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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
5:23:00 PM EDT
Hearing Boy/Girl Song -- Aphex Twin
How to Idiot-Proof Your Parents’ Computer. Just remember: They think you're doing it for them, but you're actually doing it for you. Being the fellow called upon as frontline tech support for my entire clan, I can appreciate this one. Although I also give them the following advice directly:
1. Using Microsoft Internet Explorer is like wrapping yourself in bacon and then going to pet a polar bear. I've set up Firefox for you; use it.
2. You know that file you're thinking of downloading? Yeah, don't. Ever.
3. If you click any link in an e-mail, you owe me $20.
It seems to work.
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5:23:00 PM EDT
Hearing Boy/Girl Song -- Aphex Twin
Just Don't Tell Your Parents the Title of This Link
How to Idiot-Proof Your Parents’ Computer. Just remember: They think you're doing it for them, but you're actually doing it for you. Being the fellow called upon as frontline tech support for my entire clan, I can appreciate this one. Although I also give them the following advice directly:
1. Using Microsoft Internet Explorer is like wrapping yourself in bacon and then going to pet a polar bear. I've set up Firefox for you; use it.
2. You know that file you're thinking of downloading? Yeah, don't. Ever.
3. If you click any link in an e-mail, you owe me $20.
It seems to work.
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Does that link work if I'm the actual idiot is updating my computer? I like to eliminate the middleman.
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I think what's worse, is when your parental unit decides she knows enough of the inner workings of a computer to edit the msconfig.sys file or the system.ini. Oh, baby. That's a call I won't be taking anymore. If the conversation is littered with the words or phrases in any particular order, 'Computer, problems, IE won't work, I downloaded this software, crashes, blue screen of death' -- my brain is trained to come up with some sort of distraction.
"Uh yeah, Mom. The dog just crapped on the floor. Gotta go."
"But, you don't have a do..." Click. -
ehhh--I think you'd have to idiot proof ME before I could idiot proof the rents. I'm a medical geek, not a computer geek. When my computer takes a dump I call the omnipotent tech who used to be an engineer for Sun Microsystems before he started his company. He charges an obscene rate, but he's fast and he definitely knows what he's doing Fortunately he hasn't been back in a while....
AJ in SF
3/13/07 11:28 PM
be well,
Dawn
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