Re: When I discuss scripting with family/friends, they...

[Moriarty]

I seem to get asked to fix a lot of computer problems.

[starX]

I had that problem too, when it started to get annoying, I would just boot up a copy of Knoppix on their computer and tell them their problems were solved. Eventually, people started leaving me alone ;)

[Popcorn Dave]

So do I, so I finally got smart and installed some VPNs so I could fix the problems from home. That and I tell people, especially my parents, "If something isn't working, don't try everything you can think of to fix it because it makes more work for me."

Sometimes that even works. :)

[johndageek]

I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code

Of course not, they lost the source code eons ago, now changes must be implemented in binary.