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There is a possibility that I will be tutoring for a second/third year unit on democratisation in Asia next semester. In case you were wondering, I know very, very little about both "Asia" and "democratisation". And "in". Still, not much chance that there'll be any units in my area, so any teaching experience is a good thing.

Additionally, the laptop I am currently looking at is something like this:
Toshiba with 1.4 GHz CPU, 512 meg RAM, 60 gig HDD, wireless,
Windows installed and ... a flavour of Linux (maybe Ubuntu and maybe Mandriva 2006). The model is an S1.
Tcpip has also offered a personal warranty on labour.
No word on cost yet.

This sounds fairly nifty to me, but admittedly I am not very much aware of computers. And I should learn, yes, but I should also learn about Foucault's theory of power, and human security, and Australian politics, and all kinds of other things. So I remain open to comments on the computer thing.

Rather excitingly (if you're me), we may actually be getting our shower fixed tomorrow morning. Such endless delights.

Comments

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Cost, I should mention, is under $900...

Ummm... I may be able to help you out on the democratisation in Asia tutoring as well; I've had some first-hand experience in said affairs.

[alexmoon.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to give you my firstborn, aren't I? *grins*

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

it's in the very fine print ;-)

[bondles.livejournal.com]

All the cool kids use Ubuntu. Or Debian.

[alexmoon.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I count as one of the cool kids!

[boxer-the-horse.livejournal.com]

I took that unit. You probably can't do a worse job than the tutor I had (and I don't even remember now). Its Samina's unit right? Can you not get her to teach you how to make frequent engaging but irrelevant non-sequitors like her?

[alexmoon.livejournal.com]

I think it's Jie's unit now. I am afraid that I'm already mistress of the irrelevant non-sequitor. I'm still unsure how good I am at this tutoring lark!

[rome-o.livejournal.com]

is it wrong to be happy with Windows?