🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:37:08 +0100, The Drone
<news@zzmail.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Guys 'n' Gals,
>
>My son's about to get a PC with a TV card. I am keen that I can either
>
>1) Make access to the TV program subject to a password (that he doesn't
>know or (preferably)
>
Get a copy of pgp (www.pgp.com or something like that, It's free) and
install pgpdisk. This creates what your system thinks is another hard
disc, but it can't see it untill you 'mount' it with a pass phrase.
Install the tV software on this disc, and he can only use it once you
have mounted it.

>2) Have a program that logs activity on the PC so that I can see when
>the TV prog is used.
>
>Does anyone have any idea of how either could be achieved?
>
>Also, he is keen on borrowing fd's and loading the contents which I'm
>unhappy about for a number of reasons including viruses. I know I can
>disable the FDD in the BIOS but this is a bit OTT. I was wondering if it
>could be disabled in W95 and "woken up" by me if it's necessary to use
>it for bona-fide reasons.

Buy a floppy disc lock
>
>Thanks for your help,

Better than all this, don't abdicate from your responsibilities as a
parent, but work with, and educate him rather than just imposing your
will.
>
>Peter.
>-- 
>Peter Zivanovic

--
Alastair