On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 20:02 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 02:28 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > >>> In general, if you don't know what you are doing then maybe Linux isn't > >>> for you? > >> Oh please. Can you avoid that elitist attitude? There are new comers to > >> Linux and Fedora all the time and not all of them are experts. These are > >> valuable users to the community and we don't need to drive them away > >> with statements like these. None of us were born with any of this > >> knowledge anyway. Remember, you were a newbie too when you got started. > > > > Hear, hear! > > Sorry guys, > I was just trying to get him to make a decision on his own instead of > asking for a handout. I told him to create some swap space and try > again. I don't think he has. When I first started using Linux, I bugged the living heck out of anyone and everyone for help. But, since I was doing the asking, I figured they had to know more than me, so I took their advice and was rarely steered wrong. Learning what questions to ask, so that I didn't get the "RTFM" reply, became an acquired skill. But, had I not gotten the "RTFM" more than once, I would have gotten lazy and dependent. Not "RTFM" and not taking freely given advice and using it, is a sure step towards disaster, as well as a total waste of every ones time. So, it's showing the "love", geek style. Yet, diplomacy is the art of telling someone to fsck themselves while leaving them liking it! :) Ric -- ---------------------------------------------------- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar https://oar.dev.java.net/ Verizon Cell # 336-254-1339 ----------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
