On Feb 27, 2004 at 14:13, Bob Marcan in a soothing rage wrote: >Isn't this apply to everything? >When you buy some home appliance, do you read the manuals, >or just plug in, start and wait if you see the smoke? Oh you really do not want to go there. In most of the English speaking 'western' world, manuals and instructions are only read when something goes wrong. That is one of the prime reasons why appliances come with two manuals: one with pictures on a single sheet of paper that is easy to comprehend and the other a detailed manual. Case in point, when I got my dsl connexion, I tried to put everything together without reading the cheatsheet manual. I ended up calling tech support where I was told that if I had read the manual, I would have been up in 60 seconds flat instead of the 45 minutes it took me (including the call to tech support). My mistake was not using the cables they sent me. See I needed a crossover cable instead of standard CAT5. Suffice to say, my bad habits are still with me... N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 No one can put you down without your full cooperation. 09:36:39 up 85 days, 14:23, 8 users, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00
