Hello webisinsecure, Tuesday, December 27, 2005, 1:44:55 AM, you wrote:
w> I think so that once you learn to do the things yourself you are more w> enthusiastic towards helping out others, as well as contributing w> towards Linux. w> And source code though confusing, but may still help out when nothing w> else help. Btw. i dont say that there shouldn't be any documentation, w> if there it is, then its best.If not try posting on forums like this, w> contact the author, see it urself in the source ;-) Hint: Programmers write man pages. They probably have a reason for doing this. Trying to figure out what someone else's source code does, and what someone else's comments mean (especially if they are written in a different language), in order to install and run an application, is doing things the hard way, even for a programmer, who happens to be proficient in the programming language used, and familiar with the programming niche, the application belongs to. Trying to figure out what my own source code does, and what my own comments mean, a year after I wrote them, is challenging enough. Right now, I am working on figuring out how to configure and run Apache and Sendmail on an OpenBSD installation. I have the books, I have the man pages, I have about a dozen different information sources open in my browsers. I have a sneaking suspicion that browsing the germane source code for this stuff, would be unenlightening, and a huge waste of my time. -wittig website: http://www.robertwittig.com/ . ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income homes are not online. Make a difference this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5UeCyC/BWHMAA/TtwFAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
