Autistic Geek

I just love what you can find on the Internet. I stumbled across a 1983 photo of my old high school apparently take from a train on the other side of US-11.

Part of the school was distroyed by an arsonist sometime around 1994 so when they rebuilt they also covered all the slanted roofs in this awful bright red metal roofing

Images taken from http://www.dekalbk12.org and http://flickr.com/photos/timandrenda/2147172617/

Abbie Schubert was a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College. I say was because she dropped out. Why? Because she ordered a $1100 laptop from Dell and when it arrived instead of Windows she found Ubuntu installed onto the machine. She was unable to install Microsoft Office. She was unable to get her Verizon High Speed Access disk to load. And Dell convinced her to stay with Ubuntu until is was too late for Dell to send out someone to give her Windows. “It’s been a mess,” she said. “I regret ordering the computer.” What a mess indeed.

What an idiot! Dell expressly warns users that order Ubuntu on their systems that it is for advanced users. The story at her local news station (of which I’ve noticed changing throughout the day) reads that the OS was defaulted to Ubuntu, this cannot be true because Windows is the default OS with every Dell unless you enter the site looking for Ubuntu (eg. Google-ing “Dell Ubuntu”). No Ubuntu doesn’t come with MS Office, it comes with OpenOffice, which is compatible with documents written in MS Office and can save its documents in such a manner that MS Office can do the reverse. And no that Verizon disk will not run on Ubuntu. It has software that reports user statistics for troubleshooting purposes anyway. You should NEVER use those disk because Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux (of which Ubuntu is a distribution) already comes with everything you need to get online. Find a Verizon user who gets online with their Mac, even they can figure it out. I will not explain the procedures here because if you can see this, do you really need help getting online?

There is absolutely NOTHING that Windows can do that Ubuntu can’t, because if there were, within two weeks some coder would have a Linux equivalent that one could make run on Ubuntu.

This young woman needs to start her classes with the most beginner computer class MATC offers…in a classroom, not online. Lets keep the Internet free of people who are obviously a danger to themselves because they don’t know what their doing. Lets start with an Internet equivalent to a drivers license.