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Re: Comments on tutorials
« Reply #30 on: December 18, 2007, 12:13:56 PM »

The tutorials have the makings of something very good I think. It'd be good if, once you think they're nearly ready, you could give them to someone non-techie and see how they get on with actually doing the install/etc.

I might be able to help there as I have an old machine I'm thinking of giving to the couple across the road. It would HAVE to be Linux on it though as they are pretty clueless and there's no way I'm "supporting" them with Windows :D He wants it to use ebay - gods help us all, I give him a week before someone has ripped him off :(
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Re: Comments on tutorials
« Reply #31 on: December 18, 2007, 12:22:06 PM »

LOL I stopped* using eBay about 3 years ago, and glad I did... I must say tho if you want a system for someone who is PC clueless (like me  :P) then PCLinuxOS would not ba a bad choice of OS at all.


*Actually I was banned from eBay because I disputed a surcharge they slapped on because my paypal account went belly up, but in the end they did me a huge favour
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Re: Comments on tutorials
« Reply #32 on: December 18, 2007, 12:30:37 PM »

I wouldn't touch paypal with the longest bargepole EVER. We're going off-topic again though :D
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Re: Comments on tutorials
« Reply #33 on: December 18, 2007, 01:26:54 PM »

I have heard some detractors calling it 'gaypal'.
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Re: Comments on tutorials
« Reply #34 on: December 18, 2007, 01:34:46 PM »

The original version of DOS didn't have a directory structure - all the files were together at the top level. So there was no need of a directory separator, and / was used to separate command line parameters, e.g.:

dir /param1 /param2

When it was realised that a directory structure was needed, they used \ as the directory separator to avoid confusion with the / which was already in use with command line parameters.

I think that's how it happened anyway. :)


And there I was always assuming it must have been devised by left-handed programmers... a '/' is quite hard for a leftie (such as me) to write, so given a check list I tend to mark everything with backwards facing slashes.
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« Reply #35 on: December 18, 2007, 01:42:13 PM »

And of course you could only have 256 files in the top level directory.
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Re: Comments on tutorials
« Reply #36 on: December 18, 2007, 01:44:46 PM »

Isn't that 256 limit  in the root directory still the case?
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Re: Comments on tutorials
« Reply #37 on: December 18, 2007, 02:08:21 PM »

Not since FAT16 (DOS) days.
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Re: Comments on tutorials
« Reply #38 on: December 18, 2007, 04:56:01 PM »

Another really basic problem here, and I'm probably being totally stupid, but try as I might I cannot get Linux to access/read a floppy disk - yes I still occasionally use those stone-age media to transfer small files... might need instructions for USB memory sticks too.
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« Reply #39 on: December 18, 2007, 06:52:09 PM »

Have you got a floppy disk icon on the desktop? If so, you should be able to put a disk in the drive then double-click the icon to mount the disk and display its contents in a file manager.

If you haven't got a floppy disk icon, then right-click the desktop and select Create New --> Link to Device --> Floppy Device. This will create the desktop icon, and you can then mount it as above.

USB devices should be detected automatically, and depending on the distro may create a desktop icon as above, or may pop up a dialog asking you what you want to do.
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Re: Comments on tutorials
« Reply #40 on: December 24, 2007, 02:22:20 PM »

I realised I haven't said anything in here yet... Eric, what a marvellous job.

These tutorials have made it feel like there's a bit of hand-holding for the initial stages of linux... they have a kind of "everything you wanted to know about your first steps with Linux but were afraid to ask!" feel to them, which is nice and reassuring for a Linux noobie :)

No doubt I shall be following them to the letter in the new year at some point!
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« Reply #41 on: December 24, 2007, 03:25:00 PM »

Thanks Chris. In that case, happy new year. ;D
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