On May 21, 2011, at 4:13 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:
> On 19/05/2011 19:50, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>>
>> My father (78-9) touched the 'update' thing on Ubuntu and fairly
>> effectively hosed his
>> laptop; now into week 4 of a trans-Europe (England-Bulgaria) e-mail
>> attempt to "unhose"
>> thing
On 19/05/2011 19:50, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>
> My father (78-9) touched the 'update' thing on Ubuntu and fairly
> effectively hosed his
> laptop; now into week 4 of a trans-Europe (England-Bulgaria) e-mail
> attempt to "unhose"
> things . . .
I've done that with ubuntu too, the impressive par
Being self taught does not make you a genius. Either you have a
high IQ or you don't and the results of teaching yourself will come
from the abilities you already have.
She may have been exceeding all of her expectations by being
able to surf the web at all.
-=>JB<=-
On May 20, 2011, at 1:36 P
I suppose you are right. I remember when I was working on cars, no one ever
told me how to take a spark plug out, so I would break off the tip then dig the
rest out with a screwdriver and hammer. I couldn't understand why the other
mechanics thought me an idiot. I just never found the need in my
In the girls defense it shows either she is self taught and
hasn't found the need in her life to learn that or she has
had eight years of lousy teachers.
Either way is she the one to blame of should she be
given credit for what she has been able to do for the
last eight years without proper help f
Just yesterday a gal who has been using a computer for 8 years called me and
wanted to know how to get to a web site. So I told her what the address was.
She said, "I typed that in but I get a whole lot of weird stuff."
So I asked her, "Are you doing a Google search?" She said, "Yes Google." I
Ha! I've got that one nearly beat. I worked my way through school doing
DOS word processing for real estate appraisers (including that wonderful
WordAwful program that dumped you into an entirely blank screen).
I'd save project files onto 5-1/4" floppies... that my boss would later
put a pee
oh I also so a student at my university asking the other guy: "how do I
download an intel core 2 duo, my processor is too slow and I want to
download a better one from the net..."
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
> my father saw one of the executive secretaries to the preside
my father saw one of the executive secretaries to the president of the
company staple a floppy disk and some papers together so that they would not
go missing...
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:27 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 5/19/11 8:08 PM, Judy Perry wrote:
>
> So, this term --
>>
>
> You should
On 5/19/11 8:08 PM, Judy Perry wrote:
So, this term --
You should write a book. Then tell all your students that they have to
read it as part of their classwork. And then tell them that if they
don't read it, you'll put *them* into the next edition.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay |
While I wouldn't say people deserve to get a virus, every day I show up
for work amazes me with the stupid stuff students/consumers think and do
with computers.
So, this term -- these are non-CS majors -- we talked about doing data
backups. Eyes rolled into the backs of their skulls. We talk
The student stories I could tell you...
Judy
On Thu, 19 May 2011, Bob Sneidar wrote:
What is scary is that anyone who owns a mac would believe their computer got
infected and click the Cleanup button. What is even scarier is that I had to
replace the keyboard of an accounting user recently w
On 5/19/11 2:33 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote:
I think it's the 23th allele on the Y chromosome at work. Or similar.
LOL! I knew it was a guy thing. "23th" indeed. :)
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Sonds good to me. But I wasn't being condescending. My point was that it scares
me that there are so many people who will click that button, even after all the
news coverage of malware and the wealth of information out there about how to
protect yourself. I guess it scares me because no matter h
> Thanks for the personal example on the subject.
>
> Bob
Hey, no problemo, Bob... I knew you would appreciate it. ;)
Listen guys... I understand the position that each of you have taken
and am not 100% opposed to your theory about relative safety in
regards to OS. We *all* live in an age of risk
Thanks for the personal example on the subject.
Bob
On May 19, 2011, at 12:25 PM, David C. wrote:
> Touched a different nerve. Sorry for another soapbox
>
> "What is scary is that anyone who owns a mac would believe their
> computer got infected "
>
> "Most mac users are informed eno
>
> Is that something that requires hard work or does it just come naturally?
It requires hard work, my friend. This is about tough love.
I was an involuntary mac computer tech support person for 13 years. My
attitude after that experience was that people should just eventually learn
how to cook
On 05/19/2011 10:33 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote:
I think it's the 23th allele on the Y chromosome at work. Or similar.
Hairy-chested computers
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On 05/19/2011 10:25 PM, David C. wrote:
Touched a different nerve. Sorry for another soapbox
"What is scary is that anyone who owns a mac would believe their
computer got infected "
"Most mac users are informed enough about this stuff to ignore it
anyway"
"Virus protection is just
I think it's the 23th allele on the Y chromosome at work. Or similar.
On 19 May 2011, at 21:25, David C. wrote:
> Touched a different nerve. Sorry for another soapbox
>
> "What is scary is that anyone who owns a mac would believe their
> computer got infected "
>
> "Most mac users are i
Touched a different nerve. Sorry for another soapbox
"What is scary is that anyone who owns a mac would believe their
computer got infected "
"Most mac users are informed enough about this stuff to ignore it
anyway"
"Virus protection is just not needed at all on most macs if one just
Recently, Roger Eller wrote:
>> Anyway, if you've downloaded and installed this thing, then you get what
>> you deserve.
>
> I don't believe that anyone DESERVES to get a virus. There are
> newbies (noobs) even to the intuitive Mac OS. There are innocent
> little grandmothers that got a Mac min
On 05/19/2011 09:47 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
I turned off all automatic updates on her machine then I told my mother to
NEVER install anything, to always call me first and that I would help her
take care of it using screen sharing.
My father (78-9) touched the 'update' thing on Ubuntu and fa
I turned off all automatic updates on her machine then I told my mother to
NEVER install anything, to always call me first and that I would help her
take care of it using screen sharing.
She did, and she was very alert for anomalies after that. Screen sharing is
a great thing for helping aging par
I meant when one works hard at ignoring the warnings, one gets what one
deserves.
There are many situations where one can't be protected from one's own
errors.
On 19 May 2011 11:24, Roger Eller wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:08 PM, stephen barncard
> wrote:
> > Touched a nerve. Sorry for t
While I agree mostly with Stephen, I think "deserve" is probably the wrong
word. "Inevitable" comes to mind, as in it's inevitable that a person who in
this day and age does not know to NOT click anything in a webpage that says he
is infected, will get some kind of malware at some point in time.
On 5/19/11 1:08 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
Anyway, if you've
downloaded and installed this thing, then you get what you deserve. Any app
I'm going to install or buy will have to be investigated first before I let
it touch my hard drive.
I want to agree in general, but we're not completely repr
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:08 PM, stephen barncard
wrote:
> Touched a nerve. Sorry for the soapbox.
>
> Actually most mac users are USED to seeing these cheezy popups which always
> lie and the ads usually refer to Windows (the links are zip files that fail
> harmlessly).
>
> Most mac users are inf
Touched a nerve. Sorry for the soapbox.
Actually most mac users are USED to seeing these cheezy popups which always
lie and the ads usually refer to Windows (the links are zip files that fail
harmlessly).
Most mac users are informed enough about this stuff to ignore it anyway.
The fact that ther
What is scary is that anyone who owns a mac would believe their computer got
infected and click the Cleanup button. What is even scarier is that I had to
replace the keyboard of an accounting user recently who didn't think it at all
odd to pop out staples above her keyboard. She thought it made
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