begin Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) quotation (Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:13:55PM -0400): > On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 02:28:38PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > If the person had enough experience (to be completely distinguished from > > intelligence, these are totally different aspects [1]) to know what to post, > > they would have done so in the first place. As he or she did not, I'm > > asking for the data I would look for on my own system to resolve the > > same issue. > > The more I think about this, the more I agree with you. I think I'm > disagreeing about the way to do it. Instead of just saying "post the > output of 'cat /proc/foo | grep bar'" finish it off with "so I can tell > if baz is happening." But you're right: it is annoying when people > won't help you help them.
Of course, I know I'm right, but I appreciate other people figuring this out too <vbg> > > I'll occasionally write a longer reply when it's philosophy more than > > mechanics at hand (e.g.: here). Some of these I've compiled into FAQs > > and micro-HOWTOs, currently I've got prepared texts on backups, > > GNU/Linux books, partitioning, XDM disabling, SSH RSA key authentication, > > Samba mounts, and sudo. Questions I've answered enough times, in enough > > depth, to have a standard response. Jeff's Bug rant is close to > > becoming same. > > Don't keep them to yourself. The nice thing about having a good manual > written is being able to say rtfm when asked the questions (i.e. a > pointer to your website or wherever you've published your answers.) Most are currently being HTMLized and revised. I'm posting them right now as replies to list. I'll get them online in my Copious Spare Time®, not to mention that my website desperately needs an update anyhow. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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