Catch-22!

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    Unix is simply a different way if thinking.  Once you make the
    transition, you will find Windows very irritating and hard to use.  I
    recently encountered a problem that had to be solved using Windows, and
    I spent over 3 hours on the solution, including the time to mail to a
    list and ask for advice.  This was a 10 second (because I type slow)
    solution under Unix.
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    Have patience.  It took me 4 months to make the transition, and this wa=
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    while I was working full-time, and going to college.  Border's made a
    few bucks off me as I bought (or read in the store) every Linux book
    they had.  I was motivated - my Windows machine blue-screened about onc=
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    53 Windows reinstalls with various configurations, including changing
    out every piece of hardware had no effect.  When I changed the OS, I
    stopped having problems.
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    After making the transition, I needed to rewrite an old Visual Basic
    application I had running under Windows.  That app tooke me 30 hours to
    write using VB.  It took me 3 hours to write using Tcl with the book
    open learning as I wrote it.  This was more than just a translation or =
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    port - I was rewriting it from scratch and memory.
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    Hang in there.
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    George
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    > Taliesin MacAran wrote:
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    > That gets me Can't open perl script "mcpan": No such file or director=
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    > *SIGH*
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    > I have the feeling that I'm too dumb to use Linux.
    > This is not the first time I've felt this way.
    > Guess I'm not enuff of a 'puter Geek.
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    > Lee
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    > On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 22:58, Craig White wrote:
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    >      as root - try
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    >      perl mcpan -e 'install modules Test::Harness'
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    > Beware of what you speak, for indeed the words we speak make shadows
    > of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass.
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