They can be found in this article:
http://www.geekoftheday.com/geek-stories/becoming-the-family-tech-support-guru.html
This is how it starts. You're visiting a relative (cousin, brother-in-law, whatever), and they invite you to have a look at their home computer system, which is filled to the neck with spyware, adware, malware, and more viruses than you would find on a downtown hooker.
The system is bloated with hundreds of pointless programs, irrelevant icons, and feckless folders, the hard drives have never been optimized, and the temporary cache hasn't been emptied since the Reagan years. You offer to clean up all the digital flotsam, and voila, the computer is running faster than a white man at the L.A. riots.
But then, after you've performed a miracle more amazing than a John Edwards vision, you instantly regret the tiny bit of technical support you've freely given to your relative, because now you're being worshipped like a Star Trek officer on a primitive alien world.
I know that the above will resonate with anyone who has worked on a couple of SPs computers. Why do they collect all that eye candy? How do they collect it so fast? Want to be near your favorite SP for 8 hours? Just offer to help with her computer.
http://www.geekoftheday.com/geek-stories/becoming-the-family-tech-support-guru.html
This is how it starts. You're visiting a relative (cousin, brother-in-law, whatever), and they invite you to have a look at their home computer system, which is filled to the neck with spyware, adware, malware, and more viruses than you would find on a downtown hooker.
The system is bloated with hundreds of pointless programs, irrelevant icons, and feckless folders, the hard drives have never been optimized, and the temporary cache hasn't been emptied since the Reagan years. You offer to clean up all the digital flotsam, and voila, the computer is running faster than a white man at the L.A. riots.
But then, after you've performed a miracle more amazing than a John Edwards vision, you instantly regret the tiny bit of technical support you've freely given to your relative, because now you're being worshipped like a Star Trek officer on a primitive alien world.
I know that the above will resonate with anyone who has worked on a couple of SPs computers. Why do they collect all that eye candy? How do they collect it so fast? Want to be near your favorite SP for 8 hours? Just offer to help with her computer.
