Crucificator wrote:
Gee, Ed, you're so patient (or maybe you read minds :))) ). I get more and more iritated by people saying: "Ok my thingie doesn't work. Please advise.".
Well, I approach the situation with the assumption (proven most of the time) that the person asking the question isn't well versed in the subject matter. I mean, if I were going to get irritated right off the bat then it doesn't help me or the person making the query if I decide to respond.
However, when after asking questions of the OP all I get is more information that *they* think I need and they *don't* answer the question then, yes, I can get irritated as well. When that happened in the past I used to kick the cat down the stairs. But now we have 3 cats and they have started to kick back as well as devising other methods to strike back.
I have users being more specific in asking questions. They say: ok, so when I try to open microshaft word it says that ...
This guy says that he can't start gui but he can't login to the machine.
He did mention that he can login to the machine from another system from an XP or Win2K box. But, he can't seem to get to the console login prompt.
One could argue that he should have been guided toward booting in single-user mode....but it seemed easier to have him login via the XP/Win2k route and disable level 5.
But, we haven't heard anything more from him....so we don't know where he is at....
Regards, Ed
P.S. I *love* my cats and would never think of kicking them down the stairs. They, on the other hand, show no remorse when they pounce on me in the middle of the night for the apparent fun of it.
-- "I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
--The computer "Deep Thought" in "Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy"
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