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Posted: Jan. 07 2005,17:51 QUOTE

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Back to the schoolkids issue.  My 10 year old and two 6 year olds have been accessing DSL on my dualbooting PC. box for nearly a year.  The whole dual boot concept using Lilo and using the Fluxbox menu with the mouse is simple enough to them.  After initially going straight to the games my older boy has found Sketch, Cruiser and particularly Imagemagic a lot of fun and a bit more productive.  They like the directness and relative simplicity of DSL as opposed to Win98.  If there ever are Formula 1. racing and Tony Hawkes skateboarding game .dsls then they will be completely sold!

perhaps a "port" of http://transgaming.com WINE addon called "Codega" which allows over 300 of the latest M$ games to be played is in order...only prob is you gotta buy it! (and have WINE, and a good x, and nvidia videocard stuff)

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Posted: Jan. 09 2005,08:00 QUOTE

DSL is fine... but sometimes if there is an issue, newbie get all huffy and whiney and give you a hassle about things.  For example: trying to use a network adaptor on my motherboard isn't working under DSL.  It is a pain to deal with.

I've hit that issue when people ask me why my PowerBook doesn't have a Start button, or won't do this or that.  Newbies are funny to mess with if you tell them to press all the keys on the keyboard to run Windows 3.11, which they think is good because it has a decimal point in it... :laugh:
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Posted: Jan. 13 2005,19:54 QUOTE

rofl. only in the lunix world would anyone decide 60hz refresh was in any way acceptable in 2005.

i think thats a bigger problem than 'no start button'
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Posted: Jan. 13 2005,22:28 QUOTE

My box runs DSL at 75Hz,
but even at 60Hz, if I'm not around fluorescent lighting,
it's not to much of a nuisance..

It is NO problem for any of my LCD laptops to operate at 60Hz ..

And I'd have to agree,..  my kids are easily adapting to the menu, rather than reaching for the 'start' button...

See my blog about 'My Kids" for more detail..

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Posted: Mar. 10 2005,03:23 QUOTE

DSL is great once you get it to load. I brought the live CD to my other box (gave it to a friend, poor boy had no computer!) and loaded it up. He was absolutely amazed that there's something better than windows. Great fun to mess with other nubcakes though..

On the other hand, I was a nublet ( all laugh at me). I knew more about windows than anyone else in my little hick town. And, (Here comes the shocker) I'm only 14 and I've coded a bunch of stuff, from half-life mods to chatbots. Alas, I was stupid and was showing off.. Got my hdd erased multiple times.. Now I keep to myself in the  little winXP/DSL iron half-life fortress.. (And I leave with my signature and a phrase I love the most..) Ph33r.


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