Are your relatives computer literate?

My parents are a mixed bag.

When we got our first computer in 1995, my uncle showed my folks how to use Windows 95 and several nice things to know about computers. Then they instructed my sister and I on how to use it.

Currently, my father is rather braindead when it comes to the computer. In fact, I believe he's used my mum's laptop less than ten times in the two years she's had it. He's a police officer with very shoddy typing speeds (but I don't hold it against him), and computers aren't the least bit fancy like they are in movies and such. He just knows how to use Internet Explorer and to type reports. All he really needs, but he even infuriates my mother with questions. Typically, we'd just do for him whatever he needed, like burn CDs and such.

My mother, on the other hand, is rather weird. She showed me how to use Windows at a time where the only computers I'd ever used were Apple IIs, Macintoshes, and these clunker IBMs that only ran on DOS. She even showed me how to do all the neat shortcuts like copy and paste and what the Tab key was for. These days, I'll get a phone call asking about how to use Windows Media Player, even though she could just stick with the simple CD Player programme that's been there since 95. That and many other common questions unknowing parents ask. However! She is familiar with FIrefox and does prefer it to IE, though she gets frustrated when she can't just click on an e-mail address on a website and can't send an e-mail that way. Regardless of my explaining that she uses a web browser based e-mail account with our ISP, mind you. I need to get her to setup Thunderbird so she won't have to deal with that problem anymore.

Jam it back in, in the dark.