If you're the family "computer guy" (or girl), you're likely to end up doing tech-support duties for friends and family as I do. Thus, you might chuckle, as I did, at this line from Tim Bray:
Lauren and I will cheerfully help our friends and relations out with their computers, even Windows boxes, but not if they use Outlook or IE.
On a slightly more serious note, check out this nice little article: "How to fix Mom's computer" Gina Trapani includes details of every little thing she did to tune-up an older PC, from spyware to Firefox. It'll be useful to pull out the next time I have to help with this sort of thing...
Posted by Karl
December 29, 2004 08:29 AM