Re: Kubuntu: Any faster than Windows 2000?

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:05:47 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2006-03-23, The Natural Philosopher <a@xxx> wrote:

I just remember that I had to restore an edited /etc/passwd
file..becuase he used emacs, not Vi, and something broke.

One more time: it didn't break "because he used emacs".

I've used emacs to edit /etc/passwd hundreds of times. The
admin broke the file. He could have done just as much damage
using vi.

Yes, but the great thing about emacs is that it's so complicated that the
admin could get away with blaming emacs and be believed.

Compicated technologies make great scapegoats if your cow-orkers don't
understand them.

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"I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic
globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable."
-- Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado

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