On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:25:07 +0200 Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 13:42 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > 2009/2/17 Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il>:
[... snip snip ...] > > (I actually prefer top-posting, as it saves me the need to scroll > downwards when I do quick reading; but I'll play along in this posting.) > I prefer snipping and in posting personally but yes, sometimes top posting can be a lot clearer and I've deleted my share of messages that I was just too tired scrolling to the end to see what they added. > The kind of newbies' questions which I prefer to avoid is the repeating > one. One newbie asks how to mount his USB DiskOnKey. We answer him. A > week later, another newbie comes and (being newbie, he is totally > unaware of the list archives or of the documentation available from > Google), asks the same question. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!! > And maybe teaching them to look in archives and search on google is a cause by itself? Although admittedly I can sometimes have a light trigger finger when really annoyed with something and really tired, but I do try to make up for it by trying to help other people also. > I don't see you, Dotan Cohen, asking questions which were already asked > recently. I don't think that any of your example questions would > currently qualify as noob questions. Long time has passed since anyone > compiled his own kernel in Linux-IL or discussed writing a driver. > Anyone compiled on the list, asked about it on the list or anyone from the list? Since my last kernel compilations happened to be February 3,4,10 and 14. I fiddled with the qc-usb module a couple of weeks back to get it to compile with kernel 2.6.28, with the compat-wireless driver to get my wireless led working, a bit with the vmware drivers and I think that there were a couple of others I broke lately setting up a cluster, so I guess that it's not the last one ... And I can still remember my days installing debian for the first time I think it was when hamm was testing or unstable. There was no mailing list, very little info and if I wasn't so stubborn I would probably would never have managed (and if I didn't do some embeded development with linux on linux for a while I'm not sure if it would have been my primary system even now). So why not make like a little easier for the noobs? > --- Omer > > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il