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On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Brian Cluff <
brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
> Just an end user? End users usually give the better presentations on
> many things. Some of us old hats tend to get stuck in our little grooves
> and completely miss the new and usually easier ways of doing things.
>
> An example of this that usually pops into mind occurred about 13 years ago
> when the east side meetings were being held at the boys and girls club in
> Scottsdale.
>
> Anyway, someone new to Linux was asking a question about how they could
> get connected to the Internet through their modem on KDE. There was a few
> of us gathered around giving each other tips on how to create a chat script
> with all the necessary stuff to get them connected, and really confusing
> the poor guy that just wanted to get connected to the Internet.
>
> After a few minutes, another newbie walked up behind us and asked us what
> was going on... we told him, and he said, "Why don't you just run kppp".
> None of us has ever heard of it, so we fired it up, filled in the name,
> password and phone number and clicked connect. It connected perfectly the
> first time.
>
> In the end, the "end user" was the one that knew the proper way to do
> things. We are also all end users with varying skill sets, and I can
> promise you that there is something that you do that you think is common
> knowledge that a bunch of other people don't know how to do. Not every
> presentation needs to be on some advanced subject.
>
> Hans also likes to point out, that he likes to pick a subject that he is
> interested in from time to time and force himself to learn it in order to
> give a presentation in it, and it in doing so, he has gained more knowledge
> about things than if he had just stuck with things he knew about.
>
> I know this has been VERY true for me. In trying to find subjects for my
> mini presentations on graphic apps, I've had to learn all sorts of new
> stuff in order to fill a presentation every month.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 06/11/2012 05:53 PM, Eric Allen wrote:
>
>> Me?,,, I trip over my tongue and I'm just an end user is all.
>> .
>> Eric
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