I just finished showing my Mom a few things. There is a good chance there is spyware or a Worm on my Mom's Windows 2000 box, and being the good BOFH I am, I looked into it a bit and the Norton scanner is outdated and won't update, and of course there are no back up things except a little floppy disk with a few things on it. OK, no problem, I'm on my Slackware 10.1 box, I SSH in to my SUSE box (Didn't feel like getting up, and no BOFH on earth is going to actually do it either, we use Networks damn it!) so I SSH in, su, YAST, make a new log in for her, allow her to FTP in with this account (I have it set up so FTP is allowed but you have to have a valid log in name that I and only I can tell you) and then download putty for her to show her a few things about Unix and remote access. So now I back up everything on her box to the FTP server / SUSE Workstation, and then show her how it works. Then I pop open putty and have her log in. Then I let her use Pine to send me messages she needs to send me once in a while, and she seems to enjoy it. It's kind if neat when you show a Windows user how Unix works out a bit. She was amazed at how easy it is to get back ups done, and then download them again in case they are deleted or I need to format.... Or she refuses to give out some Vicodin to me and I edit the registry lol. So now my Mom has a bit of Unix in her, and has a full back up. She isn't a computer person and I only allowed FTP and command line access to the box and she played around a bit too. Just goes to show you, it's only as hard as you make it to be.
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 2:38 pm, Allen wrote:
So now my Mom has a bit of Unix in her, and has a full back up. She isn't a computer person and I only allowed FTP and command line access to the box and she played around a bit too.
Just goes to show you, it's only as hard as you make it to be.
Nice story, goes to show you are never too old to learn something new! Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64
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