On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 06:10:27AM -0500, Richard Thornton wrote: > Nick, Do you ever lighten up? Were you the guy correcting the >professor every few minutes annoying everyone? Seriously! What >happened to you?! My background is Solaris and SuSE, not OpenBSD, >but when Solaris 9 failed to format my disks thus rendering my old >blade a brick, I was in a panic. My research turned up openbsd for >sparc64 and I came to openbsd in 11/2011 for the first time in my >life and burned what I thought was the release version of 5.0, >kernel #65 without understanding you run concurrent versions and >it is user beware and of course I burned the wrong one for my >application, but yesterday I finally realised my mistake, hence all >of my package problems.
Nick is the guy who wrote, tested, tweaked, maintains that FAQ. He spent countless hours working on that document. So, when a noob wanders in, blatantly ignores the document, and does some utter beginner's mistake, Nick is very much entitled to point you in the right direction. You're new to the community, you'll realize that, in general, nobody here sugar-coats what they have to say. That reduces the amount of noise. (btw, how about reading a netiquette ? I had to cut your paragraph into actual lines before I could quote properly. Didn't you ever learn to write emails in lines <75 characters or so ?) What do you prefer ? that Nick holds your hand more, or that he makes sure the FAQ is up-to-date ? He's not paid for any of this, and you're already lucky enough he takes the time to read misc@, read your confused email, and unconfuse you ? If you don't like the attitude, you're perfectly free to go back to solaris.
