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Emma's computer

01/29/06 | by [mail] | Categories: computer/tech, family/personal

Emma has her own computer now. Someone was going to throw away an old Gateway with 256 MB RAM, so I took it and isntalled Edubuntu, the Ubuntu Linux version that is made for kids. So far it's working great. I had to monkey around with it to get the sound working on some of the games, then I just created a user account for her and added icons to the taskbar so it's easy for her to launch her favorite programs. She likes gcomris, tuxpaint, tuxtype, gedit and this page in Firefox. She can type her name. She might learn to type before she learns to read. I still need to get the USB wireless adapter working so I can move it back to her room. This is going to be a good first computer. At this rate I should be able to introduce her to Bash at 6, shell scripting at 7, HTML at 8, PHP at 9, MySQL at 10 and she should be able to get into Stanford or MIT right out of elementary school.

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Sounds like a good start!


Henry [Visitor]http://hundiejo.com01/29/06 @ 20:26

AHAHA, I still have 256MB RAM on my own computer. I’d upgrade, but um lol Rambus… ;_;


[Member]  01/29/06 @ 20:43
[Member]  http://www.brendoman.com/01/29/06 @ 22:18

That’s how much I have on my laptop. Plays WoW beautifully. My PC on the other hand… Pfft, recommended specs include 256MB RAM, but that’s a horrible, cruel joke.

Haha, my computer is as old as your daughter.


[Member]  01/30/06 @ 08:39

Gee and Rachel is limping along through the University of Alberta with MY old Gateway and 196MB of RAM. Ouch.

LOL … If we lived closer, we’d be knocking on the door to see if we could use Emma’s computer, when that big term paper was due. :|


Scott Kimler [Visitor]http://randsco.com02/06/06 @ 18:05

Love the game page link. Thanks.


Kim [Visitor]02/18/06 @ 01:12


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