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The Clueless Newbie's Linux Odyssey
overshoot writes "Just what we've always (said we) wanted: people who are fed up with Microsoft and are willing, even eager, to give Linux a real try. Well, she did. And did. And did some more. Not only that, she's a technical writer and she took notes. Not fun reading, but worth reading anyway."
Well, you shrieking geeks
that's a nice way to endear yourself to the readers. I'd like to read some of her technical writings...
Now configure sendmail; you know where the sendmail.cf file is, you twit!
Tsu Dho Nimh my ass...John C. Dvorak, is that you?
Help me here -- she's having trouble with Mandrake's installer and you want her to try the BSDs?
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
I'm so discouraged by this I just need to stop and agree ...
... damn, did it make me laugh XD
I've been sitting in the IRC channel for a popular icculus game recently and every day someone brings up (again) the "we need OpenGL support" topic.
Now, you can't do this in general, but today on LKML I saw what I consider to be a contender for greatest message ever
From: Alan Cox
Subject: Re: poweroff problem
On Sad, 2003-04-05 at 07:08, Anant Aneja wrote:
> also i cant give u the complete listing of the cpu
> registers since it occurs at the last stage
> of shutdown and i cant copy it to a file
> and am too lazy to write it down
We are too lazy to help you.
Goodbye
Alan
Take my word for it, I'm a seriously fucking technical guy. I offer as further evidence the fact that I'm posting to Slashdot on the Linux holy war at 9pm on a Saturday night.
By your own admition: Saturday night, posting to Slashdot.
You may be a technical guy, but c'mon, you aren't seriously fucking. Anything.
After a few paragraphs of whining that she couldn't play CDs she finally reveals that it was because the volume was set to zero. I know, this is a newbie and we aren't supposed to flame her and everything, but really, I have to ask if a person who doesn't think of increasing the volume if she can't hear sound should be using any kind of computer at all.
I think what she wants is a BSD varient. With a nice GUI. Probably by a company named after a piece of fruit.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Actually, I found that gentoo's compile-it-yourself is best for us geeks that do have hot girlfriends. /home/fridge/alcohol/* /home/bedroom/
#!/bin/bash su -c "emerge program-that-takes-forever-to-compile"
whereis girlfriend
locate bed
mv -r
(oh, I think you can figure the rest out by yourselves)
Suffice to say, gentoo rocks for people that has girlfriends. Lots of spare time that needs to be spent somewhere thats not in front of the computer.
Not a perfect analogy. With an organ transplant, you can expect that the person you're explaining it to will have some idea what your heart, lungs, and kidneys are. So all you need to do is tell them, "We're taking out the old heart, and swapping in the new one." With quite a few computer users, they understand screen, keyboard, mouse, and "magic box".
"I'm just going to repartition your hard drive."
"Repermission my what?"
"It's a little disk in your computer that stores all your files. I'm just going to divide it into two sections so that you can install two separate operating systems."
"Couldn't we just use a second disk? I have a blank one in my desk drawer."
"No, that's a different type of disk. You can't fit an operating system on one, except maybe tomsrtbt..."
"Okay, I'll try that one."
"I'll call you when I'm done."
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!