Don Gould - TCN wrote:
I've got 5 Linux students
How can you teach them anything, as a "User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4
(Windows/20060516)"?
Have you not got Linux on your laptop yet?
In your situation (too cheap to shell out for a reliable m$-partioner?),
the lessons would start with C:\>format c:
Perhaps I got side tracked by the rants about Amway, using this list
to ask questions that weren't 100% "I'm having trouble with this Linux
program"
Ahem, 100% rants?
Don, it is fair to confess what you really see as the driving economy of
your 'community network' access.
Because you're not running (slowly) with *nix, and by attempting to
leverage our knowledge and goodwill off proprietary platforms you do
*nix a growing disservice you have not yet seen.
Which part of 'shut up' do you not understand? - Said nicely, of course
:) We mean that. Just look and learn.
Commercial interest is what we're mostly here to avoid.
<snip - much more stuff the rest of us don't have the time to read
much less care about - get it?>
Your thinking is like Microsoft Visual Basic - instant visible
results that skip the (rather important) analysis phase.
Steve as I've spent 10 years as a Microsoft Visual Basic programmer
from version 1 to version 6, I'm sure my approach won't take you by
any supprise.
<as above>
I'm currently in my third or forth year in the Linux world and am
still not half as productive as I was in my second year in MS.
However I keep on trying and I'm not going back no matter what insults
you choose to throw at me.
That's the determination that really helps. Much more of just this -
"Linux world" only - please. Run it / or away.
hth, rik
