[plug] Help overclocking celeron 300A required

Bill G. Gruff greg at networx.net.au
Tue Mar 30 14:32:39 WST 1999


On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 david.buddrige at mitswa.com.au wrote:
> > My Start menu doesn't have that. Do I have to download it?
> > It looks like one of those stupid Unix programs where you have to
> > memorise
> > long string of meaningless letters just to do something simple like
> > this.
> Ohmygosh!!!! the clue meter has _actually_ gone into negative numbers!! ;-)
You Unix people are so arrogant. Have you ever thought that maybe it's us
windows users who are getting Real Work Done that are superior to you.

> > I'm glad I run Windows so I'll never have to do that - and even if I
> > did have to do something so arcane, the Help files would tell me exactly
> > how  to do it, so I'd never have any trouble.
> Point 1: that's just fine and dandy if u don't want to do anything complex,
> but what if u do.
I can do very complex things in windows. You can do almost anything with
Visual Basic, and you don't even have to know anything abot programming.

> Point 2: I've never found Windows help-systems useful. 
But it's so easy, you just point and click and it will tell you about all
of the cool features of the program. Sure beats:
$ help
zsh: command not found: help
$ man help
No manual entry for help
$

> > Windows must be a tech-support worker's dream.
> Only someone who's never been a tech-worker could say that.
Yeah, Windows is so easy to use it probably puts tech-support people out
of jobs. They must hate it.

-Bill G. Gruff <Thought.Assassin at webtv.com>



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