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Wait for me, mate. Lemme put on my wig. About time it got a haircut too...
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I don't have any grandparents that are still alive, am much too old for that. However, my mother is in her late seventies and not very technically minded. She takes an interest though, mainly because she is proud of her son for writing books about it. Shame she didn't read any of them though, then she may not have had to ask 'do I need to turn the computer on to receive email?'
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Originally Posted by happygeek 
I don't have any grandparents that are still alive, am much too old for that. However, my mother is in her late seventies and not very technically minded. She takes an interest though, mainly because she is proud of her son for writing books about it. Shame she didn'r read any of them though, then she may not have had to ask 'do I need to turn the computer on to receive email?'
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My father-in-law, bless, had a problem whcih I thought might be down to malware. However, he insisted that he had a security suite installed and scanned his computer every week.
I went round to take a look, and the first thing I wanted to do was a full security scan. At which point I discovered that the last set of definition/signature updates was a couple of years old. Apparently he didn't bother to re-subscribe after year one, thinking that he had the application and that was good enough.
Not funny, at all, but oh so common a mistake it seems...
I went round to take a look, and the first thing I wanted to do was a full security scan. At which point I discovered that the last set of definition/signature updates was a couple of years old. Apparently he didn't bother to re-subscribe after year one, thinking that he had the application and that was good enough.
Not funny, at all, but oh so common a mistake it seems...
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Originally Posted by happygeek
My father-in-law, bless, had a problem whcih I thought might be down to malware. However, he insisted that he had a security suite installed and scanned his computer every week.
I went round to take a look, and the first thing I wanted to do was a full security scan. At which point I discovered that the last set of definition/signature updates was a couple of years old. Apparently he didn't bother to re-subscribe after year one, thinking that he had the application and that was good enough.
Not funny, at all, but oh so common a mistake it seems...
darren
Ah yes at my college all you have to do is unplug the network cable and just watch the amount of people that pull out the computer, and spend ages looking at the back thinking that they are IT experts. Its really funny when their sitting at the desk next to the computer, waiting for another spare computer, after about half an hour of trying to 'fix theres'. Then you can just walk up plug the network cable in, and within a minute get on with your work 
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If u think tahts bad try a support job at a company/charity like mine. I got a phone call today for example which took me 30 minutes to get it through to this woman that the printer will not print double sided and the only way she can do it is to print odd pages first flip them over and back into the tray and print even ones.
Or the other day for example when we replaced a CRT monitor with a new LCD one and a matching keyboard and kept the acctual box there we were asked if there was anything we could do with the old computer. Because they see new keyboard and monitor as new computer.
It also feels really weird being 16 and your telling people sometimes 50 years older then you how to do things that you have just known as second nature all your life. Maybe its just weird because i have been raised to believe that adults know more then you no arguments.
Or the other day for example when we replaced a CRT monitor with a new LCD one and a matching keyboard and kept the acctual box there we were asked if there was anything we could do with the old computer. Because they see new keyboard and monitor as new computer.
It also feels really weird being 16 and your telling people sometimes 50 years older then you how to do things that you have just known as second nature all your life. Maybe its just weird because i have been raised to believe that adults know more then you no arguments.
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I guess I should 'fess up to those times when I have been a tech-twit as well:
like when it took me far too long to realise that the reason my mobile phone wasn't charging was becuase I hadn't plugged the charger in to the mains - certainly not before I had gone and bought a new battery thinking that it had expired...
like when it took me far too long to realise that the reason my mobile phone wasn't charging was becuase I hadn't plugged the charger in to the mains - certainly not before I had gone and bought a new battery thinking that it had expired...
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