--- Paul Taylor
wrote: I've done all that Thomas but it still doesn't work. With Mandrake you
Doesn't work? What, you mean it didn't play a fanfare for you, or did perhaps play a song for you instead? As usual your condescending tone is rather churlish and unhelpful. Yes I am a
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 6:34 pm, Thomas Adam wrote: point and click user as are many on this list and no I don't have endless hours as part of a university course to play around with configuration files. A simple, "try this" would suffice. If all you can offer is condescension I would prefer you just bite your lip and keep quite. I am teaching Linux at school and influencing many students to adopt the system in a gradual manner as the dominant paradigm is a "point and click" system. If I turn around and chastice students arogantly because they have not recompiled a driver in order to make their system work which works perfectly well under Windows I will not get very far.
That "doesn't work" is an UTTERLY useless comment, Paul. Did you get any errors? What have you tried to do to perhaps fix it?
If I had any errors that meant anything I would post them for comment. It doesn't work means, it doesn't work.
press Shift + Space and an IME window pops up in the application. I need something as painless as that.
Well, I recommend you install Mandrake over SuSE in that case. Sorry, but if you want to be a point and click man like that, maybe window is more suited to you?
Despite this I will continue to use SuSE as I have done in my presumably pointless 'point and click' way as I have done for several years. I will also continue to coax and encourage students to use the system and where possible give them guidance and meaningful support about how to get over problems. Saying that you have to do it CLI all the time seems to me to be a stance more atuned to a system that dictates how you should do it with little option about how to change it - maybe windows is more suited to you?
-- Thomas Adam
Very angrily yours, Paul
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