Re: [ilugd] Club bandwidth -> Linux gurus -> linux helplines

2004-01-20 Thread abhi
> All I was saying was if some extra help could be extended to people who are > new to Linux, it could make things easier for them. When I say extra > help...I dont mean anything more than emailed solutions that list a stepwise > procedure, instead of a referal to a manual that has several thousand

Re: [ilugd] Club bandwidth -> Linux gurus -> linux helplines

2004-01-19 Thread amit soni
I am blessed. :o) I understand the point you made, and disagree. The beggers became beggers because at that time they thought they had nothing else to do. Linux newbies are mostly already aware of windows, and in a country like india, practically both are free. :o) All I was saying was if some

Re: [ilugd] Club bandwidth -> Linux gurus -> linux helplines

2004-01-19 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
amit soni wrote: I am not sure[ ;o) ] , but probably a dumbo's point of view is, that when 'she' asks the same question to a windows support tech and a Linux support tech the difference in the reply recevied is staggering! Yes, the difference is staggering. But there are many reasons for that. A

[ilugd] Club bandwidth -> Linux gurus -> linux helplines

2004-01-19 Thread amit soni
> Amit> But when a newbie asks a "technical" query. The replies have > Amit> a tone " HUH! You don't even know that!, get lost, read > Amit> this, this and this, do a million sit-ups and then come > Amit> back, I might explain you the real answer." > > Nah, you have to distinguish