This would all be easier, not for you, but for her, on a Mac.
Mason
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On Sep 30, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Sue Cubic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 12:18 PM 09/30/2007 -0500, Tom Piwowar wrote
I don't think ignorance is an acceptable defense. What if her
doctor did
not prescribe an important new treatment because keeping up with
medical
advances was too much trouble? You have a fiduciary responsibility to
make the best selection for her, not for you.
If I did not push her into this, she would not do it at all. I
foresee a very lot of hand-holding. Better that than her spending
$1200 and never using it at all.
Instead of taking upon yourself the responsibility to "sort out the
messes" why not get a computer that won't have the messes? You can
then
direct your efforts to the real challenge: teaching her how to use
the
computer.
I wouldn't know how. Nor do I want to spend the necessary hours on
her machine to figure it out.
>Considering all of this, I think she'd be safest with a cable
connection
behind a firewall
Depends on what is more reliable in her area. I think DSL is
usually more
reliable.
Not in this area. We're all too far from the phone co to get DSL,
but we all have cable available.
>all desktop icons hidden except for a word processor, "My
Documents", Firefox
and a
>stand-alone email icon.
What does she need a word processor for?
Because she likes to write. She has occasionally written articles
and submitted them for publication. She has always written in
longhand and had someone else type them for her.
What does she need an email
program for?
Because she will understand that better. I don't want to have her
launching a whole bunch of stuff at once. Her grown kids and grands
are far away, and she will want to receive photos. I want a mail
program that will detach the photos and file them, so at least I can
find them.
Keep it simple. Set her up with Gmail. If she must print out
a letter she can type it in Gmail and print from there. I would
have the
computer automatically launch FireFox and make the home page Gmail.
Put
some icons at the bookmarks toolbar for the other things she needs.
Keep
it simple.
That's what I plan to do. Manually launch a browser with a blank
page and teach her to use bookmarks. And not confuse it with her
email.
With a very basic understanding of how it really works, she just
might progress. By setting up "magic" in the beginning, she has no
hope of learning. I deal with too many people like that all the time.
Sue
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