In banks, it would be awesome if, using the computers, you could initiate a lockdown of the bank, making the computer skill useful to the point of giving you a nice safehouse.
Another use of the computer skill would be a way of finding information using computers... Maybe being able to access an in-def description of the various zombies/animals/weapons/stuff you can find or revealing parts of the world map. (google earth? heh)
Maybe even high levels of computers could allow you to gain levels in other skills, providing you have a safe location with a computer. Maybe you can make it slower than with books to keep it balanced. A rare laptop item would be awesome, though.
Cash would be cool, just as a flavor item that is now useless in a bartering society. Maybe.
Would be cool if you added any of these things in. Thanks for being an awesome developer. 
The lockdown idea is cool, and could be extended to the jail cells, too. Lock zombies (or NPCs!) in the cells, or control the network from a laptop inside the cell and lock yourself in safely.
Using computers to access monster and item descriptions is a neat idea too. Though it's one that a wiki could do for you
The maps thing is already in the game!
Laptops are a vaguely-planned game mechanic. The ability to load teaching software is a cool one; I'm sort of planning the ability to find USB drives with various random software on it. But all that is a long way down the road.
This is my first time using linux, I figured out my problem, apparently I echoed my superuser password directly to the running command, so I think echo overrides my keyboard. What I did now is to have a separate sudo su command, just for becoming a superuser, THEN execute the file. It's OK now though.
Writing a script like that as a linux newbie? I'm impressed! It's your own business whether run cataclysm as the superuser/root, but you ought to know that doing so obliterates security entirely. If you run cataclysm as root, I could make it infect you with viruses, delete all other software on your computer, steal your personal data and email it to me, etc. etc. I promise I won't! But hey, someone might submit a malicious patch to me--you never know.
I'm interested Justin
And Whales, when will the bank/mine update be out?
Bank, probably tomorrow. Mines, tomorrow or Thursday.
Not really. The fact that it autocenters on last target makes it bearable. It WOULD be nice if rocks stacked or something though, so I could choose the same letter every time.
Hopefully stuff will stack soon! I worked on it once, it turned out to be harder than I thought, so I backed off. I'll take another whack at it sooner or later.
Honestly, I'm really not sure gold would be worth anything to anyone at that point - the supply of living humans to the easy access to gold from scavenging plus it being utterly useless... I can't see it being worth anything, honestly.
Also, how are all these computers powered? For places like the bank, it would be interesting to have to power up the backup generator with gasoline so you can activate the computer system, so you can hack into it to open the vault. 
And finally:
I now have myself an army, and it seems to be selfreplicating. Mwahahaha.
Well, bars of gold will be rare--1 in 10 banks or something. Survivalist Alex Jones types are always going on about how gold will become the new currency after the shit hits the fan! Sure, there'll be deflation--you can't buy a car with a bar of gold--but it'll still be worth *something*.
Computers are powered
magically! by futuristic long-lasting power cells! I like the generator idea, but it's a bit technically challenging. I'll put it on the back burner and think about it for a while.
An army? Are you talking about
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