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

On 06/10/2013 02:14 PM, les wrote:

/snip/
 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
> Also most mechanics are used to pure gasoline or diesel engines.  I
> think many of them inherently distrust the electronics, so it has been a
> real uphill battle for them to port some of their existing knowledge to
> these new systems.
/snip/

I don't know, but I would be willing to bet large sums that the manual
that goes with the computer diagnostics is far easier to read and
understand than anything written for diagnostics or setup of an
actual computer! (Still waiting for a networking treatise written in
humanly understood terms! Just for the home user, not for someone
setting up an IBM facility!)

--doug


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