Re: NFS nightmare

[bentley_rhodes <bentley.rhodes@gmail.com>]

my biggest grief is that they talk in the DUMMIES book like it is sooo 
simple, but then it turns out to be the complete opposite.  i told kelli 
i should be able to get the printer configured for sharing too, but if i 
can't get the filesharing going, how the heck am i getting the printer 
to work?



Ken Keefe wrote:
> Here here! I too believe that the problem is that most folks were
> brought up on Windows. I started using an operating system with Windows
> 3.0 and used Microsoft products all the way until my 3-4th year in
> college, when I made the transition to linux. I remember having a hell
> of a time learning about how linux works. I remember browsing through
> the files and saying to myself, "Where is the C drive!?!" I'd never go
> back to windows now. There is still a crap load of stuff I don't know
> about Linux, but it is definitely worth it.
> 
> I am really hoping that more schools will jump on the Linux bandwagon
> because that is how it is going to really take off. Kids will use it at
> school, so they will need to use it at home, which will expose their
> families to it. If I had a school-aged child right now, I would have
> them use Linux for all of their work. Windows would simply be like a
> more complicated XBox for them to play games on. Hopefully, by the time
> I have kids, we will be able to play modern games in Linux and then
> Microsoft will not exist in my house at all. 
> 
> People need to realize that they cannot exist in a society where
> technology permeates all and expect to be ignorant about technology. I
> think that computer literacy should be a goal for schools just as much
> as English literacy. It is really sad to talk to some college graduates
> who don't understand fundamental concepts about the computer or the
> Internet and so on... When I ask them how they can live like this, they
> usually say, that has nothing to do with my career. Then, they usually
> turn back to their windows box and continue working on some Excel
> spreadsheet...
> 
> But, hell, I am preaching to the choir.
> 
> Ken
> 
> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 10:49 -0700, Richard H. Fifarek wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, bentley_rhodes wrote:
>>
>>
>>>no offense, but i'm starting to see why Windows is so popular!
>>
>>< begin soapbox, random musings, preach-to-the-choir >
>>
>>	None taken, at least by me.  It's a common, and IMNSHO, valid
>>comment.  Linux requires a learning curve, and in deference to Bryan, it's
>>primarily because most of us were brought up on Windows, which requires
>>different (less?) thought than UNIX/Linux.  (Part of Windows
>>simplicity-of-use is why it's such a security hazard to run.) A lot of
>>folks find Mac OSX to be a good compromise between the two.
>>
>>	The flip side of that, and part of the reason I tend not to opt
>>for GUI/point-and-click type of interaction with my computer is that I
>>know FAR more about computing because of Linux, that I doubt I would have
>>learned if I stuck with Windows.  If you've ever parsed through the output
>>of dmesg, you'll see my point.
>>
>></end soapbox>
>>
> 
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