On Saturday 04 July 2009, James Reed wrote: >Richard: > No one is here with the intent to make you mad, deceive you, or coerce you > into developing something. As near as I can determine, everyone has tried > to be patient and caring. The trouble is, these dedicated people are > trying to advance the EMC project, provide support, and document everything > on their own time, donating every bit of it. That's how open source > happens most of the time. > >I'm not trying to deny you have frustrations, just trying to let you know > you are chasing away the very people you need to succeed. > >I, too, when I first started trying to learn here got very frustrated. As I > continued on, I even quit for a while. Then I realized it was not those > people (who had already tried to help me tremendously - as they have you) > that I was frustrated with, but my own progress. To solve that, I printed > out each of the manuals, read them front to back at least 3 times, and > practiced on little projects until I could remember at least a few of the > tricks and commands. (I'm a slow learner as everyone on the EMC project > probably knows). > >I still forget things and where they are located, and occasionally get > reminded of that on the mailing list or chat lines. > >As far as your concern of running a 7i43 right out of the box, I can't and > haven't found that claim anywhere. I'm not saying you're wrong, I just > never saw it. Actually, some good has come out of your ranting in the way > of Ted Hyde's description which helped many of us anticipating the use of > the Mesa boards, but I wouldn't expect any more progress, as you're beating > up on your helpers. > >Please step back, see if you really want to pursue EMC and work with the > developers and helpers, and then proceed accordingly. > >PS: I noticed you wanted the people of EMC to step back and take time to > understand your problem. That is exactly what the EMC people are trying to > say to you. Take the time to study your problem, reasearch all you can, > and study the documents to understand what is going on. Then, if you > politely show you have done your homework, they will be much more willing > to pursue your problem.
Extremely well said James. Thanks. I have yet to ask a question (more often than not based on an incomplete understanding on my part) that wasn't answered by someone here, (or on IRC) sometimes directly, and sometimes with a pointer to the wiki so I could do my own detective work, but I have always rx'd a helpful answer. Sometimes it is up to the questioner to recognize that the answer he got is in fact helpful. That means one must be willing to help himself too. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> If Bill Gates is the Devil then Linus Torvalds must be the Messiah. -- Unknown source ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
