Re: I am so lost with this program!!!!

Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/8/29 Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
You know I have an even better idea. How about asking how we can help
you get things working in Ubuntu?

I mean if you can't understand enough of computers to put the Windows
Restore Disc in the drive and boot from it, maybe you need to ask
questions on how to do other things?


Don't attack the guy. Not everyone is a Sr. Systems Administrator. The
OP asked a valid, if slightly OT question.


Wait a minute. It wasn't an attack. It may have sounded like it, but
it wasn't.

The point is, the person obviously knows very little about computers.
I'm simply asking him to maybe ask the Unbuntu list the right questions
to get answers. Not 'how do I install Windows'?

Sure, there was sarcasm in it, but hey, it's my birthday, I'm allowed.
What gets me are the skulkers on the list who won't ask, then get pissed
when it doesn't 'just work' and ask questions like this one. We can't
help if you don't ask. We're not mind readers (ask my wife, she knows
I'm not) but don't get angry and storm off like you are 9.

I posted because I want to help this person. One way or the other. But
that doesn't mean I have to suck up to them in my reply.




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