[geeks] Kids and Computers

[Rob]

What form did the "customizing" take?

When I was in High School, we used to write batch files which printed out:
"I am an overpriced PC sold to <name of high school>" at boot time and
replaced the prompt as well. The machines were real IBM PC's when clones were half the price.
I knew everything back then. Since then, I've only found more questions
and the answers come so much slower.


- Rob

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, James L. Rice wrote:

> My kids get their own pc when they turn one.  I have some preschool
> keyboards (abcdef not qwerty) and I image the hd with ghost.  If it gets
> csrewed, I restore it.  I also tell them that if they touch mine (Sun,
> sgi, NeXT , BeBox, Mac or PC) I will break their little fingers off and
> feed them to the cat.  By the time my kids are 8-9 years old, they can
> reinstall the os themselves anyway.  My 9 yo daughter is on probation at
> school for "customizing" the pc's in the computer lab.  Once more and
> she is banned.
>
> James
>
> http://home.texoma.net/~jrice/
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