On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote: > the other day I got a call from my daughter 'am at a browsing centre, how to > get wifi to work?' I said: "am not familiar with OpenSuse, keep pressing > things > till it works'. She did, and it worked. The browsing centre owner was > impressed: 'Linux is very good, but it needs intelligence to use it. Most > people are not clever enough to use it' >
Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.” Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked. http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141171 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
