Re: [libreoffice-users] CNET is claiming the best free MSO alternative is not LO

And I remember when car owner's manuals were 1/4" thick at the most, and 
large (readable) print.  My 2008 Toyota Prius owner's manual is 3/4" 
thick, small print, and spattered with dire paragraphs about everything 
causing injury or death!  Made me want to turn in my license!  It is not 
a good read and, like your experience, information is not easy to find 
in it.  Oh, and the owner's maintenance manual is a separate manual - 
equally obtuse and with more dire warnings.  Usually, when I get a new 
car, I go to the dealer's parts counter and order the factory shop 
manual for correct maintenance and understanding of what is "under the 
hood".  When I did so for the Prius, the parts counter guy recommended 
not, saying the shop manual is intricately tied to the shop diagnostic 
computer system ($$$$$) and by itself, is not very helpful.  So, i saved 
$100+ for the first time in my shadetree-mechanic career and, also for 
the first time in my decades of car-ownership, take it to the dealer for 
maintenance.
Girvin Herr


anne-ology wrote:
>        ah, yes, a good book ... a readable manual ... ... ...
>
>        I've tried at various times to read these supposed helpful 
> manuals only to discover more confusion ... it's like reading a 
> foreign language yet there's no dictionary to use for help;
>            and if they happen to have sketches ... well, these tend 
> not to correspond with the written document.
>
>        Automobiles, since becoming computerized, supposedly have these 
> helpful manuals - but reading them for something as simple as changing 
> the clock [an inane idea anyway] is next to impossible ... the trained 
> mechanics even have trouble with this one - it took 3 of them about 
> 1/2 hour to finally figure out that one vehicle's settings were tied 
> into the radio dials but only if the engine was running and the gear 
> was in park  ;-)
>
> "crazy is as crazy does"
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Girvin R. Herr 
> <girvin.herr@sbcglobal.net <mailto:girvin.herr@sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     Ahh!  The Gimp.  Great program and I do have some use for it.
>      However, learning it has a _steep_ learning curve for me and,
>     frankly, sitting at the screen and reading the online manual is
>     not what I would prefer using my limited time for.  There are
>     several "learning" books out there, but which one is the best one
>     I need to learn The Gimp?  That is my problem with it.  Once or
>     twice I fiddled with it and got it to do somewhat what I wanted,
>     but it wasn't very intuitive and I feel it could do so much more
>     for me.  If I could just get a good book on it and sit down and
>     play with it...
>     Girvin Herr

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