On Thursday 03 February 2005 10:09, SeekingGyan wrote:
Thirteen-year-old Elizabeth Garbee may not know as much about Linux as her father Bdale Garbee, Linux CTO for Hewlett Packard and former Debian Project Leader, but that won't stop her from presenting at linux.conf.au 2005.
HA HA. My mother-in-law all of 64yrs and who never used a pc before. Uses Debian GNU/Linux for the past 3 yrs. As does my 11 yr old nephew - been using linux since he was 4 yrs. We never taught him to use a pc. He learnt probably by observation. He and his friends used windows for games too. What was their preference - 80:20 for linux. What were the reasons - The games were good and "madech bandh hoth nahin" and "phata phat chalta hai"
That's for the dolts who confuse installation and configuration with usage.
rgds jtd
to use a pc. He learnt probably by observation. He and his friends used windows for games too. What was their preference - 80:20 for linux.
well said.
my mum uses linux for the past few years.Never really sat on a windows m/c. Recently went to my bros place and tried to use the comp. After a short while, she put up her hands in despair, and said "i cant use this, its too confusing!"
just goes to show, its more an attitude issue, than a technical one.
on that note my 8 year old nephew recently gave me a "shock" by finding his way around my FreeBSD m/c. (command line!!!!) [ i had logged in and started a console game.., he had exited it, and was happily launching other games ] ..... he left me feeling 'old'.
Its a wake up for all the rest who think Open Systems are confusing and difficult. They are not!
must add this, all this is rather nice to see.
c'ya Erle
my mum uses linux for the past few years.Never really sat on a windows m/c. Recently went to my bros place and tried to use the comp. After a short while, she put up her hands in despair, and said "i cant use this, its too confusing!"
just goes to show, its more an attitude issue, than a technical one.
Haha.Even when I (have used linux for past few years) sit on a windows machine and use dos cmd i use "ls" instead of "dir"
Pankaj
Pankaj Dekate wrote:
my mum uses linux for the past few years.Never really sat on a windows m/c. Recently went to my bros place and tried to use the comp. After a short while, she put up her hands in despair, and said "i cant use this, its too confusing!"
just goes to show, its more an attitude issue, than a technical one.
Haha.Even when I (have used linux for past few years) sit on a windows machine and use dos cmd i use "ls" instead of "dir"
Pankaj
Thats true for me too. My linux class insists on command line only and when I recently wanted to transfer files in dos mode in a customer's machine, I was struggling to remember the dos commands.
Rony.
Thats true for me too. My linux class insists on command line only and when I recently wanted to transfer files in dos mode in a customer's machine, I was struggling to remember the dos commands.
Same here.I couldn't remember the command for making a directory in dos when i had gone for an interview.I was so used to "ls". I was literally asking other candidates for it.
Pankaj
I have a five year old daughter and have started to teach her computers at home. I am starting off with Knoppix. She loves the Potato Guy Game. I want to teach her about word processors and spreadsheets rather than Word and Excel.
can anyone suggest any good packages for the agegroup around 5-7 years? I am planning to start weekly sessions for my nephews also now.
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:14:13 +0500, sherlock@vsnl.com sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
On Thursday 03 February 2005 10:09, SeekingGyan wrote:
Thirteen-year-old Elizabeth Garbee may not know as much about Linux as her father Bdale Garbee, Linux CTO for Hewlett Packard and former Debian Project Leader, but that won't stop her from presenting at linux.conf.au 2005.
HA HA. My mother-in-law all of 64yrs and who never used a pc before. Uses Debian GNU/Linux for the past 3 yrs. As does my 11 yr old nephew - been using linux since he was 4 yrs. We never taught him to use a pc. He learnt probably by observation. He and his friends used windows for games too. What was their preference - 80:20 for linux. What were the reasons - The games were good and "madech bandh hoth nahin" and "phata phat chalta hai"
That's for the dolts who confuse installation and configuration with usage.
rgds jtd
Sometime Today, VM cobbled together some glyphs to say:
can anyone suggest any good packages for the agegroup around 5-7 years? I am planning to start weekly sessions for my nephews also now.
Hi Vinayakam. You can try out http://schoolforge.net for free software for kids.
Also, would be nice if you didn't top post when sending mails to the list. It messes up the readability of the thread in the list archives.
Thanks everybody for the tips. I will be doing some heavy duty downloading today.
Also, would be nice if you didn't top post when sending mails to the list. It messes up the readability of the thread in the list archives.
Sorry about that, Philip. will keep that in mind.
Hello: Could Anybody please help me with info on AMD 64 vendors in Mumbai. Thanks in advance Binulal Narayanan
There is this company called SAM-VIK marketing at Lamington Road. I bought an AMD64 3000 from them. Hope this helps.
Vikas Parekh Sam Vik marketing 23857620/23887620 Lamington Road, Mumbai
Cheers, Mohan
"To see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory" - A.N.Whitehead
---------- Original Message ----------- From: Binulal Narayanan kutoos@spymac.com To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:55:15 +0530 Subject: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] AMD Vendors in mumbai
Hello: Could Anybody please help me with info on AMD 64 vendors in Mumbai. Thanks in advance Binulal Narayanan
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:55:15 +0530, Binulal Narayanan kutoos@spymac.com wrote:
Hello: Could Anybody please help me with info on AMD 64 vendors in Mumbai.
Please mark it OT in subject. ...
You can talk to Mnemonic system - 28010871 .
-- Harsh
Thanks in advance Binulal Narayanan
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