J B. Fields <jbfields3@gmail.com> wrote:
> You might need treatment for depression if you find yourself always
> presuming the worst.

Ya talking to me? Then you might QUOTE whatever it is you are
commenting on!

Come on. LEARN about the medium yer's a-using - begin to express
yourself effectively.

> There are a number of technical certifications for technical trainers
> who work mostly with adults.

Oh my goodness. Not "technical certifications", puhleeeze. Look - if
you couldn't get your doctorate out of a decent school before your
thirties that's OK with me folksie, but please don't start parading your
"certifications"! Especially not with the word "adult" near them!

> There are also a number of venues where one may teach children, if
> that is ones preference,

So I have heard. Preaching to the choir, eh?

> where I suspect your own horizons could be
> greatly widened. Take, for example, a place like Martha's Table, in
> Washington, DC, where Bill Gates donated all that money for computers.

Never heard of it, and I wouldn't like to be anywhere near where BG
tried to make people stupid. I'm sure his motives are good, but if he
wants them to learn, give them a laser printer, a Tandy, and a manual
on postscript, a compiler, and K&C. That's about what I had to make me
learn C - a need to print something out, and no way of doing it except
to write a PS driver plus my own typesetter.

> If this original message had been posted by one of their sharp young
> minds, your response would not have encouraged them in the pursuit of

I would hope not. Anyone who needs "encouragement" has a weak mind.
The thing that most annoyed me at school was the inanely encouraging
explanations of the science teachers .. I had no problem solving the
special relativity equations by the time I was sixteen. My solution
never did get to supposing the speed of light to be a constant, so
I had a solution in which the speed varied through space as another
field.

> Linux. Trying to pass off bad manners as some kind of tutorial style
> insults a good profession.

No - trying to pass off your own incompetence as "encouragement"
insults the rest of the world, which thankfully, is likely not to be
in as much need of "encouragement" as you might think.

But - more seriously - it is a real problem what to do with the hordes
of natural born second hand telephone set cleaners out there. It's a
waste of time and a terrible cross to bear for the intelligent to teach
them, because the intelligent want the students to think for themselves
as the object of teaching, and the unintelligent want other people to do
the thinking for them, and for them to parrot the result.

Thus what one ideally wants is for the slightly less stupid to teach
the very stupid. And so on up.

Supposing that can'tstandititus will eventually push all students and
teachers into the correct levels on this pyramid, one can see that the
expectation is that teachers of people who need teaching even as
adults (instead of having learned to learn, like proper people) will be
just slightly less incompetent than their every so average charges.

That 2c analysis leaves out consideration of those benighted souls who
are actually able to like a lifetime spent at the level of the
congenitally retarded. Plus those who can talk football.

Hic.

Peter

yada yada yada

Just tried to install White Box Linux in a VPC machine on an IBM
Thinkpad. I took the defaults and it came up in X mode and obviously
is not right for the video and screen--unusable.

I can re-install, but it took a LONG time to install. Isn't there a
way to switch to text-only mode at startup?

Next question: Although I use to be a UNIX admin (circa 1985), it's
been years, and I just barely got Red Hat to find the wireless access
to Internet on another machine, I'm at a loss for what video settings
would work on this machine, and how to change them once install has
been completed.

J