On 13/02/10 17:54, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Wasn't there a school in Dunedin that attempted to get the value of the
licenses instead and failed?
Warrington School.
http://wikieducator.org/Warrington_School
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Hi People
I found this on The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #178
NZ school ditches Microsoft and goes totally open source
A New Zealand high school running entirely on open source software has
slashed its server requirements by a factor of almost 50, despite a
government deal mandating the use of
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Tom Smith snake...@xtra.co.nz wrote:
Hi People
I found this on The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #178
NZ school ditches Microsoft and goes totally open source
A New Zealand high school running entirely on open source software has
slashed its server requirements
On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 17:46 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
No choice was taken away. The government paid for licenses for every
school. That didn't force the school to use MS products. It made it
zero cost.
Wasn't there a school in Dunedin that attempted to get the value of the
licenses instead and
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 17:46 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
No choice was taken away. The government paid for licenses for every
school. That didn't force the school to use MS products. It made it
zero cost.
Wasn't there
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:46:16 Nick Rout wrote:
No choice was taken away. The government paid for licenses for every
school. That didn't force the school to use MS products. It made it
zero cost.
No choice was taken away. We all paid Microsoft for licenses for every school.
That didn't force
I was in Sydney airport some hours ago (I don't know how many, I think
I've crossed every single dateline in the last 2 days).
Anyway, my point is that at Sydney airport, Optus were providing free
internet kiosks with Ubuntu. The browser button to clear private data
appeared to be an X
I had to spend 7 hours in transit at Perth airport -- not much to do but
use the free internet kiosk. There was a little note attached to the
keyboard
If the system has locked up, press ctrl-alt-backspace
Oh, ctrl-alt-backspace is a feature, because it is documented somewhere.
Anyway, I
I volunteer at Trade Aid, and they use Red Hat on their server in
Auckland. For one reason or another, we need real time access to this
server when processing a sale - so it's essential and used by everyone. We
still have XP on the computer behind the counter though.
Was in auckland last week and the kiosk free internet PC i
was on locked up.
I 3 finger saluted it (thinking windows box) but was
surprised to see it go down with a linux display and then
rebooted with Ubuntu - using Opra for the browser.
I was very surprised to say the least.
my 2c worth.
Sort of the final word on this subject I think:
http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2010/01/linux-in-real-life-uses-around-world.html
I actually didn't realise Linux was becoming quite so prevalent.
David
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote:
I went into
Nick Rout wrote:
I went into specsavers the other day to get a copy of an invoice for
my insurance company. Sat down at computer with assistant and she went
through several screens, it soon became apparent that she was not
using windows.
Invoice info etc was all via a browser (firefox) and
When flying back from Oz on Air NZ, my entertainment machine in the
headseat need a restart... I was able to follow the full linux boot
messages as they went past.. enough to know that they shouldn't be getting
all the errors they were...time for an upgrade/fix :-)
Pete
Christopher Sawtell
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:08:11 Nick Rout wrote:
I went into specsavers the other day to get a copy of an invoice for
my insurance company. Sat down at computer with assistant and she went
through several screens, it soon became apparent that she was not
using windows.
Invoice info etc was all
Hope the eyesight is OK Nick...
Yes it's all around us. Noel Leeming stores have a locked-down terminal with
a web browser that look a but like Firefox, running on top of some Linux
distro.
- David
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote:
I went into specsavers
The 'bus station displays were at one time.
I saw a Linux kernel crash message displayed on one of them a few years
back.
2010/1/16 David Lowe da...@thistledown.co.nz
Hope the eyesight is OK Nick...
Yes it's all around us. Noel Leeming stores have a locked-down terminal
with a web browser
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