SWAT for HACKER SPACE

S .. sales Pitch..
Create a "HACKER SPACE" where disavantage youths can have acces to single boards computers and learn how to make things happen.
W .. waste involved...
The contribution of people who care on seen something happen in a develloping country wih their contribution.
A .. assets involved ..
The time , money and contributions in kind of those who cares.
T .. threats involved.
In a develloping countries very few people have acces to computers not to talk of those running GNU/LINUX and if we mention SBC it will be a dream.
In fact most of the computers that run arround here are "Pirated copies of W"
a project like this comming from the grassroot will be like a dream comming true because it will give opportunity to people who otherwise will never have it.
The aim is to create a community of young people who will be empowered by FOSS/LINUX let them make things happen.
The result will be mesured by the content they will create.

PFSENSE

 Talking about Pfsense this are some pictures of it running ,
in fact the problem i had the first time installing it where because of the Subnet mask, i simply had to change the LAN and put it on a different SUBNET MASK than the WAN and this one i had put it in DHCP.

OPPORTUNITY

I recognize the fact i have not wrote since , may be i should start by saying that AM THE NEW MANAGER OF THE CYBER  , that a little sentence that resume the whole situation, may be some people will think that i should enjoy my self, but the matter ti that the situation is more complicated,
i got that post because the previous one had decided to leave, is true is an opportunity for me to implement my ideas and am feeling fortunate but am really facing many difficulty .
the simple one is to talk about the customers who have abandon us because the connection is slow sooo slow that during the days you can't open a mail in standard version.
personally they are many things i wish to  implement like a campaign to teach people how to use computers and web apps but guest what ? Our connection is  so slow that i can't even organize a workshop with people working online, not to talk about the fact the machines freeze randomly .
But i still have hope that i can make it.
My strategy is to organize a campaign  and teach people to use  computer with LINUX i know it sound crazy but after all i don't thing there's anything wrong with that.
am already working on it since and even as i have many ideas i should make sure i put them together so that i will be able to make something concrete out of the opportunity i have  .
Is just as if am living a dream but is not easy to be like me, that i have ideas but i don't realy have have much knowledge apart from all the stuff i have been reading online.
|For example there's a system i wish to implement that  pfsense a firewall router,
i have manage to install it but i don't know how to configure it, the truth is that that's the only element that is holding me from rolling Linux in the whole cyber and as soon as i do that the next step will be to launch the campaign .
hope i will be writing more regularly to share my personal experiences, after all that's the essence of this blog.
STARC  

PEPPERMINT 3 OS

I have installed Peppermint OS after testing many distro i fell in love with it may be because is a cloud centric OS <The Hybrid OS>??
Unfortunatlly after using it for some hours i got a strange problem . personaly i don't know what happen when reported it on G+ community they said i have small rams, and propose me to download Debian net install and add the applications i need later, is true the idea is good unfortunately it will require internet connection and mine is not good at all, so while downloading the Image that got release some few days ago i decide to look for alternative solution to make
 it PEPPERMINT OS LIGHTER ,
this the blog post i followed.
http://linuxcritic.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/how-to-make-peppermint-os-even-faster-with-openbox/

UNFORTUNATLLY I GOT STUCK HERE : I added the following lines to the very end of my ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh file:
BECAUSE I DID NOT KNOW HOE TO OPEN THAT FILE.
ANY WAY AM GOING TO REBOOT ANS SEE HOW IT LOOK LIKE.
AFTER ALL I HAVE NOTHING TO LOOSE AS FAR AS AM LEARNING.

Linux distro for Cyber cafe in Africa

My name is Marc Stephan  Nkouly < STARC > .
Am working in a Cybercafe in Africa where we are using  pirated copies of W..., is true they are some software we are using to keep the hard drives in steady state unfortunately they don't really work as promise, that why i have decide to look for some Linux distributions that i will put on these machines and hopefully give them a second chance.
Talking about the reasons why am doing this is first of all because i am using it on my own machines and i have never experience any major problem that the community did not help me to solve.
I don't pretend to be a Linux Guru , in fact apart form goggling i can't pretend to have a specific skill, i am good at talking but with this first post i hope i will be able to keep it updated with what m doing and how i will be introducing people here to Linux.

This picture show the first experience desktop i set in the cybercafe it's Zorin and the experience where not so good is only when i put LXDE on it that i was actually convince that lighter distro could do the job, that where i then decide to do more research and shared my experience on Google plus so that people who are more experience could guide me.
am thinking that in case the distributions don't really work i will build one from from Ubuntu Mini after all the most important on the clients is to have a browser and some basics applications like skype and Media players.
this is just to introduce my idea i will give more details later,
For me is funny to write after all i talk much but am not really familiar with writing except mails and occasional post online am more a consumer than a producer but am gonna change that.