From wikipedia:
Lik Sang has announced that it is closing its doors, as of October 24th 2006, because of those fags at Sony.
I can't see this edit in the lik-sang article lasting long.
Just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents.
My son just had his 5th birthday,
for the last few years he has shown a lot of interest in
computer games, etc.
Whether its on my phone, interactive games via satelite or on the PC.
He is still too young to operate a normal PC on his own.
So, I got him an old PC (PIII) and put the educational dist. of Ubuntu
on it (edubuntu, I think.)
I put some educational suites on it, childs play and GCompris (spelling?)
and some other educational games like tux math and tux type.
The only non educational things I put on it were super tux and
xjig, I setup xjig so that it would pick a random yu-gi-oh image and he loves it.
Then I put all those as icons on a panel at the top of the screen,
got rid of all the other panels, and locked down everything.
So now there is a list of icons at the top of the screen, one for each game,
that he cant delete and there is nothing that he can break/remove/edit.
I know a childproof setup like this isnt exactly going to make him a proficient PC
user but its his first PC so in a couple of years I'll gradually expose him to
more advanced stuff.
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From wikipedia:
Lik Sang has announced that it is closing its doors, as of October 24th 2006, because of those fags at Sony.
I can't see this edit in the lik-sang article lasting long.
Just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents. My son just had his 5th birthday, for the last few years he has shown a lot of interest in computer games, etc. Whether its on my phone, interactive games via satelite or on the PC. He is still too young to operate a normal PC on his own. So, I got him an old PC (PIII) and put the educational dist. of Ubuntu on it (edubuntu, I think.) I put some educational suites on it, childs play and GCompris (spelling?) and some other educational games like tux math and tux type. The only non educational things I put on it were super tux and xjig, I setup xjig so that it would pick a random yu-gi-oh image and he loves it. Then I put all those as icons on a panel at the top of the screen, got rid of all the other panels, and locked down everything. So now there is a list of icons at the top of the screen, one for each game, that he cant delete and there is nothing that he can break/remove/edit. I know a childproof setup like this isnt exactly going to make him a proficient PC user but its his first PC so in a couple of years I'll gradually expose him to more advanced stuff.