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elcamino74ss

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My 7 yr old has expressed an interest in wanting to build a computer and wants a website.

Any suggestions on this one?

My initial ideas are to get an older pc that I know works and supervise the disassembly and reassembly. Then have him watch/assist in setting it up to host a website for him to play/develop on and then later move it to the internet.

For some background, I'm an IT security professional and started using an Apple II back at age 5. I have refrained from trying to push or force anything computer related on my kids. My father was the same way with me and my brother (Dad = Oracle DBA, Brother=long time Dell employee)

The kids already share an XP pc and I'm considering putting linux on the "web server" for him. How far should I worry about taking it or should I just read and give him a small taste of it and see what he does with it? He's already intriqued by passwords and wants to have one on his site.

Thanks.
 
slatr

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Someone suggested this to me when I asked about a vm type package that I could use for free.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

You can let him practice installing operating systems :)

Also, I think it would be more interesting if you took the pc apart for him and you then started on it together.. new parts might be even more fun :D
 
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BKLounger

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I say you grab two mid-range comps (bout 1ghz) that are similar and do it together. That way he can do things the way daddy is doing them.
 
Aikouka

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Originally posted by: randomint
tell him to get the hell out and shoot some hoops
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But Daddy, the sun hurts :(.

My dad let me buy computer parts to build a computer when I was younger... mainly for the purpose of fostering my interest in them. I work "in computers", but not in the area of building :p. So close enough.

I'd say though that Linux may be a bit much for someone his age... I don't know. The idea of Apache on Windows XP doesn't sound too bad though, and I doubt he'd need anything fancy. If you want, you could even set him up with a dyndns.org domain name so he could really feel special :D.
 
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elcamino74ss

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Originally posted by: slatr
Someone suggested this to me when I asked about a vm type package that I could use for free.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

You can let him practice installing operating systems :)

Also, I think it would be more interesting if you took the pc apart for him and you then started on it together.. new parts might be even more fun :D
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I just upgraded to the current set up in the sig but I think that may have spurred some of it watching Daddy upgrade. Of course he wants to play the FPS and WoW that daddy does on my pc but they already have a 3100 Sempron on an ECS Nforce3a board, 1gb ram, and a 128mb 9200se. I know the video will have to get upgraded but for what they play now its fine.



 
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elcamino74ss

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Originally posted by: randomint
tell him to get the hell out and shoot some hoops
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We have a goal in the backyard that we shoot on too. I try to limit the time spent on the ps2/wii/PC and its the first thing to go if they act up.
 
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elcamino74ss

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Originally posted by: Aikouka
Originally posted by: randomint
tell him to get the hell out and shoot some hoops
Click to expand...

But Daddy, the sun hurts :(.

My dad let me buy computer parts to build a computer when I was younger... mainly for the purpose of fostering my interest in them. I work "in computers", but not in the area of building :p. So close enough.

I'd say though that Linux may be a bit much for someone his age... I don't know. The idea of Apache on Windows XP doesn't sound too bad though, and I doubt he'd need anything fancy. If you want, you could even set him up with a dyndns.org domain name so he could really feel special :D.
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I didn't build my first till age 18 but that was with my parents discouraging me from even trying to do it. I bought the parts and didnt tell them till it was done. (P100, Tyan Socket 7VX board, Trident 9680 1mb PCI video, 8XCDROM, SB16 PNP ISA, 32mb ram and a WD 850mb IDE running win95.)
 
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