Good people should stay away from blogs and instead obtain all of their entertainment and information from the large corporate media outlets.
What about chat rooms? I hear you can talk to many well-informed and honest people in chatrooms. There is even intelligent debates going on right now in chat rooms across the globe!
We're not talking about a server admin, if you remember. We're talking about the average user. The average user won't be in the situation you described, someone skilled will be in that situation, in which case he will know what to do.
Good, you have the nice-to-know knowledge of commandlines. Now please, don't force the need of that knowledge on me or anybody else just to satisfy some desire for "more intelligent average users".
And your preference is to use a commandline, mine is to use a GUI. Just because I use the GUI doesn't make me dumb, it just means I'm different from you. GUIs serve more than to just make life easier for the layman, it makes life easier for me as well. GUIs make normal, repetative tasks easier to endure and faster to accomplish. Knowing how to add multiply 36 with 7 in your head might be nice, but having a calculator to do it for me saves me lots of time that I can use to do something.
What if I want to use a GUI anyway, despite knowing how "things work"? I know how to./configure make make install, but I'd rather use rpms when I can. I know how to navigate the directory structure of a Linux box using the command line, but I'd rather use a filesystem manager like Nautilus instead. I know how to copy, move and delete files using the commandline, but I find it easier to use the GUI. I could configure my system using only text files, but I'd rather use a GUI.
Knowing how to a computer works, like knowing how a car works, is nice-to-know, but not need-to-know and I think it should stay that way. I don't want to spend my entire life just learning how things work, I'd actually like to do some work with those things.
I'd rather they didn't. I can't use yam or apt-get to download software from repositories in Linux because my network card adapter isn't supported yet. I need distros like FC so that I can get most of the stuff that I need and want by downloading it in my Windows partition and burning it to 4 CDs. Distros like Gentoo and Ubuntu might be nice for a lot of people, but for those which can't connect to the internet from their Linux partition, FC fills a niche.
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What do I pay you for? Get off slashdot you slacker!
Yes, but does it run Google????
Phil, get back to work and make me some cool graphics pronto!
The secret family recipe has been stolen!
The Sith get their revenge, but then hope is renewed, then the empire strikes back, then the jedi return. BTW Yoda and Obi die.
What does a X-Window test suite...test? What's the significance of this?
I can only use notepad you insensitive clod!
What's sex?
I guess they really mean it when they say, "Don't go away!"
In Korea, only old people use MS Word!
In Soviet Russia, old people you YOU!
1. Get use by old people.
2. ???
3. Profit!
What about chat rooms? I hear you can talk to many well-informed and honest people in chatrooms. There is even intelligent debates going on right now in chat rooms across the globe!
I'm a thousand times as humble as the people here.
What's scary is that I understand what it said.
You obviously don't understand how the patent system works.
Personally, I'd pour the vial of the good stuff into some Coca Cola and yell, "You wanna piece of this, YOU WANNA PIECE OF THIS?!?! HUH?!?! HUH?!?!"
Then drop dead.
It needs to be a Wireless USB network adapter. Cords aren't an option.
Call whoever the hell installed Linux on your computer.
You forgot "Slashdot Subscription".
Which is why they will likely politely decline to acquiesce to this request.
Means no.
We're not talking about a server admin, if you remember. We're talking about the average user. The average user won't be in the situation you described, someone skilled will be in that situation, in which case he will know what to do.
Good, you have the nice-to-know knowledge of commandlines. Now please, don't force the need of that knowledge on me or anybody else just to satisfy some desire for "more intelligent average users".
And your preference is to use a commandline, mine is to use a GUI. Just because I use the GUI doesn't make me dumb, it just means I'm different from you. GUIs serve more than to just make life easier for the layman, it makes life easier for me as well. GUIs make normal, repetative tasks easier to endure and faster to accomplish. Knowing how to add multiply 36 with 7 in your head might be nice, but having a calculator to do it for me saves me lots of time that I can use to do something.
What if I want to use a GUI anyway, despite knowing how "things work"? I know how to ./configure make make install, but I'd rather use rpms when I can. I know how to navigate the directory structure of a Linux box using the command line, but I'd rather use a filesystem manager like Nautilus instead. I know how to copy, move and delete files using the commandline, but I find it easier to use the GUI. I could configure my system using only text files, but I'd rather use a GUI.
Knowing how to a computer works, like knowing how a car works, is nice-to-know, but not need-to-know and I think it should stay that way. I don't want to spend my entire life just learning how things work, I'd actually like to do some work with those things.
I'd rather they didn't. I can't use yam or apt-get to download software from repositories in Linux because my network card adapter isn't supported yet. I need distros like FC so that I can get most of the stuff that I need and want by downloading it in my Windows partition and burning it to 4 CDs. Distros like Gentoo and Ubuntu might be nice for a lot of people, but for those which can't connect to the internet from their Linux partition, FC fills a niche.
BTW, Netgear WG121 is what isn't supported.
Microwave