[ic] 4.8.3 crashing - no one helps - will have to switch tosomething with real support

Jim Balcom interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Fri Dec 14 23:00:01 2001


On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Mike DeTuncq wrote:

MD>>Thanks for posting "How to Ask Questions The Smart Way" and thanks to Eric
MD>>Raymond, et al for creating it.  I'm an IC newbie and have been monitoring
MD>>this list for about a week. This is one of the most helpful nontechnical
MD>>postings I've seen on any forum in quite some time.  It was a useful
MD>>reminder for me, and I've forwarded this to my teen girls and a friend's
MD>>teen son who's a Hacker in development.

It's very frustrating to me to see people in the position that I was in a
year ago - trying to get help. In some cases I know that I could help if
only I could understand what they are asking, or if I didn't have to wade
through 30 pages of trivial baloney to get to the meat of the problem.

We've got some very experienced guru's on this list. People that can offer
some very expert help, if only they could understand the problem.

I can't take any credit for what I posted. It was Dan Browning that found
it. I can only take credit for keeping it on my hard drive and posting it
when I see stupid questions.

The bright spot of this is that all too often once a person works through
the situation and finally has all of his ducks in a row to meet the
criteria in that posting, he will have quite often discovered the solution
to his problem by himself and no longer needs to post his question! He feels
good, and we keep the bandwidth down!

-= Jim =-

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