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Comment Re:Some ideas (Score 1) 527

by AndyCater (#33255982) Attached to: Preserving Memories of a Loved One?
All this is good. Shortbread and cakes made with your daughters, family meals enjoyed if you can. Family recipes which bring back laughter and times shared. My Dad still has a lump in his throat when he talks about his mother's shortbread / berates her for always leaving him to do the cooking :) I remember my grandmother just before she died hiding sweets for me in her bedclothes and telling me stories. Hugs and smells and memories of perfume. Being told what the flowers are in her favourite garden / making mud pies - whatever it takes to have physical experiences too.
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Submission + - Linux installfests maturing? (blogspot.com)

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christian.einfeldt writes: "Linux installfests apparently are expanding from an emphasis on serving individual users to mass network installs serving non-profits and schools. In the past, installfests have often been held as part of Linux User Group meetings, and involved individual new computer users bringing their computers to a small meeting to have Linux installed on their machines. But now there is an apparent trend visible in Linux installfests toward mass network installs supported by greater corporate or municipal involvement in Linux installfests. In many cases, the newly-installed Linux computers are being given to end user institutions such as schools. For example, a recent installfest in Austin, Texas, was put on by two non-profits and was supported by the personal participation of upper management at AMD and nFusion. The majority of the eighty-three machines were PXE-booted and mass-installed at that event over an ad hoc network. Likewise, at last year's LinuxWorld expo in San Francisco, 350 Linux computers were mass-installed over a similar PXE network in a mass installfest put on in a partnership between the non-profit Alameda County Computer Resource Center and the for-profit Untangle and IDG firms. The machines were donated to San Francisco Bay Area schools. Similar installfests have been held in Chile and India, to name just a few."

Comment Re:Oh yeah... (Score 1) 228

by AndyCater (#28332169) Attached to: Better Tools For Disabled Geeks?

I have relatively mild cerebral palsy. Some problems working with my hands, a stutter very occasionally which gets worse with nerves. I'm bloody lucky. Fine muscular control also, obviously, affects the larynx. A good many of my friends have scanning speech/slurred speech as well as muscle control problems. Intention tremor, where something gets harder to do the more you concentrate on it, is also not uncommon. Once you can find the appropriate solution for somebody, you can watch them grow in confidence and ability to communicate freely. Voice input is fine for the visually impaired but it's not a catch-all. I'm not sure I'd trust it for more than "Open the pod bay doors Hal"

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