antonovich wrote: > Nick Rout wrote:
>>LDP - always your first port of call:
[URLs deleted]thanks Nick.
didn't look veryhard did you?
I didn't, in fact, look at all. I'm beginning to learn to pick my battles a bit. Sometimes it is easier to ask people about a subject before rushing off and spending a night learning about stuff.
It's almost *always* easier to ask a person. For the *asker* anyway. Can be quite frustrating for the askees.
I have often spent hours reading stuff only to find out it is no longer relevant... very frustrating.
Indeed. But a few points:
1. Most decent documentation has a date. Recent usually == relevant.
2. Even if you don't find what you are looking for, you might learn something useful for another time - to help yourself or another.
3. It helps you to develop your "relevance" filter, and your speed reading.
4. You don't annoy anybody. (Except maybe yourself :-)
Isn't that one of the main points of fora like these? Asking for pointers to stuff that people have found useful, after all, there is a lot of crap on the net too...
Well. Yes. But there's a balance to be found.
Too many questions that are answered by a few minutes googling lowers the usefulness of the forum as a whole. I'd like the "crap on the net" to not infect this forum in the form of trivially answered questions.
Equally bad is requiring a day's research before asking a question to avoid being flamed.
Common sense and consideration of others is required, including extra grace for newbies of course.
My 0.02c Cheers, Carl.
