TSGL: Teenagers

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi Denise,

>I regularly run hijack this, spybot, adaware.<

Not a bad idea, given you also look for viruses! I've had a similar situation here with son and daughter, a bit over 20 meanwhile. They used to download lots of music from the web (to their own PCs fortunately) - I don't remember any problems at all with bugs, viruses, malware etc. - although I was the tech-person at least with my daughter's machine. Maybe this also depends on where one gets the files from ...

As to copyright et al: Same here, as they were grown-ups of 18-20 years it wouldn't have helped much had I just told them NOT to download things (barring a full-fledged family conflict). What I of course did (and I imagine you have probably done too): I talked to them about the whole thing: Consequences that might come from having copyrighted (ripped) material on their PCs and also basic considerations - about what's right in general and what's not, from our point of view. 

As to burning CDs/DVDs from an external USB drive (given you have USB 2.0), this should work but depends on the transfer speed - maybe somebody out there has experience. IMHO adding a second hard disk is probably cheaper and a technically better solution if viable.

Tilman
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  Von: denise_fournier 
  An: Tech Support Guy Mailing List 
  Gesendet: Montag, 04. Dezember 2006 17:12
  Betreff: Re: TSGL: Teenagers


  Thanks everyone

  I have installed all the updates mentioned.

  My son gets his music from various sources.   He scans every file with avg
  beforehand.  If this is legal or not I do not know.
  There is no way to stop him as he knows more about computers than I do and
  is 19 years old.

  I regularly run hijack this, spybot, adaware.

  He wants to leave all the music on the computer as he burns CD's daily for
  friends family and himself whenever he wants to listen to different songs.
  He considers CD.'s disposable.

  If I get an external hard drive with usb connectors.  Could I put his music
  on this and free up space on my computer?  Would he be able to access this
  easily and burn music from the external hard drive on a daily basis? Would
  this be easy to do?
  Alas at this point in time a new better faster system is in the future and
  not possible financially now.

  Thank you for your time and responses
  Denise Fourner