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Posted: Jan. 17 2004,02:08 QUOTE
What? You don't like the typical linux help forums?

"Help! I can't get my sound card to work!"

"wndbxalsd_ajueuwerh.1.123_a -c -x 98.2454 -x /dev/xqqc

Duh"

More seriously, this is pretty nice software. I've gotten a real kick out of seeing what it can do.
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Posted: Jan. 17 2004,23:31 QUOTE
Lol

I've been reading the Slackware Newgroup for over four years and have never dared post as there is so much blood in the water.

Kudos to John for creating such friendly distro & forums.
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Posted: Jan. 18 2004,09:41 QUOTE
.... hehe...... be careful in irc.freenode.net  channel  #debian

e.g. (making this up)

<Sc4r3dNewb>                I can't get my sound card to work!
<debianGuruWannabe>    Gee that's too bad.
<Sc4r3dNewb>                Can you help?
<debianGuruWannabe>    Probably. I probably won't though. Your
                                        answer is "Google"
<Sc4r3dNewb>                I already googled the error message I got
                                         but I don't understand....
<debianGuruWannabe>    Obviously
<Sc4r3dNewb>                  I cant get the drivers to load
<debianGuruWannabe>    man modprobe man insmod
<debianGuruWannabe>    and your nick is obvious and lame btw...

and so on. Although there are some reasonable people there as well.... :p
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Posted: Jan. 18 2004,11:54 QUOTE
STFU GAFC RTFM etc :)

The trouble with that sort of help is that the newbie is often new to linux terminology & new to Google.

He doesn't know the language of linux to refine his query and he doesn't know how to use the search engine properly.

If they are anything like me they get distracted while googling and forget what they were looking for...........
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peter Offline





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Posted: Jan. 18 2004,13:43 QUOTE
Agreed.

The problem seems to me to be (at least) twofold:

1) Some people get off on being know-it-alls. Some of these ARE in fact very knowledgeable, but their appalling manners make reasonable people shrug and walk away from Linux on the (inaccurate)
assumption that all Linux people must be intellectually arrogant and socially inept.

2) It is easy, once you understand a subject fairly well, to forget how difficult the first steps to that knowledge were for you....

It's an interesting sociological study - I find some of the IRC channels fascinating just for the spectacle. It's a sort of blood sport.

:D  ???   :(
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