I fix her computer every time I get a chance to (She's two hours away, I can't just pop over and fix it every other evening), and try to educate her high school age children what NOT to do on the internet.
Her husband doesn't trust anyone without a company name on the side of their truck to do anything, so if he comes in while I'm working on it, I have to pretend to just be surfing the internet, or else I'm the one to blame for breaking it, despite it usually going on for a week or two that it's bogged down with virii, or a driver disappeared, or whatever new problem they've caused it to develop.
Occasionally, I go over to fix the latest problem, and I get there and I'm told "Oh... nevermind, we just went out and bought another computer. Do you want the old one?" so I take it, because otherwise it'll just sit in their basement until it goes out to the curb on trash day.
This is a process that has repeated since, oh, 2003 or so. At this point, it's a cycle of defeat. There's nothing more I can do.
I schedule antivirus scans for whenever I think they'll have the computer on, they just cancel it because it makes their computer slower (They never buy decent computers, and I'm clearly not an expert because I don't have a sign on my vehicle, so I don't get consulted... despite the fact that I BUILD COMPUTERS FOR A LIVING.) or if I set it to run at boot, they cancel it because they want online >>>>>>NOW not when it finishes, and they turn it off as soon as they're done with it.
I thought I had taught them how to run it on their own, but every time I ask them to demonstrate what I taught them the last time I was there, they can't even recall what program it was I installed. Sometimes, they've uninstalled it.
Their latest issue, they had over 40,000 infections. I told them it was time to just wipe the hard drive and start fresh, but they wouldn't have it, so I started up the antivirus program in safe mode and told them not to touch it. I even stayed the night so I could monitor it periodically.
I get up in the middle of the night and what do I find? One of the kids on the computer, playing a game.
I ask what happened to the scan, since I KNEW it was nowhere near done... "Oh, I got bored waiting."
Pardon my not growing, though. I guess I'll have to try better next time. Maybe install a cattle prod, or hell, try beating them.
(And no, I can't just lock down their accounts, because it's not my computer and the kids would throw a bitchfit. I tried it once. They won't accept Linux of any sort either, but it's understandable because one of them is a Sims2 junkie, and from what I've seen WINE doesn't get along with it... not that SHE knows that, but eh.)
So, do YOU have any brilliant suggestions that won't end up with me being labeled the antichrist of IT, or were you just coming in with a "DAMN GREEDY KIDS!" comment? They're using XP Home.
So if I never touch a child, but I think about touching a child, I'm just as bad as and a criminal just like the guy over there who just touched a child?
I could run at about 5x normal speed, jump about 60', climb to the edges, and beyond (and fall off the edges of!) maps by bouncing up them, very easily.
I must say, once I got bugged, I didn't die once. How could I? I'd just RUN UP A MOUNTAIN and get away.
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I fix her computer every time I get a chance to (She's two hours away, I can't just pop over and fix it every other evening), and try to educate her high school age children what NOT to do on the internet.
Her husband doesn't trust anyone without a company name on the side of their truck to do anything, so if he comes in while I'm working on it, I have to pretend to just be surfing the internet, or else I'm the one to blame for breaking it, despite it usually going on for a week or two that it's bogged down with virii, or a driver disappeared, or whatever new problem they've caused it to develop.
Occasionally, I go over to fix the latest problem, and I get there and I'm told "Oh... nevermind, we just went out and bought another computer. Do you want the old one?" so I take it, because otherwise it'll just sit in their basement until it goes out to the curb on trash day.
This is a process that has repeated since, oh, 2003 or so. At this point, it's a cycle of defeat. There's nothing more I can do.
I schedule antivirus scans for whenever I think they'll have the computer on, they just cancel it because it makes their computer slower (They never buy decent computers, and I'm clearly not an expert because I don't have a sign on my vehicle, so I don't get consulted... despite the fact that I BUILD COMPUTERS FOR A LIVING.) or if I set it to run at boot, they cancel it because they want online >>>>>>NOW not when it finishes, and they turn it off as soon as they're done with it.
I thought I had taught them how to run it on their own, but every time I ask them to demonstrate what I taught them the last time I was there, they can't even recall what program it was I installed. Sometimes, they've uninstalled it.
Their latest issue, they had over 40,000 infections. I told them it was time to just wipe the hard drive and start fresh, but they wouldn't have it, so I started up the antivirus program in safe mode and told them not to touch it. I even stayed the night so I could monitor it periodically.
I get up in the middle of the night and what do I find? One of the kids on the computer, playing a game.
I ask what happened to the scan, since I KNEW it was nowhere near done... "Oh, I got bored waiting."
Pardon my not growing, though. I guess I'll have to try better next time. Maybe install a cattle prod, or hell, try beating them.
(And no, I can't just lock down their accounts, because it's not my computer and the kids would throw a bitchfit. I tried it once. They won't accept Linux of any sort either, but it's understandable because one of them is a Sims2 junkie, and from what I've seen WINE doesn't get along with it... not that SHE knows that, but eh.)
So, do YOU have any brilliant suggestions that won't end up with me being labeled the antichrist of IT, or were you just coming in with a "DAMN GREEDY KIDS!" comment? They're using XP Home.
My aunt is of the "Buy new computer when kids fuck up OS by downloading any random shit they come across" mentality.
I don't mind. I get a reasonably-new computer every year to cannibalize for parts out of it.
I wish she'd just let me fix it so she could buy a much nicer computer for them to really break something in every two years for better parts...
Government regulations.
my new e-mail address is ricksrjc@gmail.com
Only the parts of America that I don't like. :P
Add in that the UN wants the whole world disarmed, and you might figure out why a country like the US might dislike it.
I would not want poked with a giant needle in any spot.
Women are filthy creatures who should hide themselves in shame.
I've got room for about 30 or so slim ones in my living room.
I'll do my part to keep them out of view of society!
The fact that there was no cap listed...?
Because there are no disabled people or people who work from home in the world, right guys?
Fuck NASA. Take their funds and give it to the homeless.
You bastards!
You were right the first time.
Wait, the parent comment gets +3 Insightful, and I get Flamebait for agreement?
So if I never touch a child, but I think about touching a child, I'm just as bad as and a criminal just like the guy over there who just touched a child?
This. A thousand times this.
Shit, I don't even DOWNLOAD music newer than 5-10 years old. Nothing in the last decade has really caught my attention.
I'm an old man already at 22. :(
GET OFF MY LAWN!
You'd think that's how it works, that they can't nab people for stuff on the internet... Talk to Mr. Max Hardcore about that.
What's so hard about 1111111111111?
Which is why the radicals need to be kept under lock and key!
Wait, it's Friday night? Shit, missing my D&D game!
And I mean this seriously...
Was my bugged character.
I could run at about 5x normal speed, jump about 60', climb to the edges, and beyond (and fall off the edges of!) maps by bouncing up them, very easily.
I must say, once I got bugged, I didn't die once. How could I? I'd just RUN UP A MOUNTAIN and get away.
Give me your answer true.
And that does nothing to argue with my statement, based on the discussion of what they can charge you with.
(P.S., they've convicted based on nothing more than that)
They charge gun owners in their own homes with possession of a tool of crime while serving warrants for other people, so that's not much of a leap.