On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 02:36:09AM +0530, Namit Bhalla wrote: > > 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.
Glorify this DIY attitude how much you want, from my own personal experience of doing my first Linux instal- lation when we had no Internet, no books .. and yes not even CD roms on our boxes, things weren't easy ... Till 98, progress was slow .. it was things like debian-user LG and CD based distros which gave the acceleration ... This is precisely what lists are for ... why hesitate ? > As Rohit pointed out, there is so much you can do on > your own before turning to LIH. > As a newbie, I did not even know what could be done ... leave alone look for it. It was all a matter of experi- mentation, and time consuming tribulations. > > 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. > A newbie is not likely to know the difference. A state of zero, is a state of zero. It is nice to see people take off on things like squid and ipchains right from the word go ... these are the people who have to carry the fire ... If you can jumpstart to step 10 from zero by asking some-one, why not ? Rather than deter, I'd recommend newbies to ask so that he/ she is led to the right place, and things are picked up faster. This is the very purpose of help lists. > [ 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 ] This is an ideal example of futility of rtfm. If you had spent another 2 years doing rtfm, you would not have gone much further. The answer is NOT on the hard disk. split is so rarely used, even the man and info pages are not maintained! IIRC, I also responded to this post. Incidentally, there is also a thing called 'join'.See if you can put that to any use ... absolutly no connection with split! As a general rule, browse through HOW-TOs, man and info pages ... if not satisfied ask ! Remember, most "simple" or "stupid" questions are not answered in the fm either. Just my 2p ;-) Bish. -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Default Console Font LOST #063 Do you long for a change of the default font at boot up ? Look at the kbd fonts in /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts installed by the "kbd" package". man setfont for details ... You may prefer to include the line in your .bashrc ... Try : $setfont /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/b.fnt.gz ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
