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What does my teacher wants me to do I dont understand? Intro to LInux Class: 5 stars will be awarded?

Introduction to LINUX – this is the assignment, what does he mean the linux box? Does he want me to just copy and paste the text into the VI editor or what?

Take the following text and figure out a way to get it to our linux box (hint: emailing to your unix account on our server is an easy way)

Use VI to replace the following words in the text:

“Bill Gates” with “Mr. Noodles”,
“Gates” with “Noodles”,
“Paul Allen” or “Allen” as “The Other Guy”,
“Altair” as “WTF”,
“Apple” as “The Prodigal Son”,
“Tandy” as “Who?”
and “Microsoft” as “Blue Screen of Death”

“Bill Gates was born in Seattle in 1955, the second of three children in a well-to-do family. His father, William H. Gates II, was a lawyer, while his mother, Mary Gates, was a teacher, a regent of the University of Washington, and member of several corporate boards. Gates was first exposed to computers at school in the late 1960s with his friend Paul Allen, the son of two Seattle librarians. By the time Gates was 14, the two friends were writing and testing computer programs for fun and profit.

In 1972 they established their first company, Traf-O-Data, which sold a rudimentary computer that recorded and analyzed traffic data. Allen went on to study computer science at the University of Washington and then dropped out to work at Honeywell, while Gates enrolled at Harvard. Inspired in 1975 by an issue of Popular Electronics that showed the new Altair microcomputer kit just released by MITS Computer, Gates and Allen wrote a version of BASIC for the machine. Later that year Gates left college to work full time developing programming languages for the Altair, and he and Allen relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to be near MITS Computer, where Allen took a position as director of software development. Gates and Allen named their partnership Micro-soft. Their revenues for 1975 totaled $16,000.

A year later, Gates published “An Open Letter to Hobbyists” in the Altair newsletter, in which he enjoined users to avoid illegally copied software. Arguing that software piracy prevented “good software from being written,” Gates wrote prophetically, “Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.” In November 1976 Allen left MITS to devote his full attention to Microsoft, and the company’s tradename was registered. In 1977 Apple and Radio Shack licensed Microsoft BASIC for their Apple II and Tandy computers, with the Apple license going for a flat fee of $21,000. As Apple sold a million machines complete with BASIC, Microsoft’s unit revenues dropped to two cents a copy.

That same year Microsoft released its second programming language, Microsoft FORTRAN, which was followed in 1978 by a version of COBOL. Both were written for the CP/M operating system, one of many available in the rapidly expanding but still unstandardized microcomputer market. As CP/M was adopted by computer manufacturers including Sirius, Zenith, and Sharp, Microsoft became the leading distributor for microcomputer languages. By the end of 1978 Microsoft had 13 employees, a sales subsidiary in Japan, and $1 million in revenues. The following year Gates and Allen moved the company to Bellevue, Washington.”

Note: This assignment, by no means, is a slam to Microsoft – without whom, I would not be able to pay my bills.
Points/Due Date
This assignment is worth 15 points – please submit it to Angel (Angel->Lessons->Wee3->DropBox:Assignment4 – The VI Editor) by Monday July 5th, 11:59pm. There will be a 30point quiz on VI commands open next Tuesday, July 6th.
My university allows putty to login in to theyre server… once Im logged in then what do I do?

Do i need to buy a new laptop and what laptop that i need?

I have my Sony Vaio VGN-CR35G. i bought it from Singapore last 2 years, and it’s warranty has gone already. the spec is Core 2 duo T8100 2.1 Ghz. 200GB HDD, 2 GB Ram, Vista Home Premium, ATI Mobility Radeon X2300.

and i use this laptop for my school project, and computer project in my senior high school. and my some faimily photo and so on. in my school i use C++, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Adobe, CorelDraw, and other programing software, and programing for animation(if forget what the name is )

but now the computer has 2 time i format is so i forget to backup my sony data and i loss it. but the windows is still there. but that’s not a big problem. but the problem is when i open my photoshop, it went broke for the picture, it;s worse..because it’s been so long i don’t use photoshop. i think this is graphic card problem.
or maybe others.

so what are ur recommendation for me

BTW, i have a idea to buy a new laptop. first i was thinking to buy Apple, but then i found out that there some incompatible for engineering software, and some programming software. then i was thinking like to buy Sony Vaio back again but for the better spec. but then my cousin suggest me to buy Dell. then i was recommended to buy Dell Precision M4500.

btw,i now study in college so i need more than this program to operate. my new software is Solid Edge ST2.
My major is general Engineering.
but there are three possible area which i will enter:
1. Mechanical Engineering
2. Chemical Engineering
3. Electrical Engineering

but i would like to buy a laptop that will last for 5 years. it’s better if i can use it when i work in a company or publish my idea.

it’s such a confusing.

thanks.

How do you see Nandan Nilekani’s decision of leaving Infosys and joining government?

Nandan Nilekani is the face of the rise of India as a tech powerhouse. As co-founder of Infosys, he has helped transform the global software industry. In a forward to Nilekani’s recently published book, “Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation,” New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman writes, “Silicon Valley has Steve — as in Jobs. Seattle has Bill — as in Gates … And Bangalore has Nandan — as in Nilekani.”

Bangalore-based Infosys was created by a handful of smart engineers with just $250. Its business remains strong despite the global recession. The company, which last year reported annual sales of $4.18 billion, has designed part of the wing of the Airbus A380 super-jumbo, written code for companies such as Apple and Cisco Systems, and even creates economic reports for U.S. investment banks. The 53-year-old executive, who is co-chairman of the Infosys board, swung through Silicon Valley recently. He will leave that position next month when he becomes chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)., which is similar to the U.S. Social Security Administration.

According to me, this is a sign of the discussion that we often have in our coffee room and drawing room that good people should come forward and become the part of system instead of accusing system. Even though some of the literate and knowledgeable people have reached parliament through upper and lower house but that number is extremely insufficient. In such situation, we need capable to come forward and become the part of system to reform the system. We need people who have knowledge and experience not only in management but in technology can really bring reform in the system.

People like Nandan Nilekani are not hungry for red light vehicle thus accepting appointment as chairman of UIDAI, is definitely for serving the nation. Leaving Infosys the organization that had built from the scratch with his hard work would not have been a easy decision for him.

At this time, I can only remember of another appointment of Indian government when Indian Government appointed Sam Pitroda in 1984 as the chair person of newly formed department C-DOT. Not to forget, he started PCO system in India that brought telephone charges in India to a affordable price. There must me more such appointments but I am sure not many, that I can mention.

I congratulation, Mr. Nandan Nilenkani on his decision to sacrifice his corporate life and business and coming to public life to serve the Nation.

What is your view? Do you think it is right decision of the government to invite Mr. Nilenkani to join the government? And do you think it is right decision of Mr. Nelenkani to leave InfoSys and join the government? Do you think he will bring some change?