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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 7 Apr 1997 05:59:27 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Frank Crary
wrote on 07 Apr (in article <5i9h5g$et4@lace.colorado.edu>):
=I disagree. There are degrees of understanding. For example, I couldn't
=fix a serious hardware problem on my motherboard, but I know enough
=about it to diagnose the problem. I can't think of anything I own
=or use that I'm totally clueless about. I'm not an expert on any
=of them, but I don't think there are little gnomes running around inside
=my CPU, either. For all a Windows 95 user sees of the system, they
=might as well believe in gnomes... The gnomes getting malicious or
=going on strike would certainly explain alot of things...
Those are wizards, not gnomes.
-mi
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