[techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #454 - 3 msgs

[Linda MacPhee-Cobb]

>I beg to differ. You are running Windows, using Outlook Express, I'm
>not certain that you're any sort of authority on Linux operating
>standards. Linda currently has her box configured in the following
>manner:
>I think she has far greater things to worry about than Linux single-
>user mode. When posting to a list requesting help or suggestion, it's
>expected that one will at least make an attempt to understand what is
>being offered or suggested by said list-members. (Read: When acting
>like a troll, expect to be treated as such).


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You are correct, clearly linux mandrake 7.2 out of the box set to medium 
security is neither safe on a network or off.  You have probably scared off 
many new users who might have read this list and thought seriously about 
trying linux.

If you wish for linux to become a mainstream operating system you must 
convince people that they do not have to spend hours a day pouring through 
manuals.  Most people have other interests, say physics, programming, 
families, hobbies to do and so on.

as to the handle 'prettyphysicslady' 'physicslady' was taken.  I had hoped, 
as my female professors had encouraged us to do, that we let young women 
know that girls do do physics, science and computers.  Adding 'pretty' was a 
way to help dispell the stereotype that only fat, ugly women went into 
science.  I am not sure why professors at the college/university you went to 
did not encourage this?  It is done commonly here in the US.

As for not believing that a female can be pretty/do physics/do computers/  I 
am very sorry for you.  I do not know which part of the world you grew up 
in, I can only be very thankful I did not grow up there.  You have made 
clear this is a stereotype that clearly needs to be dispelled.

As for the troll reference I do not understand it? If I do not agree with 
you I am a troll?  Personal attacks weaken your aguments and show others 
that your point can not stand on its own merits.


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