Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 20:37:06 -0400 From: "leegold" <goldtech@worldpost.com> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view Message-ID: <002b01bffce2$f414de40$0adf7ad1@beefstew> References: <DBB3921EFE2AD211A81500A0C9B5FE760579452C@msg04.scana.com> <06a801bffc9d$73c1a9c0$1600010a@pmr.com> <016801bffcbb$68385770$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>
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> Certainly a step in the right direction, although a few too many assumptions > about prior knowledge. Possibly the info one needs is in print someplace, > but the stuff is so horribly fragmented that its a jigsaw puzzle trying to > locate all the pieces & assemble them .... and assuming the particular > pieces of the jigsaw puzzle one needs are actually written in some language > of planet earth. I had to use instructions from five web sites and piece it together when I attempted my first install some months ago plus fill in the blanks from the mail and newsgroups. This has been the pattern for learning how to do most things. In a mission critical situation ( and of course I can only tread water re FreeBSD at this point ) I would say use the brilliantly documented stuff all things being equal. I have found - and I feel "funny" saying this, but, many ( SOME ) brilliant Unix admins. - they are....individualists. Some are hard for me to deal with. Even the ones in official teaching positions sometimes are eccentric. But I unabashedly pick their brains if I can. > As I said in another posting, propellorheads are the LAST > people who should be writing docs ...... if something can't be easily > comprehended by newbies there is no point clogging up bandwidth or murdering > trees. > snip... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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