Trying to keep up with theseGD computers

[Foul Mike]

I am getting down the road in my years.
I am long in the tooth..
If I have a problem with my computer, I go out in front of the house and catch the first kid that comes by that I have helped in the past and say "Come here Kid, I got a problem."
They will come in and sit at my desk and Wham, Bam, their fingers go flashing over the keyboard and all is well.
I ask them what they did and they just kind of look at me and mutter,"You don't want to Know."
Makes me feel like a fool.
Computer classes for Seniors around here usually last about 2 sessions and then there, I, am the only one in class and things go south from there. "You don't speak the language and not everything is a SOB or a Mother Fu-----." and computers are not communists named Stalin, Lennin, Kruchev, Tolstoy, or any of the other names you have called them and they don't come from North Viet Nam and therefore you should not call them Ho Chi.
Damn, I do what I can but do get very frustrated.
Don't ask me to post a picture as I have to get my Squaw involved[AKA Panty 6}from someone else on the Hide and very appropriate. My hat is off to you for coming up with that name as it fits so well.
I think that my Big Brother told it like it is,
"So far, the only thing Golden about the Golden Years is the front of my shorts."
I hope you get a laugh out of this but it is only too true.
Regards, FM

 

[DamnYuppie]

Re: Trying to keep up with theseGD computers

I would recommend getting a Mac. They are easy to use, abliet a bit different then a PC, they have great support.

Also if most of what you are doing is surfing the Web and I would make sure you aren't using Internet Explorer. Use Firefox or Opera instead. Chrome is really good but Google tracks everything you do in it though.

 

[Maggot]

Re: Trying to keep up with theseGD computers

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Foul Mike</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I am getting down the road in my years.
I am long in the tooth..
If I have a problem with my computer, I go out in front of the house and catch the first kid that comes by that I have helped in the past and say "Come here Kid, I got a problem."
They will come in and sit at my desk and Wham, Bam, their fingers go flashing over the keyboard and all is well.
I ask them what they did and they just kind of look at me and mutter,"You don't want to Know."
Makes me feel like a fool.
Computer classes for Seniors around here usually last about 2 sessions and then there, I, am the only one in class and things go south from there. "You don't speak the language and not everything is a SOB or a Mother Fu-----." and computers are not communists named Stalin, Lennin, Kruchev, Tolstoy, or any of the other names you have called them and they don't come from North Viet Nam and therefore you should not call them Ho Chi.
Damn, I do what I can but do get very frustrated.
Don't ask me to post a picture as I have to get my Squaw involved[AKA Panty 6}from someone else on the Hide and very appropriate. My hat is off to you for coming up with that name as it fits so well.
I think that my Big Brother told it like it is,d
"So far, the only thing Golden about the Golden Years is the front of my shorts."
I hope you get a laugh out of this but it is only too true.
Regards, FM
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You are not alone, FM.

Several years ago I took a night class to "get up to speed" on computers. Id sit down at a long row of them and within 5 minutes the whole row would go haywire. After 3 nights of that, the teacher nicely asked me to drop the course as it was ruining it for everyone else. Gave me my money back though.

Most of what I have learned has been trial and error...with a lot of emghasis on ERROR. Girlfriend heled a bit, and a couple fguys on here helped. Just keep pluging along. This getting old aint all its cracked up to be.....but I dont like the alternative either.

 

[Foul Mike]

Re: Trying to keep up with theseGD computers

I am glad I am not the only Dummy out here.
When I do get one of the kids to help me I write it out on a piece of paper
!. Turn on computer
2double click this funny looking thing on the screen
3Poke this key or click on that
God Help me when someone asks for a photo.
I do sympathize with the instructors I have had. They think along the lines of "Everybody should know this, it is just standard keyboard."
Being an Old Fart, keyboard to me is a mechanical typewriter and it had 10 spaces to the inch or 12. Pica is what I had and I don't remember what the other one was.
It is frustrating.
Regards, FM

 

[Luke]

Re: Trying to keep up with theseGD computers

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DamnYuppie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I would recommend getting a Mac. They are easy to use</div></div>

FWIW, I would consider myself part of the younger generation and pretty adept at computers, and I find Mac's a <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">major</span></span> PITA. Whenever I visit my parent's place I use their Macbook and inevitably at least once per use I have a strong urge to chuck the thing through the nearest window...

Some people's brains really click with the Mac format but I sure am not one of them....

FM: Like I said I'm in the <30yr old range and am pretty adept at computers, although I have never had any formal training. So granted, I may have had a young supple brain to help me out when I started but just like anything else you teach yourself by trial and error. If you want to post a picture, take the time to find out the steps involved and do it yourself, and make sure you understand the reason behind every step.

If you get any windows that pop up and say: Do you really want to delete/re-format the entire hard drive? Always click "Cancel". Other than that there's not much you can do to 'hurt' a computer....

 

[Maggot]

Re: Trying to keep up with theseGD computers

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Luke</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DamnYuppie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I would recommend getting a Mac. They are easy to use</div></div>

FWIW, I would consider myself part of the younger generation and pretty adept at computers, and I find Mac's a <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">major</span></span> PITA. Whenever I visit my parent's place I use their Macbook and inevitably at least once per use I have a strong urge to chuck the thing through the nearest window...

Some people's brains really click with the Mac format but I sure am not one of them....

FM: Like I said I'm in the <30yr old range and am pretty adept at computers, although I have never had any formal training. So granted, I may have had a young supple brain to help me out when I started but just like anything else you teach yourself by trial and error. If you want to post a picture, take the time to find out the steps involved and do it yourself, and make sure you understand the reason behind every step.

If you get any windows that pop up and say: Do you really want to delete/re-format the entire hard drive? Always click "Cancel". Other than that there's not much you can do to 'hurt' a computer....

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Ah, to again be a young fart with a supple brain. These things drive me nuts at times.

 

[texasmotor]

Re: Trying to keep up with theseGD computers

order one of those 20 somethings females to come visit and restore your hard drive.

 

[ArcticLight]

Re: Trying to keep up with theseGD computers

I went to the school of hard knox and got a masters degree.

I lived in a basement, damn near homeless and wanted to keep in touch with a gal I just broke up with....

Well a buddy of mien gave me a garage full of computer parts and within a week I had a computer built....

The next 12 years were spent figuring ways out inside OTHER people's computers..

And now I do this for a living.


BUT - Rest assured, when I retire in some small hick town in Texas I'm going to hold FREE classes for seniors, and everything will be in lamens terms..

"This here doohicky connects you to SHOPPING!"