RE: [PCTECH] W98 to W2K upgrades

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

And LOL :-)

Yep, know the feeling. We have 4 and all are good on computers and teachers
depend on them :-) The youngest, who had just turned 4, was playing around
on this particular PC 3 years ago (and at the time our oldest was just
starting college, next was getting ready to graduate from high school and
next was just starting high school). He was in Power Point and I hear him
yell, "Dad, come check this out" and I go up there and he has these
characters in Power Point animated and talking, dancing around, etc. !

I yelled to our oldest and he came in and I asked him if he showed him how
to do this and he said no and was as blown away as I was. Then the other two
come in and we go through the same scenario and no one had shown him. He is
looking at us smiling looking pretty happy and I said "How did you do that
?"  And he said "I learned it by myself. I did this. I clicked on this and
this popped up and I clicked on that and then clicked on this..." and is
ROLLING through all kinds of stuff. He then sits back and says "And then it
does this" as the thing takes off again. We are all just standing there with
our mouths hanging open...

Maybe MS should have signed him up for a commercial ? :-)

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Dan Bale
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 1:30 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: RE: [PCTECH] W98 to W2K upgrades


LOL!

Usually the call I hear is a loud grunt in frustration.  My wife has been a
computer neophyte for almost ten years now.

On the other end of the scale is my 15-year old son.  Not afraid of anything
he does to a computer.  Gave him a throwaway (due to obsolesence at a
previous company) Compaq a few years ago, and he loaded up the 6GB faster
than I thought possible.  I tell him "do NOT install anything on MY pc
without MY EXPLICIT permission.  Do NOT change my desktop or settings.
Period."  (I can hear the BTDT's already!)  "But Dad, it's just Yahoo chat"
(substitute any one of thousands of downloadable titles.)  Or, one of my
favorites, "I just wanted to see if it does the same thing on your PC".
OTOH, he is the first person his teachers go to when they have a problem.  I
warn them.  He doesn't believe in reading instructions.

I rue the day I lost the key that locks the input devices.

db