Just as an example, yesterday I went to Best Buy and purchased
SuSE 6.4. I had Mandrake 6.1 running fine, with a 2940 Adaptec
controller..., attached to that via the internal cable is a
NEC Scsi CD-ROM drive and a Ricoh RW7060S. External cable goes
to my Zip drive..., everything is cool. I zap my Mandrake
partitions and install SuSE, and it fails. (timeout on the
Ricoh drive) By this time I'm starting to get pissed, but
I go watch TV and figured I'll tackle the problem after work
the next day. (Day 2) I boot Win98, and insert a cd into
the Ricoh, same problem..., disconnect that drive, reboot
and everything is working. (talk about ODD timing for a
failure!) In a nutshell, Murphy's law does rule. ;)
One thing that might be learned from the above is that:
1: I didn't send a nasty email to SuSE.
2: I didn't send a nasty email to Mandrake
3: I mellowed out and evaluated things the next day.
4: See #3. ;)
As a background, I've been using Linux since '92, (on and
off) and prior to that, Esix, Xenix, DOS and forcefully
forced into Windows version, (insert version here) for my
clients. I hated GUI's forever, and can still do
most tasks faster via a prompt vs a GUI. (although I
do tend to like Windowmaker)
As far as a RTFM goes, one "should" read the FAQ's and
do a bit of research before asking something. Or, if
you have a few extra dollars, go to Barnes and Noble
and pick up some good books from O'Reilly. JMHO.
Regards,
Dana
Charles Curley wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 06:49:19PM -0400, Bruce E. Harris wrote:
> -> Excellent points PJ. Unfortinatly I see this poor conduct on just about every
> -> mailing list I am on now or ever have been on.
> ->
> -> Might I add, if someone feels their question was not answered it could be no
> -> one has the answer just yet for you. Sometimes this takes times, and most if
> -> not everyone has other things in life keeping them busy. I for one have 3 mo
> -> old triplet boys along with three teen daughters...I for one am quite busy.
>
> Exactly so.
>
> Or, no-one has the answer at all. Most of us do not respond to messages
> with "Sorry, I don't know", and a good thing, too. :-)
>
> If you don't get a response in three or four days, rephrase it, let us
> know what you have done about it in the interim, and give us more details.
>
> --
>
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>
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