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[Dotan Cohen]

On 18/01/2008, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:
> On 01/18/2008 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Thank you, I'll start getting used to it. Coming from you and your
> > extensive experience, I have no choice but to follow your advice and
> > get used to reinstalling tens of operating systems twice a year.
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
>
> Sarcasm ill becomes you.

You know I save it only for the best of times. (and /..)

> Perhaps rather than holding the hands of those you "convert" it would
> serve them better to teach them.

The situation is not that I 'convert' people. I do not see choice of
OS||webBrowser||textEditor as religion. I install a simple to use,
virus free operating system for people who complain to me that their
computers are 'broken'. Of course I teach them to use the system, and
basic maintenance, but I do not expect them to reinstall it twice a
year. Nor do I want to.

> There comes a time in the lives of all
> children when they have to learn to stand on their own two feet.

My daughter just stood on two feet for the first time today. You have
excellent timing.

> Continuing to codle them does them no good. You do them no favors by
> moving them over to Linux and then just continuing to run their
> computers for them. [ Unless of course you are not doing for individuals
> as I understood an earlier message. BUT, doing for business's and
> managing their system,s for them. ]

These machines are no less maintained than they were when the user was
running Windows. And I do _not_ run their computers for them, quite
the opposite, I stressed that I do _not_ want to begin doing that.

> I know your feelings but, in the Bible it says that give a man a fish
> and he will eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he will eat all
> his life. Pretty good advice.

That is good advice, but it is not in the Bible so far as I know. I
understand that to be a Lau Tzu quote. It may have been rephrased in
the New Testament or Koran, though, as I am not familiar with those
two books (maybe I should start).

Dotan Cohen

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