Rohit, you can't get closer to truth !!! I agree with every word you said.
A post at LIH is the 'easy' way of solving a problem. But real achievement is to approach the problem head-on and try to solve it yourselves first. This 'hard' way doing things is the most rewarding. As Rohit pointed out, there is so much you can do on your own before turning to LIH. At the same time, this should not deter newbies from asking questions- and end up wasting precious time.Just keep LIH at the back of your minds. Maintain a balance between the 'easy' and 'hard' approaches. [ Allow me to give an example: Few days back I needed to break a large file into smaller fragments. I had read somewhere about the 'split' utility. Great. But I couldn't remember the way to merge the pieces back. Similar to 'Abhimanyu' inside the 'chakravyuhu' !!! I knew I had the info on my hard disk somewhere. I searched and searched and searched for ~2 days but to no avail. Suddenly I realized that I was wasting my time for nothing. I put up a query at LIH and bingo! got the answer in a jiffy.....See, one's got to maintain that balance ] BTW Rohit, you seem to have this knack of saying such profound thoughts. I appreciate that. Thumbs up !!! ------------------------<quote>--------------------------------------- > I have lately seen [lately = since I joined back after an overhaul of my > own for more than a year now] that there are many newbie and some > guru-levels questions asked on the list - which would be answered > comfortably, if we had the habit of looking at man pages, info pages, > howtos and logs. > > It is fantastic the LIH is there, but in past, myself included, we have > had a tendency of turning to LIH for help a bit too soon. Since it is > there and problems get sorted out. > > Reading the notes written by others, analysing those, looking at our own > logs [or other possible sources/records of error] and being comfortable > with the process is a complete skill and it can save enoromous amount of > time - especially if you have plans to seriously administer and use a > working Unix system someday. The earlier we get comfortable with our > machine, the better. And yes, when you are at it, do not forget that the > LIH archieve is there [myself included and kicked in the butt for asking > about Motorola MP56PCI modem and kernel 2.4.x] > > All the best to us. I am going to read the Serial-line HOWTO myself :-) > > Rohit ------------------------</quote>-------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
