"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote:
>
> At 11:09 AM 8/31/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
> >
> >I'd avoid the problem of my list being bombarded with crap due to my
> >kid's negligence by having a kids' computer (or maybe even one for each
> >of them) and letting them know there'd be dire consequences for doing
> >*anything* on mine without explicit permission.
>
> Again, that is exactly what this man did, but the old saying about "When
> the cat's away, the mice will play" was proven again as the temptation of
> using Daddy's more powerful machine while he was out of town proved too
> great for the kid in question. I suppose he could have done something like
> take the motherboard out of his machine and lock it in a bank safe-deposit
> box that only he had the key to, but I doubt he thought that would be
> necessary . . .
I'd figure out what the most effective detriment would be and make it
clear that *that* was the penalty, and set things up so's there was a
log of computer use, just to be sure. (His daddy would let me know if
he needed to use that computer for something. Or I'd burn a CD with
whatever files I thought someone else might need while I was gone.)
Password-protection might help, especially if I changed the password
*just* before I left. (No password when the computer starts up at
present, but I *am* using a screensaver password because Sammy likes to
wander in and bang on the keyboard when nobody else is around.)
Julia
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