On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:33:03AM -0600, Mary Ayala wrote: > I am very interested in this aspect of things. I do not come from the > Computer world, I actually have a degree in Geography with my Computer > Knowledge coming from GIS (Geographic Information Systems). I taught myself > DOS and Windows, because in part, they were really simple. That is not true. DOS and Windows are not simpler, are _smaller_. In my experience, the hardest things for people to understand are files and directories. > I have this job, > because I have a knack for getting computers to do what I want them to do. > I do want to learn Linux, but I'm restricted by my lack of knowledge on Perl > (which you all use a lot of) and command line Unix. That's not true either. My wife browses the web, listens to music and uses e-mail without the command line and without Perl :) One of my teachers once said: you can be comfortable with a foreign language when you know how to ask for food, for the restroom... Start with the most basig things and learn what you need. Don't be put off by what somebody else does. I have no clue how to change the oil but I still drive my car... > I will be coming from a > strictly boxed version and reading the setup instructions and installing the > GUI's because that is where my confort level is. In the meantime I am > reading a text my husband got me, Linux Unleashed. Perhaps I will keep a > journal of my encounters. I also intend to put a partition for that on my > desktop to play around with StarOffice and some other stuff, because if > Linux gains more users on the Desktop those are the things that are going to > require the most assitance and that users are going to be using the most. > > Sorry to go on like this, but I wanted you to have some perspective on where > I'm coming from when I start asking the "dumb" questions. ;) There are no dumb questions. Just "do your homework" and give some context. For instance: "My printer is not working. HELP!" Won't get you anything but "My works."... While: "I have a FooBaz-15 printer connected to my Paralell port and I have installed PrinterMunger v0.24 and I get a black line on the middle of the page. I have saw the option --no-black-line in the manual but then the program crashes" will more likely give you a usefull answer. Also, don't forget to Search The Fine Web for your problem first... > Oh and go ahead and call me a "Newbie" my husband does. Oh, and that will help, how? Cheers, florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011210/52556644/attachment.pgp