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[ale] Cheap wireless adapter find (Richard Faulkner)
- Subject: [ale] Cheap wireless adapter find (Richard Faulkner)
- From: warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:59:43 -0400
- In-reply-to: <1311562028.13700.376.camel@compaq-desktop> (Chris Fowler's message of "Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:47:08 -0400")
- References: <[email protected]> <1311559944.16844.3.camel@NZubuntu> <1311560598.13700.374.camel@compaq-desktop> <CAEo=5Pz-=Hg8YEw0mhRms46JD+tkD6B-WzPt5isWuzA5uSjp1w@mail.gmail.com> <1311562028.13700.376.camel@compaq-desktop>
Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> writes:
> On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 22:38 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> My kids use Linux. My 12 year old is happy pounding command line. My
>> 21 year old was very adamant when she was getting a laptop for college
>> that it "not run that windows crap".
>>
>> In the past 20 I've seen no good reason to park a child in front of a
>> windows machine so much so I almost consider it child abuse to run
>> windows around kids.
>
> This girl is 6 and wants to watch Netflix. I don't think I can run
> Netflix under Linux yet. When I can, the windows crap is gone.
Then get her a Mac....
-derek
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