Off topic but funny

Our PR department has been working on making press releases more
entertaining, and this latest effort, for the new edition of Learning Red
Hat Linux, opens with a great image that made me laugh out loud -- comparing
the reaction of Windows or Mac users faced with a Unix/Linux system to
Dickens' character Little Dorrit:

> 
> Sebastopol, CA--A change in circumstances can be surprisingly
> disorienting. Consider Little Dorrit, the Charles Dickens' protagonist
> who was born and lived her entire life within the walls of the
> Marshalsea debtors' prison. Upon learning that she and her family were
> not only free to leave, but were also wealthy, Little Dorrit promptly
> fainted. Similarly, Windows and Mac users confronting a Unix-based
> operating system for the first time--while not reacting quite so
> dramatically as Little Dorrit--may find the experience disconcerting.
> But, there is help available to ease the transition. "Learning Red Hat
> Linux, Third Edition" by Bill McCarty (O'Reilly, US $39.95) provides a
> comprehensive yet gentle entry to the world of Linux with new users in
> mind, specifically, the popular Red Hat distribution of Linux.

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