This year we finished Migrating our data at work off of an old Netware server to our new shiny Dell Windows 2000 servers. This left us the question of what to do with our poor old antiquated server. I decided to adopt it. I brought it home, its really not too bad. 450 MHz Pentium II Xeon Processor, 512 MB RAM, 4 SCSI Hard Drives (although I am pretty sure that 1 of them is Dead,) Redundant power supply. I decided that I would put Red Hat 9 on it. I also decidied I would have my 11 year old son help. What better to gain exposure to computers than that. Certainly better than whatever they are doing in school. Having them play educational games or run word processor on a computer and claim that they exposing the children to computers. That’s alot of what is wrong with the way computers are used today. People who run software successfully on a computer are considered computer literate. But there’s more to it than that. This is reason malicous worms can propagate by simply say click me. The clickers do not truly understand how the tool they are using day in and day out works, so they make the same mistakes again and again. It the same problem with spyware, I can’t tell you how many people I run into that have been infected with spyware and don’t even realize it. There are new toolbar in Internet Explorer, therre are new shortcuts on the desktop and they didn’t even notice it till I point it out.

Jeez! I guess I kind of went on a little rant there. The point here is that I am gong to use this oppurtunity to educate my boy, so that he does not grow up to be one of these people. And we can get a little father/son time in while we’re at it.