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Too bad "comp nerds" like him are being bullied at school. :(]]>Mar 31st 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/"you may think that nerds and geeks are total weirdos now, but listen. geeks will always make more money and get hotter chicks than anyone else." (or something like that)

this kid will be a millionaire and have as many supermodel girlfriends as hugh hefner (sp?)]]>Mar 31st 2008 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Apr 1st 2008 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/
"geeks will always make more money and get hotter chicks than anyone else"

o_O]]>Mar 31st 2008 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/
But unlike Jon here, I was installing Windows '98 as a brand NEW operating system, lol.


On another note, the show "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" has a secret question every game that donates an entire computer lab to a pre-picked school if the player answers correctly. Hopefully this story will bring Jon's school into their eyes, or at least another computer charity. Its sad to see Windows 2000 being installed as a new OS, however it could have been worse: Vista.]]>Mar 31st 2008 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/
Really, the difference between techies and non-techies is three things: a willingness to learn new things, the ability to follow directions, and enough determination to deal with frustrating situations. A lot of tech related stuff isn't that hard - just Google things you don't know, follow the directions, and make an effort to retain that information. If you're willing to repeat those steps whenever you encounter something you're not familiar with, you can learn a lot.]]>Mar 31st 2008 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/
Of course, elementary schools aren't the only ones behind the times, my high school didn't move to Windows XP until the year I graduated, and trust me, me (a relative white hat) and my blacker-hatted buddies used to find all sorts of fun holes in the crappy security protocols they had - Win 98 (but they didn't bother disabling the MS-DOS Prompt - idiots), some crappy web filter (that blocked more good sites than the bad, and was easily fooled by proxies), an idiotic remote-control/desktop-viewer in the computer lab (meant to catch kids goofing off and surfing the web, too bad it was incompatible with the Java IDE our programming class used, so if you WERE doing your work, when the teach checked up on you, your system rebooted spontaneously...), and a school server with no sort of permissions (we once used the school server as a music swapping server, and we even installed and ran StarSiege:Tribes off the server, which was laggy as all sin, but a nice POC).

Makes me almost misty-eyed for school...]]>Mar 31st 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/The bitches at his school smell money all over that kid.

Hope he doesnt turn out like the Dell dude!]]>Mar 31st 2008 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/
A+ is a bulls**t cert. It IS easy as pie if you can memorize the questions off the practice tests, which is how most of the people get the cert, which is why it means nothing. All it means is that you can read a horribly dry book, do the same quesions over `till you memorize them, and take a test.

Really, not to take anything away from this kid though, it is VERY impressive for him. Having an A+ cert at 11 would be pimp!]]>Mar 31st 2008 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/
And Snowraver1 is right, A+ doesnt mean Jack anymore.. In the eyes it does but I know a few ppl that are A+ cert and I wouldnt trust them with a PC.. I can run circles around them and I have no schooling background other than my self taught knowledge..

But think of this Kids resume thats the big kick. Who wont hire him at 18, fresh outa HS, with 7-8 years exp in IT. ]]>Mar 31st 2008 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/
Seriously, kids and teenagers are more than adapt to use technology. I think it's because they don't get frustrated as easily as adults. Much like DWells55 said...]]>Mar 31st 2008 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Apr 1st 2008 5:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/
So true. When I was in high school we were able to get past all the security they put on the computers and install/ do whatever we wanted. I got a nice full version of Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, etc. off the hdd. We also installed Counter Strike on the server so we had a lag-free place to play at night when everyone went home. But the best was this kid who installed Dameware on the teachers computer and would log on when she walked away and change grades. We ended up getting caught when the IT guy came to the class to install something and one kid logged in as admin for him...]]>Apr 1st 2008 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Tangent: Doesn't everyone remember "that kid" who would claim he could change grades "on the mainframe" if he really wanted to? I always wondered why "that kid" thought it was impressive to announce he was too stupid to BS his way through the American public school system... (not that I was a great student by any means) I'll have to go visit him at burger king this week and say hi... haha]]>Apr 1st 2008 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Apr 1st 2008 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/
Nah.]]>Apr 2nd 2008 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/but those are 32 bit machines there, so for blending complicated frames, they would choke.

It's a shame the kid used windows instead of edubuntu.]]>Mar 31st 2008 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Apr 1st 2008 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/
he is going for Win2000

tssk tssk tssk.....

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I believe nothing can beat Windows ME for that title.]]>Mar 31st 2008 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/
Correction. ME was the most unstable release of Windows so far.]]>Mar 31st 2008 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Mar 31st 2008 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/arkansas-school-has-an-11-year-old-it-department-no-really/Apr 1st 2008 1:51AM