Power outage now my server asks for fck, what to do?

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 6 Jan 2021 14:03:45 +0000 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On 06/01/2021 13:03, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:> "I want the 
> people who will help shape our society in the future to
> > understand the technology that will help shape our society in the
> > future. If this is going to happen, then we need to reverse the trend
> > that is seeing digital illiteracy exponentially increase. We need to
> > act together, as parents, as teachers, as policy makers. Let's build a
> > generation of hackers. Who's with me?"
> 
> Ralf, do you have a source for this quotation? I missed it in the thread.
> 
> I think hackers will emerge every generation by themselves anyway.

The numbers are far lower now than for the Comadore 64 / Apple ][ / TRS-80 /
Ti-99 generation. When those 6502 / Z80 / 9900 machines came out there was a
whole generation of 10-13 year olds writing simple BASIC programs and this was
because all of these machines were BASIC-In-ROM machines -- they "booted" up
to a BASIC Ready prompt. These days computers boot up to a screen with a
launcher or menu with an assortment of ready-to-run programs and most of the
computers are completely devoid of any sort of programming tools or
environments out-of-the-box (yes, these things can generally be downloaded and
installed, but few people bother). Children are growing up without having any
exposure to computer programming and without this exposure they may *never*
discover their "inner hacker"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xFzVuxldqs

> 
> But the so-called "digital education" provided nowadays is worse than 
> having no digital education at all.

Yes, indeed.

> 
> Peter
> 

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