CorvusE wrote:
On Thursday 18 August 2005 8:47 pm, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Thursday 18 August 2005 3:13 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
I hope this works out. I'd love to have a generation that isn't just about playing games on their PeeCee. Wouldn't that be something. :)
Yes......what a concept! ;)
I'm fond of saying that everything I learned about computers, I learned getting games to run on a 386 wit 4 MB of RAM.
There are worse things then playing games on their PC. Especially if they're going to try and get Windows games running under Linux. That'll be an education!
Youngsters are more inquisitive than their teachers whose approach to using computers is blinkered and Windows has taught them to be suspicious of just about everything and especially not to trust the quiet kid with the freckled face. One of the first smart Linux guys I met had a telling tale. The Windows network at College was down, whatever they needed to get it working again was not possible -- chicken and egg situation/catch 22. He suggested he could fetch his Linux PC from home and get the network going again and they agreed as they were desparate. Linux and Leigh got it all functioning again ... excellent and a sigh of relief from the staff, but they started following him around, asking exactly what he was doing, because he was a HACKER, they also refused him a dial-up account from home so he could get them out of any similar problems they may subsequently have had. Unless they have a goodly number of Linux sysadmins to allay their fears and keep control, the kids will cause them all kinds of panic by demonstrating they know more than their teachers. I suggested to a neighbour I'd download and install firefox on his PC, explaining that it would isolate him from the sort of attacks he suffered, but by his reaction I could see that any attempt to do so would result in me losing some fingers. Windows hardens the mind's arteries. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks