I doubt that people could distinguish between someone who received a "diploma mill" degree and one who received a degree from an American high school with any accuracy. What does that say about the quality of education happening in schools?

My laptop hard drive failed once right before a presentation. Luckily, I had backed up my presentation to a USB drive, and I happened to have a Xubuntu live CD with me at the time. The Live CD went in, laptop booted, I waited a few minutes as OO-Presentation started up and opened the file, and I was good to go.

I'm posting this from a teacher training college in Mozambique.

We've got a bunch of old kit here-- Pentium classics and old monitors mostly-- that we're currently trying to get rid of. I wonder if Computer Aid International would like to accept it as a donation?