My 10-year-old cousin knows some BASIC and some C and would probably be capable of following the Pandora's Battery guide to unbrick a PSP. But then again, I have an above-average 10-year-old in the family. That guide is only slightly more complicated than running the "Restore Disks" that I've seen shipped with PCs, or installing Windows itself.
I can't imagine how a Level-1 tech would instruct a user as to how to go buy a copy of Windows to replace the recovery partition that the trojan nuked, This is true. What companies these days *use* recovery partitions? I'd have thought that they would have all switched to a clever version of Ghost. (One that doesn't freak out if your HDD has bad sectors.)
or how to go buy an external hard drive and a copy of Knoppix on CD to be able to recover the user's documents before using a reformat/reinstall CD. How many manufacturer's recovery CDs offer the option to do an in-place reinstall of Windows? I'd be willing to wager that those that do are in the tiniest of minorities. (OT:) Regardless, do backup utilities count as "specialist tools", no matter how good the documentation?
Utilizing a "specialist tool" involves procedures that can be performed by neither your average 13-year old, nor a Level-1 technician instructing a customer over the telephone.
Aye, Vimdiff is good. There's a win32 diff tool called WinMerge (http://winmerge.org/) that seems to give the same diffing results as Vim, and can be used on entire directories. Quite handy when you have tons of files to sift through.
If you take a break from typing, and rest your palm on the portion of the laptop closest to you, you'll move the mouse cursor. Maybe you'll even click a button!
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See Raymond Chen's explanation:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/08/14/699521.aspx
*points to my Bram Moolenaar shrine, glares*
(OT:) Regardless, do backup utilities count as "specialist tools", no matter how good the documentation?
Utilizing a "specialist tool" involves procedures that can be performed by neither your average 13-year old, nor a Level-1 technician instructing a customer over the telephone.
Seriously. Hush!
Jesus. No.
That's one of the most *boring* talks I've ever seen.
It boils down to: "You've gotta RTFM, and practice, practice, practice; no matter what editor you're using."
There. I saved you an hour of your time.
Aye, Vimdiff is good.
There's a win32 diff tool called WinMerge (http://winmerge.org/) that seems to give the same diffing results as Vim, and can be used on entire directories. Quite handy when you have tons of files to sift through.
How did they break multi-monitor support?
If you take a break from typing, and rest your palm on the portion of the laptop closest to you, you'll move the mouse cursor. Maybe you'll even click a button!
What sort of sound card are you using?
You don't need to reinstall.
Simply install and configure the cool bits on your distro!