Happy Thanksgiving!
…and here is an article that covers families, technology and the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Tech-Support Generation: “Millions of young Americans will head home next week to give thanks, eat turkey and fix their parents computers”
It’s funny because it’s true: At my parents, I spent about an hour trying to rid my Dad’s PC of spyware and getting him up-to-date with protection. The two of us were sitting in his study, and my Mom comes in yelling that we’re being “anti-social”.
Posted: November 25th, 2004 under Uncategorized.
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Comment from brettdl
Time: November 27, 2004, 3:52 pm
Gee, a mirror existence. My mom’s computer is also contaminated with Spyware. Ad-aware doesn’t recognize it and she has dial-up. I’m going to have to burn a CD with some other spyware-removal software. Sigh.
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Time: November 22, 2007, 9:03 am
[...] However, Dad has already scheduled about an hour of my time over at his house today, either before or after dinner, to look at his new computer — which has Vista… ugh — and to help him resolve some issues that he’s having. (see my previous post on why techies dread coming home for the holidays.) [...]
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