From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 2 17:36:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F18237B51B for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:36:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goldtech@worldpost.com) Received: from 209-122-223-10.s10.tnt3.nyw.ny.dialup.rcn.com ([209.122.223.10] helo=beefstew) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 3.15 #2) id 13K901-0002hY-00; Wed, 02 Aug 2000 20:36:38 -0400 Message-ID: <002b01bffce2$f414de40$0adf7ad1@beefstew> From: "leegold" To: "Doug Young" Cc: References: <06a801bffc9d$73c1a9c0$1600010a@pmr.com> <016801bffcbb$68385770$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 20:37:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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