On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 13:36 -0600, Archaic wrote: > That was a rhetorical question used as a continuation in explaining the > search process. IOW, I am trying to teach him *how* to search which is > the best thing a new person can be taught. That is right, but you could have been nicer. On the other hand the new person shouldn't be too frightned to try out some things (if he doesn't want to read all docs before to start something) sometimes I got the impression that noobs just don't dare to try out. I can just say :
Being too carefull might prevent you to do something stupid, but sometimes it is faster to scew up your system and restart from scratch :-) It is the better to screw up a test system than a product system. If you never screwed up your system while trying to improve it you lack some of the most exciting experiance :-) BTW moved to lfs-chat Why the title ... hm here at DESY ther is a flyer: "the first three days at DESY Hamburg" Which informs guests, newcomer on how to use DESY-IT -- H CUH Rainer Peter Feller H -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
