When I lived in Miami I had trouble with ants, too. Another good way to keep them at bay is to use cinnamon as a deterrent. If you sprinkle a line of it around whatever you want to protect they will not cross that line. You can also put it on the holes that they are using to come into the house.
The drawback is that it is messy, but on the plus side it is natural.
But a repository of good multimedia clips and lessons aimed at children of different ages: http://www.teachersdomain.org/
This site is run by the PBS station WGBH. You might be able to find footage of what you are looking for here and questions that could spark and interesting conversation between yourself and your child.
It's great that people are thinking about testing the usability of a Linux distro aimed at more mainstream users. This is something that should be done to evaluate what kind of support is needed for people beginning their first experience with an alternate operating system. And I think that this is what the linked posting aimed at doing.
However, the benchmark for usability should be how functional an OS is out of the box for new or inexperienced users, not for girlfriends or women. Being and gal and reading the comments posted for this story really strikes a chord in me. What I am hearing is a lot of people saying that Linux is so easy now that a girl can use it. Put that in any other context and it sounds amazingly sexist, although some of the commenters may not have meant it in that way.
I think it is true that there are more technologically savvy guys than gals, but the issue is not that women cannot be technologically savvy. We are perfectly capable of reading instructions on how to install an application. I think it is more an issue of interest and appeal. Fewer women are interested or have the confidence to tinker around with settings, configure applications or even build their own computers. In part, I think this attitude comes from the culture surrounding technology. It can be hard to shine when people do not believe in and foster your abilities.
At the moment I am not a linux user, but I have been on and off for ten years. If you look on my bookshelf you will find my old copies of Maximum Linux Security and O'Reilly Running Linux. And when I first installed Mandrake onto my box, my scientist-programmer of a boyfriend was pretty jealous that I got it all to work.
Why did I do it? I did not need to put Linux on my computer. I just thought it would be fun and interesting, that I would learn something new about my computer. And this is the point I would like to make: This is not the mindset of the average user, whether that person is a male of female. It is the mindset of someone that is interested in and confident with computers and their usage.
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When I lived in Miami I had trouble with ants, too. Another good way to keep them at bay is to use cinnamon as a deterrent. If you sprinkle a line of it around whatever you want to protect they will not cross that line. You can also put it on the holes that they are using to come into the house.
The drawback is that it is messy, but on the plus side it is natural.
Yes, you can configure automatic updates to install updates automatically. However your choices are:
I have mine set for the third option
It was one of the choices in my automatic update this morning when I booted my computer.
But a repository of good multimedia clips and lessons aimed at children of different ages: http://www.teachersdomain.org/
This site is run by the PBS station WGBH. You might be able to find footage of what you are looking for here and questions that could spark and interesting conversation between yourself and your child.
It's great that people are thinking about testing the usability of a Linux distro aimed at more mainstream users. This is something that should be done to evaluate what kind of support is needed for people beginning their first experience with an alternate operating system. And I think that this is what the linked posting aimed at doing.
However, the benchmark for usability should be how functional an OS is out of the box for new or inexperienced users, not for girlfriends or women. Being and gal and reading the comments posted for this story really strikes a chord in me. What I am hearing is a lot of people saying that Linux is so easy now that a girl can use it. Put that in any other context and it sounds amazingly sexist, although some of the commenters may not have meant it in that way.
I think it is true that there are more technologically savvy guys than gals, but the issue is not that women cannot be technologically savvy. We are perfectly capable of reading instructions on how to install an application. I think it is more an issue of interest and appeal. Fewer women are interested or have the confidence to tinker around with settings, configure applications or even build their own computers. In part, I think this attitude comes from the culture surrounding technology. It can be hard to shine when people do not believe in and foster your abilities.
At the moment I am not a linux user, but I have been on and off for ten years. If you look on my bookshelf you will find my old copies of Maximum Linux Security and O'Reilly Running Linux. And when I first installed Mandrake onto my box, my scientist-programmer of a boyfriend was pretty jealous that I got it all to work.
Why did I do it? I did not need to put Linux on my computer. I just thought it would be fun and interesting, that I would learn something new about my computer. And this is the point I would like to make: This is not the mindset of the average user, whether that person is a male of female. It is the mindset of someone that is interested in and confident with computers and their usage.