Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Sean Morgan wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:07:43PM -0700, Forrest English wrote:
> > you could tell the people that this is a more advanced OS, and to NOT hit
> > the power switch.
> >
> > i mean, it's just a thought.
>
> And after this you would have to proceed to teach a class in operating consoles,
> top, killall, and all that good stuff. Truth be told if it wasn't my machine
> and I had relatively little computer experience, I wouldn't even bother
> listening to such stuff. Adding a journalling fs is a much nicer alternative.
>
why would you need to teach them that? gtop or ktop would probably
suffice. somthing along the lines of... if it doesn't do anything after a
minute... kick this thing, click this thing, and press the kill button.
perhaps written somewhere beside the machine?
i've heard far to many horror stories about reiser from people i know, i
would be extremly wary of relying on it. loss of all data on reiser seems
to be the end result i hear.
--
Forrest English
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"When we have nothing left to give
There will be no reason for us to live
But when we have nothing left to lose
You will have nothing left to use"
-Fugazi
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