I found, that when moving to countryside during summer, even if for several days, I quickly shift to natural following of daylight cycle. Not necessary that good with morning part, but definitely getting into bed soon after light is out. Which changes the quality of rest significantly. Being there, I tend to use electricity only in utmost necessity. Radio before the night has way different effect, than usual check-in into computer and hours burned at it. I believe, that major cut from electric devices would have very similar effect, as camping is said to do.

I would want them to be introduced to things like media theory by Marshall McLuhan, so they could grab whole picture, not just load of detail.

It often returns to my mind lately, that we hardly ever before had that widespread operating systems and applications with that much of connectivity and environment capturing potential, we would be so poorly in control of. There is shift, we are not even properly aware of yet. This was confirmed with some report, seen just several days ago, mentioning malware in smartphones being present on close to half of units. Thus, discussed employers are doing their stuff pretty right.

Please, consider shipping some Medium sized unit(s) to those distant places, that are not covered by ThinkGeek neither. That's right, EU country may not necessary be on the list of civilized options, while you came with appealing shirts this season. Congratulations from afar!

Maloniai prasom pamineti sukakti. Rastume alaus su pasalintu alkoholiu.

Have been enjoying all kinds of computer or board games and toys - every form can be very successfully done, none can be put down as unsuitable. Of storytelling games, Shenmue for Dreamcast was one of the most impressive games to experience. It was epic thanks to the seriousness of approach to the story simulation and talented implementation.

For newcomer I would pass one of my netbooks with default OS, most likely Acer Aspire One variant of Linpus (actually growing to act so).
It has best simplification of interface, I have seen so far. To be warned, on the harder side there are adding your own applications to interface (sadly, Skype was not there) and limited choice of international input methods built in (though main variants are supported out of the box, sure, my specific).

Also EeePC was not bad, at all, regarding interface of Linux variant - you have even choice of switching between simplified and not.

If not these, I would recommend Ubuntu today (effectively focused distro), though have preferred SuSE some time before, also to consider.

Web community may be, mail handling - is not:

$ nslookup
> set type=MX
> geoCities.com
Server: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx#53

Non-authoritative answer:
geoCities.com mail exchanger = 1 a.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
geoCities.com mail exchanger = 1 b.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
geoCities.com mail exchanger = 1 c.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
geoCities.com mail exchanger = 1 e.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
geoCities.com mail exchanger = 1 f.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
geoCities.com mail exchanger = 1 g.mx.mail.yahoo.com.

Authoritative answers can be found from:
geoCities.com nameserver = ns3.yahoo.com.
geoCities.com nameserver = ns4.yahoo.com.
geoCities.com nameserver = ns5.yahoo.com.
geoCities.com nameserver = ns1.yahoo.com.
geoCities.com nameserver = ns2.yahoo.com.
a.mx.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 67.195.168.31
b.mx.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 66.196.82.7
b.mx.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 74.6.136.65
c.mx.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 206.190.54.127
c.mx.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 209.191.88.254
e.mx.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 67.195.168.230
f.mx.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 98.137.54.237
g.mx.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 98.137.54.238
ns1.yahoo.com internet address = 68.180.131.16
ns2.yahoo.com internet address = 68.142.255.16
ns3.yahoo.com internet address = 121.101.152.99
ns4.yahoo.com internet address = 68.142.196.63
ns5.yahoo.com internet address = 119.160.247.124
>

It takes sophistication and bravery to send message with such return address, doesn't it?

Hey, that's where people of the world learned to code HTML, some even with embedded Java applets. That was web for the people time.

I would not want to work for a company, that can't stand that little bit of my creative punk attitude.
Therefore there is geoCities address in my CV next to the solid list of known technologies - in fact, it proved to be
more persistent, than one of current ISP.

Very correct summary.

There were also concerns about enormous possibilities for corrupt misuse of funds for that pretentious attempt. Personally, I am supporting expressed view and concerns of the Ministry.

OTOH, they have nothing against the benefits, that OSS can provide with - just within the mainstream of world development. Ideas of supporting national developers, creating central repository for national OSS are supported in general.

Ponomarev emphasizes, that Internet, Unix had roots in governmental programs, therefore market-only processes are insufficient, especially when such market in Russia is missing. He may be partially right, still - I would qualify his vision ungrounded.