[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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