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