--=-intYoPyEGDCp3rG0PLpM Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-/0EJOsUVLBTwq4dbMoIU" --=-/0EJOsUVLBTwq4dbMoIU Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *GAK!* On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 10:22, George Toft wrote: Unix is simply a different way if thinking. Once you make the transition, you will find Windows very irritating and hard to use. I recently encountered a problem that had to be solved using Windows, and I spent over 3 hours on the solution, including the time to mail to a list and ask for advice. This was a 10 second (because I type slow) solution under Unix. =20 Have patience. It took me 4 months to make the transition, and this wa= s while I was working full-time, and going to college. Border's made a few bucks off me as I bought (or read in the store) every Linux book they had. I was motivated - my Windows machine blue-screened about onc= e per hour (range was 5 minutes to 3 hours, with the median at 1 hour).=20 53 Windows reinstalls with various configurations, including changing out every piece of hardware had no effect. When I changed the OS, I stopped having problems. =20 After making the transition, I needed to rewrite an old Visual Basic application I had running under Windows. That app tooke me 30 hours to write using VB. It took me 3 hours to write using Tcl with the book open learning as I wrote it. This was more than just a translation or = a port - I was rewriting it from scratch and memory. =20 Hang in there. =20 George =20 =20 =20 > Taliesin MacAran wrote: >=20 > That gets me Can't open perl script "mcpan": No such file or director= y >=20 > *SIGH* >=20 > I have the feeling that I'm too dumb to use Linux. > This is not the first time I've felt this way. > Guess I'm not enuff of a 'puter Geek. >=20 > Lee >=20 > On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 22:58, Craig White wrote: >=20 > as root - try >=20 > perl mcpan -e 'install modules Test::Harness' >=20 > Craig > -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D= -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.u= s > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >=20 > -- > -- > Taliesin MacAran >=20 > Visit my website at http://kd7eth.net >=20 > Beware of what you speak, for indeed the words we speak make shadows > of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass. > -- Taliesin, The Merlin of Britain >=20 > batlh biHeghjaj! Heghle'neH QaQ jajvam! >=20 > Name: signature.asc > signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature > Description: This is a digitally signed message part -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-= =3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss =20 --=-/0EJOsUVLBTwq4dbMoIU Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *GAK!*

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 10:22, George Toft wrote:

Unix is simply a different=
 way if thinking.  Once you make the
transition, you will find Windo=
ws very irritating and hard to use.  I
recently encountered a problem =
that had to be solved using Windows, and
I spent over 3 hours on the sol=
ution, including the time to mail to a
list and ask for advice.  This =
was a 10 second (because I type slow)
solution under Unix.

Have patience.  It took me 4 mo=
nths to make the transition, and this was
while I was working full-time, =
and going to college.  Border's made a
few bucks off me as I bought (o=
r read in the store) every Linux book
they had.  I was motivated - my=
 Windows machine blue-screened about once
per hour (range was 5 minutes t=
o 3 hours, with the median at 1 hour). 
53 Windows reinstalls with vari=
ous configurations, including changing
out every piece of hardware had=
 no effect.  When I changed the OS, I
stopped having problems.=

After making the transition, I =
needed to rewrite an old Visual Basic
application I had running under=
 Windows.  That app tooke me 30 hours to
write using VB.  It took me 3 h=
ours to write using Tcl with the book
open learning as I wrote it.  T=
his was more than just a translation or a
port - I was rewriting it from =
scratch and memory.

Hang in there.

George

> Taliesin MacAran wrote:
> 
> That gets me Can't open pe=
rl script "mcpan": No such file or directory
> 
> *SIGH*
> 
> I have the feeling that I'=
m too dumb to use Linux.
> This is not the first time=
 I've felt this way.
> Guess I'm not enuff of a '=
puter Geek.
> 
> Lee
> 
> On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 22:5=
8, Craig White wrote:
> 
>      as root - try<=
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>      perl mcpan -e 'instal=
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> 
>      Craig
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> Taliesin MacAran
> 
> Visit my website at http:/=
/kd7eth.net
> 
> Beware of what you speak, =
for indeed the words we speak make shadows
> of what is to come, and by=
 speaking them we bring them to pass.
> -- Taliesin, The Merlin of=
 Britain
> 
> batlh biHeghjaj! Heghle'ne=
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