Why is that I often feel like a
driving instructor, and people
hop in on the first lesson,
don't put on their seat-belt and
excitedly shout:"Rrrrright, so,
how do you do those power-slides?"... ?

And I say:"You will need to
use the accelerator, and the
handbrake...."

And they shout:"HUH!?!? ... enough
of that crap, just tell me!"

*sigh*
Tink

Um....you must be a car goof to have people ask you about power sliding.

I never have people ask me stuff like that. They get in, put on their seatbelt and just ride along........it works out quite nicely

b/c MS truly has made computing easier for the masses, at a basic level. you point, you click, stuff happens, and usually it will work right (at first ). (NB that "easier" does not mean "better.") when something goes wrong, your system is hosed, but then "just reinstall" and hope that fixes it. unbelievable.

so they bring those expectations to linux, and think they're going to be able to point and click their way to everything, without learning at least some of how the system actually functions "under the hood." they want the automatic transmission, but linux is manual.

Kinda like when someone asks what you are going to do with a 100:1 crawl ratio...

Good one tinkster

I've never driven a car with a hand brake...

Really, it can also be called a parking brake I assume...

Scary ... in the civilized (English speaking)
world cars have hand brakes ... oh, I forgot,
America abandoned English :}

Cheers,
Tink

Than you probably have also never driven a car :P

Is there any other type of brake? I know there are 3 pedels in my car: an accelerator, a clutch and... you know I forget the last one

I have a huffy, problems averted for both partys!

brakes are for sissies!

I run into that same mentality daily though.. I cant use Linux.. can you teach me network security? I know how to get my mail on Win 98 so I'm really good with computers...