How to check my IP???

Kurt Wall kwallinator
Sun Dec 11 00:42:34 PST 2005


On Saturday 10 December 2005 06:41 pm, Bill Campbell wrote:

> The biggest problems I've had with Apples is that I have far too much Unix
> knowledge so forget that there is probably a very easy way to do something
> (even though my definition of easy for most things is simple to edit an
> /etc/fstab file or some such :-).

One man's "simple" is another man's nightmare. Obviously, someone 
incapable of editing a text file is something less than a man, but that's a
flamefest for another day.

> I remember my first encounter with a Mac about 20 years ago where I
> couldn't figure out how to eject the floppy.  I certainly wouldn't have
> thought of dragging the icon to the trash.

Not unlike clicking the "Start" button to turn off the computer.

[deletia]

Kurt
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