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Re: Building a better idiot




"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds
himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us.  "He is full of murderous
resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their
ignorance the hard way."
                -- Vonnegut

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, John van V. wrote:

> 
> Please bother somebody else.
> 
> --- Steven Walsh <swalsh@d.umn.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >Ok, one more time.  I gave it to a friend of my w/ no Linux background.
> > >I had to show him how to make a boot floppy.
> > >After that he was on his own, that was a test of Caldera's claim that it
> > was
> > >idiot proof.
> > >
> > >It broke his NT boot.
> > >
> > >I have every disk caldera ever made.  One in particular was uninstallable
> > which
> > >they admitted.
> > 
> > 
> >     Well _nothing_ is idiot proof.  Nature will always make a better idiot.

   Well it is very difficult to build something idiot proof, because,
   you see, the idiots are so ingenous.
       -by someone I don't remember the name of-


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