I spied on someone...Freddie Woo says: "I was staying at a youth hostel in Europe and realised you could spy on the female dorm by looking through the keyhole in the adjoining door. So I knelt down, put my eye up to the hole... and saw an eye staring back at me. And I was the one they called a pervert." Tell us your tale of spying shenanigans.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 2 Jan 2014, 12:23)
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So, basically you're a massive fanboywho offers to fix peoples machines, but borks them instead with some bollocks linux distro that doesn't run any of the shit they want?
You sir are a helpdesk hero.
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thats one way of looking at itAnother way of looking at it is that the computers I upgrade/downgrade/repair this way (delete as appropriate) are owned by the parents of said teens, who know exactly what I am doing and approve it
I report to the systems owner not the user ;-) - for a person who was the owner of their machine I would take a different approach.
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But muuuuum why can't I open my Word homework on this PC now?(
drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 19:35,
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Yes, because LibreOffice Writer really struggles with .docx files.*I may be a massive fanboy*
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 19:58,
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^ what he saidMost people don't even notice the difference between LibreOffice and MS Office - once you've set it to default to microsoft file formats anyway
A surprising number of teenagers use Google Drive to do wordprocessing anyway because they tend to bounce between home and school/college PCs
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You'd have to be pretty unfamiliar with MSOffice to mistake LibreOffice for it.That said, this would be irrelevant to most 13 year olds, and they'd be able to get done what they wanted without being bothered about which software suite they were using (and Google Drive is likely to be a popular option, for the reasons you've described).
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 23:52,
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alsoSome of said teenagers have asked me to do the same work on their friends' PCs as they like it. Just adding that for the record.
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They probably know what you use for a root password. ;)I've always assumed that kids would know more about computers that their parents, but am starting to suspect that this might not actually be the case for kids who have grown up with Facebook and all that.
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 13:04,
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