One thing that is very hard for people new to the Open Source development world is the idea that the people on the mailing list (or IRC channel) don't have to be nice to you. This is not Dell; we're not your wet blanket of support -- we don't get paid to be. (If you want that kind of thing, email me off list, I run a consulting company where we'll do that for you if you give us money :-) ) You're just not used to getting reproached by tech support. Accept that you asked a stupid question and got called on it. It's not like we're going to hold it against you (unless, of course, you become a compulsive dumb-question-asker).-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
Thanks, to the two.
But I can't tell you how weary and sick I am of this kind of reflexive criticism. It is -always- counter to true advancement, and burns those delicate few who actually cause progress, in addition to (pitiable) n00bs.
I run a small new architecture company, and am a vocal open standards advocate. I'm an academic, a free-thinker, and researcher, and the thought of investing the large amount of effort and time required to learn a new thing in detail isn't a problem; but if it's necessary to join another bummed-out Thunderdome, where countless bloody-minded fukkers are sitting in the bushes waiting to mean-spiritedly bite my ass off whenever I ask a stupid
That said, I've noticed that most of the people on this list are usually very helpful if you do your part in the whole ask-questions-get-answers scheme. Go read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and then, hopefully, you'll feel better about what happened now.
question or have a 'different' idea, I can't spare the resources.I don't think you'll have trouble with different ideas: people here are open to change. If you lurk around a bit, you'll see that this is a very open community.
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That said, I'm trying very hard to swallow this hairball, and investigateSo basically, you did something dumb: build a bridge and get over it. Go read the documentation: there's a book at http://www.asteriskdocs.org and a handbook, along with a wiki at voip-info.org and lots of good web pages. When you coalesce the information they contain, you'll find that they have the answers to most of your questions.
asterisk.
Nick
P.S. Don't forget to read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html.
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