On Tue March 9 2004 16:37, Andrew Graupe wrote: > 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...
Maybe I'm missing something, but if you have a Powerbook why not just bring it with you? Is there a school policy against dropping outside clients onto the network? > 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 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
