[ Thanks to Chao-Kuei
Hung for this link. ]
“Our attempt failed, but it revealed that MS is really
afraid of usb-booting. We shouldn’t really care about what MS
thinks. We should just mind our own business and boldly go where no
windows has gone before. But that happens to be exactly what MS is
afraid of anyway 🙂“Let’s look away from the ICT community. Let’s talk to people
who care about digital divide. Labs with diskless computers can be
set up in schools at remote villages. Linux-bootable usb keys
loaded with scientific and educational software can be distributed
to girls and boys. (No, we don’t mean office apps, we mean apps
offered by Freeduc-Science and the like.) School library is the
place to restore the usb key if it gets messed up. Teachers will
have much less hassle managing their labs. Newer versions of usb
keys created by LUGs in the metropolitan can be delivered to the
remote villages through snail mail. See full article in zh_TW
Hello, UNESCO?“Let’s look away from the ICT community. Let’s talk to
organizers of international conferences or other international
events such as sports and exhibitions. Diskless computers with
internet connection can be set up at two or three sites such as the
athletes’ villages. Ask each foreign visitor to select her
preferred language(s) and give her a linux-bootable usb key loaded
with language(s) of her choice. Make them really feel at home in
these events — at least in terms of reading mails, instant
messaging, and accessing the web. Let them marvel at the fact that
the same computer that spoke Korean a few minutes ago now speaks
Japanese. That’s what I shall do with the EASTS academic conference
in a few weeks.”