begin quoting JD Runyan as of Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:53:58AM -0500: > All right, I think this is my last post on this thread, because this > mythical single-user is too big of a pain in the ass. I wouldn't work
They are indeed. > with him for very long. He is the same guy who would buy a $5000 HDTV, > and then plug it into an antenna on the roof, and wonder why the picture > isn't any better(maybe worse) than what he had on his 20". The bright Yup. > side of this thread is you have reminded me clearly why I no longer > support end-users directly. I can like people better when they don't ask > me the stupid questions. I get to smile and have lunch with them, and > some help desk geek can curse them in WDC. I've always wondered why so many Linux users want to get that mythical user to use Linux, and to add to their tech-support woes. NT had the root/non-root distinction, and the first thing the average user does is to give themselves root-access by default. Apparently this practice continues to this day. [snip] > I'm talking from the point view of Joe Nonothing User, not us. If there > isn't a nice shiny button to install and turn on a feature, they > probably won't venture there. I'm not encouraging the breaking of the > back end. Absolutely. -Stewart "Won't XML solve all of our problems?" Stremler
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