Perhaps that is what the poster meant by "bad spot". If "Hitler" were altered to read as "Hatler", I'm pretty sure the meaning would still be clear from the context.
The vanilla info viewer is crap. That doesn't say anything about the quality of info pages. Some of them are IMO useless but there are also ones well written and actually helpful.
I find the Info mode of EMACS pretty awesome. (C-h i or M-x info)
I was really lucky. The first time I tried Linux, I had a tutor. He at times asked us questions like "Imagine you're under situation foo [insert annoying scenario here]. Now where would you look for info that may help you getting out of there?" and alike. He sometimes ran into genuine problems when he was giving us a prepared demo, and we learned from the way he solved or tried to solve them. He never said "RTFM" except at the end of a lecture ("And don't forget to read The Fine Mmanual").
One just can't get that as an individual newbie.
Newbies need learning experience not docs. The right search keywords is hundreds of times more important than the docs, and the experience of ending up with good search keywords is infinitely more rewarding than those keywords themselves. Sadly, not all people know how to be a learner, especially after we're out of college.
Docs are written for humans, and humans are different from each other. On the same hardware running the same OS, Alice and Bob probably wants different jobs done and neither has a clue about where to start. That's why you need docs explaining how different needs are met.
That's probably why most distros install the info/man pages by default or offer an option of install them in the installer.
Also, I knew many newbies, on hearing the mighty "RTFM" from gurus, tended to think that the man pages could solve all their problems. That's a myth. What they lack is not documentation, but *experience*, and docs are never a substitute of experience. A newb may barely have a grasp of what the pages are talking about, while a user with some experience may smell bullshit in the docs fairly easily and decide where to look for further information. Many of us answer everything by "RTFM", but that's probably harmful for the avg. Linux newbie.
If a software solution is crappy enough, it is impossible to write document for it. If a program has to be *endured* rather than enjoyed, all its documentation can do is either reinforcing the shittiness experience by point out *how* and *why* it already sucks and un-amendable (if the doc is correct), or dumping more crap on top of that (if the doc is incorrect).
I'm looking at you, GNOME. I used to be a GNOME user but I gave up. The docs was barely useful for anything. I wanted to configure GDM and there's no explanation of those arcane XML shit and event hooks. The conf files were scattered here and there, and guess what, the infamous, incomprehensible gconf that actually brags about being modeled after MS registry! I finally got the idea that the devs simply gave up the idea of explaining their un-explainable clusterfuck already. I don't use a DE anymore.
Mod me however you want. I'm not a karma sink and I don't save it for an afterlife.
Thanks. I was trolling for information, so sorry about what I wrote in GP post.
That said, one piece of information is disturbing: copyright infringement is (or is becoming) a criminal offense in the USA? Everywhere else it is a civil matter between the copyright holder and the infringing party.
If I were a navy commander, instead of shooting the bastard pirates, I would rather prefer keeping them alive and using them. As long as the pirates are alive and well, they can be manipulated to disrupt an enemy states transportation of vital material, gather intelligence, wreck panic and fear in an enemy state's civilians/government, etc.
Who do you think are providing the coordinates of victim cargo ships to the poorly equipped pirates?
The whole "pirate fighting" thing is a scam. Or rather, a game played by major military forces in which the pirates are not the objective, but the material.
Do you really think the pirates are so tough an enemy for a superpower like the USA?
this is the very basis of what Slashdot is founded on, that is don't give me bull$%#@ show me the data and your source, and most of all don't patronize me!
Slashdot Mirror
I'd suggest Scroogle (https://ssl.scroogle.org/ -- Google sans the crap), but it seems down at the moment. Cue the conspiracy theories in 3, 2, 1 ...
That's 3 bits, or am I missing some obscure EBCDIC joke and should get off your lawn?
Perhaps that is what the poster meant by "bad spot". If "Hitler" were altered to read as "Hatler", I'm pretty sure the meaning would still be clear from the context.
Godvin.
AFAIK French legal system doesn't use this "precedence" the same way you USAers do.
The vanilla info viewer is crap. That doesn't say anything about the quality of info pages. Some of them are IMO useless but there are also ones well written and actually helpful.
I find the Info mode of EMACS pretty awesome. (C-h i or M-x info)
Arch's wiki rocks.
I was really lucky. The first time I tried Linux, I had a tutor. He at times asked us questions like "Imagine you're under situation foo [insert annoying scenario here]. Now where would you look for info that may help you getting out of there?" and alike. He sometimes ran into genuine problems when he was giving us a prepared demo, and we learned from the way he solved or tried to solve them. He never said "RTFM" except at the end of a lecture ("And don't forget to read The Fine Mmanual").
One just can't get that as an individual newbie.
Newbies need learning experience not docs. The right search keywords is hundreds of times more important than the docs, and the experience of ending up with good search keywords is infinitely more rewarding than those keywords themselves. Sadly, not all people know how to be a learner, especially after we're out of college.
Well joking aside, I heard rumors that Reiser4 is being considered by Linux devs and likely to be merged in the stable kernel soon. Any news on that?
I've been posting on Slashdot since World War II, and the silly trolls have always been modded +5 Insightful ;)
Docs are written for humans, and humans are different from each other. On the same hardware running the same OS, Alice and Bob probably wants different jobs done and neither has a clue about where to start. That's why you need docs explaining how different needs are met.
And yeah, that's hard.
That's probably why most distros install the info/man pages by default or offer an option of install them in the installer.
Also, I knew many newbies, on hearing the mighty "RTFM" from gurus, tended to think that the man pages could solve all their problems. That's a myth. What they lack is not documentation, but *experience*, and docs are never a substitute of experience. A newb may barely have a grasp of what the pages are talking about, while a user with some experience may smell bullshit in the docs fairly easily and decide where to look for further information. Many of us answer everything by "RTFM", but that's probably harmful for the avg. Linux newbie.
If a software solution is crappy enough, it is impossible to write document for it. If a program has to be *endured* rather than enjoyed, all its documentation can do is either reinforcing the shittiness experience by point out *how* and *why* it already sucks and un-amendable (if the doc is correct), or dumping more crap on top of that (if the doc is incorrect).
I'm looking at you, GNOME. I used to be a GNOME user but I gave up. The docs was barely useful for anything. I wanted to configure GDM and there's no explanation of those arcane XML shit and event hooks. The conf files were scattered here and there, and guess what, the infamous, incomprehensible gconf that actually brags about being modeled after MS registry! I finally got the idea that the devs simply gave up the idea of explaining their un-explainable clusterfuck already. I don't use a DE anymore.
Mod me however you want. I'm not a karma sink and I don't save it for an afterlife.
Fedora 12 already supports btrfs as an experimental feature, but there's still a long way to go in the near future.
And what about Reiser4?
Are for-profit hospitals illegal in the USA?
printf("La ");
while(zomg linux ftw!){
printf("la ");
fork();
}
There, fixed that for you ;)
Thanks. I was trolling for information, so sorry about what I wrote in GP post.
That said, one piece of information is disturbing: copyright infringement is (or is becoming) a criminal offense in the USA? Everywhere else it is a civil matter between the copyright holder and the infringing party.
Freedom has given way to corporations needs and our ever more difficult struggle to maintain our standard of living.
It's your Manifest Destiny, USAer. Your Founding Fathers were not the opposite of it, but part of it.
Get over it.
We Linux geeks won't censor you or sue you or something. We're not MS.
It's not a hazard. It's a benefit. We understand.
What kind of a web server need to modify the routing table??? Sounds like a terrible design.
Don't use a block list. Use a whitelist and keep it as short as possible.
Or mount the .adobe and .macromedia directories as small tmpfs filesystems (with mode=700, noexec, etc.). Some sites seem to require it to function.
Better yet, run firefox in a chrooted box entirely in tmpfs (no files on disk) and browse over tor. Or just remove the damned Flash blob already ;)
If I were a navy commander, instead of shooting the bastard pirates, I would rather prefer keeping them alive and using them. As long as the pirates are alive and well, they can be manipulated to disrupt an enemy states transportation of vital material, gather intelligence, wreck panic and fear in an enemy state's civilians/government, etc.
Who do you think are providing the coordinates of victim cargo ships to the poorly equipped pirates?
The whole "pirate fighting" thing is a scam. Or rather, a game played by major military forces in which the pirates are not the objective, but the material.
Do you really think the pirates are so tough an enemy for a superpower like the USA?
You must be new here.
Those are not the data you're looking for.
An ideal approach is an OS that's *more* focused on the cloud, rather than *entirely* focused.
You mean Plan 9?