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On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:11:07 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> If Grandma can easily use Google to find new shortcake recipes (an |
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> entirely reasonable thing for Grandma to do in this day and age), then |
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> it is not unreasonable for savvy users to have a look at the man page |
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> and say |
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> "Oh look, this is a technical doc. Let me ask Google where better docs |
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> are" |
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There are two drawbacks to this. First you need Internet access, not so |
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good if you need help with ifconfig or route, or you are using your laptop |
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on a train. |
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Secondly, the Internet is full of useful advice, and some of it is even |
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accurate. Only documentation supplied with the package can be assumed to |
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be correct and up to date. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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When you said you wanted to live in sin, I didn't know you meant "sloth" |
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