Re: care and feeding (no longer resembles: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?)

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:01:03AM EST, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Lisi wrote:
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:15:43 Camaleón wrote:

[..]

They know that the computer needs electricity and that the car needs petrol.
I doubt that most people know more than that.

Well, I would hope they also know that their car needs (at least in the US):
- scheduled maintenance
- an annual inspection
- a registration sticker
- insurance
As well as:
- at some point, they took a driving test, and some of the
rules-of-the-road stuck
- they need to renew their license
- drive somewhere in the vicinity of the speed limit
- stop for red lights and stop signs
- don't drive under the influence
- don't sit in a closed garage with the motor running
- how to change a tire (or at least, how to call AAA)

Muted chuckles.. what part of the U.S. are you referring to..?

The analogy to cars is a good one. It seems reasonable to expect
a computer user to acquire a set of skills akin to what one needs to
drive and maintain a car. It's probably not reasonable to require
a computer user to acquire skills akin to obtaining a pilot's
license.

As long as they don't get it into their heads to invest in a 5-ton
previously owned mainframe and attempt to drive it around the block,
nobody's going to care.

cj


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