To The Newbie

[pablo]

As a "newbie" myself I'd like to toss something out to the other
newbie's--from my experience. These people are just ablolutely terrific at
helping new people, HOWEVER,

1. Learn to use an editor before asking questions.
2. If you can't use google your in the wrong place.
3. subscribe to ALL the Linux groups you can and READ,READ,READ.
As new as I am I am seeing the same questions answered (or Asked) in 1000
different ways.
I really appreaciate all the help and questions these people provide but
sometimes it seems like some people want everything done for them,,kno what
I mean???? If we want them here when we need them we need to LEARN for
ourselves too!
Hey thanks and good tweaking.
p.s. Thanks especially to Lenard

[Gertjan Roelofs]

pablo wrote:
> As a "newbie" myself I'd like to toss something out to the other
> newbie's--from my experience. These people are just ablolutely terrific at
> helping new people, HOWEVER,
>
> 1. Learn to use an editor before asking questions.
> 2. If you can't use google your in the wrong place.
> 3. subscribe to ALL the Linux groups you can and READ,READ,READ.
> As new as I am I am seeing the same questions answered (or Asked) in 1000
> different ways.
> I really appreaciate all the help and questions these people provide but
> sometimes it seems like some people want everything done for them,,kno what
> I mean???? If we want them here when we need them we need to LEARN for
> ourselves too!
> Hey thanks and good tweaking.
> p.s. Thanks especially to Lenard
>
>
LOL good point, but as a n00b myself have read half of all the postings
on the groups i could find and indeed find about 10 postings of every
question askedthere should be some input from the answer machines to do
waht you proposed, just say there is already a posting on this topic,
and indeed google helps too, i've managed to get this stupid computer
running with the help of the magic google, but it's a hell off a search
to find the appropiate info needed to perform a specific task, for
instance trying to figure out how to burn an audio cd without having to
convert all the mp3's to wav's first i've spent a whole week trying to
find the info needed and still it doesn't work.

Don't get me wrong you're absolutely rightreading the same thing over
and over and over and over and over ok enough.

All i wanted to say is: They don't call us n00bs for nothing :P

greetz