Ubuntu user's report

[Robert L. Hemus]

On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 17:43 -0800, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> >
> ><aside>
> >Back in the early (Caldera) days of this list, I was thoroughly
> >excoriated for not knowing the details of PCI vs. ISA cards. My Linux
> >knowledge was minimal at that time, but my hardware knowledge was
> >zippo. In those days, newbies were fair game for a roast without
> >warning. Having been on the receiving end, I've tried to avoid
> >returning the favor.
> ></aside>
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> I seem to remember those days. I had was red faced many times, both from 
> embarrassment and from anger. Rudeness has become more the exception 
> than the rule of late, but it was a rough road back then. One thing it 
> did do was force the initiative on the user to do his homework before 
> posting. Not alltogether bad, I guess. (eh, llama?)
> 
> (I still have a couple of Caldera 2.7 or 2.8 cd's here, I think. I came 
> in around 2.0 or so.)
> 

I was always pretty well treated, and I was really dumb.  Had no real
computer education at all.  I got P.O.ed at the first copy my boy sent
me of microslop 98.  I was down in Sacramento in the summer of '98 and
saw a Dummies book with a Caldera 1.3 edition.  I bought 2.2, 2.3 e-
Desktop 2.4 and then they went gunny sack.  I got a lot of help and not
any flames.
Bob