How to control your dad via the net?

[Duncan]

Tassilo Horn posted on Thu, 20 May 2010 14:51:23 +0200 as excerpted:

> If you are ever going to visit them at home, install some nice virus on
> their machine which activates as soon as you are back home.  When they
> call you, say: "Hm, if that was Linux I could help you, but with
> Windows..." ;-)

Eh, I don't even do enough MSWormOS these days to be sure I could install 
anything, even malware, successfully. =:^)

Besides, if I was close enough, I expect it wouldn't be that hard to 
convince them, what with pretty much everything on Linux both free for the 
download, and available for installation right from the package repo.

One thing I've done recently, is get my Acer Aspire One netbook setup with 
Linux (gentoo/~x86, tho it's compiled in a dedicated 32-bit chroot image 
on my otherwise gentoo/~amd64 no-multilib main machine), including kde4.  
At church (I run bibletime on it and use it as my bible, beats the 50 
pounds (20+ kg) or so of interlinears, concordances, parallel bibles, and 
etc, I used to carry around, it's all on the ~2.5 pound (1.2 kg, with the 
high capacity battery) netbook now) and work (I originally bought it as a 
portable media player plus, tho I've been slower at transferring my media 
files to it than in setting up the bibletime bit) that's turning a few 
heads, especially when I trigger the cube desktop switch or the like.  I 
expect it'd do likewise with family, thus enhancing the persuasiveness of 
my arguments.

Unfortunately, my folks are in their 70s and the traveling they did over 
the last decade may be behind them now.  Perhaps if I get a different job, 
I'll visit them now...  (The first couple times I tried to write this 
paragraph, it got way too personal and OT, hopefully this one's the 
correct balance.)

-- 
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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