Re: Gaming... for three-year-olds...

2009-12-16 Thread Cole Tuininga
Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Okay. Kenette 2.0 is approx. 3.5 years in age. She's currently getting into games on her laptop, a Fisher Price doohickey that even has a mouse. Anyway, suggestions on games that might run on a somewhat more open architecture like, say... Linux? Specific package:

Re: Gaming... for three-year-olds...

2009-12-16 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Okay. Kenette 2.0 is approx. 3.5 years in age. She's currently getting into games on her laptop, a Fisher Price doohickey that even has a mouse. Anyway, suggestions on games that might run on a somewhat more open

Re: Gaming... for three-year-olds...

2009-12-16 Thread Ben Scott
I have nothing specific to add to this discussion, but I have an anecdote: A friend of mine with kids that age (circa 5 years old) had put together an old clunker computer for the kids to play with. It was old enough that it couldn't run a useful Windows well, so he installed Linux and a

Re: Gaming... for three-year-olds...

2009-12-16 Thread G Rundlett
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Okay.  Kenette 2.0 is approx. 3.5 years in age.  She's currently getting into games on her laptop, a Fisher Price doohickey that even has a mouse.  Anyway, suggestions on games that might run on a somewhat more open

Re: New HP dv6 laptop and Knoppix (recovering data from damaged drive)

2009-12-16 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: Note that dd_rescue (rather than plain old dd) will atempt to continue the copy operation even when it encounters bad sectors ...  

Re: Gaming... for three-year-olds...

2009-12-16 Thread Alan Johnson
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Okay. Kenette 2.0 is approx. 3.5 years in age. She's currently getting into games on her laptop, a Fisher Price doohickey that even has a mouse.

Re: Gaming... for three-year-olds...

2009-12-16 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 23:31 -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Okay. Kenette 2.0 is approx. 3.5 years in age. She's currently getting into games on her laptop, a Fisher Price doohickey that even has a mouse. Anyway, suggestions on games that might run on a somewhat more open architecture like,