Trying to explain to them that there are very simple things they can do to prevent their computers from needing to be fixed is a waste of time, they don't want to hear it.

It's like the janitor in your company coming up to you and saying that if you took off your shoes he wouldn't need to clean the floor so much and then going into details about the different types of floor cleaner he uses.

You're a computer janitor not a teacher, you're there to clean up the mess not lecture people. That's why they switch off because they don't care about your favorite topic of computers, they just want you to do your job so they can get back to doing theirs.

..because they're not interested. They don't care. Unlike you they see the computer as an unimportant tool. They don't want a lecture from the computer janitor every time what the usually do doesn't work anymore.

Parents not trolling that's exactly what IT support is. It's there to look after the IT equipement, just as a janitor is there to look after the upkeep of a building.

Seems like they just don't have anything non-work related to talk to you about. You could get the ball rolling by talking about only non-work related stuff around them, while fixing their problems, etc.

Sounds stupid to me too because you failed even in your post to mention why can't she keep her old password. You're just wasting her time.

If it didn't run windows the idiots in IT wouldn't know how to administer it. You have to understand that the typical monkey that works as an admin only ever got as far with computers as learning the ins and outs of Microsoft software.

China is busy building liquid fluoride thorium reactors which don't require uranium. Nuclear isn't anywhere near done, however solid fuel reactors probably are.

herp derp, what you gunna do when you need to replace broken ones in the cluster? This is why idiots like you shouldn't be commenting in adult conversations.

And you say sites like The Pirate Bay and Megaupload "barely get income to pay for hosting" :-)

You just said he got all his money from insider trading so which is it.

Nice ideal but it will be lost with all the nice phones because police are scum that will steal them.

First thing I do is google it. I never look at man pages.

Nope. The browser in Android isn't Chrome. Very popular misconception. It uses the V8 engine and Webkit however the chrome team aren't involved at all. It's also a completely different implementation in java.

For many years Opera had terrible javascript support. If you'd try implementing anything in HTML 5 last year you wouldn't be saying that. Opera innovates but rarely has all the basic stuff done before doing so. From a user's perspective it looks great but from where I'm standing it doesn't look as pretty.

Holy crap what is all that shit? The bloat... ugh, no wonder firefox runs like ass.