On Tue, January 20, 2009 21:42, Greg Palmer wrote: > Ch? Kristo wrote: >> People who do help here do so voluntarily...they have no obligation to >> help you with everything you need/want. I'm not sure why you have this >> sense of entitlement! >> > +1, I think you need to change your attitude a bit Billy. No one here is > being paid to help you, anyone lending a hand is doing their best to be > helpful. If they aren't helpful enough then it's time to try alternate > methods. If you need your hand held, pay Sun for support.
And all that's fair enough. I made reference to the fact that I *wasn't* paying for professional support in my own quest for a solution to a problem I was having, and I'd like to hope I'd have gotten much more help (from Sun) if I had been! Still, I find it harder to get knowledgeable informal advice on Solaris than I do on Linux or Windows. That's *probably* just the vastly larger number of people running the latter two OSes. But it does lead to people coming into the Solaris world from the Linux or Windows world often bouncing from what they perceive as an unfriendly environment. I get the feeling that there are old-time sysadmins around who think people should have to prove they are worthy before they're allowed to run Solaris -- or at least who believe that helping people just encourages the weak. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
