When my relatives moved to Linux
John Craig
jc at spl21.net
Thu Nov 9 08:05:49 EST 2006
OK - so I had to read your email one more time - ignore picture remark!
John Craig wrote:
> Works fine on Suse Linux 10 and Rev 2.6.1 - after I reread your mail
> and actually played it properly and clicked the check marks!
> You're a lot younger than I imagined you - that picture IS up to date,
> isn't it??
>
> JC
>
> Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>> I made a jolly little stack (on a Mac computer),
>> "Family.rev", to test my kids' knowledge of word such as "aunt",
>> "uncle", "cousin" and so on.
>>
>> It is available on RevOnline: Family Words
>>
>> So, took it downstairs and popped it on my Linux boxes
>> and . . .
>>
>> dull thud!
>>
>> an important part of the functionality would not work.
>>
>> Card 2 features a family tree with 14 text boxes for end-users to
>> fill in with kinship terms
>> [doesn't it sound all pompous and pseudo-academic when I use words
>> like 'end-users' and 'kinship terms' instead of 'kids' and 'family
>> words'? - jargonised nonsense really]
>> and by each textbox there is a 'tick' image - when the kid clicks on
>> it, it checks the content of the
>> textbox and how many other textboxes have had text entered correctly
>> into them; if that total is 14 it send a 'go
>> next' signal.
>>
>> Worked on Mac,
>>
>> Nothing doing on Linux.
>>
>> Help gratefully received, Richmond Mathewson
>>
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>>
>> "Its time to do Philosophy and stop worrying about what dead men said."
>>
>> Mathewson 2006
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