cyrnel

Hmmm... System Restore. It's a bit like Stevie Wonder running the hurdles. Skydiving with bedsheets. Javelin catching. All of those, but the Stevie example feels most appropriate. Step step *hop* step step *hop* step *thud!*. And SR encourages the behavior.

If computers are mysterious and uninteresting. If you don't have to know why something didn't work. If computers often seem like a Bermuda Triangle of wires & plastic, then SR may get you out of a bind. But if you have the tools and need to know why something failed - avoid rather than recover - SR is like putting off your taxes. Procrastination as a feature.

There. I think I put myself firmly in the crowd you were speaking of.

Not to say it's completely useless. We all have our favorite socket set. Sometimes the weirdest wrench can save your butt.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195