I am a 14 year old confessed Linux geek going to John Ware Jr. High in SW Calgary. Like most schools, two computer choices are presented:
iMac, running OS X. Terminal and C Compiler disabled. Computers frequently freeze up, and are often unable to boot for some time afterword. Pentium PC, running Windows 2000. EVERYTHING USEFUL disabled. MS Office and MS-IE are the ONLY things that work. Right-clicking is disabled. Clearly, these are not satisfactory for someone like me. My fight to use Linux has gone through two stages: 1. Use knoppix. Result: Using Knoppix now results in 1-month ban from computers because "you can see things" on the drive, which, being NTFS, cannot be written to. 2. Use SSH to log into my G3 Powerbook running Yellow Dog Linux. Result: Paranoid tech says "I'll have to check it first," and never gets around to doing it. I nearly got in trouble for using it today... I have tried to explain to him the concept of SSH, and that nothing can be done to the computer running the SSH client, anymore than I could hack into it from where I am sitting at home. Despite the fact he appears to be a qualified professional, he doesn't understand these arguments and is now paranoid of PuTTY (the SSH client). To all Linux users in Calgary: please help me! There is no danger to the CBE network for Linux, and I intend only to do my work in a more efficient environment, and also so I don't have to e-mail copies of work to myself to work on them at home/print them. I am prepared to fight for this. You can contact my school at (403) 777-7930. I would appreciate it if you didn't use my name. You can contact my principal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please help me support Linux in my school. Thanks. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
