Silly idea, but possibly one that might save you a phone call or two.
Change the "Safari" icon (or whatever browser you're planning to use-NOT IE) to the Internet Explorer icon, and possibly rename the browser to "Internet Explorer." (Of course, delete the original IE.)
Chances are, most kids are used to IE on a Windows machine; when they see "safari," they'll have NO idea how to use it/what it is/blahblah without help from the person in charge. I know I've let all of my family (who use Windows) borrow my iBook, and they had no idea how to open the internet browser. As long as kids see an address bar, they know what to do from there.
Icons can be changed by selecting an app, right-clicking, going into "Get Info," then clicking on the smaller icon and copying. Following that, open "Get Info" on the other app which has the icon you're changing, click on the smaller icon, and paste.
Don't really have time to research, but last time I checked, The Poisoned Project, an OS X P2P app, supported FastTrack, and it's perfectly free. I doubt they pay for FT licensing.
He goes on to say that governments planning to use it will damage their own economies and that giving away source code is shooting yourself in the foot.
Though I distinctly remember a few hundred government PCs running Windows 2000 going offline for days this summer in Philadelphia City Hall after MS Blast was first rampid, while all Linux boxes were fine. If practically "self-imposing" a shot, to continue the analogy, isn't what occured by the government using Windows boxes unpatched, fully aware of their dangers, then I don't know what is.
Also, IIRC, most Gov Linux distros are heftly modified;governemts are smart enough to not just run a freshly-downloaded distro. Matter of fact, the NSA developed their own Linux distro which highyly encorporates VMware, which I was a bit ago.
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Silly idea, but possibly one that might save you a phone call or two.
Change the "Safari" icon (or whatever browser you're planning to use-NOT IE) to the Internet Explorer icon, and possibly rename the browser to "Internet Explorer." (Of course, delete the original IE.)
Chances are, most kids are used to IE on a Windows machine; when they see "safari," they'll have NO idea how to use it/what it is/blahblah without help from the person in charge. I know I've let all of my family (who use Windows) borrow my iBook, and they had no idea how to open the internet browser. As long as kids see an address bar, they know what to do from there.
Icons can be changed by selecting an app, right-clicking, going into "Get Info," then clicking on the smaller icon and copying. Following that, open "Get Info" on the other app which has the icon you're changing, click on the smaller icon, and paste.
Don't really have time to research, but last time I checked, The Poisoned Project, an OS X P2P app, supported FastTrack, and it's perfectly free. I doubt they pay for FT licensing.
He goes on to say that governments planning to use it will damage their own economies and that giving away source code is shooting yourself in the foot. Though I distinctly remember a few hundred government PCs running Windows 2000 going offline for days this summer in Philadelphia City Hall after MS Blast was first rampid, while all Linux boxes were fine. If practically "self-imposing" a shot, to continue the analogy, isn't what occured by the government using Windows boxes unpatched, fully aware of their dangers, then I don't know what is. Also, IIRC, most Gov Linux distros are heftly modified;governemts are smart enough to not just run a freshly-downloaded distro. Matter of fact, the NSA developed their own Linux distro which highyly encorporates VMware, which I was a bit ago.