FUNDAMENTALS
I know and continue to meet many people who can do
incredible things with computers - when their computers are
working. But when there is a problem they are often
completely helpless and totally dependent on expensive,
frustrating and time consuming tech support.
Learning how to make a partition on your hard drive
and how to make and store images of your entire
operating system in that partition may not seem as cool
as learning how to use a digital camera or a CD-RW,
but in my experience, that, and a few other fundamentals
are far more valuable in the long run.
I know people with thousands of dollars worth of
computer equipment just sitting in a closet or in a spare
room because they never took the time (or had the
opportunity) to learn how to protect, maintain and organize
their computer in the first place - and they soon found
themselves overwhelmed with problems and totally
frustrated by scenarios that otherwise would have been
very easy to avoid and/or remedy.
Not knowing the basics (and not knowing how quick and
easy they are to learn under the right circumstances) is,
in my view, a major reason why so many people have a
love/hate relationship with the computer, or do not even
want a computer in the first place.
So, as I say on my card, of all the things I can now teach
someone about a computer, what I consider to be the
most important and the most valuable, is, some short
lessons in:
COMPUTER 101 - HOW TO ORGANIZE, MAINTAIN
AND PROTECT YOUR COMPUTER
Unfortunately, many people, including myself, learn to value
such lessons the hard way, so I don't get to teach it as often
as I'd like.
If you would like some lessons in Computer 101 phone me,
Dan Gomes, at (607) 638-5110 or, e-mail me at
dangomes@stny.rr.com (not a link)