On Sun, March 2, 2008 9:17 am, Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> I respect Gus's (grumpy ;) admonition "you'd better learn about the new >> stuff." There is much truth to that. But I must draw lines somewhere. > > I didn't realize that statements of fact were imbued with emotional > context. >
Grumpy people never understand the impace of what they say ;-) (Note how adroitly I make this circular with Gus the center of the bulls-eye.) >> So ... I want to be able to do enough sys admin to run my home, Amarok, >> MythTV, etc ... but not spend so much time on it (because it doesn't >> fascinate me) that I neglect what is fun for me, including life outside >> computing. And I fear that this attitude has led me to fall behind. >> >> If anyone has a magic bullet that fixes this (no, not one through my >> head), I'm ready to hear you. > > I don't have a magic bullet, all I have is one of your statements in my > quote file: > > <quote> > Ah, Linux ... we pay as we go and the currency is learning :-) > -Lan Barnes, KPLUG list > </quote> > How wise that guy is! -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
