Re:Sysadmin (Score 1)

12 year olds aren't going to ask what compiling is. They're going to use what's available to them in the menus. The ones that ask what compiling is are the ones that will likely have your job when they get older and you retire. This is a good thing. Oh, and make sure they've all got sshd running and only listening to internal LAN addresses, then forward your port at the firewall to your machine then you can ssh around and fix things from there. There should be enough ways to admin these boxes remotely (if you have broadband available) when set up correctly to need to worry about being there all the time.