On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 11:19 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > These sound like homework questions the OP's asking us to answer to avoid > > doing the research. > > My money is on the bet that he is writing a Psychology paper to see how > different mailing lists respond to a new list member asking a string of > simplistic questions. "How do I use ssh" was a classic. Someone > pointed him to the man pages and he came back and reiterated he needed a > simpler explanation. Here is what google dug up for him. This is a > long trend. > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=X5O&q=%3Cgmspro%40yahoo.com%3E&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi= Either that or he hasn't quite grasped the concept of a manual. Seriously, someone asking "how do I use ssh?" rather than "I tried to do foo with ssh and I can't get it to work" doesn't merit the handholding that's being going on here. There are plenty of people on this list willing to give their time and expertise to helping newbies, but the newbie can't expect to be spoonfed. Learning to help yourself is an essential step on the road to hacker nirvana. "Give a man a fire and he'll warm himself for a day. Set him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life" -- Terry Pratchett. As for the question about IP addresses, give me a break. This has *nothing* to do with Fedora. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
