On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:26:39AM -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Scott Robbins wrote: > ... > > Again, it was a generalization--there are plenty of excellent Linux man > > pages and obscure BSD man pages. > > ... and virtually all of them are better than MS pages that all too > frequently end up by advising the admin looking for answers: "Ask your > administrator." :-P Actually (I know this sounds trollish, but it really isn't), at least on the servers, I think MS has the documentation down pretty well. Click help, type in a few key words, and you get examples and all that good stuff. For instance, our MS guy was out and I had to do something, relatively simple, I forget what it was exactly--something like add a user to a new group. Put in a few words, e.g., add user group and there was a step by step. Can you imagine if I'd been out and he'd had to add a user to a samba group? He would have probably been told go to www.samba.org. :) It is something simple, and something that I could have walked him through quickly, but not intuitive. At any rate, not to compare and start wars, (which is, of course, what I've just done--though hopefully, no wars), the original point is that I do prefer detailed documentation. As you say though, it's a fine line--but often, the beginner's article will be very helpful to the next beginner, because, as is said, what we consider intuitive is simply what we're so used to doing. Of course, plz hlp me, my wireless isnt working does simply deserve a pointer to asking questions the smart way. :) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: The band, yeah. They're great. They march. Willow: Like an army. Except with music, instead of bullets, and usually no one dies.
