PLUG: OT: ADV:ETC - Good training for mouse-challenged *nix people

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005, John Esak wrote:
>
>Most of us *nix people don't use mouses... and we never use mice. Whichever
>type you are, let's say you hate MS and XP and all things to do with *that*
>platform. If the occasion comes up for you to actually use the system, here
>is a way for you to learn it very easily... and learn it in a special way
>that will keep you from ever having to use a mouse. (And, you will learn it
>so much quicker than it took JP to do it grudgingly in 3 years... and he
>still doesn't know 1/10th of what this DVD would teach him. :-)

I don't know where you got the idea that *nix people hate meeses to pieces.
I gave up that idea in 1992 when I got my first OpenDesktop 2.0 system, and
discovered how useful they are, even when 99% of my time is spent in xterms
running ``vim'' or ``mutt''.  Now if you want to talk about hating the
useless touchpads on laptops, that's another story.  That's the only thing
that's keeping me from getting a Powerbook or iBook to replace my 6+ year
old Thinkpad 600 (now if Tiger will run on a Thinkpad... :-).

This old *nix hand is spending most of his time running a Mac Mini while in
my office, and SuSE 9.2 Professional on an ancient ThinkPad 600.

>I'm talking about my friend Cathy Anne Murtha's new "Immersion Into XP" DVD.
>She created it in the same way that I built my filePro Survivor Series CD's,
>all with movies of the information and step-by-step demonstrations. Her
>training style is extremely polished, having probably 15 years experience
>teaching off and on the net....

Reading the rest of this e-mail reminded me that I learned Scripsit,
Visicalc, and several other programs that Radio Shack sold 25 years ago
from the audio tapes that came with the packages.  Perhaps Scripsit was
less sophisticated (bloated) than the current crop of word processors, but
it got the job done, and fit on a 640k 8in floppy with room to spare for
reasonably large documents.  I found the audio tapes quite satisfactory.

...
Bill
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