"“Most Reviled Person on the Internet, 2010 Edition.”", "while the future may see my name relegated to the role of punch line for a crude party joke". Sounds like this guy has a vastly overinflated sense of self-importance. Or maybe I don't spend enough time on the internet to know who the Most Reviled Person was and will be doomed to laughing uncomfortably trying to blend in at parties when people start busting out the Randall Kennedy jokes.
RTFA. Nobody leaked the URL to reporters. Reporters guessed URL's until they hit on one.
What? From TFA:
We got a tip on Friday that you could read the government's transport plan by accessing a website called, unsurprisingly, nswtransportblueprint.com.au...we were confronted with a dream menu for any reporter: rail services, cycleways, walking and cycling, bus services, paying and road network.
I understand we're not supposed to RTFA, but telling somebody that they are contradicted by TFA without RTFA? Is this a new rule?
If you are achieving that much at that time in your life, why on earth would you be going to community college? Either make sure that their high schools can challenge them, or get them to a college with an academic environment that will.
A community college does not have that environment.
Really? I took several of my pre-engineering courses at the local community college (as did 1/2 the engineering students at my university) because the classes/professors there had a reputation of being better than those teaching the courses at the university. I would agree. Community colleges aren't 2nd class universities where the kids who aren't smart enough to go to a real school end up. I found most of the students in the community college courses were more motivated than my university "peers". I eventually concluded that the community college students were mostly there to actually learn and had a goal in mind, whereas a good portion of the students at the university were only there because they're parents said they had to go, or "that's what you do after high school", or they heard that computer engineers make a lot of money. I also found that my professors at the community college were there to teach and pass on what they knew. Their counterparts at the university were really interested in their grants and research, but the university forced them to teach. Unless you had them for a course that was relevant to their research, they were just playing the part and really didn't care.
I cycle about 15km a day (5500km a year), which is mostly to and from work, plus going to places at weekends. I weigh ~60kg, which puts me on the lower end of "healthy weight" for my height. One of my IT colleagues rows regularly, another belongs to a football team, another goes to the gym most days. Many others cycle or walk to work. There are only a couple of people I'd consider overweight.
...and how often do they spend a weekend rebuilding their gentoo system to find the most optimum CFLAGS setting?
I attended a school where cheating was also grossly ignored. The most flagrant example I can think of was in an intro to software engineering course where about 70% of our final grade was based on a semester-long project. Of course, the semester-long project does not change from semester to semester, so last semester's (and the one before that, and the one before that) projects were readily available. On the final day of class, each group (maybe 10 groups of 3 or 4) presented their projects. More than half of the class turned in the same project from the previous semester. Some of them actually took the time to at least change the colors on the GUI, but two or three did not. I talked to some of the students that turned in the same project the next semester and asked if anybody had called them out on it, and they all said that they got their A and nothing happened. The professor did not care at all.
This is hardly revolutionary technology the Sony MZ R700 MiniDisc walkman came with a rechargable battery and a charging circuit so you can charge it from the wall wart. The best part is that its an AA battery, so not only can you swap it out for a standard AA in a pinch you can also stick any other rechargable AA in and use that/recharge it internally. And that came out in 2001 and is the tiniest most amazing piece of electronics i've ever laid hands on, I bought a "new" one off ebay just a couple of weeks ago.
Hooray for obsolete technology. Good to see that I'm not the only one still clinging to my minidisc and getting laughed at by all my ipod/phone toting friends when they see it. I always like the Sharps better though, they don't feel as fisher price.
I may be off because I'm not an expert in optimal control theory or nonlinear dynamics but I'm gonna guess it's because the Audi offers 4WD and in turn a much more stable platform through what are very "dynamic" turns. Consider the mathematics throughout a turn on gravel while applying power with a 2WD versus a 4WD. Would the 4WD be easier to control? I propose it would be.
Then again it could be because Audis are great at rally racing and they got one for cheap.
The Audi will also come with a lot of built-in "don't drive off the road" features called algorithms. Fortunately for the stanford team, Audi has already figured out computer controls to mostly keep the car from spinning out or locking up the brakes when presented with mostly reasonable inputs. They have to make it run up the mountain without creating any unreasonable inputs now.
Good going Novell, yet another stellar business decision. The $240mil had to have been the value of the entire deal, which was mostly beneficial to Microsoft in that they weren't going to be sued by Novell since Novell owns a lot of the UNIX patents. The licenses were being resold by Microsoft at prices substantially less than ($240/77)x1000
I wasn't even born yet - but I had heard of Challenger and the failure, though I had never seen anything like it. It still strikes me as shocking even though I know whats going to happen. I feel the same sadness now as many must have felt over 20 years ago.
Part of me feels like I've just missed one of the greatest eras of mankind. Space Exploration, Cold war ending, Berlin wall coming down and all that. There was a time when Astronauts were hailed as heros, now our generation views them as simple scientists in the ISS. They're lucky if their launches or arrivals get 15 minutes of airtime. Seems like nothing happens unless there is a disaster. I know this is not true, as there are people still doing missions in space (Hubbles maintenance is the first one that comes to mind). It just saddens me that it is no longer "Big News" sending people into space, only when its a disaster. RIP Challenger Crew. May it not only serve as an example of the dangers involved, but also as a reminder of the men and women who brave those dangers for the pursuit of knowledge.
That's actually one of the contributing factors to the Challenger explosion. By then, the shuttle launches had become routine, and not seen as quite as big a deal as a few years previous. This led to less scrutiny of the launch conditions and managers in control who saw "successful day's work" == "shuttle going into the air" instead of "shuttle not exploding".
With a lack of consistent reinforcement of the basics in every class and in every setting, is it any wonder that the kids can't spell when they get to college? I recall getting points marked down in all my classes (including science classes) for misspellings, and I am stunned by the fact that somehow proper spelling and grammar is not considered something that anyone other than an English teacher should be concerned about when grading.
So you could theoretically fail your physics course, not because you didn't know any physics, but because your lab reports had misspellings and grammatical errors? I recall some teachers in high school taking off points (almost always an arbitrary amount) for bad grammar outside of english class, but these were also courses that involved a large amount of writing or were closely related to english, such as theatre, history, or philosophy. I don't recall ever losing points in chemistry, physics, math, etc. due to any grammatical errors (plenty for getting dimensional analysis wrong though). You would probably also love to hear that our english teachers usually did not penalise us for spelling and grammar mistakes, although they were always pointed out.
There's little doubt the English language has evolved and, some argue, is always evolving.
However, grammar and syntax rules for a human language are essentially no different than rules for a computer language. The rules are set to establish use and understanding.
If I, suddenly decided, that every, second word, should be, separated by, commas then, it would, make this, sentence much, tougher to, use and, understand right?
Do you, have a, newsletter?, I would, like to, subscribe.,
Raw conversion tool for Linux is good news, but the thing that really seems to be lacking is colour management. I'm a serious hobby photographer (exhibited and published), and I use Photoshop on Windows
Thats not entirely accurate. Ufraw has for a long time included a batch tool called ufraw-batch. Try running that command it if you have ufraw installed and see for yourself. The idea is that you process one image in the series in the normal ufraw gui and save the changes you made as a template to a config file (thats what that button in the ufraw gui is for). Then you have ufraw-batch load that config and process as many pictures as you like. I tried rawstudio, but it kept crashing for me. Been using ufraw for two years, and it works great here. I don't think the UI is confusing.
Its command-line only, thats probably why you missed.
ufraw is probably what I use most because of this feature. Setup a general profile for how my raw photos come out, then ufraw-batch the entire 10G directory, and spend the next couple days/weeks going through the results and picking out images that might need some more processing. Those usually just end up sitting around until I forget about them though. I still haven't found anything suitable in linux for editing individual raw photos that need it. LightZone in general works well, but the price for it is absurd since it has no support at all for HDR, and for the same price I could buy a copy of Lightroom.
In Linux, the kernel can be configured to provide functions for system debugging and crash recovery.[4] This use is known as the "Magic SysRq key".
I guess there will be no more Raising Skinny Elephants on a Lenovo anymore. And while I have only used it a few times in the last year, I have used it.
Meh, I always found that to be Utterly Boring anyways.
How practical is it to travel to Florida to see a shuttle launch in person? It seems like most of the launches these days are delayed weeks or longer from their originally-scheduled dates. I'd like to see the last one, but obviously if it means renting a room there for a month it's not really something I could do.
Sounds like you've already worked that out. If you were going to do it, you should clear out about a week and plan something else to do in Florida, then work around the shuttle launch. If you're planning on taking a couple days off to fly down, see the launch, and fly back, then there is a pretty good chance that you won't see it. It's kind of hard to tell until the day of the launch what the chances that the window will be clear are. Florida also tends to have hurricanes and thunderstorms during this time. If there is not an impending hurricane or huge storm system, then they will usually get off the ground within a week. If they have a mechanical delay, then it can be a lot longer.
Make user an admin on their own machine if you want to increase the IT staff. Lock down group policies if you are overworked.
I think you meant:
Make a stupid user an admin on their own machine if you want to increase the IT staff. Make a smart user an admin on their own machine if you are overworked. Make everyone an admin on their own machine if you're a contractor, for obvious self-enrichment reasons.
Smart user? Might as well add in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy.
So many of the Engineers I have known view "seeing both sides of the story" as some kind of weakness or soft-spined compromise. "Right is Right, Wrong is Wrong, I'm Right, and that's all there is to it. Period. Full Stop. Now If You'll Excuse Me, I've got to get back to My Important Thing."
Of course, more times than not, they ARE right. Just pains in the ass, and living in their Own Private Idaho.
It's not every engineer, of course, but a much larger percentage than, say, the writers or entertainers or sales-and-marketing suits whose company I have frequented over the past few decades. I've never made the connection before, but yes, most of the socially-dysfunctional engineers I know would make really good religious extremists.
That's probably because deep down in their tiny hearts sales-and-marketing suits know that they're wrong. As for the writers and entertainers, they're just flaky artists who only have convictions about popular or well known causes that have an easily digested platform and talking points of course.
Engineers, however, are correct and they have the data to back it up. You don't want to tangle with the data.
You're a fucking idiot. Why would you buy it for full retail price from Newegg when you can get discounted volume licenses from Microsoft?
Probably because the grandparent was quoting retail pricing for RHEL. I'm not even sure what their "Virtualization for Servers" is selling anyways since basic RHEL and Advanced Platform come with KVM, and Advanced Platform covers unlimited guests and unlimited sockets.
All through '43, we had separate puzzlers each working on a single piece, for safety. One time, a puzzler saw the piece of another and had to be hospitalized for three weeks.
What did the Germans come up with? I bet it was so well documented that it couldn't send anybody mad.
When I tell people about it, I go on and on and on about how unbelievably bad it is. I insist that it's worse than the worst you can possibly think of and then some. I tell them that it's not one of those things that's so bad that it's good, it's so bad that it's just bad. Really, really, really, really, really bad. Horrible. And not in a way that's funny. It's just bad.
When people I've warned about it end up finally seeing it, they always tell me that my warnings didn't even come close to preparing them for just how bad it actually was.
I'd say that, even if you're a die-hard fan, SWHS is so bad that it's not even worth seeing. I personally can't bring myself to watch it a second time. It's just so freakin' bad.
Do yourself a favour. Stay away from it — far, far away.
He speaks the truth...I was also told how bad it was, including "the first 10 minutes are nothing but grunting wookies", and I did not heed the warnings. I foolishly thought that it couldn't be nearly as bad as everybody says it is. But yes, it is. I would warn others not to watch it, but I know you won't listen. If you really want to see it that badly, it's up on youtube. The highlight of the entire thing is the commercials from 1978, they are an interesting contrast to commercials of today.
Or some people seriously only print a few pages a year. I bought a printer for $60 almost 2 years ago for home, and I'm still on the original ink cartridge. Apart from printing out the odd recipe for my wife, and printing out my tax forms, I find little use for dead tree.
I went to kinkos and printed out the few pages I needed this year for $1.74
Gentoo? I've found it to be rather good. Maybe you're not a ricer though and want to use something mainstream like redhat/centos? Have any of these people actually RTFM that they are saying is inadequate or lacking? What is the author's definition of "good" documentation? The docs I've found for linux have generally been superior to ones I've come across from Oracle, Novell, or Microsoft.
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"“Most Reviled Person on the Internet, 2010 Edition.”", "while the future may see my name relegated to the role of punch line for a crude party joke". Sounds like this guy has a vastly overinflated sense of self-importance. Or maybe I don't spend enough time on the internet to know who the Most Reviled Person was and will be doomed to laughing uncomfortably trying to blend in at parties when people start busting out the Randall Kennedy jokes.
Sorry, but your argument fails immediately.
RTFA. Nobody leaked the URL to reporters. Reporters guessed URL's until they hit on one.
What? From TFA:
We got a tip on Friday that you could read the government's transport plan by accessing a website called, unsurprisingly, nswtransportblueprint.com.au ...we were confronted with a dream menu for any reporter: rail services, cycleways, walking and cycling, bus services, paying and road network.
I understand we're not supposed to RTFA, but telling somebody that they are contradicted by TFA without RTFA? Is this a new rule?
If you are achieving that much at that time in your life, why on earth would you be going to community college? Either make sure that their high schools can challenge them, or get them to a college with an academic environment that will.
A community college does not have that environment.
Really? I took several of my pre-engineering courses at the local community college (as did 1/2 the engineering students at my university) because the classes/professors there had a reputation of being better than those teaching the courses at the university. I would agree. Community colleges aren't 2nd class universities where the kids who aren't smart enough to go to a real school end up. I found most of the students in the community college courses were more motivated than my university "peers". I eventually concluded that the community college students were mostly there to actually learn and had a goal in mind, whereas a good portion of the students at the university were only there because they're parents said they had to go, or "that's what you do after high school", or they heard that computer engineers make a lot of money. I also found that my professors at the community college were there to teach and pass on what they knew. Their counterparts at the university were really interested in their grants and research, but the university forced them to teach. Unless you had them for a course that was relevant to their research, they were just playing the part and really didn't care.
That stereotype is overrated.
I cycle about 15km a day (5500km a year), which is mostly to and from work, plus going to places at weekends. I weigh ~60kg, which puts me on the lower end of "healthy weight" for my height. One of my IT colleagues rows regularly, another belongs to a football team, another goes to the gym most days. Many others cycle or walk to work. There are only a couple of people I'd consider overweight.
...and how often do they spend a weekend rebuilding their gentoo system to find the most optimum CFLAGS setting?
I attended a school where cheating was also grossly ignored. The most flagrant example I can think of was in an intro to software engineering course where about 70% of our final grade was based on a semester-long project. Of course, the semester-long project does not change from semester to semester, so last semester's (and the one before that, and the one before that) projects were readily available. On the final day of class, each group (maybe 10 groups of 3 or 4) presented their projects. More than half of the class turned in the same project from the previous semester. Some of them actually took the time to at least change the colors on the GUI, but two or three did not. I talked to some of the students that turned in the same project the next semester and asked if anybody had called them out on it, and they all said that they got their A and nothing happened. The professor did not care at all.
I'm envisioning a half-dozen new datacenters for VPS hosting being built in Singapore the day that this law actually passes...
Because Singapore is a much more open society than Australia?
This is hardly revolutionary technology the Sony MZ R700 MiniDisc walkman came with a rechargable battery and a charging circuit so you can charge it from the wall wart. The best part is that its an AA battery, so not only can you swap it out for a standard AA in a pinch you can also stick any other rechargable AA in and use that/recharge it internally. And that came out in 2001 and is the tiniest most amazing piece of electronics i've ever laid hands on, I bought a "new" one off ebay just a couple of weeks ago.
Hooray for obsolete technology. Good to see that I'm not the only one still clinging to my minidisc and getting laughed at by all my ipod/phone toting friends when they see it. I always like the Sharps better though, they don't feel as fisher price.
I may be off because I'm not an expert in optimal control theory or nonlinear dynamics but I'm gonna guess it's because the Audi offers 4WD and in turn a much more stable platform through what are very "dynamic" turns. Consider the mathematics throughout a turn on gravel while applying power with a 2WD versus a 4WD. Would the 4WD be easier to control? I propose it would be.
Then again it could be because Audis are great at rally racing and they got one for cheap.
The Audi will also come with a lot of built-in "don't drive off the road" features called algorithms.
Fortunately for the stanford team, Audi has already figured out computer controls to mostly keep the car from spinning out or locking up the brakes when presented with mostly reasonable inputs. They have to make it run up the mountain without creating any unreasonable inputs now.
Novell stock has lost 30%
Microsoft stock has lost 1%
Redhat stock has gained 78%
Good going Novell, yet another stellar business decision. The $240mil had to have been the value of the entire deal, which was mostly beneficial to Microsoft in that they weren't going to be sued by Novell since Novell owns a lot of the UNIX patents. The licenses were being resold by Microsoft at prices substantially less than ($240/77)x1000
I wasn't even born yet - but I had heard of Challenger and the failure, though I had never seen anything like it. It still strikes me as shocking even though I know whats going to happen. I feel the same sadness now as many must have felt over 20 years ago.
Part of me feels like I've just missed one of the greatest eras of mankind. Space Exploration, Cold war ending, Berlin wall coming down and all that. There was a time when Astronauts were hailed as heros, now our generation views them as simple scientists in the ISS. They're lucky if their launches or arrivals get 15 minutes of airtime. Seems like nothing happens unless there is a disaster. I know this is not true, as there are people still doing missions in space (Hubbles maintenance is the first one that comes to mind). It just saddens me that it is no longer "Big News" sending people into space, only when its a disaster. RIP Challenger Crew. May it not only serve as an example of the dangers involved, but also as a reminder of the men and women who brave those dangers for the pursuit of knowledge.
That's actually one of the contributing factors to the Challenger explosion. By then, the shuttle launches had become routine, and not seen as quite as big a deal as a few years previous. This led to less scrutiny of the launch conditions and managers in control who saw "successful day's work" == "shuttle going into the air" instead of "shuttle not exploding".
With a lack of consistent reinforcement of the basics in every class and in every setting, is it any wonder that the kids can't spell when they get to college? I recall getting points marked down in all my classes (including science classes) for misspellings, and I am stunned by the fact that somehow proper spelling and grammar is not considered something that anyone other than an English teacher should be concerned about when grading.
So you could theoretically fail your physics course, not because you didn't know any physics, but because your lab reports had misspellings and grammatical errors? I recall some teachers in high school taking off points (almost always an arbitrary amount) for bad grammar outside of english class, but these were also courses that involved a large amount of writing or were closely related to english, such as theatre, history, or philosophy. I don't recall ever losing points in chemistry, physics, math, etc. due to any grammatical errors (plenty for getting dimensional analysis wrong though). You would probably also love to hear that our english teachers usually did not penalise us for spelling and grammar mistakes, although they were always pointed out.
There's little doubt the English language has evolved and, some argue, is always evolving.
However, grammar and syntax rules for a human language are essentially no different than rules for a computer language. The rules are set to establish use and understanding.
If I, suddenly decided, that every, second word, should be, separated by, commas then, it would, make this, sentence much, tougher to, use and, understand right?
Do you, have a, newsletter?, I would, like to, subscribe.,
Raw conversion tool for Linux is good news, but the thing that really seems to be lacking is colour management. I'm a serious hobby photographer (exhibited and published), and I use Photoshop on Windows
Tried cinepaint?
Thats not entirely accurate. Ufraw has for a long time included a batch tool called ufraw-batch. Try running that command it if you have ufraw installed and see for yourself. The idea is that you process one image in the series in the normal ufraw gui and save the changes you made as a template to a config file (thats what that button in the ufraw gui is for). Then you have ufraw-batch load that config and process as many pictures as you like. I tried rawstudio, but it kept crashing for me. Been using ufraw for two years, and it works great here. I don't think the UI is confusing.
Its command-line only, thats probably why you missed.
ufraw is probably what I use most because of this feature. Setup a general profile for how my raw photos come out, then ufraw-batch the entire 10G directory, and spend the next couple days/weeks going through the results and picking out images that might need some more processing. Those usually just end up sitting around until I forget about them though. I still haven't found anything suitable in linux for editing individual raw photos that need it. LightZone in general works well, but the price for it is absurd since it has no support at all for HDR, and for the same price I could buy a copy of Lightroom.
In Linux, the kernel can be configured to provide functions for system debugging and crash recovery.[4] This use is known as the "Magic SysRq key".
I guess there will be no more Raising Skinny Elephants on a Lenovo anymore. And while I have only used it a few times in the last year, I have used it.
Meh, I always found that to be Utterly Boring anyways.
How practical is it to travel to Florida to see a shuttle launch in person? It seems like most of the launches these days are delayed weeks or longer from their originally-scheduled dates. I'd like to see the last one, but obviously if it means renting a room there for a month it's not really something I could do.
Sounds like you've already worked that out. If you were going to do it, you should clear out about a week and plan something else to do in Florida, then work around the shuttle launch. If you're planning on taking a couple days off to fly down, see the launch, and fly back, then there is a pretty good chance that you won't see it. It's kind of hard to tell until the day of the launch what the chances that the window will be clear are. Florida also tends to have hurricanes and thunderstorms during this time. If there is not an impending hurricane or huge storm system, then they will usually get off the ground within a week. If they have a mechanical delay, then it can be a lot longer.
Oh, and it will also be very very very crowded.
Make user an admin on their own machine if you want to increase the IT staff. Lock down group policies if you are overworked.
I think you meant:
Make a stupid user an admin on their own machine if you want to increase the IT staff. Make a smart user an admin on their own machine if you are overworked. Make everyone an admin on their own machine if you're a contractor, for obvious self-enrichment reasons.
Smart user? Might as well add in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy.
So many of the Engineers I have known view "seeing both sides of the story" as some kind of weakness or soft-spined compromise. "Right is Right, Wrong is Wrong, I'm Right, and that's all there is to it. Period. Full Stop. Now If You'll Excuse Me, I've got to get back to My Important Thing."
Of course, more times than not, they ARE right. Just pains in the ass, and living in their Own Private Idaho.
It's not every engineer, of course, but a much larger percentage than, say, the writers or entertainers or sales-and-marketing suits whose company I have frequented over the past few decades. I've never made the connection before, but yes, most of the socially-dysfunctional engineers I know would make really good religious extremists.
That's probably because deep down in their tiny hearts sales-and-marketing suits know that they're wrong.
As for the writers and entertainers, they're just flaky artists who only have convictions about popular or well known causes that have an easily digested platform and talking points of course.
Engineers, however, are correct and they have the data to back it up. You don't want to tangle with the data.
You're a fucking idiot. Why would you buy it for full retail price from Newegg when you can get discounted volume licenses from Microsoft?
Probably because the grandparent was quoting retail pricing for RHEL. I'm not even sure what their "Virtualization for Servers" is selling anyways since basic RHEL and Advanced Platform come with KVM, and Advanced Platform covers unlimited guests and unlimited sockets.
I can't make it to the gutter...the speed bumps get me first.
All through '43, we had separate puzzlers each working on a single piece, for safety. One time, a puzzler saw the piece of another and had to be hospitalized for three weeks.
What did the Germans come up with? I bet it was so well documented that it couldn't send anybody mad.
"My dog doesn't have a nose"
Well, you tell me... How bad is Bea Arthur singing and dancing with Roadian Bounty Hunters?
Unfortunately, Bea Arthur's Mos Eisley musical number is one of the better parts. :(
When I tell people about it, I go on and on and on about how unbelievably bad it is. I insist that it's worse than the worst you can possibly think of and then some. I tell them that it's not one of those things that's so bad that it's good, it's so bad that it's just bad. Really, really, really, really, really bad. Horrible. And not in a way that's funny. It's just bad.
When people I've warned about it end up finally seeing it, they always tell me that my warnings didn't even come close to preparing them for just how bad it actually was.
I'd say that, even if you're a die-hard fan, SWHS is so bad that it's not even worth seeing. I personally can't bring myself to watch it a second time. It's just so freakin' bad.
Do yourself a favour. Stay away from it — far, far away.
He speaks the truth...I was also told how bad it was, including "the first 10 minutes are nothing but grunting wookies", and I did not heed the warnings. I foolishly thought that it couldn't be nearly as bad as everybody says it is. But yes, it is. I would warn others not to watch it, but I know you won't listen. If you really want to see it that badly, it's up on youtube. The highlight of the entire thing is the commercials from 1978, they are an interesting contrast to commercials of today.
Or some people seriously only print a few pages a year. I bought a printer for $60 almost 2 years ago for home, and I'm still on the original ink cartridge. Apart from printing out the odd recipe for my wife, and printing out my tax forms, I find little use for dead tree.
I went to kinkos and printed out the few pages I needed this year for $1.74
Gentoo? I've found it to be rather good.
Maybe you're not a ricer though and want to use something mainstream like redhat/centos?
Have any of these people actually RTFM that they are saying is inadequate or lacking? What is the author's definition of "good" documentation? The docs I've found for linux have generally been superior to ones I've come across from Oracle, Novell, or Microsoft.