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Free Software
Susan sends me this link:
There are over 200 free downloads at this site and the programs aren't much
bigger than 700k
http://www.schoolexpress.com/comped/default.asp
Free Software includes these subjects;
. Math
. Phonics
. Language Arts
. Science
. Social Studies
. Geography
. Reading
And they're great for younger kids... :)
(and I haven't found the catch yet)
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be
criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned
if you don't. -Eleanor Roosevelt
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Microsoft Product Lifecycles
The following is from the LangaList, a Windows resource that I've found to be
horribly useful (and I highly recommend it - to SUBSCRIBE (it's free!): Create
and send a new email to subscribe-langalist@lyris.dundee.net )
Microsoft Gives A Little Extra Life To Win98
Late last year, Microsoft pulled the plug on a group of older products,
including all versions of DOS, Windows 3.xx, NT 3.5x, and the seminal
Windows 95--- arguably the most important commercial operating system
ever released. (See "It's Curtains For Windows 95"
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021211S0008
This cessation of support wasn't a surprise: Microsoft had announced its
comprehensive "Product Lifecycle Guidelines" back in 2001. The
guidelines called for older products to be phased out fairly rapidly;
and for newer products gradually to ramp down through diminishing levels
of support as time went on: The older a product was, the fewer support
options would be available for it until it reached what Microsoft called
"end of life," when all official support would stop.
Microsoft originally had Windows 98 set for a fairly aggressive march
towards "end of life" in June of this year (2003) but got a lot of
negative feedback: After all, Win98 remains the world's most popular
operating system, and pulling the plug on it is no trivial matter. As a
result, late last year Microsoft relaxed the schedule a tiny bit: in
effect, granting Win98 a very limited stay of execution: It still will
become MOSTLY unsupported in June of this year, but some paid support
options will remain available (for those who want to pony up the money)
for six more months.
Microsoft quietly juggled the support options for several products late
last year; changing the dates and rates at which its software would drop
through the four levels of support that Microsoft has set up: from full
or "mainstream" support (with free and paid live support; support for
warranty claims; online self-help support information; and freely-
downloadable hotfixes, patches and updates) through "end of life" (no
further support of any kind, period).
The schedules aren't always easy to figure out because Microsoft's own
pages on the subject are confusing and internally contradictory in some
places. I waded in, tried to make sense of the information available,
and put it all in the current InformationWeek column, available (free)
now at http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030307S0018 .
In it, we'll walk through the currently scheduled "life cycles" of
Windows 98/98SE, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.x, Windows 2000 and XP Home
and Pro.
NOTE: Believe it or not XP Home and Pro have *DIFFERENT* support
lifecycles, with Home's support expiring TWO YEARS sooner than Pro's!
I'll also give you direct links to the five different Microsoft
resources I found on product lifecycles, so you can try reading the tea
leaves yourself, if you so desire.
This is important information for anyone using any version of Windows;
and for anyone planning to move to XP. Please click on over to
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030307S0018
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Build your own lightsaber
http://www.wilcoxusa.net/saber/parts.htm
Color me geeky, but this is just really, really, really kind of cool - and a
great shop-type of project.
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It is good to fall a few times, get hurt, stand up again
- to go astray a few times. There is no harm.
The moment you find you have gone astray, come back.
Life has to be learned through trial and error.
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Ben's Guide to Government
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids is brought to the World Wide Web as a
service of the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office
(GPO). Ben's Guide serves as the educational component of GPO Access, GPO's
service to provide the official online version of legislative and regulatory
information.
This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers.
These resources will teach how our government works, the use of the primary
source materials of GPO Access, and how one can use GPO Access to carry out
their civic responsibilities. And, just as GPO Access provides locator services
to U.S. Government sites, Ben's Guide provides a similar service to U.S.
Government Web sites developed for kids.
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from
those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than
ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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ScienceMaster
http://www.ScienceMaster.com
From the web site:
"WELCOME TO SCIENCEMASTER.COM
We are the Internet's science learning web site, for students,
parents and teachers. We offer a friendly environment to support
public & private school science education and home learning.
ScienceMaster is chock full of information, news, links, pictures,
products and services, with the best content from NASA, the USGS, the
EPA, NOAA & leading colleges & universities. ScienceMaster is the
place to learn about the universe, or space, find information on
volcanos, and global warming, explore plants, animals or DNA, and
study physics or chemistry."
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Every man creates a certain psychological security, unaware of the
fact that his security is his prison... Your prison cell becomes
smaller; you start living so much protected that life itself becomes
impossible. Life is possible only in insecurity.
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ROVer Ranch
http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/ROV/
Robots rule at Rover Ranch, a site devoted to robotic engineering. Learn about
the history of robots and their role in culture; find out what makes them
"tick." There's even an area where you can virtually build and run your own
robot (does not generally work on Macintosh versions of browsers).
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At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true
revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is
impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking
this quality. - Che Guevera
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