Actually, one of my favorite newbie books is Linux for Windows Addicts. Given
that a lot of folks come to linux from windows (as opposed to it being their
first introduction to computers at all), it's rather nice in that it gives a
lot of equivalents.such as "this thing I'm telling you about
The ones that stick in my mind were "Chemistry for Poetry Majors" and "Physics
for Poetry Majors".
--pig
On Mon, 14 May 2001, J-Mag Guthrie wrote:
> Novice? Newbie? When I was in college, lo these many years ago, there
> were math and engineering classes that were specifically for "non-major
Maybe they were after the Aussies only?
Megan "Piglet" Zurawicz, ListPig
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Rick: the classic example we were always given when I studied languages on
how language colors your thinking is the difference in perceived
responsibility between the English phrase of "I missed the plane" and the
translation of the normal Spanish version "The plane left me". There's a
whole unsp
This has bugged me since you first posted, because I knew I'd just read
something about this.
>From the book LINUX FOR YOUR LAPTOP by Bill Ball--
Slackware has a version that's meant to be run from a zip disk. Minimal
installation on your machine, and boots from the zip:
http://www.slackwa
I'm actually poking about at that same issue at the moment...putting Corel
Linux on a Toshiba Satellite 1675.
I've found that the fastest way to check on drivers for a particular device
is actually to do a google search on the item with obvious related terms,
such as
Iomega USB CD-RW linux
I'm
