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...By which time he will know more about Linux.

I hope you learn more by that time as well, Dana. Not to be overly critical, but I find it absolutely incredible that you have been writing a blog entitled "Linux and Open Source" without without actually knowing or using the thing that you're writing about. Doesn't that sound a little -- uhm -- wrong to you? (that's a rhetorical question... you wouldn't be learning it now if you didn't already know it was wrong.)

I've got no criticism at all about the amount of time it took to set up networking. Hell, if you're not familiar with a new version of Windows it can take as long. But one subject that users of heterogenous platforms are intimately familiar with is "which formats are portable?" Another is the different ways that you can transfer files from one machine to another.

You're a pretty prolific writer. I'd seriously consider cutting back on the number of posts (just a little bit) and bone up some basics. If nothing else it might give you something new and interesting to write about. (For instance, I just took some time out from bitching about the GIMP to RTFM... turns out that if I'd done that last year I'd have saved myself a trainload of effort.) Then again, maybe that's what you're doing.
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