TheBoatman
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I\'m Feeling Depressed (nb)
I have for the last number of weeks attempted to d/load many different types of chart plotter programs and despite help from every quarter I have been spectacularly unsuccessful.
My ‘puter tells me that d/load has been successful but will it run, like bu***ry will it? Friends tell me (on the phone) that all I have to do is goto this, click that, press this tab and all will be well. NO, I click that, don’t get any tabs, what I do get is a box that asks me which program I wish to open the doc with and the list is endless, from MS paint to Word to Winzip to Outlook. If I get bold and chose one it then snidely tells me that it is un-supported and can’t open it, “file path incorrect”.
This simple operation has suddenly made me realise that I know nothing about computers, that in my advanced years (50+) that I’m now fallible, technology has finally got the better of me. I can’t remember from one second to the next a simple file path like
//my docs/simple/whateverfile=sinbin?exe/bloodsweatandtears/file/cigbin-cog&bollocks.
One wrong letter out of place and this dam ‘putor laughs at me as though it’s daring me to try to get it right and what’s worse is there are people out there that understand it and make it sound so simple, making me feel totally inadequate.
To make matters worse in the last couple of weeks Winzip has completely packed up on me and refuses to open anything. Word has suddenly decided not to replace any words in my documents without eating into the words in front of it, so I end up by trying to make a simple edit by adding a word and chasing the whole lot to the end of the doc overwriting everything.
GEZZS I’M PISSED OFF.
It’s now touch and go as to whether I hate ‘putors or politicians more?
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I have for the last number of weeks attempted to d/load many different types of chart plotter programs and despite help from every quarter I have been spectacularly unsuccessful.
My ‘puter tells me that d/load has been successful but will it run, like bu***ry will it? Friends tell me (on the phone) that all I have to do is goto this, click that, press this tab and all will be well. NO, I click that, don’t get any tabs, what I do get is a box that asks me which program I wish to open the doc with and the list is endless, from MS paint to Word to Winzip to Outlook. If I get bold and chose one it then snidely tells me that it is un-supported and can’t open it, “file path incorrect”.
This simple operation has suddenly made me realise that I know nothing about computers, that in my advanced years (50+) that I’m now fallible, technology has finally got the better of me. I can’t remember from one second to the next a simple file path like
//my docs/simple/whateverfile=sinbin?exe/bloodsweatandtears/file/cigbin-cog&bollocks.
One wrong letter out of place and this dam ‘putor laughs at me as though it’s daring me to try to get it right and what’s worse is there are people out there that understand it and make it sound so simple, making me feel totally inadequate.
To make matters worse in the last couple of weeks Winzip has completely packed up on me and refuses to open anything. Word has suddenly decided not to replace any words in my documents without eating into the words in front of it, so I end up by trying to make a simple edit by adding a word and chasing the whole lot to the end of the doc overwriting everything.
GEZZS I’M PISSED OFF.
It’s now touch and go as to whether I hate ‘putors or politicians more?
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