At Home with John and Debbie

While my parents holiday in Costa Rica — alright for some — we’re using their home as a holiday home for the Easter weekend.

To pay my way, I thought I’d help out with a computing issue they had. They’ve bought a new printer, which is connected to the Win98 desktop upstairs. They want to share this printer with their whizzy XP laptop.

After some fiddling and head scratching this morning, I’ve found this statement from Microsoft, which basically says “Yeah, that bit doesn’t wo.rk”. There is no workaround, it’s been on their books since at least November, and there is no fix.

So I had to give up. Also, these computers don’t have Firefox installed. It seems a little rude to install it without asking, so I haven’t, but I’d forgotten just how clunky IE is to use. No tabs! And you mean I have to type a whole word and press return to search within a page?

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