Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 08 August 2007 10:40 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 07 August 2007 17:42 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>> ____/ John Bailo, Texeme.Construct on Monday 06 August 2007 07:41 : \____
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Aug 5, 2:54 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Poll shows majority favor Vi as their editor of choice
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is Simple Software Always Better?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I was thinking that this weekend when listening to the NYTimes Tech
>>>>>>> Talk. Although I mentioned it was fair, they did do the obligatory
>>>>>>> bit about "well, OSS if free, so you get what you pay for, no printed
>>>>>>> manuals, or 800 support number".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But then I was thinking -- what about Firefox. The browser is the
>>>>>>> most used piece of application software on the planet, bar none.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do people have to be trained to use it? Read a book? A manual?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The browser correctly implements the presentation style that almost
>>>>>>> all people in the world can master easily.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The web page can range from simple to complex and yet how often do you
>>>>>>> hear requests from people to help them "run a web page".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Firefox, Apache and Google are excellent poster children and selling
>>>>>> points for Linux. Choose one depending on the context of the conversation.
>>>>>> :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Isn't the idea of just learning from books more than a little dated?
>>>>> I've nothing against books, I have over 2,000 of them in my house, but
>>>>> they're certainly not the /only/ way to learn.
>>>>>
>>>>> OLPC XO is, well, a sure alternative, I would say?
>>>>
>>>> I've lives virtually paperless for the past 4 years (unless someone insists
>> ^d
>>>> on giving me sheets of paper, which I later scan and throw away).
>>>
>>> Umm, don't you worry about a power-cut or something like that?
>>
>> No, digital storage is safer. I have backup cron jobs and redundancy on 3
>> separate devices/PCs.
>>
>
> Touch-wood, I've been pretty fortunate so far, although that does
> include a lot of planning for good fortune!
Girls, why don't you set up your own IRC channel?
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