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How To Help Our Public Schools With Technology?

armorer writes "I'm a programmer engaged to an inner-city public school teacher. I've been thinking for a long time now about what I can do to help close the technology gap, and I finally did something (very small) about it. I convinced my company to give me a few old computers they were replacing, refurbished them, installed Edubuntu on them, and donated them to her classroom. I also took some vacation time to go in, install everything, and give a lesson on computers to the kids. It was a great experience, but now I know first-hand how little technology these schools have. I only helped one classroom. The school needs more. (Really the whole district needs more!) And while I want to help them, I don't really know how. With Thanksgiving a week away and more holidays approaching, I suspect I'm not the only one thinking about this sort of t

What do you look for in an XML editor?

I've been thinking about XML editors lately, because it seems whenever I write XML these days there's an unencoded ampersand (& that isn't written &) or something else that breaks the document when I load. This is really frustrating. I had been using XMLSpy when I worked at a corporation, and that program is great. But it's extremely expensive for a self-employed freelancer like myself, so I don't have it any longer. I wish I still had it so I could write a review of it, as I did like it then... Anyway, since then, I've been writing my XML either in standard text editors (thus the well-formed problem above) or in Komodo Edit (which is great, and I'm working on a review of it...). But I'm curious what other people look for in an XML editor.

How can I resolve this remote worker's VPN connection problem?

I have been working out of the house for years for a large corporation. I have had no prior problems connecting to VPN. Recently Comcast disabled the VPN connection through residential accounts and I had to close my cable Internet access and open a separate business account. Two different modems have been brought out, one with a static IP and the other dynamic. When I connect with either of these directly to my laptop, I can get into the VPN, but when I go through a router, (both my old one and a new one I just got), the VPN does not work. I have gone through my company IT, Comcast's IT and Linksys. No one can figure it out. Any suggestions?

My iPhone justification

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT) - I remember getting my first computer which was an Apple II back in the late '70s. You may be surprised when I tell you what mostly stands out about those times. It wasn't the fun I had playing with it nor the sense of discovery and accomplishment I achieved as I learned how to program it and figured out ways to use it in school. Unfortunately the main thing I remember was how I constantly had to justify owning it. "Why do you need one?", "How much did you spend on it?", "What's it good for?", "Can you make any money with it?" were some of my favorite questions people would ask whenever I told them I owned a computer. My personal favorite wisenheimer remark was "Well can it wash the dishes?" to which I'd say something like "No, that would be a robot, not a desktop computer.

The Stigma of a Tech Support Background

An anonymous reader writes "Since the last semester of college I've been working as a first line tech support agent. At first it was just a way to earn some extra money; then it became a way to scrape by until I could find myself a real job. By now (almost two years in), it's beginning to feel like a curse. The problem I'm having is that no matter how many jobs I apply for, and no matter how well-written my applications are, I can't seem to get further than the first interview. For some reason it seems a lot of employers will completely overlook my degree in computer engineering, the fact that I can show them several personal projects that I've worked on, and that I can show them that I clearly possess the skills they are looking for. I've had several employers tell me to my face, and in rejection letters, that my 'professional background

How clean is your CSS file?

When I write a review of a website, I always check to see if the CSS validates. But I almost never look at the size of the CSS file or if it's well written. I mean, if it works and makes the page look right, who cares? But then I had to work on a site with a CSS file the size of New York. Okay, maybe not literally, but wading through it felt like I was expected to walk blind-folded through New York City without a map. In desperation, and to finish the job on time, I did like every other developer had done before me. I created a bunch of id'd selectors and made my styles as specific as I could. Yes, I added to the problem. But today I learned about a Firefox add-on you can get from SitePoint that will evaluate the current page to see what selectors it has versus which are used in the CSS.

Poll: How do you typically create HTML email?

Last week, I asked the question What is the deal with HTML email? because I'd received yet another request to explain how to write HTML email. It's one of those questions that I find challenging to answer, as it's usually asked in a complete vacuum with no supporting explanation or information like what tools they have to write it and so on. So I figured I would ask the experts. How do you write HTML email (if you write it)? Is there some other way to write HTML email that I've completely missed?

A Life in the Day: Nikole Lowe, tattoo artist

I can’t wake up to an alarm — I don’t like it. I tell myself what time to wake up before I go to sleep. I don’t know how it works, but it always seems to. Around 8 I go for a pee, have a shower, get dressed, put my make-up on and feed the cats, Lola and Bell. I acquired them from my ex-boyfriend; I love them. I’ve grown rocket and tomatoes this year, so I make a salad for lunch and chuck a banana in to eat at work. I ride my bike to the studio, Into You, in Clerkenwell. I try to be there by 10, giving me two hours to draw.

How Should I Teach a Basic Programming Course?

riverman writes "I have been 'provisioned' at the school where I work to teach a new Computer Science/Programming course. I'm supposed to be teaching everything from the very-very basics (i.e. where that myspace thing is in your computer monitor, and how it knows who your friends are) to the easy-advanced (i.e. PHP classes and Python/Google App Engine). I'm an experienced programmer, but I'm not sure where to start — I could easily assume that my students know something basic they don't. Are there any resources on the internet that could help me find a solid curriculum? What are your suggestions?" I'm sure many of us have gone through intro-level programming courses of some sort; what are some things your teacher or professor did that worked well, and what didn't work at all?

In the Great Global Macro Experiment, The Next Bubble to Burst is...

I am going to introduce a paradigm shift in the content that I introduce to the blog. As reporters and institutional investors who have contacted me can attest, I have been very secretive and stand-offish in terms of what I do for a living. The reason is that I was in the process of launching a hedge fund, and my lawyers were quite explicit in telling me that I am in no way to promote the fund through the blog. You see, I think I'm pretty good at this investment stuff, and I needed access to more capital to fully exploit the next step in my investment thesis. So, what better route than to open a fund up to investors who can appreciate my investment style, and take advantage of that 20:1 leverage offered so freely. Well, one of the reasons I have had such a strong investment record is that I am able to smell bubbles.

What is the deal with HTML email?

I don't have a strong opinion either way about receiving HTML email. Sometimes it's annoying, especially when there are tons of huge images cluttering up what amounts to a message about nothing. And sometimes they are just hard to read when the marketing style of the email gets in the way of the content. And most of the time I don't notice them either way as I have HTML turned off in my email client for security reasons. What I don't understand is why I'm constantly getting requests to teach people how to write HTML email. I have two forms of email that I send out regularly - email from my email client (Gmail, Thunderbird, Yahoo!, or Outlook - whatever) and email from my newsletter. The first I have control over the output, and I can send it as HTML email and format it however I wish using the email client.

Bloggery

So I know my updateage lately has been pretty crappy, and I wanted to explain a little. I have another blog, one I just recently started, and which deals with everything, not just makeup. Since I haven't been wearing a lot of makeup lately, and a bunch of other things have been going on, I've been posting some things over there but not had a lot of material to post here. So I just thought I'd direct you over to http://hwaet-hwaet.blogspot.com/, and if there hasn't been any activity over here for a while, perhaps more is happening in other, non-makeup-related areas of my life which are being blogged about over there. It's a shame I don't have any makeup posts right now, but I can't get the videos I have to upload properly, and I did do some minor hauling but it's all been shipped to the US : ( International shipping is hella expensive, so

CSS annoyance - or maybe the browser?

I was reading this post on smashing magazine the other day and it mentioned using CSS to set your text to uppercase. Sure, I agree with that. After all, that's what the text-transform property is for. But here's something you may not have known. When I did this the other day in a script that was building documents intended to be copy/pasted, I ran into an unexpected snag. In Firefox 3 (and possibly other browsers, I didn't test) when I would copy the transformed text, it would copy it as it was written in the HTML not as it displayed on the Web page. This was extremely frustrating for the people copy/pasting until I figured out what was going on. I ended up hard coding the all-caps sections just so they would copy and paste correctly.

How Do I Talk To 4th Graders About IT?

Tsunayoshi writes "My son volunteered me to give a presentation on what I do for a living for career day at his elementary school. I need to come up with a roughly 20-minute presentation to be given to 4-5 different classrooms. I am a systems administrator, primarily Unix/Linux and enterprise NAS/SAN storage, working for an aerospace company. I was thinking something along the lines of explaining how some everyday things they experience (websites, telephone systems, etc.) all depend on servers, and those servers are maintained by systems administrators. I was also going to talk about what I do specifically, which is maintain the computer systems that allow the really smart rocket scientists to get things into space. Am I on the right track? Can anyone suggest some good (and cheap/easy to make) visual aids?"

Reaffirming a mortgage in Chapter 7

I stated that I wanted to reaffirm my mortgage in court before my case was discharged, but now the mortgage company says they did not receive my agreement and I do not have a reaffirmation with them. I pay my payment timely, and if I do not have an agreement, what liability/status do I have? The only answer I can get from the company is "continue to pay and you can continue to live there." Do I have a legal obligation to stay, or can I move and not be charged with foreclosure?

why links are important

I have been browsing with an iPod touch lately (basically an iPhone without the phone) and I've noticed an issue - no cut and paste. This means that if I need to type in a URL I need to type in the URL. I found a site I wanted to point out to you, but the writer had not included any links to any social bookmarking services. The URL is too long for me to remember, and I don't want to write it down and then type it in. It's not that good. While other devices allow copy/paste, it's still true that hitting a link is easier than typing, so I would recomend including them, if you can. (And before you point out that this blog doesn't have social bookmarking links, I know. That's not up to me.)

How can I block my competitor's IP address range from my website?

I'm having a problem with a local competitor and need to get his IP address or possibly the range he is using so that I can exclude his IP/IPs from seeing my website. I'm sure he is on a wireless network and should be able to take a laptop within range. How do I get this info? I've looked all over to see if there is software that will easily do this but have come up blank. Packet sniffing programs don't seem to do it either.

Music Robot ODO is Miuro's Low-End Sibling

Hi, how've you been doing? I heard you're still up to your old tricks, rolling around to the tune of the music you're playing, and displaying emoticons on your screen-face. Anyway, the reason I wrote is that I wanted to ask if you're still mad that our dad, ZMP,got with my mum, Sega Toys, and had me? I promise I'm not so bad, Miuro, I have an emoticon-displaying screen-face too, and people tell me I look just like you! I mean, I don't have your camera or your wireless LAN, but at a tenth of your £500 price, we have totally different markets! We're not rivals, my dear sibling, so please come back home soon. We can roll around together to the music our docked iPods play. It'll be fun, I promise.

Digital MP3 Downloads = Awesomeness...When They Work

It's funny how things work out sometimes - I took the screen sht above to illustrate how much I like the a-la-carte approach to music. Sarah McLachlan, one of my favourite female singer/songwriters, just released a double-disc best of album. I fired up the Zune software and compared all the songs I already owned, then purchased all the ones I didn't. Seemed perfect to me - until I realized that after purchasing seven total songs, only one had downloaded. I was using Firefox 3.0.3 to make the purchases, and each time I clicked on BUY MP3 I was given a download prompt for a file that would trigger the Amazon MP3 downloader - which is a bit odd, since usually single tracks are downloaded direclty as MP3 files. I checked the Task Manager, and the Amazon MP3 downloader process was running, but it was pegged at 25% CPU use - meaning it was lock

Tips For Taking Your Laptop Into and Out of the US?

casualsax3 writes "I'm going to be taking a week long round trip from NYC to Puerto Vallarta Mexico sometime next month, and I was planning on taking my laptop with me. I'll probably want to rip a few movies and albums to the drive in order to keep busy on the flight. More important though, is that I'm also going to be taking pictures while I'm there, and storing them on the laptop. With everything in the news, I'm concerned that I'll have to show someone around the internals of my laptop coming back into the US. The pictures are potentially what upsets me the most, as I feel it's an incredible violation of my privacy. Do I actually need to worry about this? If so, should I go about hiding everything? I've heard good things about Truecrypt. Is it worth looking into or am I being overly paranoid?"

Confessions of a Twitter user

Back in January of this year I signed up for a Twitter account. I have to admit I was skeptical. Why does anyone need to know what I am doing right now? I wrote a blog about how silly I thought it was. Then after playing around with Twitter for about five months I wrote another blog about how it had the potential for becoming a platform for innovation. So, clearly, I had changed my mind. I began to see that something here was more interesting than what I had assumed.

Nasty Kaju gets Seal of approval

It’s not easy being Seal - despite having a huge career and being married to Heidi Klum - so on Halloween, the singer wanted a day off. Dressed as a warrior covered with body parts at Klum’s party at 1 Oak, he told us, "This costume took months of heavy planning. I chopped all the [fake] fingers off myself. I actually killed Seal. I am Kaju, a very nasty warrior. Seal was actually bugging me with his whole political rant and singing the same songs over and over again so I just had to stick a knife in him and I’ve taken his place."  Klum herself looked gory as the multi-armed goddess Kali, but she actually grows weak at real gore. “I can’t stand the sight of my own blood. When I’m at the doctor and I have to take a blood test, I have to sit down and I definitely can’t watch.

I?m A Celebrity stars arrive in Oz?

Now that you’ve learned the names of the weirdos who’ll be subjecting themselves to the Aussie jungle for I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, are you excited? Several of the contestants have now arrived in Australia for the series, which starts this Sunday on ITV1. And, as she posed in Brisbane Airport, glamour model and WAG Nicola McLean admitted that she’s not especially famous. “I don’t think people are going to know who I am to be honest,� she says. “Which, actually, is going to be embarrassing when I walk in the room. I’m sure they’re going to think, ‘Who is she?' But do I really care? No because there have been loads of years when I didn’t know who people were and I read every celebrity magazine going, I buy the tabloids and there’s quite a few people where I haven’t known who they are.

Does being a programmer mean that you can't design?

There is a wide-spread belief in the Web design world that if you're a programmer, that automatically means that you can't be a good designer. Something about the nature of programming made it impossible for them to have a decent stylistic sense. This was probably aggravated by the fact that programmers stereotypically wear mis-matched socks, plaid shirts, broken glasses, and pocket protectors. After all, if they can't be bothered with how their wardrobe looks, how can they possibly know what looks good on a website? Whether or not this is true (and one of the best designers I ever met was also a crack programmer - and I don't think I ever told him I thought so, sorry Steve!) nearly everyone can benefit from this article on Stefano's Linotype Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design.

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