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The Drone 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)
> 
> 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?
> 

Almost impossible I'd say.  Even if he can't then he could probably get
a mate to sort it out quite simply.


> 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.

Let the PC get infected and let him fix it.  If you let him learn
instead of interfering then he'll learn a lot more and be able to admin
the box himself.  I have friends who's parents dont let them "mess
about" on their PC's and it's a real shame that they can't learn stuff
for themselves.

My parents have always allowed me to try whatever I want on our PCs and
it's been that alone I think that has let me learn so much...

I can remember the day I had to reformat the 386 when I deleted Win3.11
off it from inside Win3.11.  Error - "The program you are using no
longer exists".  ROFL.  That was the first time I learned how to do a
reformat.

Do you understand what I'm trying to get at?
-- 
Paul Richards (Pauldoo) - http://www.pauldoo.co.uk

I've not run any Microsoft code for 154 days.
    How about you?