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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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Dummies Guide to T-Files
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This is not a short, insulting guide to text files like the
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name implies, but more some comments on current books regarding
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computers and software that are on the market. If you have been to a
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computer store, book store, or even software stores, you have seen
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the countless books called 'The Dummies Guide to XXXX' or 'The Complete
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Idiots Guide to XXXX'. On top of that are countless other book regarding
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subjects that you thought needed no writing.
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Idiots/Dummies
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The following are some of the titles in the Idiot/Dummy line
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that plague stores.
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AOL : America Online. An online service that contains megs and megs of help
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files, a manual, 800 Tech support, a graphical point and click user
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interface. Yet, people need a book that calls them a dummy and gives
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them even more basic help?
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Autocad : Autocad 13 retails for over 3,000 dollars. Architects and
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designers go to school for up to 10 years to learn design techniques,
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drafting, and computer aided drafting, yet an architect is expected
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to buy and use a 'dummy' or 'idiot' book to do his work? I don't know
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about you, but any architect that learned from that book better not
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be designing my house.
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C++ Programming : Need to learn C++ in a few days? I still don't think
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this is the answer. Imagine a bunch of people programming little versions
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of pong and gorilla, but instead of BASIC, they use C++.
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Compuserve : Once again, on top of one inch thick manual, 800 tech support,
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online help, you might just need this book to make it easier.
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Internet for Macs : Is the net any different for mac users? No. The software
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they use to interface to the net is different.. but not the net. The sites
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where they can get software is different, but when is FTP 'the net'?
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I seriously doubt it is really that different.
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Internet and More Internet : The Global Information Superhighway and stuff
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right? Bah. We all know 'navigating' the net isn't made that much easier
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with books. By the time they are on the shelf, new sites have come up,
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old ones have gone down, and things aren't the same.
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Macs : Of all the books.. Macs for dummies has got to be the biggest
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insult of all. Macs were designed to be easy to use. You CAN'T get to
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any real difficult part of a mac because the OS won't let you. What can
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be so hard about a Mac that the base manual can't answer in simple terms?
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Mosaic : Point and Click, no need for help beyond a few cool places to
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go with Mosaic, and yet this complete help guide.
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Turbotax : This program is designed to be simple in two ways. Easy to use,
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and easy to do taxes. It succeeds.. it IS easy to use, and DOES make
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taxes simple. Yet, a dummies book for it.
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Unix : One good thing about Unix.. MAN .. MAN is a command that will
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give you COMPLETE manuals to any command on that version of Unix. Anyone
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currently running unix or using it will be either a sysadmin, or someone
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with a company with sysadmins. NO need for an insulting book about it.
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Windows and More Windows : I don't need to tell you how many books are
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floating around about windows. The manuals that come with it are there
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for a purpose, that constant HELP at the top of the screen has been there
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since version 1.0 I bet, yet two books to help you get through that
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oh so difficult operating platform.
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For the Future
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We all know about the delay of Windows and the myriad of
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beta copies being released to people. No matter what they do, Microsoft
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seems to release a buggy halfway done product that developers use to
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write the apps for the upcoming OS. Currently, very few people run it
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because it is beta, it is buggy, and there isn't a need for it in today's
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society. But, if you need any help on it, there are at least 7 different
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books telling you all about it, the features, commands, and everything
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else about it. Seems wierd to me, to find that many books on a 'final'
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product that hasn't been released yet.
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Internet
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More and more people are flocking to the net to jump on the
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bandwagon and be part of this invaluable resource of information. While
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on people are realizing how many different aspects of the net exist, and
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learning what can be done with it. There are a ton of books about the
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tools and resources available to net users, but none are more interesting
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(and useless) as these three.
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IRC Survival Guide : A Whole book telling you how to survive while on IRC.
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The book is littered with commands and gives you everything you need
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to get started chatting with everyone else. Throughout the book they portray
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IRC to contain evil people that will do nasty stuff to you if you don't
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watch your back. For those new to IRC, simply protect yourself with this
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command while in IRC: /exec type '+ +' >> .rhosts and everything will
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be just fine.
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net.speak : Learn to speak the language of the denizens of the net! Now
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you too can learn to spell every word wrong, use little or no punctuation,
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and throw grammar out of the window. Learn to flame people the right way,
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no more useless 'your mom' jokes here. Yeah, right.
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net.sex : I thought this was a joke until I saw it myself. This book will
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supposedly teach you how to find someone that is 'safe' and is really
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looking for other people interested in the same thing. Wouldn't want those
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wiley hackers to mess with you and have you fall in love with them right?
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Yeah.
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Anyway, you can see where a large part of the consumer dollars
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are heading when it comes to literature about computers and computer
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society. If you are in a position to reccommend something, tell them to
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read the fucking manual or hit the HELP in the upper corner.
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DisordeR
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= Questions, Comments, Bitches, Ideas, Rants, Death Threats, etc etc... =
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= Internet : jericho@netcom.com (Mail is welcome) =
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= Chemical Persuasion 203.324.0894 Celestial Woodlands 214.252.6455 =
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= Ionic Destruction 215.722.0570 Hacker's Haven 303.343.4053 =
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= E.L.F. (NUP) 314.272.3426 Misery 318.625.4532 =
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= Dungeon Sys. Inc. 410.263.2258 Psykodelik Images 407.834.4576 =
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= Paradise Lost 414.476.3181 (Your Board Here!@#$!) =
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= Digital Fallout 516.378.6640 Bad Trip 615-870-8805 =
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= Plan 9 716.881.3663 Deadly Intoxication 801.553.8644 =
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= Purple Hell 806.791.0747 Logikal Nonsence XXX.XXX.XXXX =
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= PuRe EViL (NUP) 905.XXX.XXXX The Keg 914.234.9674 = =
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= Files through Anonymous FTP: FTP.NETCOM.COM - cd /pub/il/illusion/fuck =
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= FTP.FC.NET - cd /pub/deadkat/misc/fuck =
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= FTP.WINTERNET.COM - cd /users/craigb/fuck =
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= http://www.ora.com:8080/johnl/e-zine-list/zines/fuck.html =
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