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

[Glenn Stone]

Wandered Inn wrote:
> 
> You've got the right idea.  You've got to teach them early. :)
> 
> My machine is a dual boot Linux/win95.  It spends 95% of the time in
> Linux. My daughter (7, (that's her age, not her name..) [snip]

> [unsnip] knows daddy's a programmer and understands that a computer runs on
> 'programs.'  She told me the other day that 'That Mr. Gates (she's got
> her manners) should take lessons from the guy who wrote Linux.  She then
> asked me who wrote Linux.  I gave her a short answer that Linus started
> it, but that just about the rest of the world has been helping.  She
> said: "Cool, maybe I can write a program for Linux."  I've created a
> monster...

No, as my lady wife pointed out, you've created a programmer, which may well
be worse.... :) :) :) 

Good on'ya.

-- Glenn