[CentOS] Help with thread Centos 6.4 won't reboot on install

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Tue Mar 26 20:08:29 UTC 2013


Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:54 PM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>>
>>>> What, I *shouldn't* tell him what he's doing wrong? Just try to do his
>>>> job for him, and let him come back, again and again, without ever
>>>> actually learning something?
>>>
>>> Well, yeah.  Once he fixes his network so gnome works, why would he
>>> keep coming back?
>>
>> If he does. I mean, he kept complaining about the "black screen", and
>> appeared to have no idea how to look at the files....
>
> I know what you mean, of course.  But it's sort of like telling
> someone to learn latin before they can understand english.  Not an
> inherently bad concept but it shouldn't be necessary.

I dunno - I don't think I was telling him to learn latin; rather, that he
should increase his vocabulary beyond, oh, I read, years back, that the
*average* American's *average* vocabulary was about 500 words... and that
Koko the gorilla had 550 in ASL....

       mark "eep, eep"




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