On Tuesday 21 January 2003 00:17, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 11:02, Chuck Burns wrote: > > On Mon, January 20 2003 5:50 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > *snip* > > > > > (And she's a soon-to-be linux user, ya reckon Chuck?) > > > > She uses it all the time, at my house, I just havent yet convinced her to > > forgoe her ill-begotten ways, and evil tendencencies. > > Here's how I do it at home - the 10 easy steps to converting a Windows > user into a Linux user: > > 1.) Give them a bare, blank, un-FDISK'ed drive, an 8mb ATI RagePro3D AGP > card, a motherboard with onboard sound (preferably a CMI based chipset), > a Logitech "Internet" keyboard, an off-the-shelf-no-name optical > wheelmouse, a PCI based Rockwell HCF/HCS/HST 56k vdf modem without a > name brand on the box, a boot CD for WindowsME, and a blessing. > > 2.) On day two, add an SB-Live! sound card and let them sort it out. > 3.) On day four, since they can't get the drivers working properly, give > them Win2k instead. > 4.) On day four, give them Win98SE and a blessing after they've spent > six hours trying to get Win2k working properly with anything. > 5.) On day five, removed the modem and reinstall the modem. > 6.) Let them look constantly over your should as you happily surf, do > email, watch DVD's, play games, print reports and do work - all on a > machine that hasn't been rebooted ONCE in the past two weeks. > 7.) After they get on the net and have three registry problems within > the first three hours of being on the net, and after they've watched the > system performance drop 50% after installing an antivirus program, > constantly elaborate on the "bug free" environment of linux. Send them > klez for giggles and grins > 8.) Since they've not been able to get all the drivers straight for all > the equipment and system performance is horribly slow, recommend a > complete reinstallation of Win98SE and keep the laughter to yourself.
You lucky man, you! I never get to do more than point 8. By then they've either gone completely off their rocker or are starting to foam at the mouth. What really kills 'm is when they need to get on to the internet for their nifty modem's driver. =:o) Every reboot they get asked again and again and again..........=:oD Maybe the Aussies do have more stamina after all. Good Luck, HarM
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