On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:41:23 +0700
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> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson
> > Sent: Friday, 24 January 2003 23:21
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] Searching 101
> >
> > [...snip]
> > A reminder of resources from time to time is useful, but for a newbie
> > searching is doubly difficult, because often you don't know the
> > question to
> > ask or the term to search on.
> >
>
> I'll pipe in here, as an absolute oober-newbie...
> I've been lurking here for a few weeks now, trying to
> get up to speed, and considering this is the "newbie"
> list, it's all rather daunting. I must say, 99% of the
> stuff you guys are talking about goes right over my
> head.
>
> I got Mandrake 9.0 on a magazine front cover CD and
> loaded it on an old machine, just accepting the defaults
> as it went through. It messed up the video, I just got
> a bunch of blurry diagonal lines on the screen, like an
> old TV. There were a few other things too, but I'll spare
> you the boring stuff - suffice to say it was two machines
> later before I got a desktop on the screen...
>
> But my [small] point is: imagine being confronted with
> building and operating some machinery you've never seen
> before, and all the instructions are in Japanese. You have
> to look up each kanji character in the dictionary, and try
> to piece together the meaning of each sentence, word by
> word. I think there was a story of someone doing a similar
> thing with a legal dictionary.
>
> There's an amazing amount of help out there, and a bewildering
> array of man pages, howto's etc, but they all [the ones I've
> seen so far, anyway] assume you already have a machine up and
> running and you know at least how to start and stop it.
> The first time I managed to get to a command line I thought the
> machine had locked up - there was no "C:\>" with a flashing
> underscore. Just one little example.
>
> I must say, this list seems much more newbie tolerant than
> some of the usenet groups, which is why I decided to stick
> my head up with this post. I'll go back to lurking now, and
> hopefully some of it will sink in and begin to make sense in
> a while...
> :)
>
> --
> Merlin Zener
> piano and synthesizer
> Pattaya, Thailand.
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It may be a bit late at this point but Mandrake has a Excellent tutorial for
installation on the Mandrake website go to the mandrake home page and you should find
a link for demos and or tutorials.
Welcome to the list
Marc
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