[OT] Child Safty Precautions?

[Kent Borg]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 05:16:43PM +0300, Amichai Rotman wrote:
> I have a one year old chile whom just started to walk. He discovered the
> power button on my PC and keeps pressing it. Although my system's BIOS is
> set to S3 mode, and the system shuts down normaly - I am afraid for the
> integrity of it on the long run.

Two approaches come to mind.

First, fretting the right way to parent and how to reason with a
one-year-old.  I will ignore these questions, they are off topic for
this mailing list, but be warned, some others will not be so
restrained.

Second, a technical fix.  This is what you asked for, and this is
where I will make a suggestion: Tell the BIOS to always come up in a
power-on state and disconnect the power button.  If you need to shut
down you can tell the OS to shutdown, and if the OS is dead you can
pull the power cord.

Assuming your computer is easy to open up, the power switch is
probably a simple connector to the motherboard that you can unplug
now, and when your child grows out of this stage you can quietly
reconnect it.  The hardest part will be to figure out which connector
is the power connecter, it you are lucky it is labeled.


Good luck,

-kb