Re: Currant Bun

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From: Stuart Grant
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:00

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> Ah, there is your problem. I once gave a quick introductory talk to
> some arts faculty students on what kinds of things the centra
> university computers might be useful for and I started off by telling
> them to remember that unix is a very socially oriented system. It
> encourages you to talk to people.:

Exactly. I don't have time to talk about the friggin operating system, 
or figure out how to use it. I need to get some REAL work done. 
And there's plenty of social chit chat occurring about Windows.

> I shall remember to ask you next time I'm trying to work out what
> `This application has performed an illegal operation and will be
> terminated' means.
>
Simple - it's in plain english and can be deciphered with a dictionary 
(unlike terms such as daemon or grep for instance) by anyone who can't 
figure it out. 
It means you close the application and re-start it to continue working. 
At worst, a 30 second break to put the kettle on while the system 
re-boots. I get it about twice a month, usually with Netscape, and it's 
never more than a niggle. 
The term "Fatal crash" is a gross overstatement and should involve an 
exploding monitor at least.
Stuart Grant

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From: Stuart Grant <sg@cwcom.net>
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/27
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