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The Tech Support Generation

prostoalex writes "Newsweek technology columnist Brad Stone is looking forward to the Thanksgiving dinner with his family next week, spending time in candle-lit rooms, preparing holiday shopping lists and... let's admit it - fixing the folks' computer. 'We are the Tech-Support Generation. Our job is to troubleshoot the complex but imperfect technology that befuddle mom and dad, veterans of the rotary phone, the record player and the black-and-white cabinet television set. Next week, on our annual pilgrimage home, we'll turn our Web-trained minds and joystick-conditioned fingers to the task of rescuing our parents from bleeding-edge technology on the blink', Brad Stone writes. In related news, what other products besides Google Desktop Search, Spybot Search & Destroy, Google Toolbar and Service Pack 2 are Slashdotters installing on their parents' Windows machines?"

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  1. windows? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why would I let my parents run a Windows machine? I'd get so spyware/spambot infested that they hardly could get any work done.

  2. Re:Firefox & Thunderbird by edgefield · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If i remember rightly FF was just about 0.9 then. Try it again its finished now!!!