Re: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0 (long)

2003-01-06 Thread Jerry
I know where you're coming from Russ. I've been the (unwilling) appointed Fix my computer, please guy in the family/circle of friends. Up until about a month ago I ran a dual boot system which (much to my dismay) ended up being used as a Windows machine. Finally, after having my moments of

Re: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0 (long)

2003-01-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 12:23 pm, Jerry wrote: My whole outlook on computers is that if you don't know how they work, you shouldn't own one, plain and simple, until you LEARN. So do you own a car? Can you pull it apart to the last screw/rivit and re-build it? Can you diagnose every smallest

Re: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0 (long)

2003-01-06 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 12:26:02 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 12:23 pm, Jerry wrote: My whole outlook on computers is that if you don't know how they work, you shouldn't own one, plain and simple, until you LEARN. So do you own a car? Can you pull it

Re: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0 (long)

2003-01-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 2:50 pm, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 12:26:02 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 12:23 pm, Jerry wrote: My whole outlook on computers is that if you don't know how they work, you shouldn't own one, plain and simple, until you

Re: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0 (long)

2003-01-06 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Jerry wrote: So, in conclusion, in my opinion, this review was poorly written, in bad taste, and detrimental to GNU/Linux. In expecting more from the distribution than from his own knowledge, the author is perpetuating the notion that Linux is hard to learn, hard to

Re: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0

2003-01-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 7:54 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Hate to say, told y'all so, but once again, someone else agrees and has come to the same conclusion...and they're paid for it... http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=189 I'm getting 'cannot resolve ofb.biz' or 'ofb.biz not

RE: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0

2003-01-05 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 2:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0 On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 7:54 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Hate to say, told y'all so, but once again, someone else

Re: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0

2003-01-05 Thread Russ
I am a definite newbie to the world of Linux. I have tinkered with it in the past but always had issues that prevented me from fully jumping on board. I have been dealing with Windows since I got into computers in the early 90's. I am the guy that my friends (and their friends) call when there

Re: [newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0

2003-01-05 Thread David Williams
On Sunday 05 January 2003 12:11 pm, Russ wrote: I am a definite newbie to the world of Linux. I have tinkered with it in the past but always had issues that prevented me from fully jumping on board. I have been dealing with Windows since I got into computers in the early 90's. I am the guy

[newbie] Interesting article reviewing MDK v9.0

2003-01-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
Hate to say, told y'all so, but once again, someone else agrees and has come to the same conclusion...and they're paid for it... http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=189 -- Sun Jan 5 18:50:00 EST 2003 6:50pm up 21:58, 6 users, load average: 0.91, 0.65, 0.67 kuhn media