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(Message started by: LadyElaine on Jan 3^rd, 2005, 11:08am)

Title: For people who are new to computers!
Post by LadyElaine on Jan 3^rd, 2005, 11:08am

I found this site for my sister in law who knows nothing about a computer. I even found out some things I did not know.

http://members.aol.com/shobansen3/index.html

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on Jan 3^rd, 2005, 11:18am

Elaine - what an interesting site. Thanks for sharing it. Although I use a computer daily in my work, it's applicable only to specific tasks. My home system is a different matter and I can screw it up pretty quickly. Perhaps this will keep me straightened out and my daughter won't have to "fix" it quite so often!

Carol

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by Bethany1 on Jan 3^rd, 2005, 4:51pm

Hay Elaine, thanks maybe Don can use this. ;;D ;;D ;;D

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by Jonny on Jan 3^rd, 2005, 4:54pm

on 01/03/05 at 16:51:09, Bethany1 wrote:

Hay Elaine, thanks maybe Don can use this. ;;D ;;D ;;D

Nope.....2 dumb ;;D

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by don on Jan 3^rd, 2005, 4:57pm

Wouldn't have a web site on digital cameras would ya? 8)

Hi Carol.

Quote:

maybe Don can use this.

Could if I had fuckin DSL to download it.

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by brain_cramps on Jan 3^rd, 2005, 4:57pm

Maybe Paul/Opus can use it

(damn - you beat me to it, Bethany)

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on Jan 3^rd, 2005, 5:14pm

Don - don't be a PITA - I'm not the only one that can't figure things out around here! Perhaps we could start a little club for those of us that are dysfunctional ;;D

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by sailpappy on Jan 3^rd, 2005, 5:22pm

;;D ;;DDon,
Here you go my friend!
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml;jsessionid=HJSWA5V2AKW4BFW4FBEHWD2W1YUBI4L4?pq-path=2/3&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=70899
Pappy
even though your dog is probably smarter than me! Pappy

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by don on Jan 3^rd, 2005, 5:48pm

Quote:

a little club for those of us that are dysfunctional

I am not dysfunctional.

I am technology challenged.

Quote:

even though your dog is probably smarter than me! Pappy

Hope not. The dogs dead.

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by Opus on Jan 3^rd, 2005, 8:39pm

on 01/03/05 at 16:57:34, brain_cramps wrote:

Maybe Paul/Opus can use it

Yes I found it interesting, so that's why highlight, then center click to paste doesn't work in windows, and I assume that tab doesn't auto-complete in the command line either. Who would have thought.

Opus/Paul [smiley=smokin.gif]

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by sailpappy on Jan 4^th, 2005, 3:51pm

:-[ :-[ Don,
I'm sorry I used that annalogy, I know Mildred was a very special pet to you, a family member here for sure, I just plane forgot about what happened. Please accept my appololgy, I guess I should have said "Dumb as a Rock" Your a Great Person and I didn't mean to be so shallow! Sorry Sorry a thousand times I Am Sorry!
Losing his mind Pappy

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by sailpappy on Jan 4^th, 2005, 3:54pm

;;D OPUS,
Sometimes I have to use "Control V" to force a paste to occur when the right click dosen't work?? Pappy

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by Charlie on Jan 4^th, 2005, 4:28pm

Thanks Elaine. I need all I can get.

I'm not necessarly new to computers, just so friggin dumb. Charlie-------> http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/ex.gif

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by Kirk on Jan 4^th, 2005, 6:38pm

This might help also http://freshmeat.net [smiley=damncomputer.gif]
YMMV

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by Jonny on Jan 4^th, 2005, 6:45pm

on 01/04/05 at 18:38:52, Kirk wrote:

This might help also http://freshmeat.net [smiley=damncomputer.gif]
YMMV

Kirk,.....You forgot the dictionary that goes with the link ;;D

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by don on Jan 4^th, 2005, 6:51pm

Hey John, no apologies needed. My dead dog response was meant to give you a chuckle.

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by yikes-another-one on Jan 4^th, 2005, 6:53pm

It took some surfing, but at the end of the list of lectures
was some fun computer jokes.

I still roflmho when i hear about
old ladies using the mouse as a foot pedal

and there was a classic
about a sysop who told the caller
to "'p' on the keyboard".... yuck, yuck.

let me go dig up the landing site...hold on

http://members.aol.com/shobansen3/jokes.html

cool beans?

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by Ueli on Jan 4^th, 2005, 8:08pm

From that jokes page,
Quote:

http://tinypic.com/165i7l Supposedly true story:
"We taught first-years how to cope with using a computer. We had one chap who spent ages with the mouse upside down, using it as a trackball, before he came and asked us if there was a better way."

:o True story:
Recently, I went to a computer shop and asked for a track ball. The shop assistant's jaw dropped, he stood there completely clueless what I was taking about. So I explained: it's a thingy with a ball that I turn with my thumb, and then the cursor moves across the screen. Now he brightened up, fetched a standard mouse and said: this one has a ball that you can turn with the thumb. ::)

Title: Re: For people who are new to computers!
Post by unsolved1 on Jan 4^th, 2005, 8:19pm

http://www.clustertown.com/private/winerror.jpg