On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:38:01PM -0500 or thereabouts, Rick Scott wrote:
> (psyche:)
> > My general message to newbies (or semi-newbies, or even experienced
> > folks who are not used to working at the command line much) is--don't
> > be afraid to type in new commands just to try---just don't do
greets...
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:27:41 CST, "Ms. Piglet" writes:
>.. The second one is fineif you're dealing with an utter
>newbie, "ideal" might actually be a variant on #2: "Go RTFM, and if you
>don't understand it when you've read it and poked at it a bit, come back and
>we'll see if
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:10:53 PST, Akkana writes:
>"Give a man (or woman) a command, and you feed him for a day;
>teach a man how to RTFM and you feed him for a lifetime."
ah, that's just SO TRUE! and I'm eternally thankful to my friend Alex
that he "taught me to RTFM", too!!! :-)
Gina
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The
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:47:25 -0900, psyche writes:
>I think Slackware is a really great system to learn on, since it's more
>do-it-yourself, and you end up learning a lot more that way, I think, but
>Red Hat is still Linux, and has a command line and the same
>mysterious-sounding files and command
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Jenny Brown (was Gable) wrote:
>
>
> > To that extent, it's been somewhat helpful, but not as much as
> > I expected. Mainly, I think, it's because I see women asking
> > questions and guys answering... and they're still the experts...
> > It's hard
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Gina Lanik wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:00:55 +1100, Mary Gardiner writes:
> [snipped]
> >I think that the reason there are men who answer is that they are
> >attracted to a help forum that doesn't have any of the RTFM bullshit
> >(which manual huh?). Only men who've been
(Mary Gardiner:)
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:24:51AM +0100, Magni Onsoien wrote:
> > What about changing the rule about male postings to the list: "men OK,
> > but keep in mind that you're in a forum which is largely for women. On
> > techtalk we'd prefer that men don't post an answer before a da
http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory&sid=2001/3/1/154933/1604
V.
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:18:26PM +, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 03:07:01PM -0600 or thereabouts, Vinnie wrote:
> > That may predate you, too. I remember one person (definetly not you, he
> > knows who he is though) who actually asked why women might want to be
> > treated e
