Re: Linux is not for consumers!
scripsit David Palmer.:
> If you request help, terminologies like 'chown' and chmode' or
> somesuch are thrown at you without any effort toward fuller
> explanation, and it goes further than assumption through long
> familiarity, there is some sort of supercilious ego factor involved
> also.
That reminds me of the reaction of a coworker of Ashkenazic origin upon
first encountering `chmod' year ago: ``Khmad? WTF is a khmad? I've
got an uncle called Khmad!''
It can be enlightening at times to see things through new eyes...
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Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus.
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Thanasis Kinias
tkinias at asu.edu
Doctoral Student, Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
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