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My grandfather got me into computing way back in the 80s. It started as a hobby for him & me, later it became my career. I always thought that was neat. Back then, he'd got a new app. that I'd never seen. During the day, I'd be in school, he'd be learning how to use it. I'd come over at night or the weekend. He'd drive me nuts getting me to figure out how to do one feature that's advertised on the box but not shown in the manual. Mind you, this is the first time I'd ever seen this program. For example, he was trying to do some advanced spreadsheet functions, I'd never seen a computerized spreadsheet before!
Sadly, he's getting way up there in years and his mental abilities have slipped over time. It's gone from as described above to "You have to install this, I can't figure it out" (Insert CD, click Install from the menu that pops up). Other times, he just clicks away. We never were able to get him to understand Uninstall vs. just deleting the program's folder. He too, has done stuff none of us can figure out.
My wife does pretty good, both on the PC and her iPAQ. She's catching on well. I still have to help her out occasionally.
We also have friends from my wife's hometown who are considered family. I'm their IT support staff. They keep getting the absolute nastiest spyware from the places they visit and stuff they download. Then when I point out what they have, where they visited, it's "We *NEVER* went there!" Um, so why does it show someone visiting there yesterday in IE History? And funny, you guys were just talking about somthing that is the subject of that site.
Family and friends, gotta love them. I suppose if I were a doctor, they'd would be like, "I got this pain". If I were a mechanic, "My car's making a funny noise", etc.
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