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On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 11:30 +0000, tom wrote:
> Sorry its worse than I thought: "I dont like the colour and I cant be
> bothered to find out how to change it so I'll spend all day on the
> internet complaining about it"
I don't think any of those types of users refered to "spend all day on
the internet complaining about it", they don't know anything
different.... If you refer to my comments, then I stated my own opinion
in passing, which hasn't *yet* occupied my entire day, nor have I passed
comment on it on the internet in general, but only this thread. So I
think you are wrong again.
Bothering to find something out, assumes you to initially think that
there might be something to discover I suppose, knowing that they might
be able to change it to begin with I guess. They just don't consider it
wither worth doing, or perhaps even doable... Who knows, I just know how
many bog standard desktops I see, to think that the normal default
desktop a computer OS uses should look clean, professional and tasteful,
because a whole heap of people will never ever adjust it. You may have
your thoughts on how lazy they are, I think it is they just in most
cases don't know better.
This morning has been spent attempting to repair one of the mothers from
schools PC, try and guess what the desktop looked like after 6yrs of use
since its purchase in 2004. Utterly default except for the 60 or so
icons taking up half the desktop. If I end up popping back to sort out
the adsl issues (when the broken hub is replaced) as a matter of
interest I may ask if they know how to change the wallpaper/theme.
> . I seem to remember most Â2500 training
> courses I used to go on for windows seemed to involve a day of 'how to
> personalise your desktop' no matter what the course was!
> What (if anything) do they teach in IT in school - how to write a cheque
> or how to hand over your credit card details?
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