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[Clay Weber]

On Saturday 15 August 2009 03:49:56 pm Perry wrote:
> Le Saturday 15 August 2009 18:37:12 John L Vifian, vous avez écrit :
> [snip]
>
> > Some of the things you have had the opportunity to learn in the last bout
> > of emails are:
> >
> > The difference in left and right clicking a file in dolphin
> > what 'less' is and how to use it in a rudimentary fashion
> > How to turn line numbers on in 'less'
> > How to turn line numbers on in kate
> > when to use sudo and when to use kdesudo
> > how to search this list's archives with google
> > what the command cd does
> > what a path is
> > what happens when you open kate with a non-existent file name
> > what happens when you run less with a non-existent file name
>
> [snip]
>
> Please give the old man a break,
> let him time to digest all that, it isn't that easy when it's completely
> new, I even belive it is a lot to learn in a week, assuming he has no
> previous experience.

It's been much much longer than a week, it has been almost a *year* (iirc his 
first email to this list was September 2008) that we have been patiently 
helping Steven. That *must* be taken into account here, especially as we have 
been repeating ourselves to him over the course of the past year :0)

> I recon Steven's habit of over-apologin and stressing his right brain
> handedness may be frustrating [btw. see the july 2009 Scientific American
> edition, it has a very interesting article about this, and brain handness
> occured much before the advent of men... but IMHO having only a right brain
> functionning would be a very rare clinical condition which I don't belive
> Steven suffer]
>
> Some people may deserve hard criticism on a list, the are rude, mess up
> threading, reply agressively, and so on...I don't belive this is the case
> here.
> True he makes a lot of "noise" on the list, with all the answers he gets
> ;0)
>
> I must stress that this mail is not directed against John (who also gave
> good advice) , it is normal anyone sometimes "climbs up the wall". But
> please no mob for now.
> Frankly I'm glad Steven received some needed critism from the list, but too
> much looks like pecking.
>
>
> Hope you can feel that		Perry

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