On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 09:45 -0500, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
On 11/16/2011 9:29 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
* Don't expect your first query to return what you want * Don't expect what you want to be on the first hit or the first page * Don't expect any single page to have the right answer, read many * Don't expect too get answers without making effort This is really important to keep in mind. And it's not just for Linux, it's in life in general.
+1 Searching the Internet [or "googling" since we are in an unwavering effort to proprietize the Internet] is, IMO, just not a very effective way to find information. You'll find (a) lots of questions with no answers (b) old answers and (c) wrong answers - frequently after wasting a fair amount of time. If you have a question it is *much* better to find an appropriate list / forum, subscribe to that, search it's contents specifically, or post a question. For example - I've been subscribed to the Samba and Samba-Technical lists for years and years. If I have a Samba related problem searching the mail folder where all that gets routed too is much more effective than searching 'the Internet'. I always know the vintage of the information I'm looking at [many websites do a bad job of making that clear] and I have [possibly] and entire thread to look at. Anyway, I plan on going to 12.1 soon [maybe this weekend]. Upgrading versions has almost always worked pretty seamlessly for me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org