{"id":270,"date":"2005-02-02T04:29:06","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T09:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=270"},"modified":"2005-02-02T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2005-02-02T18:50:08","slug":"asia-source-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/02\/asia-source-5","title":{"rendered":"Asia Source #5 and #6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Field study to a school today. Well, a series of local schools. The marriage of ICT with the regular teaching method is nice. The local educational software is made up of about 67 CDs, each CD being tri-lingual: English, Hindi, and the local state language. Its reached nine states already! The sad part is that the government of India literally sold its soul to Microsoft &#8211; they have got cheapish\/free licenses; the other company that got the tender ended up doing some ugly Mandrake Linux hack that is broken (so they&#8217;re locked into MS Windows). <\/p>\n<p>I have finally watched <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0308808\/\">Revolution OS<\/a>. Can&#8217;t really comment much on it, considering lots of things have changed in the Linux world since then, but good effort.<\/p>\n<p>More migration things today. I see where Synaptic on Ubuntu fails for complete end-users. I see where getting folk to edit the yum.conf file fails in Fedora. I see a lot of complete end-user failure points in package management that make it too hard for the average small office\/NGO with no technical capacity to even want to bother with installing software, yet alone to getting updates. Don&#8217;t even mention source packages. I can&#8217;t wait for PUP to become a Fedora reality, I think I have my test-base to make sure it &#8220;just rocks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The other major weird thing we should all worry about is how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tacticaltech.org\/node\/223\">Nepal&#8217;s king has taken over<\/a> and screwed democracy. Spare a thought, yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Field study to a school today. Well, a series of local schools. The marriage of ICT with the regular teaching method is nice. The local educational software is made up of about 67 CDs, each CD being tri-lingual: English, Hindi, and the local state language. Its reached nine states already! The sad part is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-4m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}