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

Dave Brooks david.brooks at trusted.net
Tue Jan 12 08:35:39 EST 1999


Haha, well, I stand corrected. :)




>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.
>
>-- 
>Chris Ness
>mailto:cness at gloster.vivid.net         All jobs are equally easy to
>http://www.vivid.net/~gloster               the person not doing the
>work.
>        Holt's Law
>






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