Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 01:41:40 -0700 From: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>, dhw@whistle.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbies - "Handle me with care?" Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980625014140.0080d8f0@mx.serv.net> In-Reply-To: <199806241622.JAA08219@pau-amma.whistle.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 09:22 AM 6/24/98 -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: >Lastly, a reason to "be methodical" is to avoid repeating the same >mistakes. If you're not methodical, you have no way to know whether or >not you're repeating yoruself. (Then again, when a fellow in the dorm >room next to mine in college put up the "An unexamined life in not worth >living" quote on his door, my response was "How could he have known?") <big grin> to that last portion... I think it all depends on how an individual's thinking process works. Some people do things better in a methodical method, while others seem to do better being haphazard. It's like the old "clean desk vs. messy desk" argument... the clean desk person wonders how the messy desk person can ever find anything, the messy desk person, after having their desk cleaned up by someone, complains that they can no longer find where their things are. People's brains simply work differently. I'm the "messy desk" type, and learn best in a non-methodical, try-anything-until-it-works environment. I think it would be impossible to explain how this works and I remember what I learn to someone who learns better methodically, just take my word that it does. BTW, I always enjoy your Emails David, and appreciate the advice from someone who's been into Unix in general long enough to have a reasonably deep understanding of it. You aren't exactly what I personally would term a newbie, even with FreeBSD (hell, how could you be, if you're administering systems for pay in a mostly BSD environment), but it's up to every individual to label him/herself in that regard, IMO. -- My web site starts at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html - lots of goodies for everyone, have a look if you have the time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3.0.5.32.19980625014140.0080d8f0>