12 Oct
2002
12 Oct
'02
7:23 p.m.
> There have been complaints made about my spending
time in my Operating
> Systems class teaching the history! ("I don't want to hear about Gary
> Kildall; I just want to know what to click on!")
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
You should take the mouse away from people who
complain like that.
I gave them two large files and told them to determine whether they
matched. I even gave them the major hint that "FC" wasn't necessarily my
initials. I doubt that the mouse-clickers are done yet.
Any other good examples of stuff that is trivial to do at the prompt, but
difficult to do "on the desktop"?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com