From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 22 9:33:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from diskfarm.firehouse.net (rdu25-12-043.nc.rr.com [24.25.12.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F017D37B423 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:33:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from abc@localhost) by diskfarm.firehouse.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA91494; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:32:54 GMT (envelope-from abc) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:32:54 +0000 From: Alan Clegg To: bliss-s@excite.com Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advanced OS Questions only you can answer... Message-ID: <20000822163254.J89195@diskfarm.firehouse.net> References: <13790740.966960534480.JavaMail.imail@magic.excite.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <13790740.966960534480.JavaMail.imail@magic.excite.com>; from bliss-s@excite.com on Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:08:54AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [moved to -chat] Out of the ether, bliss-s@excite.com spewed forth the following bitstream: > Why do people have to be so mean? Nothing mean, just asking people to do your research for you is really lame. > My dad is not doing my homework. I am. At least you admit that you are asking for us (the community) to do your homework instead of [as others have done] lying about it. Homework requires study, and what you are doing is not study, it is asking the people that have already studied to answer very academic questions. > I was hoping to receive some type of basic understanding of each question, > then take those answers and try and understand the source code. I know the > answers are in the source code somewhere, but understanding it is hard. The understanding comes from study, not someone telling you the answers. Actually, if you just pick up a copy of Kirk's book (as someone else on the list suggested), you will find (with a bit of research) the answers you need. > If you don't want to help out kids like myself, then just don't respond. I > have been researching this for a long time, and every road is a dead end. I > don't think it is fare in receiving an email like this. You don't know how > much work I've been putting into this. Well, all I've seen so-far is that you have asked BSDi (assuming BSDi, as you said "BSD") support for the answers [seemingly even willing to pay to get answers] and you asked on the -hacker list. That is not a lot of work. Study is never a dead-end. BTW, the word is "fair" not "fare", and if you don't like the answers that you are getting, then consider that you may be asking the wrong questions (or the wrong audience). AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message