Hello
I kind of see the utility of this idea, yet this, I think, would be
the least of my worries speaking as a person who went through the
process you describe.
I actually had no trouble installing linux with talking orca with the
directions that I got from the website. The trouble came after when
it came to things like installing firefox 3.0 or making it so orca
would not crash when I started playing audio. I remember that I had
trouble getting some reading that I wanted to work. Apparently orca
does not go sentence by sentence and when I posted this reading
question to the orca list, I got a rather harsh reception from people
accusing me of having neglected reading the directions.
Fact of the matter is, there is no cure for the command line. If you
use linux, you must use command line, and you may as well get a book
and start reading because you won't get anything from a mailing list.
Perhaps they would do well to make a linux for dummies mailing list.
What I think is going on within the linux community is you have these
power users, though perhaps essentially aveage joes who migrated from
windows and did so by spending hours upon hours of reading linux
literature. They are so fiercely proud of this accomplishment that
they can't stand the idea of others taking up linux without passing
the same struggle. I admit I relate a bit with my experiences on the
macvisionaries list. More often than not, I have lately been tempted
to send some snide remarks myself. I can't believe the seemingly dumb
questions people ask on the list that could be easily answered through
a few seconds of research. However, my shortlived experiences in the
linux community and memories of my first experiences in mac os x have
tought me the importance of not being that way on lists as it creates
an extremely tense learning environment. But that is just the trade
you get. You must choose between a list where everyone does their own
research and answers their own questions, a list where newbies are
shot down by proud power users, a list that is essentially useful to
nobody if only as a source for update and development announcements,
or a list where you can ask whatever and expect a good answer, whre yu
see a lot of the same questions repeated and a bunch of dumb questions
that you think should not have been posted at all, but a list that
supports all and is essentially a good learning tool for all.
Regards
Justin Harford
My soul, do not seek eternal life…
but exhaust the realm of the possible.
Pindar
On Dec 23, 2007, at 9:44 PM, mike coulombe wrote:
> Hi, I forgot, the idea I just mentioned would assume a person
> already had orca running on the live CD, and I assume the script
> would only be able to kill orca if the setting in orca was set to
> exit with out conformation.
> Mike.
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