Subject: Re: turned 13 yr old loose with linux box
schneider@ferocitydesign.com
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 08:52:52 AKST
Some day, if she keeps looking for things (or perhaps you give her
surreptitious, fun "tasks" to do), she'll thank you. I encourage you to
encourage her. I have my dad to thank, who let me run around his Osborne
"portable" when I was 12. Regardless, we need more ladies in the field...
Cheers,
Kate
At 12:49 AM 3/21/2003 -0900, Jim Gribbin wrote:
>
>I got tired of my niece borrowing my play-around box to do her homework
>on. Finally put together a new piii 733/133 box out of some stuff I had
>lying around plus some new stuff. I didn't think a grubby old box I had
>laying around would go over real well, so I put the stuff under a new
>cover.
>
>Set her up with a basic RH 8.0 install. Only actually showed her how to
>fire up the browser and get into google as she was supposed to look-up
>some stuff on the net for a class.
>
>Then she asked me how to install MSN Messenger so she could consult with
>classmates on homework (yeah, right), I of course set up GAIM, I also
>discovered she she had found OpenOffice and was doing her homework
>there. She's just finding stuff by clicking on icons on the desktop.
>
>Could get interesting now though. Apparently she hadn't clicked on the
>red hat at the end of the panel and when I showed her how to get back
>into gaim after accidentally closing it, she discovered several more
>menus worth of stuff to click on.
>
>Jim Gribbin
>
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