[HLUG] Command Line Witchcraft?

Sarah Chard sarah at streetentertainers.co.uk
Wed Feb 24 09:46:27 UTC 2010


It is useful to know those things - but it's amazing how many people are
blissfully unaware   - actually my partner does up 3 wheelers/reliants
as a hobby so he probably spends more time under the car bonnet than the
average driver! 
Sarah

n Tue, 2010-02-23 at 20:07 +0000, AT Ege wrote:
> Yeah. But it might be useful to know what kind of combustion you got
> - 
> petrol or diesel, and where to fill it in. It might also be useful to 
> know how to check and fill up air pressure, oil, window washing. And
> if 
> you go somewhere, esp some country lanes, it might not hurt to know
> how 
> to change a tyre as well.
> 
> And I guess, if there's a problem with the car, he brings it to a 
> garage, and doesn't phone them and if they tell him to grab some
> tools 
> and open some screws he complains that he isn't interested what's
> inside.
> So the proper answer to some computer questions might indeed be, if 
> you're not interested in doing something you haven't done before, try 
> somebody who knows what he's doing. Even if it costs money. ;-)
> That point actually is indifferent to cli or gui, or even windows or 
> linux. :-)




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