02-09-2006, 06:46 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| Keep your parents off the net
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02-10-2006, 08:36 AM
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#2 | | the dark one
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: MA/NH line
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| *groan* Do you know how many hundreds of tech support calls we've had to field from our parents over the years? I can't tell you how many times the source of the problem was something related to things not being plugged in.
People like this shouldn't be allowed to operate hardware. (I would prefer to say that people like this shouldn't breed - but then I wouldn't be here.  ) Now, we screen calls from specific family members and just don't pick up. Caller ID is a wonderful thing.
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02-10-2006, 09:08 AM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Singapore,
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| ... yea... tip 4, jus teach them. ONCE and if they do not comprehend you tell them to wait till ur free which is next week and they did not get it because they did not pay full attention, that way they blame themselves for not understanding and you are home free
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02-10-2006, 01:58 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Savannah, Ga
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| Every time I glance over this thread's title it pops into my head as 'Keep your pants of the net'
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The gpa requirement for UGA Pharmacy is based solely upon those classes they require. What that means for me is in the eyes of UGA Pharmacy- I have a 4.0. Yes that's right- I freaking rock!
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02-10-2006, 09:36 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa
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| thats exactly what I thought.... I suppose that's why most of us came to read the thread...
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02-11-2006, 11:01 AM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Mid-West USA
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| Heeeheheee.....my kids are out of luck. I have been coding software for about 25 years......including working a contract on the ARPANET -- the internet when still under control of DoD.
The downside is that I am the unofficial tech support contact for my and my wife's entire family.
The last gem came from my sister, who was stumped why her wireless connection to her laptop wasn't working. I was stumped too, because I had set this up for her just a week previously and doubted a hardware failure so soon. Lucky I know how to ask the correct questions.  Unlucky for her that the "magic" of wireless does not work in a different state 300 miles from the router.
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02-11-2006, 03:06 PM
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#7 | | Question Game Queen
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Originally Posted by Feltan Unlucky for her that the "magic" of wireless does not work in a different state 300 miles from the router.
Regards,
Feltan | Ha ha, same thing with my mom. She didn't quite understand that when the router stays and home in Connecticut, and my laptop and I go to Massachusetts, I can't still use the wireless. I explained it to her that it's like a cordless phone- the farther away you take the phone, the worse the signal is.
See, this isn't meant for your kids; how about your parents? Are you keeping them off the net? | |
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02-11-2006, 08:40 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Singapore,
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| No... i let them use it but on my computer (there's another computer) they use a very limited account to ensure they don't erm, screw it up.
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02-12-2006, 09:43 AM
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#9 | | Bitter young coach
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Originally Posted by Feltan The downside is that I am the unofficial tech support contact for my and my wife's entire family. | That sounds so familiar. Oddly, every time part of my dad's family asks me to visit, there's a problem with the computer for me to fix. Crazy, isn't it?
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02-12-2006, 11:06 AM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by RITFencing That sounds so familiar. Oddly, every time part of my dad's family asks me to visit, there's a problem with the computer for me to fix. Crazy, isn't it? | RIT,
Yep, and I don't consider that a bad deal either.
1. I get to go on shopping sprees at Best Buy or Circuit City, and they pay!
2. When the family gets on my nerves -- after about 20 minutes of idiotic conversation -- I get to retire to a remote part of the house and do something else.
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02-12-2006, 11:56 AM
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#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
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| is there anyone else who's kind of pissed off at the animation style in this thing?
i mean, i'm all for creativity, but it just looks stupid. | |
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02-13-2006, 11:31 AM
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#12 | | Bitter young coach
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Originally Posted by Feltan RIT,
Yep, and I don't consider that a bad deal either.
1. I get to go on shopping sprees at Best Buy or Circuit City, and they pay!
2. When the family gets on my nerves -- after about 20 minutes of idiotic conversation -- I get to retire to a remote part of the house and do something else.
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You're a lucky man in that respect, Feltan; I get neither of those luxuries. They use a laptop which stays right in the living room.
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"If I were ever to challenge you to a duel, your best bet would be battle axes in a very dark basement." Misquoted from The Prisoner
"Technical excellence is the antecedant of tactical creativity." - Nat Goodhartz
But those things which belong neither to God nor to Caeser, feeleth free to writeth them off, for yea, they are deductable.
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02-14-2006, 08:50 AM
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#13 | | Senior Member
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| See I could have sworn part of the beauty of a laptop is that it is wonderfully mobile!
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The gpa requirement for UGA Pharmacy is based solely upon those classes they require. What that means for me is in the eyes of UGA Pharmacy- I have a 4.0. Yes that's right- I freaking rock!
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02-14-2006, 03:24 PM
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#14 | | Bitter young coach
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Bay Area
Posts: 4,500
| Not when the problem is with the net connection and there's no wireless
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"If I were ever to challenge you to a duel, your best bet would be battle axes in a very dark basement." Misquoted from The Prisoner
"Technical excellence is the antecedant of tactical creativity." - Nat Goodhartz
But those things which belong neither to God nor to Caeser, feeleth free to writeth them off, for yea, they are deductable.
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