[PLUG] Stupid newbie file permisions question

[Paul Johnson]

On Wednesday May 18 2005 1:56 am, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Also, I tend to object when people assume that Windows users are
> stupid.

I think you're reading too much into it.  Windows users find 
themselves at the short end of a culture-shock during transition.  
Different methods for support and saner defaults tend to make Windows 
look a tad on the insane side.

> OK, maybe I am. I'm trying to learn Linux, but it's going 
> to take me a long time.

Not with that attitude, you'll probably pick it up a lot quicker than 
you realize.

> In the meantime I'm going to have to take some risks. I'll probably 
> shoot myself in the foot a few times too.  But if you never take the 
> first step, then you never get anywhere. Also, it does not further 
> the Linux movement to think non-Linux users are dumb. Makes us dumb 
> people get all defensive.    

Unfortunately, in email we have to go by words alone, and save for 
email addresses ending with @msntv.com or @aol.com, we don't have any 
equivalent of wearing a big sign that says "I'M STUPID."  The 
intuitive course of action when dealing with someone of unknown 
intelligence when they're on the path to destruction is usually to 
say, "Now, you might not understand this, but that's going to hurt!"

-- 
Paul Johnson
Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): baloo at ursine.ca
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