[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Science Museum Visit - WiFi Available!

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Jon Reynolds
<maillist at jcrdevelopments.com> wrote:
> Oh god, don't even go there... My mum has a netbook running XP. I really
> would like to get Ubuntu on it, seeing as I am her main support,
> although I do live 200 miles away, so support at the mo is via
> logmein.com... not that any of this is any reason not to use Ubuntu.
>
> But she really doesn't have a clue bless her. The basic principles of
> what a password is and what it is for and how her email username and
> password isn't what the entire Internet is asking her for just doesn't
> sink in.
>
> The other day I logged in as she was saying the internet was doing
> something 'funny'. Somehow she had got Firefox to open about 170+ tabs every time it opened... no wonder she thought it was broke as it must have taken an age to open all those web pages every time.
>
> But to my mum, she doesn't get the concept of tabs... she doesn't even
> get the concept of windows (i.e. minimised windows on the task bar)
>
> I am amazed she manages to do what she does on the internet. She seems
> happy enough tho.

It's not unusual. (No, not a cue for a song.)

You should get her a Simplicity box...

http://www.simplicitycomputers.co.uk/

(Disclaimer: I put the software together for this. But we did it
precisely for people like your mum, from what you're saying...)

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