[Edu-sig] today's mentoring

[Kirby Urner]

This isn't strictly about Python, but I went to my daughter's school today,
to be a resource person in the computer lab.

This one lad (who might be want to learn some Python eventually) showed me
how he'd been able to make his borrowed ThinkPad work as an ssh server and a
telnet server (he's installed Mandrake 10 on it several times).  

He'd installed Putty on a Windows 2000 box, and since both the laptop and
Windows box had IP numbers from the same school subnet, he was able to
ifconfig on Linux, and enter the IP number into putty -- and log into his
Linux laptop from Windows, using either ssh or telnet.  That pleased him.  

I just watched, didn't help at all.  His parents don't know this stuff.

This is a 3rd grader -- 8 years old.

Kirby