Re: W98 to W2K upgrades -- PCTECH

Problem is, the same 4 year old can also crack into a Windows server. ;)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:13 PM
Subject: RE: [PCTECH] W98 to W2K upgrades


> And LOL :-)
>
> Yep, know the feeling. We have 4 and all are good on computers and
teachers
> depend on them :-) The youngest, who had just turned 4, was playing around
> on this particular PC 3 years ago (and at the time our oldest was just
> starting college, next was getting ready to graduate from high school and
> next was just starting high school). He was in Power Point and I hear him
> yell, "Dad, come check this out" and I go up there and he has these
> characters in Power Point animated and talking, dancing around, etc. !
>
> I yelled to our oldest and he came in and I asked him if he showed him how
> to do this and he said no and was as blown away as I was. Then the other
two
> come in and we go through the same scenario and no one had shown him. He
is
> looking at us smiling looking pretty happy and I said "How did you do that
> ?"  And he said "I learned it by myself. I did this. I clicked on this and
> this popped up and I clicked on that and then clicked on this..." and is
> ROLLING through all kinds of stuff. He then sits back and says "And then
it
> does this" as the thing takes off again. We are all just standing there
with
> our mouths hanging open...
>
> Maybe MS should have signed him up for a commercial ? :-)
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Dan Bale
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 1:30 PM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: RE: [PCTECH] W98 to W2K upgrades
>
>
> LOL!
>
> Usually the call I hear is a loud grunt in frustration.  My wife has been
a
> computer neophyte for almost ten years now.
>
> On the other end of the scale is my 15-year old son.  Not afraid of
anything
> he does to a computer.  Gave him a throwaway (due to obsolesence at a
> previous company) Compaq a few years ago, and he loaded up the 6GB faster
> than I thought possible.  I tell him "do NOT install anything on MY pc
> without MY EXPLICIT permission.  Do NOT change my desktop or settings.
> Period."  (I can hear the BTDT's already!)  "But Dad, it's just Yahoo
chat"
> (substitute any one of thousands of downloadable titles.)  Or, one of my
> favorites, "I just wanted to see if it does the same thing on your PC".
> OTOH, he is the first person his teachers go to when they have a problem.
I
> warn them.  He doesn't believe in reading instructions.
>
> I rue the day I lost the key that locks the input devices.
>
> db
>
>
>
>
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