On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 05:20:16PM -0700, Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote:
> I don't how many times I have heard statements to the effect of "well, it
> works for me" also. As though that alone should make me realize that if I
> was a more experienced Linux user the solutions to the problems would be
> self-evident. Gurus tend to speak down to those who don't know as much as a
> general rule I think. Precisely because they end up starting to know so much
> that it starts to get to their heads.
Most of the time when I make comments about 'it works for me', it's
not looking down at the person, it's more a comment on 'Well, it _can_
be done, but I have no idea what you're doing wrong so I can't help you
other than to give you encouragement that it isn't impossible.'
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