Evolution

[Vram]

On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 09:24 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-27-05 at 16:27 -0400, Carroll Grigsby wrote: 
> > Here's the flaw in your strategy: I've noticed that the people who are 
> > fussiest about bottom posting are more apt to be old time *nix types whereas 
> > top posters are more apt to be recent windows migrants. Guess who is more apt 
> > to give you a useful answer.
> 
> The latter.  The former usually respond with one of: 
>      1. "If you don't like it go back to Windows." 
>      2. <insert a whole bunch of unexplained (or at least poorly
>         explained) technical gobbledigook> 
>      3. "Hmm....  It works here."  <insert obvious signs of lack of
>         interest> 
>      4. "What?  Are you stupid or something?  It's OBVIOUS that you
>         just have to type <insert executable line noise> into your
>         <insert executable line noise> file!  They should have a Linux
>         users license or something!" 
>      5. Silence.
> 
> The latter tend to respond with "I had that same problem and here's
> what I finally did to get it to work".
> 
> > The same can be said for posting in HTML; some of the same folks who don't 
> > like top posting are also those who just dump HTML crap straight to the bit 
> > bucket. Unread. If I'm having some kind of problem with my system, it seems 
> > to me that I'm ahead of the game if my plaintive plea is read by the guys who 
> > know what they're doing rather than ones who have so recently worshiped 
> > before the altar at the Church of Reformat and Reinstall.
> 
> The ones who know what they're doing tend not to be exactly the most
> forthcoming with that knowledge.  (Evidence: ALSA documentation.)
> Personally I suspect this is because they hoard the knowledge so they
> can keep their reps as gurus, but that's just my cynicism (fuelled by
> twelve years of up-close observation, mind) speaking.  They'll often
> sneeringly help with the most trivial of problems ("how can I SSH
> somewhere without having to give a password each time") but they won't
> actually share the Deep Magic with mere peons.
> 


Well, that hasn't been my experience.....


My experience has been... The more other folks know the more they
share...



Good luck

Vram



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