On Saturday 13 August 2005 3:44 am, Daniel Eckl wrote:
Am Samstag, 13. August 2005 02:52 schrieb Stephen Boddy:
I'm sorry Daniel, but I think that is grossly unfair to Shriramana, and that's the only reason I'm prolonging this antagonistic thread.
Yes, you're right. Shriramana told me already and he is fully right, too. I remembered that wrong.
But I stay at my saying. It's just not Shriramana who is the example for that.
That is true, but having said that, and as I said in a post a day or 2 ago, some of us at times, at least, don't have a lot of time to get mail read and answered. I'd been working on systems, it was late, and I probably responded a tad quicker than I should have, not realizing that he really did want to know the "whys" to his question. I also tend to, at times, loose patience with some who can't resist asking a whole slew of questions when it's obvious a manual nor man page has never been read. I remember doing a 2 day seminar on Linux, using SUSE a few years ago, and there were 3 fellows who were/are professors at Cornell Univ., and they tied up my time and everyone else's time with "1,000 and 1" questions until I put a stop to it with, "Just do it this way, until you read the manual. Then if you still have questions, call me." ;) All 3 learned much more by reading the SUSE manuals, which are WELL written compared to others, and "playing" with their 'puters. I only rec'd 2 phone calls. Both questions were for info. that wasn't clear to them, and I didn't mind giving them the answers. Sometimes newbies are very enthusiastic, and that's great! But, they must also know that they will have to at times take what we tell them at face value now and then until they STUDY manuals and articles to get a better understanding of Linux, that they can't learn all there is to "know over night," and they should enjoy the journey as they become more proficient. Fred -- Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft. We have no bugs in our software, Never! We do have undocumented added features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost to you, at this time.