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    Learning a new language software

    Does anyone know of good software that can help me learn a new language? Preferably something that would work on a Mac or Linux platform?

    I'm specifically trying to learn German, and I found this...
  2. Poll: Re: As a girl/woman do you find it easier to talk to other girls/women

    I think it depends on what I want to talk about. When it comes to computing/linux/ubuntu I find the women I know are much more willing to talk things over with me and help me learn. Whereas the men I...
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    Re: Technicality vs Community

    Word. I moved to Ubuntu from Gentoo for the exact same reason. pretty much.
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    Re: your five biggest hobbies

    1.) HCI (my focus in grad school)
    2.) jogging
    3.) laughing, a lot
    4.) linux
    5.) reading, a lot
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    Re: marketing ubuntu to teens anyone?

    My two cents: When I was a teenager I always wanted to be a bad ***. So we gotta make it seem like you are totally a rebel if you use Ubuntu.

    Unfortunately I'm not very creative in this front. My...
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    Re: An interesting thought

    A CD would make me think that I'm going to burn it to a CD.... I don't know, I think it might just be better to a have a button that says "save"
  7. Re: US Univ. Offering Linux as Graduate Studies??

    I'm going to graduate school at Virginia Tech for Computer Science. If you want to get a Masters here you either do course work only or you do a thesis. You don't really have a "major" when you get...
  8. Re: Give The Onion some lovin' - Vista story

    I especially like "Promise of broad, open-minded future or some ********"
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    Where do you get your nerd shirts?

    I'm guessing that a fair ammount of people on these forums have a pension for wearing nerd shirts. :razz: Where do you get your supply? I've bought a few off of thinkgeek.com, but I'm looking for...
  10. Re: What advice would you give to women who think Linux is "hard"?

    I'm a woman, but I'm a computer science major and complete technology nut. I love trying out new things on my computer and just messing around...

    However, I think most women see computers as a...
  11. Re: Activities for middle school girls - women in computing day

    Holy crap! It looks like there is a version of robotfindskitten for Palm OS which would be perfect. (I have a classroom set of palms we can use.)
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    Re: Linux in Schools and Colleges

    When I was a freshman our programming was done with Visual Studio in a windows environment. Then the next year we had to use Vim to write our code and make our own Make files using Mandrake. (Ugh, I...
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    Re: What are good technology websites?

    I like SlashDot (http://slashdot.org/) They have news on all sorts of nerdy things :)
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    Re: ubuntu is my boyfriend.

    here is a CNN article about the lack of women in engineering: http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/01/22/female.engineers.ap/index.html
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    Re: ubuntu is my boyfriend.

    I decided to major in Computer Science because I had such a great time with it in my high school class. I really loved programming. When I got to college I still loved it, but I felt like I had to...
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    Re: it's quiet....too quiet...

    I don't really know if there are any applications I especially like because I'm a girl or not. I definitely like playing mahjong ;) Also, I like using the OpenOffice tools. I would show her how to...
  17. Re: Activities for middle school girls - women in computing day

    I completely agree about the web design. Many girls have already taught themselves some html or have used programs like DreamWeaver before. I'm trying to think of some activities that would be...
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    Re: What other "kind" of geek are you

    I'm a DDR geek. I play DDR pretty much every day. I love it!

    Also, I read pretty much any fiction novel I can get my hands on, especially mysteries.

    I'm an HCI geek, because thats what I'm...
  19. Activities for middle school girls - women in computing day

    I'm a member of the Association for Women in Computing chapter at Virginia Tech. Every year we hold an event called Women in Computing Day where we invite 60-70 middle school girls to come to VT for...
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