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Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 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
> Never too late :)
>   



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