Mark; That's embarrassing! A 6 year old knows that? Geesh! I didn't! Didn't know you were a grandfather either, Mark! Must be getting pretty old there, huh? LOL! Thanks for the tip about top! Or rather, thank your grand-daughter!
Obviously the next generation of Guru's is getting started early at your place! Lanman P.S., Maybe you can get her to write some HOWTO's for us? I still don't have a grip on grep. Grin! Grin! On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 16:00, Mark Weaver wrote: > Zariyan Zephyr wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > That is a revenge to Microsoft saying "Lie-nucks" to Linux ?. :). > > Thanks for your opinions. I hope Linux will be better in the future. > > So, my neighbour don't say "Linux is just for > > programmers/professionals not for end-users !". > > he apparently hasn't tried it yet... my 6 year old grand daughter finds > it easier to use then any windows version she's seen. Me being a > programmer she's seen a few. In fact, because the menu system us > actually arranged in a manner that is both logical and easy to navigate > she can find her favorite games, and word processors with out having to > ask for help. AND she knows what a terminal is and some of the things > that can be done with it... > > i.e. she's got a program that isn't responding...no worries. open a > terminal and type t-o-p and the one with the biggest number that looks > like 97%, type "k" and then the number all the way at the right on the > bad line, then hit enter twice and the frozen program goes away. > > The first few times she did that herself I swear I saw her straighten in > her chair with great pride and smile because SHE had power of the > computer and not the other way around.
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