Tears and Fears
Knowledge is Power. A little knowledge is dangerous thing.
So it goes that people with a lot of knowledge on a subject are powerful, whereas those with a little knowledge on a subject are walking time bombs.
Guess which category I belong to?
I started off with computers at the British Council, playing around on a BBC Micro and playing Sherlock Holmes on what was an IBM PC.
I later would have my own BBC Micro, being totally awestruck at the incredible 32 Kilobytes of RAM and running at a staggering 2MHz.
The things it could do with those resources?
Elite. ’nuff said.
I’ve assembled most of the PCs that I’ve owned since then, been responsible for a lot crashes, but also a wealth of knowledge (or so I tell myself).
So surely my decision to move to a more Business-oriented education and career path couldn’t have diminished my geek-factor? I stay in touch with what’s going on – I read ZDNet.
Ah, I am mistaken.
Fiddling around with things, where possible taking them apart to see how they work, has been something ingrained into my very being. So when I install Ubuntu, have everything running smoothly, trust me to go dabble.
Dabble, I do. As a result, gnome-panel goes berserk and I’m now running a fresh install of Ubuntu. The people at #Ubuntu on freenode have also come across the problem, but I wasn’t able to glean enough to be able to fix things.
This has been a truly humbling experience. I shall now go off to sleep while Synaptic updates everything.
There is a book in my future. Very possibly it’s called “Linux for Dummies”.
don’t worry. remember absolute power (knowledge) corrupts absolutely too.
sittingnut
31 Aug 05 at 2:23 am
knowladge?
where?
It’s within your self.
How?
Trial and error!
Dont you remember that it always started with an error
and it has to be a messy one
a big one
but you still survives
then again in next day
you do a trial….which followed by an error
then again a trial….error…..trial…. error……
oh!!! then……a big mess
THEN you call it Knowladge…
now you do errors better than last one…
How fascinating….
Desperado
31 Aug 05 at 7:23 am
Despa: thanks machan. trust you to come up with an answer like that.
sittingnut: yeah, when it comes to power, I’m beginning to see even more evidence of corruption. Of course, it’s mainly due to the power supply and there are signs of impending hard disk failure.
Dulan
31 Aug 05 at 9:26 pm
So Dulan you used the good old trial and error method. Sometimes this is the best way to do it. Key is having the ability to learn. But if you are not able to learn from your mistakes that’s where the problem comes.
” When a teacher asks a student a question, Does it matter if the answer is right or wrong? The logical answer is NO. Either way the student learns” that was a quote by one of the gurus of learning in my uni Dr Jeff Mcklean.
Also don’t keep all the learning to your self. Share it when ever can. This is what most people find hard to do. Sharing the knowledge they have worked hard to gain.. Its not that they are selfish (in some cases they may be) they just find it hard to convert their tacit knowledge in to explicit. Another learning guru in Harvard Business School called Nonaka in his article “knowledge creating company” called this process as articulation. If anyone is interested, that is a one good article to read about learning. SO everyone don’t be afraid to share what you know.
That’s something for you’ll to think about when ur free
cheers
Devinda
21 Sep 05 at 2:47 pm
“… The future belongs to the learners and not to the learned…..”
Devinda
25 Oct 05 at 6:10 am