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From: Judith Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] write permissions in gui.
> Also, it is ridiculous to dump on everything Windows does
just
> because someone likes or prefers
etharp wrote:
>
> On Sunday 29 July 2001 11:43, Romanator wrote:
> > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> damn and I was 12 befor I built my first (dc powered) underwater
> habitat, I wish we had things like solar arrays and lazers back in those days
> > > > Is it true that you weren't allowed to use poi
I don't want to protract what is essentially an off-topic discussion for
this list, so this will be it from me.
I don't know what would give someone the impression that I was saying
Windows is intuitive and Linux is not. I explicitly stated to the
contrary. Also, it is ridiculous to dump on every
On Sunday 29 July 2001 11:43, Romanator wrote:
> Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
damn and I was 12 befor I built my first (dc powered) underwater
habitat, I wish we had things like solar arrays and lazers back in those days
> > > Is it true that you weren't allowed to use pointy objects like
> > > sci
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 09:56, Romanator wrote:
> > On Saturday 28 July 2001 06:48 pm, Judith Miner wrote:
> > > Sridhar wrote:
> >
> > I taught myself MS-DOS when I was three years old. Since I had no
> >
> > > previous conceptions on what an OS should be like, I learne
I was just trying to illustrate that a
> clear mind, like that of a child, can learn new things much more easily
> than one that is fettered by many habits that have accumulated over time.
> Like the old maxim, "you can't teach an old dog new tricks".
OK, NOW you've done it... got me gonig,, as
My point exactly!
This reminds me of a clever quote:
"The only intuitive interface is a nipple.
After that, it's all learned."
Whoever wrote that is a genius :-)
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 13:17, etharp wrote:
> my reading of this would mean that to be truly "intuitive" something would
> then b
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 09:56, Romanator wrote:
> On Saturday 28 July 2001 06:48 pm, Judith Miner wrote:
> > Sridhar wrote:
>
> I taught myself MS-DOS when I was three years old. Since I had no
>
> > previous conceptions on what an OS should be like, I learned rather
> > easily. <<
> >
> > Surely you
my reading of this would mean that to be truly "intuitive" something would
then be also "instinctive". by your reasoning nothing involving either a
keyboard or a mice could be considered intuitive. in fact about the only
thing i can think of that would fit your definition would be the intuitive
lets try that again, an (off TOPIC) card, you need to be dealt with
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Subject: Re: [newbie] write permissions in gui.
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:31:16 -0400
From: etharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Romanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Judi
On Saturday 28 July 2001 06:48 pm, Judith Miner wrote:
> Sridhar wrote:
I taught myself MS-DOS when I was three years old. Since I had no
>
> previous conceptions on what an OS should be like, I learned rather
> easily. <<
>
> Surely you must realize that you were a very unusual three-year-old. F
Sridhar wrote:
>> You mean it isn't "intuitive" for a Windos user? Then you are
correct. For people who have been using *nix for a while this can be
very intuitive. <<
Whoa! "Intuitive" has nothing to do with what OS someone knows how to
use. "Intuitive" means "known or perceived through intuitio
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:40, John Rigby wrote:
> Hi Sridhar,
> This was specific to the fix from you re ONE of my problems.
> A lot of data to copy from an Email message into a "black screen".
> (*x commands are not intuitive! :-) )
You mean it isn't "intuitive" for a Windos user? Then you are cor
Hi folks,
With MY memory I NEED cutnpaste.
Can't do it on Emacs.
In M8 GUI how do we assign root/su permissions to a file like
modules.conf?
Esp. on a temp basis?
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