Topic: im old give me a computer..... i still cant use it
started by: just_dave
Posted by just_dave on Feb. 25 2002,18:47
Ok, I do tech support, and I know im gonna get a dumb call every now and then. But I just spent the last half hour explaining to some old woman, that because her grandkid downloaded yahoo pager, it added the button bar. She wants it gone because she cant see her mail button at top. We remove it and I spend 20 more minutes try to explain to her how to move the rest of the bars... she didnt even know right from left 
Posted by Dysorderia on Feb. 28 2002,00:12
| Quote (just_dave @ 25 Feb. 2002,10:47) |
| she didnt even know right from left |
at least she didn't ask where the "any" key was
Posted by fatalbert on Feb. 28 2002,00:17
you think that's hard?try teaching geriatrics to double-click fast enough!
Posted by Nikita on Feb. 28 2002,17:05
or use the CD tray as a cupholder ...or FOLD those ancient 5-1/4 floppies (when they actually WERE floppy) and cram it into a drive for 3-1/2 disks ...
Posted by kuru on Feb. 28 2002,18:06
At least they've seen one. I've actually had students who I told 'point to the start button.' and they did...
With their finger.
Posted by Carnivore on Feb. 28 2002,18:57
Gotta love those ID10t errors....
Posted by Wolfguard on Feb. 28 2002,19:51
Yep, you got to watch out for those loose nuts on the keyboard. Nothing but trouble.
Posted by liquid metal on Feb. 28 2002,21:21
i remember like 5 years ago we had computer class in the grammar school i went to. all we did was sit there and play games. the teacher was new, and hired as one of those know it all teachers. she didn't know computers. we taught her win 3.1
Posted by just_dave on Mar. 01 2002,17:42
Sounds like my school, the "Sysop" or "technology chair head" as they called it gave me the title. She done the paper work I made it happen. She even tried to talk them into giving me the 500.00 dollars extra she got for holding the title. AHH I remember writing the grants and taking that school from Novel to NT and 2000AS on netinfinty's. Plus, I worked with IBM while in high school setting up our IDF Switches that innterconnected the three wiring closets in our high school with fiber backbones of course. DANG I miss highschool..btw if anyone has heard about the High School kids beating up the "star player" at another school, well I went to the high school that done the beating..... Millard, the rival school always had more talk than anything.... I figured it wasn't long before that happened.
-dave
edit: spelling but of course