{"id":832,"date":"2003-10-27T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2003-10-27T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-832.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"bob-the-builder-builds-a-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2003\/10\/27\/bob-the-builder-builds-a-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob The Builder Builds A Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00006C1LJ\/legenofthesun-21\/ref=nosim\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2003\/10\/bob.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Builds a Park\" style=\"margin:7px;padding:4px;border:1px dashed black\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Can someone please explain to me why the PC game &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00006C1LJ\/legenofthesun-21\/ref=nosim\/\">Bob The Builder: Bob Builds A Park<\/a>&#8221; needs Administrator rights on my PC to run?<\/p>\n<p>Alex (2 and a half years old) has his own login on the PC, with restricted permissions.  He knows how to log in on his own (his account doesn&#8217;t have a password).  He has learned to double-click, and is getting the hang of drag-and-drop.  He knows how to open the Start menu.  If I give him Administrator rights, I dread to think what damage he could do to the system.  (I can just hear him saying, &#8220;Alex delete it!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>So why does a simple game, whose target audience is clearly toddlers and small children, demand that I grant a two-year-old full and complete control over my PC?  Methinks the programmers need to learn about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.develop.com\/kbrown\/book\/html\/howto_runasnonadmin.html\">developing code as a non-admin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00006C1LJ\/legenofthesun-21\/ref=nosim\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2003\/10\/bob.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Builds a Park\" style=\"margin:7px;padding:4px;border:1px dashed black\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Can someone please explain to me why the PC game &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00006C1LJ\/legenofthesun-21\/ref=nosim\/\">Bob The Builder: Bob Builds A Park<\/a>&#8221; needs Administrator rights on my PC to run?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}