I know exactly what you mean. My mother has an old computer, a Pentium 266MHz with a 4GB hard drive. I've been trying for a year to convince her to let me replace the system with something faster, with more hard drive capacity, and maybe a broadband connection. I told her that I would put everything back on the new computer, exactly as it was, chat programs, folders, and all. It would be virtually indistinguishable from the old system, right down to the desktop picture and the icon placement. It would just be a heck of a lot faster, and she would have room for all those cute programs, MP3's, pictures, and other stuff she and her online friends send back and forth. And with WinXP, I could administer the computer remotely, instead of having to drive twenty miles every time she has a error, or catches a virus.
She says that she doesn't have time to learn to use a "new" computer. And she is afraid it might be incompatible with ICQ and Paltalk.
The only time in the past two years that she's let me near the machine is when it wouldn't boot. And that was because the inside was so dirty the memory module didn't have good contact in the slot anymore. She just knew it was "broken", and couldn't believe that I "fixed" it with a pencil eraser.
fortunately (or unfortunately) its only stated recently...
for well over a year ive hidden the reliablilty and speed of my simple 56k modem from my folks.
they have had to use their networks at work...
which ahve inveritably been congested, slow and crash prone.
then they worked out how efficient a dedicated 56k modem on a win2k box can be.
ive had to be alot more careful with my porn!
specialy as i dont shutdown, just hibernate. (its alot quicker)
gotta make sure i shut down my porn windows before i hibernate.
Anything i think of as 'Decent' is unlikely to ever become 'OEM'
Hey, I just went ahead and showed my nearest-and-dearest the porn collection. (Which may be one of the largest ever assembled in the history of man. I'm very partial to little brunettes with big hooters, and celebrities who can't seem to manage to stay dressed in public.) I don't care if they think I'm a total, depraved perv ... if there were no naked chicks on the Internet, I doubt that I would have ever bothered to get online in the first place. I'm still waiting for that complete, immersive, interactive hologram starring Analice Nicolau and yours truly, and after that ... no one may ever see me again. I'll just have my meals pushed in through a slot in the door!
I made it very clear, that if either of my parents uses my computer, and they are offended by whatever glistening red snapper might be currently displayed ... it's either that, or I'll make arrangements to produce a howling, equally depraved grandchild, which they would be forced to help babysit until the end of their lives.
Now when my mother spies a new desktop, she just says, very quickly "Ooo, she's pretty ... has your grandmother/friends/girlfriend seen that one?" ... and changes the subject.
It's actually a better security feature than a password. And it keeps family members from walking into your house without knocking.
fortunately for me ive made it so simple even my folks can use it, with hibernate and APCI the commands are:
to turn on: press the big blue button
to turn off: press it again.
as ive set it up so it hibernates on pressing the power button. most useful.
Anything i think of as 'Decent' is unlikely to ever become 'OEM'
i have a story...
one day at work, i got a call from my boss...he told me that someone had problems with their computer and he wanted me to look at it...when i went to go fix the computer...i ran into the guy who had the problem with it...the person was b*tching about how all these new computers suck and they're good for nothing...the guy went on and on about that for a good 2 minutes...after i told him to clam down...i asked him to tell me what the problem was...he told me that his computer wouldnt boot and it had an "error" message on the screen...i was like "ok" and i went to go look at what the error was...this was the message:
<i>"Invalid boot disk. Press any key to continue."</i>
<b><font color=red>ATI</font color=red>'s drivers are like a broken faucet, they both keep on leaking...</b>
I was at my parents' house the other day doing the Windows Update thing for my dad's computer. He mentioned to my mom that I was updating the computer. She wanted to know how much THIS upgrade was going to cost
<i>Money talks. Mine always likes to say "goodbye." </i>
my mom went out and bought a laptop, "'cause the old desktop had so many wires and general mess ("do we have to keep that printer?? It really clutters up the place"
my girlfriend finally took a liking to LiNuX when she discovered Shisen-sho
Every day I get dickheads coming into the store where I work,I had a lady who returned a scanner that she brought cos it didnt have a cd slot on it, someone had told her you could scan pictures in and burn them to cd, she said the salesman never told her she needed a computer to do that!
God must have loved dickheads, cos he made so many of them
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