NBie Frustrations... 7231
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:04:29 +0000, Robert M. Riches Jr.
Long story made even longer:
I am always willing to give someone a break and believe them .... I was once a newbie too, you know .. newbie when I dropped that freshly punched box of 88 col cards with a bootstrap loader written in Honeywell JCL and I had forgotten to turn on the card numbering printer.
This is from the OP: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I should know that, who had to write a driver for a Lexmark printer, X74-X75. I was in a hurry and...
Newbie when I first tried to load CP-M on my newly built Heathkit H89 that I had "upgraded" with the 2 Mhz clock, the 64K RAM and the two 5" single side single density floppy drives instead of the paper tape loader.
Newbie when I saw, with amazement, the screen filling rusults of my first try at Basic back in 1975:
10 print "#" 20 goto 10
Nedavno Keith Keller pise: I don't know that there's general consensus, but my personal opinion is that a post that only says "Thank you" is pointless. I think it's best to followup, thank...
That filled a lot of lines on that old Texas Instruments Silent 700 printer-key input device.
Newbie when I first tinkered with OS2 and then OS2-Warp; with Windows 3.1 and then Windows for Workgroups 3.11 moving on to Win98, Win 2000, Win NT 4, Win XP.
Newbie when I first encountered Linux in 1993 on one of the original Cypherpunk's systems at his house.
We are all newbies at one time or another. Why I remember my first time figuring out how to kiss my girl friend ... back in 6th grade. What a decision tree that was. And I don't mean just the decision fork between "tongue, use" and "Tongue, do not use".
I've worked hot and cold with Linux for a long time, back and forth. Finally, I discovered that a carefully personalized and tuned Linux system would do everything that I needed to do. So I put away Windows and am 100% Linux on both business and personal systems.
There are still a poopot full of things I do not know about Linux and probably a lot that I will never know. However, the one thing I do know is to Research, to use the "man" command, to look through a few Linux books that I have, and to Google the life out of some arcane little problem which peees me off occasionally.
My biggst beef is with the trolls, sock puppets and otherwise culpable lame-brains who blow into town like Billy the Kid, stir up a bunch of poo, and then depart. If there were a way for me to use a remote control restray on them, well, their pathetic corpses would already be crystalized into a small and tidy pile of dust in the seat of their office chair. I mean, I know that they have an agenda and I should be strong enough to simply plonk them or ignore them.
But, look here, I've once again fallen prey to the troll with this post. I am ashamed of myself. I'll be flagellating soon and tightening my circutrix.
However again, on the off-chance that someone who comes to town and asks an otherwise "obvious" question, I am happy to try to answer if I know the answer. Failing that, I leave them to the tender mercies of Breuer, Hemming, Unruh and the other real Linux Experts who we are privileged to have habituate this august body.
I have spoken. Have your peeps call my peeps for an appointment before Our throne.
Cheers,
Dave
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