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Intra-domicile Networks
There
is a good reason they call them “Personal Computers”
Do
you have kids? If so,
here’s an idea! While you
are out of the house one Saturday afternoon, tell your children its okay to play
in your bedroom; tell them to go search through your personal belongings, your
banking and other financial information, your letters, and perhaps more.
Even better; have them invite a friend over to share in the fun.
I know! Let them take a few items out of the room, perhaps misplace
something or maybe give a few items to whoever happens to come by.
Bad idea? Then why do you let it happen? If you share your PC with the kids for even seemingly simple tasks, you risk losing important information you have stored. Information like banking and credit card accounts, personal correspondence, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses are mixed with games and chitchat. Even if your child is computer savvy and trustworthy, the things a young person uses a computer for such as games can change system settings and increase the risk of a system failure. Text chats are great fun but as they become more interactive, they expose your computer to the world. These are only two examples of the countless reasons to get the kids their own PC.
If you still choose to take care of your financial matters and other correspondence the old fashion way, you are wasting your valuable time. With minimal computer skills, you can begin to manage your finances online safely and quickly. You can check the status of an account, transfer money, pay a bill, and review your phone usage, or credit card purchases before the billing cycle is complete. You can change your long distance plan and even order pizza for the family without picking up the phone and dealing with that guy you can’t understand.
Once we help you setup your online accounts you will immediately realize the time and cost savings. Plus the added bonus of knowing the bills you pay and the item requested was processed accurately, with an immediate audit trail to ensure the transaction.
Your
kids need the computer as much as you if not more.
Do not expect them to share one pencil with you and their brothers and
sisters. Give them the primary tool for education or you are going to put them
at a disadvantage in the classroom. The
cost of a PC for your child’s education is a small price to pay for such a
huge leg up towards success. Not
just in the access to educational material made available, but within the use of
the PC itself, which will continue to be a part of his or her every day life.
One PC just doesn’t cut it for a family. It’s worse than sharing one bathroom but a lot cheaper to add on. A top shelf robust PC and all the networking components and services to make it all work will allow your family to share the printer, the internet connection and many other things, giving you control over exactly what information can and cannot be accessed by your children, all for less than the money you will likely spend on useless holiday gifts like the ones you bought last year. This time you will be able to remember what they were.
If you don't already, you will have a computer network running in your house. Probably within the next two years you will have completely surpassed the novelistic attraction your PC was synonymous with, and you will have realized why they call them PCs to begin with. Sharing the device that holds so much of the storable parts of your identity, of your hobbies, of your business, of your friends, of your life, is not something you will want to make available on the one size fits all family room computer. Like the car you call your own, or more like the shoes you call your own, our personal computers will, by the very fact that we entrust so much in them, become truly personal.
The home networks will make the functional aspects of having individual machines flexible. Sharing files, sending notes to each other, mother checking her sons homework or progress therein from the den to his bedroom. Intra- domicile collaboration is born!
For less time and expense than you probably think, your family could enjoy the benefits of trading contention for collaboration. The time to give your school-aged children the tools they need to succeed, the tools your spouse needs to save time taking care of household business online, and yes, even the time you and your kid up in his room can "collaborate" in a heated battle of one-on-one computer football is today. We all live this way already! Find out what you are missing.
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