Every child with a pocket linux in their school bag ... :)
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> Subject: Re: [wlug] Raspberry Pi, activist tool
> From: Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz>
> Date: Mon, March 05, 2012 8:53 am
> To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz>
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> It even made it on the NZ Herald:
> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10789863
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> As usual, it takes a bit longer to get here:
> "will be coming to New Zealand on the next run."
>
> Cheers, Peter
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> Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
> http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
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Slashdot article:
"Adobe has released Flash Player version 11.2 with many new features.
This is the final Flash Player release for Linux platform and now
onward there will be only security and bug fix updates. Last month
Adobe announced that it is withdrawing Flash Player support for Linux
platform. All the future newer Flash releases will be bundled with
Google Chrome using its Pepper API and for everything else, 11.2 will
be the last release."
-- http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/03/31/1417245/adobe-releases-last-linux-…
HTML5 to the rescue if you aren't using Chrome?
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Funny thing, talking about the Linux migration project in Munich on
Monday night's meeting and bam! it's in the news:
"Current figures released by Munich city council after a question by
the council's CSU party indicate that Munich has saved four to five
million euros by switching from Windows to Linux"
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1485895
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Hi there
Just came across this article on "Tracks" on linux.com:
"Feeling a bit disorganized? Looking to take control of your projects?
Take a look at Tracks, an open source Web-based application built with
Ruby on Rails. Tracks can help you get organized and Get Things Done
(GTD) in no time."
-- https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/557895-disorganized-get-tracks-on-lin…
Well, I use a whiteboard with post-its for the stuff that needs to be done. :-)
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Sorry for cross-posting, but since we talked about how HCC could save
money with OSS, I thought this would be relevant (giving us some
"ammunition").
If more than one rate-payer makes a submission, maybe HCC finally listens.
Cheers, Peter
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Date: Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:49
Subject: [NZOSS-Openchat] Govt IT systems too expensive & obslete...
FOSS opportunity
To: NZOSS Open Discussion List <openchat(a)lists.nzoss.org.nz>
Worth a read, & perhaps sending some "official NZOSS" replies to
appropriate contacts.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/prime-minister-shocked-by-govt-it
Like send this report (& others) to Govt information architects
http://www.oss-institute.org/OTD2011/OTD-lessons-learned-military-FinalV1.p…
Brent Wood
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Hi everyone
Was just reading the following blog post on how to teach 4,500
students to program:
http://computinged.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/teaching-4500-students-to-progr…
And I came across MIT's "Scratch", a really cool platform (Linux, OSX,
Windows) for teaching kids and students to program:
http://scratch.mit.edu/
I heard about it a few years ago, when they first presented. It looks
pretty cool!
http://vimeo.com/4077929
Maybe the Raspberry Pi could be a device with Scratch pre-installed?
Power up and program away?
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
There's a WLUG meeting tonight:
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WlugCommitte will meet at 7pm before the main meeting starts
Meet up at the university - usual meeting room for Monday meetings.
Time: 7:30pm onwards
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4
A social meet up to catch up with other members and talk shop.
There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday:
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WlugCommitte will meet at 7pm before the main meeting starts
Meet up at the university - usual meeting room for Monday meetings.
Time: 7:30pm onwards
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4
A social meet up to catch up with other members and talk shop.
Sierra's website says this device is compatible with Linux.
I did an install of Ubuntu 10.04 recently, and initially the Sierra USB
thingy was working fine, but then it stopped. Fiddled around a little and I
eventually got it to work again (I'm not sure that anything I did was
actually responsible for this) but apparently it stopped working again
shortly after I left.
A few weeks later I upgraded all the packages, something I hadn't done
during the install, and the device started working again. I rebooted the
machine several times and each time the connection came up reliably soon
after I connected the device.
Now it's not working again. It's not working on my Debian machine either.
But it works perfectly in any windows machine every single time, and I've
carefully checked the APN, authentication and compression settings and made
them the same under Linux (PAP only, no compression anywhere) but still no
worky.
Any suggestions?