On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:40:35 -0700 arandall <Amanda> wrote: > ::shaking head:: And then there's the fact that my boss flipped > when he saw I hadn't plugged a mouse into the server we were > setting up ... "But how will you get to anything?" ...what's > wrong with the keyboard? The central intellectual hurdle I've found with trying to teach Windows users about basic Unix system administration (or simple use of their account) is getting past the fixed idea that: To do anything to a computer you have to go put your body in front of it. The idea of network and interface abstraction is a significant educational hurdle that is a bitch to overcome. -- J C Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ The pressure to survive and rhetoric may make strange bedfellows ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
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