On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 8:25 pm, robin wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 5:54 am, Lanman wrote: > >>Something curious to note here ( at least for me ), is that I > >> find that most of my clients are eager to > >>learn when you take the time to teach them a few things, and to > >>explain something in plain English > >>instead of "Techno-Babble". > > > > In truth, it's the techno-babble that mostly scares people off. > > It takes time and effort to explain things without it. Good luck > > to you on that, Lanman. I know your explanations got me out of > > some real fixes when I was starting out. > > Very true, and the problem is that once you've been messing with > Linux for a while, you tend to forget what is technobabble and what > isn't. As the semi-official techie for our office, I'm always > answering questions with lines like "Just FTP it to the server." > Then the blank stare reminds me that the person doesn't know what > "FTP" or "server" mean. > LOL - I was troubleshooting my next door neighbour's box a few days ago, and chatting nonchalantly about what I was doing, when he said 'I just love it when you talk dirty!'
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