RE: 10G New Features Book

From: Ron Thomas <rthomas_at_hypercom.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:09:05 -0700
Message-ID: <OFB5FB1F8E.C3AFF191-ON07256E83.007EEC73-07256E83.007FA1F2@hypercom.com>

Jared-

All I can say is thanks. It is because of you and Mladen that I can go home with a smile in this otherwise stressful and thankless job.

Ron Thomas
Hypercom, Inc
rthomas_at_hypercom.com
"To really screw up Linux you have to work at it...To really screw up Windows, you have to work ON it..."

                                                                                                    
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> What I've learned, is that sooner or later, when the
> asker has not been answered, the asker will RTFM

> anyway. And, they will have done so without having > been explicitly told to do so.
With all due respect Melanie, that isn't what usually happens.

When a post goes unanswered, this is what happens.

• message is re-posted
• that goes unanswered
• poster then asks the list: "Hey, why hasn't anyone answered this?"
• poster asks me: "Hey, why hasn't anyone answered this?"
• I reply:
• * maybe no one knows the answer
• * maybe it's so dead easy no body bothers
• Mladen G. says to RTFM, along with a technical explanation down to the bit level.
• Ian M. takes it further, down to the quantam level.
• Jonathan L. posts a concise, insightful and clear reply
• poster asks for clarification
• Tim G. writes the first chapter of a book on the subject and posts it to the list.
• Juan P. points the poster to asktom
• Paul D. explains why the RAID is misconfigured
• Poster asks Tim for all the implementation code for the first chapter of the book.
• Kathy D. implies the poster has no social life and has much imbibing to catch up on.
• Tim G. writes the second chapter to the book and posts it.
• Poster tries RTFM but is overwhelmed by the table of contents.
• Dennis W. does a googles search and posts the answer to to the problem 2 minutes after reading the email.
• poster sends resume to Starbucks
• resume returned - DBA's are under-qualified.

That's the general flow, anyway.

Jared

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