SON!! I broke the computer!!
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Oh God, I could write a novel about parents (and siblings) and computers.
Clicking the links twice must be some sort of an impulse for people. My parents are also completely unable to comprehend the tab feature. They always open everything in a new window or everything in the same window, so they eventually have to rape the back button in order to get back to Google.Of course, the get lost somehow and then they close the window and re-open the browser in order to reach Google again. Home button seems to be nuclear physics to them too.
I especially love when my mother panics while using the Internet. She sometimes gets to web pages that she never visited before, and she instantly panics like a caveman that left the safety of his cave and found himself surrounded by wolves in a dark forest. Of course, that results in closing the browser and re-opening it in order to get back to the safety of the cav-... I mean Google. I think people are really afraid of the Internet, like there is something that will attack them or something will happen and they won't know what to do next (also, a bomb timer will appear on the monitor and they'll have five seconds to come up with a solution -.-).
I also enjoy when both my mother and my father bring their mobile phones to me and tell me to transfer all of their pictures to the computer. Of course, that involves my laptop, usb sticks and half an hour work to get the pictures of my mom's flowers or dad's cars to the computer, but they decide to stand behind my back the whole time as if it will be over in a minute.
One more thing comes to my mind; when my parents click everything a few times and expect for the page to load in a second. When it doesn't (because they opened 10 windows with web pages with hundreds of cat pictures that need to load), they start panicking and demanding an explanation as to why is the computer so slow and they immediately suspect it's broken. And when I tell them to wait a little bit, they attack ME with things like "We will not wait for this THING!", "This advanced technology should be faster!" or "I don't have time to wait for a mere computer, it should wait for me!". Around that time, I leave and let them direct their anger to the "thing".
Sadly, it's not reserved only for parents. I've met younger people that are completely inept at using computers. And it's not like they should all sit in front of computers all day long, but some basic tasks should be learned if they want to get a job one day that doesn't involve brooms and endless dirty streets of the city. I mean, how can you even attend college and not know how to type with all of your fingers?
Clicking the links twice must be some sort of an impulse for people. My parents are also completely unable to comprehend the tab feature. They always open everything in a new window or everything in the same window, so they eventually have to rape the back button in order to get back to Google.Of course, the get lost somehow and then they close the window and re-open the browser in order to reach Google again. Home button seems to be nuclear physics to them too.
I especially love when my mother panics while using the Internet. She sometimes gets to web pages that she never visited before, and she instantly panics like a caveman that left the safety of his cave and found himself surrounded by wolves in a dark forest. Of course, that results in closing the browser and re-opening it in order to get back to the safety of the cav-... I mean Google. I think people are really afraid of the Internet, like there is something that will attack them or something will happen and they won't know what to do next (also, a bomb timer will appear on the monitor and they'll have five seconds to come up with a solution -.-).
I also enjoy when both my mother and my father bring their mobile phones to me and tell me to transfer all of their pictures to the computer. Of course, that involves my laptop, usb sticks and half an hour work to get the pictures of my mom's flowers or dad's cars to the computer, but they decide to stand behind my back the whole time as if it will be over in a minute.
One more thing comes to my mind; when my parents click everything a few times and expect for the page to load in a second. When it doesn't (because they opened 10 windows with web pages with hundreds of cat pictures that need to load), they start panicking and demanding an explanation as to why is the computer so slow and they immediately suspect it's broken. And when I tell them to wait a little bit, they attack ME with things like "We will not wait for this THING!", "This advanced technology should be faster!" or "I don't have time to wait for a mere computer, it should wait for me!". Around that time, I leave and let them direct their anger to the "thing".
Sadly, it's not reserved only for parents. I've met younger people that are completely inept at using computers. And it's not like they should all sit in front of computers all day long, but some basic tasks should be learned if they want to get a job one day that doesn't involve brooms and endless dirty streets of the city. I mean, how can you even attend college and not know how to type with all of your fingers?
this was something i read on the internet regarding smiley central
It was THE FUCKING SHIT. They had literally over a million smileys and a search box that you could find a smiley doing/saying/looks like what you want.
All of the smileys were high quality, shiny, well-drawn, etc.
You could put the smileys inside your IM, blog, email, MS Word, forums, etc.
On AIM/MSN, I made all of my friends and e-friends get them so they could see all of the smileys I was sending them and at some points, we just sent smileys nonstop.
I put it on almost all of the school computers and offered to download it on my classmates' laptops (our school was in the "laptop program" in Middle School), and most of them (ALL of my close friends and most my acquaintances agreed).
It put a search bar in the web browser and the toolbar told you the weather, and you could select a new CURSOR FROM THE TOOLBAR.
This was the really cool thing: It came with like six other products?
I could then change my email background, send cards, change my screensaver (there were many HQ good ones), change my cursor (THIS WAS THE SHIT ? they had THE FUCKING BEST CURSORS? WAYYY better than most of the ones you can find, or that people have now?), change your wallpaper (ohhh yesss? they had moving ones?)
It also seemed that almost every day they were rolling out new features and new smileys.
??
Then? A few of my friends said they noticed their computers going slower after an update. I said it wasn't from Smiley Central.
Then I started getting random popups out of nowhere. I doubted it was from SC so I just installed this one pop-up blocker called "STOPzilla"?
It worked like a fuckin' charm. It was sweet as hell; it blocked fuckin' everything and it roared when it blocked a pop-up and had a counter in the system tray.
Unfortunately, it was trialware? It ended after 30 days and then I started getting pop-ups again.
So, I started getting annoyed and decided to follow in my (a few of my) friends' footsteps and uninstall all MyWebSearch products; I still got pop-ups.
It was weird ? I looked inside my process manager and other places and noticed that other programs were installed without me allowing it.
I came to the conclusion that MyWebSearch products were indeed malware.
Why? On the school computers and my friends' laptops were many, many, many pop-ups coming up for no reason (the web browser wasn't even open) which didn't happen until I installed Smiley Central).
But the thing is, you can't get rid of it.
Contrary to popular belief, MyWebSearch products are not indeed malware; they are backdoors ? backdoors to install malware (mostly adware and spyware) onto your computer.
I installed many things like Spybot Search and Destroy and ran it on the schools' and most of my friends' computers? and it found many, many different things on each.
It cleared up on most of the school computers and a few of my friends'. As for my computer, it was too late. Malware had already spread.
I took it into the office for the computer experts to reformat it ? it was back to normal.
From then, I always wanted a program to work the way Smiley Central did ? without the malware.
There was nothing and there never will be anything like it.
Years and years have past and now, I see no need for it. But Smiley Central will always have a certain place in my heart.
Long live MyWebSearch products.
All of the smileys were high quality, shiny, well-drawn, etc.
You could put the smileys inside your IM, blog, email, MS Word, forums, etc.
On AIM/MSN, I made all of my friends and e-friends get them so they could see all of the smileys I was sending them and at some points, we just sent smileys nonstop.
I put it on almost all of the school computers and offered to download it on my classmates' laptops (our school was in the "laptop program" in Middle School), and most of them (ALL of my close friends and most my acquaintances agreed).
It put a search bar in the web browser and the toolbar told you the weather, and you could select a new CURSOR FROM THE TOOLBAR.
This was the really cool thing: It came with like six other products?
I could then change my email background, send cards, change my screensaver (there were many HQ good ones), change my cursor (THIS WAS THE SHIT ? they had THE FUCKING BEST CURSORS? WAYYY better than most of the ones you can find, or that people have now?), change your wallpaper (ohhh yesss? they had moving ones?)
It also seemed that almost every day they were rolling out new features and new smileys.
??
Then? A few of my friends said they noticed their computers going slower after an update. I said it wasn't from Smiley Central.
Then I started getting random popups out of nowhere. I doubted it was from SC so I just installed this one pop-up blocker called "STOPzilla"?
It worked like a fuckin' charm. It was sweet as hell; it blocked fuckin' everything and it roared when it blocked a pop-up and had a counter in the system tray.
Unfortunately, it was trialware? It ended after 30 days and then I started getting pop-ups again.
So, I started getting annoyed and decided to follow in my (a few of my) friends' footsteps and uninstall all MyWebSearch products; I still got pop-ups.
It was weird ? I looked inside my process manager and other places and noticed that other programs were installed without me allowing it.
I came to the conclusion that MyWebSearch products were indeed malware.
Why? On the school computers and my friends' laptops were many, many, many pop-ups coming up for no reason (the web browser wasn't even open) which didn't happen until I installed Smiley Central).
But the thing is, you can't get rid of it.
Contrary to popular belief, MyWebSearch products are not indeed malware; they are backdoors ? backdoors to install malware (mostly adware and spyware) onto your computer.
I installed many things like Spybot Search and Destroy and ran it on the schools' and most of my friends' computers? and it found many, many different things on each.
It cleared up on most of the school computers and a few of my friends'. As for my computer, it was too late. Malware had already spread.
I took it into the office for the computer experts to reformat it ? it was back to normal.
From then, I always wanted a program to work the way Smiley Central did ? without the malware.
There was nothing and there never will be anything like it.
Years and years have past and now, I see no need for it. But Smiley Central will always have a certain place in my heart.
Long live MyWebSearch products.
I think I've mentally blocked out friends and family's moments of PC stupidity.Beliyal said:
Recently, my friend bought the PC from the same custom pc company, his graphics card wouldn't work with the monitor, so we plugged into motherboard to set it up. Told him to update drivers and plug back into the card.
I came in 1hr later and Crysis was lagging on low res. Something fishy, we thought it was the wrong card, got sent another. Turns out he hadn't plugged it back to the card, I got the blame for being an idiot. He has got two GTX260's now, though.
Oh, then, two days later, it blew up. They'd put the wrong power supply in and the motherboard fried.
not a parent thing but my sister and a friend when searching for an answer to something, instead of either googling keywords or using yahoo answers will ask google a question.
here's one my sister used today when wanting to know wot to skitch behind cars in Skate 3
she googled "How do i skitch on cars in skate 3".
then clicks the yahoo answers option. she's proly also got a ton of viruses/trojans from MSN shit but fortunatly she has her own computer to break.
here's one my sister used today when wanting to know wot to skitch behind cars in Skate 3
she googled "How do i skitch on cars in skate 3".
then clicks the yahoo answers option. she's proly also got a ton of viruses/trojans from MSN shit but fortunatly she has her own computer to break.
My mother had given me an epic facepalm moment once with the statement...
"How do you open Microsoft Word?"
"How do you open Microsoft Word?"
Ughhhh, I really don't want to think about this. My Mom asks for help all the time, and it's usually for something self-explanatory. Thing is, the only way to fix the problems on my parents computer is to throw the piece of shit in a dumpster. The thing is nine years old, takes 10-20 minutes just to boot up, runs like crap, is cluttered with old files that no one needs (Old homework assignments from when I was in Elementary School, for example), and to make matters worse my Dad insists on using AOL as the primary browser. (America On-Line, for those of you outside the US. It was an alright browser during the era of dial-up, but I have no idea how they're still in business these days) Apparently he doesn't want to go through the...err..."hassle" of switching email adresses. Seriously? You can get a free Google or Yahoo account in five seconds flat, and is it really that hard to copy and paste old contacts?
Unfortunately, my Dad is being incredibly stubborn about keeping that hunk of crap. He insists there are a few important files he needs to keep. Okay then, YOU HAVE A FREAKING USB DATA STICK! And so do I for that matter, if for some reason 2 or 3 Gigabites isn't enough to copy a few text files. I am so very glad I have my own computer.
Unfortunately, my Dad is being incredibly stubborn about keeping that hunk of crap. He insists there are a few important files he needs to keep. Okay then, YOU HAVE A FREAKING USB DATA STICK! And so do I for that matter, if for some reason 2 or 3 Gigabites isn't enough to copy a few text files. I am so very glad I have my own computer.
My parents have always been decent with computers and my mom is a good learner through repetition. I've taught her how to login to Photobucket, upload a picture, get the correct link, and post it on a forum. That all took a few tries but now she's got it down.
I don't actually have any bad stories. I have my own laptop so I don't get blamed for anything and my mom is really the only person who uses the PC and she sticks with a few things and knows what to do with them.
I don't actually have any bad stories. I have my own laptop so I don't get blamed for anything and my mom is really the only person who uses the PC and she sticks with a few things and knows what to do with them.
