[ale] On the Hardware Note... (was: Bringing HW to Joe's tomorrow)

[Amy J. Ayers]

Eric and I will be having a little girl in May and she will be
a linux user from an early age, no doubt. I'm sure her first
experiences with linux will be of the GUI variety, as a user 
of the open-source educational software I'll no doubt write in 
my copious free time.

I'm predicting that by the time she begins to write she will also
start learning basic unix commands for file manipulation, perhaps.
I don't know much about child development yet, so pardon me if I'm
a bit off in my predictions.

At some turning point, maybe 9 or 10 (Eric, how old were you when
you were your own bbs sysop?), she'll be given sudo access, at 
which point we'll show her basic system administration and begin 
educating her about security as well ("If Mommy cracks your password 
one more time, you're grounded").

I'm thinking that by age 12 or 13 she'll want to learn to compile
her own development kernel, with custom hacks Daddy made to make
her new Pentium 68 clone use its virtual reality instruction set
properly.

Dan, is this about the timeline you were thinking of for you
daughter?

-Amy

<Dave Brooks wrote:
< My sisters use it to browse the web and play games and what ever else
<> little girls like to do.
<
<They might surprise you.
<
<> The thing is, the harddrive is kind of lacking, obviously, and with
<> Windows98 (No!  I refuse to teach 12-year-olds UNIX <G>) 
<
<My fourteen-year-old daughter has taught herself to access and get
<around in my linux box. Even managed to shoulder surf my root password
<and figured out how to restart ipmasquerading when I have left it down
<after using ax-25. Of course, she was 13 at the time :-) Now if she
<would only figure out how to rewrite the ipfwadm script so I can have
<the ipmasq out the modem and ether, plus the ax25 for me.
<
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