On Monday 20 January 2003 05:17 pm, 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. > 9.) Since they've gotten near the madness level, give them XP to > install. > 10.) After XP bombs out doing either a straight install or an upgrade > install, hand them your (put your distro name here) boot CD.
I'm back on my chair now. I still have a headache and sore gut from laughing so hard, but I'll be OK. I thought I was the only one that did crap such as that to friends and family. You evil man you. :-) Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org I THINK THERE SHOULD BE SOMETHING in science called the "reindeer effect." I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say, "Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect." -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
