Thanks. I hadn't realized that I could use the Kindle to browse to books on manybooks.net and download the.mobi format and read it until I read your post. (I didn't really feel the Kindle was useful until I started using my husbands a few weeks ago, and now I use it more than he.)
Good point. We use Linux here at home, and I think I've trained those people (Friends and Family) whose Windows systems I support to use Firefox, but I suppose on my next round of maintenance I had better lock down IE as much as I can.
I distinctly remember that it took me almost an hour to install Fedora Core 3 to my machine. Of course, this included all the development and server components, as well as the normal desktop components.
I recently put Firefox and Thunderbird on my mother's pathetic little E-machine. I removed IE icon from the desktop. I imported the bookmarks and went through it and cleaned it up. Where she had bookmarked graphics and other weird stuff I found the original site and bookmarked that instead. I put her most frequently used bookmarks where they would show on the toolbar across the top of the screen.
I got rid of an amazing number of cookies using Spybot and Ad-Aware, as well as a few nastier looking things. At least she runs a virus-checker consistently.
My mother says it is like having a new machine. (And I think she means this is a good way.) Since she is on a slow dial-up, the popup blocker in Firefox helps speed up web surfing quite a lot.
She is happy enough with Firefox now that I am no longer fantasizing about putting a phony proxy in IE to disable it.
I am not sure that the start menu exists for my mother. I don't think she can run anything except what is on her desktop.
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Thanks. I hadn't realized that I could use the Kindle to browse to books on manybooks.net and download the .mobi format and read it until I read your post. (I didn't really feel the Kindle was useful until I started using my husbands a few weeks ago, and now I use it more than he.)
Good point. We use Linux here at home, and I think I've trained those people (Friends and Family) whose Windows systems I support to use Firefox, but I suppose on my next round of maintenance I had better lock down IE as much as I can.
I distinctly remember that it took me almost an hour to install Fedora Core 3 to my machine. Of course, this included all the development and server components, as well as the normal desktop components.
I recently put Firefox and Thunderbird on my mother's pathetic little E-machine. I removed IE icon from the desktop. I imported the bookmarks and went through it and cleaned it up. Where she had bookmarked graphics and other weird stuff I found the original site and bookmarked that instead. I put her most frequently used bookmarks where they would show on the toolbar across the top of the screen.
I got rid of an amazing number of cookies using Spybot and Ad-Aware, as well as a few nastier looking things. At least she runs a virus-checker consistently.
My mother says it is like having a new machine. (And I think she means this is a good way.) Since she is on a slow dial-up, the popup blocker in Firefox helps speed up web surfing quite a lot.
She is happy enough with Firefox now that I am no longer fantasizing about putting a phony proxy in IE to disable it.
I am not sure that the start menu exists for my mother. I don't think she can run anything except what is on her desktop.