version? looks like it's x86 only.
aah, the Myth of the dead man switch :) :-).
Back in my C64 and Amiga days (talking '89-'90), we went to this local 'computer club' where you could 'rent' pirated games (and copy them yourself) for 50 cent a game or something like that.
It was really small scale, just the local town kids with Amigas/C64's went there (the guys operating the club were in my high school).
Rumor has it they had some type of pulley lever with a huge magnet at the front door so if there was trouble at the door they could just pull the switch and lower the big magnet on the stock of floppy/3" disks in the back room to erase them
How about this: people that exhibit a high level of multi-tasking have a higher probability of being bored easily. People that are bored easily have a higher probability of being depressed.
I think the HIPAA rules first allowed for this type of third-party loop-hole but it got fixed.
Now all companies (not just healthcare) working with patient data must abide by the HIPAA rules.
I'd like to be called Software Guru or Evangelist.
so what?!
How is this different from any generic netbook that comes out around the same price range (with a x86 processor may I add)?