Hi
The first reaction to the unknown: fear
good.
Your next step: make the unknown nown ::
Explain, display, familiarize.
Clash will not drive fear away, familiarity might.
In this CLUG can help, by lectures, installfests, training and support.
This might be a better approach to the problem. until then, use what the
school has to offer :-)
Pls
Give more opinion on this
Szemir
On 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...
>
> 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.
>
>
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