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[Donn]

Steven,
> One of the reasons I started using a computer is because I am unable to do
> what you recommend.
That's a contradiction right there -- you can't keep a notebook in sight 
somewhere but you can substitute it for a complex thing like a computer?

If you can buy the machine, install an OS, setup the desktop then you are 
certainly brainy enough to just have some discipline and make notes about a 
small set of things that WE ARE FIXING FOR YOU OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
Not yelling, emphasizing.

For example: write down what a directory is. What a path is. What a file is. 
Write down examples of each. Write down how to use cd, ls, cat and apt-get and 
the other handful of commands you often use. 
Sit down and figure out a metaphor that works for you -- so that you can 
navigate a filesystem in your own way. Think of directories as countries, or 
paintings, or brushes, or colours. Find a way to understand how to travel from 
one to the other -- who lives where and within whom. Once you do that you are 
literally 90% of the way. All the rest is pretty much random detail that 
happens rarely.

Put simply: You can either find a way to cut-down the repeat questions *or* 
simply stop using computers -- they may be too much for you. I don't believe 
that, but you seem to make it so.

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