[ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

[Samuel Toogood]

On 3 May 2011 13:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker <gbplinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/05/11 13:04, Avi Greenbury wrote:
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> Besides, I don't buy this thing about Windows users being scared of the
> command line. When I was doing Windows (admittedly XP) desktop support about
> 80% of my calls started 'press Start+R; now enter CMD'.
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> Even with Windows 7, there's still a fair bit of CL stuff still being used
> in the MS Forums...
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Command line methods are good for giving for supporting other people
(particularly over the phone) because it's much more unambiguous to
say 'type lsusb' and then ask the person to read back the response
than to say 'click on the menu button, then find the control panel
item and click on it, then look for an icon labelled "hardware"'...

Sam