> It may be less a matter of 'fault', than a matter of becoming > accustomed to the *nix way of explaining things.
In some cases yes, but in this case it turned out to be not seeing what is before your eyes. I installed a different version of Linux and when I went into Konq. I found the conjuration item in question. The peepers are being very selective these days. > Linux was developed by programmers, for programmers, and is just now > beginning to show a more non-programmer-friendly face, as its > popularity increases, among non-programmers. Actually, it has come a long way. In terms of user friendliness it is vastly more advanced than when I started playing with it. I wish that the people in these forums would quit acting that a user who complains is not trashing their first born. It's not about ones family jewels. They use terms like Windoze and M$ but can't stand someone saying that they have tried some recommended fix and it doesn't work. > If you teach yourself to understand the syntax used in the *nix man > pages, you will be 50% of the way there, in understanding Linux. Man pages? Ah come on. I haven't read many of them because they are usually so general as to not be helpful when I am dealing with a problem. It's like I want to know what time it is, and I have to learn how to make a clock. > 'Programmer-ese' (or hack-speak) is a language in its own right, and > is very precise where computing is concerned, but if you try > interpreting it as conventional English, you are probably going to > miss a lot of what is being said. I know about tech speak and how it does not communicate to newbies very well. I taught electronics for seventeen years to people who in many cases were retreads from some other field that no longer needed them. Everyone says, There's plenty of documentation. That's right, there's too much of it. Finding what will help you do what you need to is one problem, another is that so much of it does not seem to apply to the distro you are using. TNX, Jim ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hq85t12/M=362335.6886445.7839731.1510227/D=groups/S=1705006580:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123962619/A=2894361/R=0/SIG=13jmebhbo/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/education/digitaldivide/?source=YAHOO&cmpgn=GRP&RTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/";>In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
