Well afer my disasterous attempt to make Vista work on the internet for a friend, I now realise what the future of computing is.
What’s the problem Hal?
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t communicate with that peripheral. Do you have the driver disc?
No Hal, I don’t have the disc.
I think it’s a camera Dave. Can you select which manufacturer from a list?
IT’S A PRINTER HAL!!!
An hour of trying to get it on the Internet. It couldn’t even recognise a local area connection, and seemed to think that all broadband internet is PPPoE (telephone based ADSL). My friend had cable.
I seem to have a reputation of being a ‘fixer’ of PCs. I tell you, the proudest moment was when my dad, cut off from my support help when I moved out, figured out a complex problem on his own. It was like that line in Superman
The father becomes the son and the son….the father.
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