I find nothing beats the good old cattle prod (or if you don`t have one , a modified camera flash gun with electrodes instead of a flash tube.) :evilgrin:
My parents are technophobes, they can`t set the video to record and won`t even try to,incase they break it by "pressing the wrong button"..
Then earlier this year, they started asking questions about computers,"What`s a processor?, is an 80GB hard drive fast enough?, Can it get the internet?"
..yup, like a nightmare unfolding , I knew what was to come..
Despite all my recommendations that they should get a Mac, they got a PC, which I now have to regularly cleanup and update,only one virus every couple of months :pissed:
I gotta hand it to my mum though, she`s learning pretty well, took some computer classes at a night school, buys books and magazines (of the "my first computer" type) and is getting more comfortable with it.
She even does her grocery shopping online now, and managed to eventually file my dads tax return online, which was bloody amazing since the online forms bear absolutely no resembalance to the printed guide sheet they send you.
My dad on the other hand, gets more fustrated the longer he uses it, until he just gets so fed up he flips the power switch and walks away... I don`t blame him, it is WinXP :lol:
He has this idea that cos it`s a computer, it can do anything, and that every company has a website that you can get just by typing their name into the address bar.
I guess it`s like every other learning experience, start off slow and get the basics right first, and make sure they`re not afraid/embarassed to ask questions, no matter how silly they seem.
