Re: turned 13 yr old loose with linux box


Subject: Re: turned 13 yr old loose with linux box
From: Jim Gribbin (jewelrysupplier@gci.net)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 13:30:14 AKST


I may do that later, for the time being I'll just let her tinker and try
to answer her questions. I suspect if she actually into it, it could be
me asking her questions before long.

Jim Gribbin

On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 08:52, schneider@ferocitydesign.com wrote:
> 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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