________________________________
 From: Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. 
enable internet access)?
 

> Regardless I applaud people who write documentation in any form and through 
> it try to help other people out.  That spirit of helping 
> others is awesome.

I totally agree with you.

However that spirit of trying to help people out is quite lacking here, on this 
mailing list. I don't wish to call out their names.

AskUbuntu.com is a totally awesome site where volunteers who are experts in 
their own fields answer questions without asking ordinatry folks like me to 
read "man pages" or "reference guides" even after I have told them I do not 
know how to apply the syntax of the options of various commands.

An example of an awesome answer that I got from an awesome expert on that 
awesome AskUbuntu.com is the following:

apt-cache search java | awk '{print($1)}' | grep -E -e 
'^(ia32-)?(sun|oracle)-java' -e '^openjdk-' -e '^icedtea' -e 
'^(default|gcj)-j(re|dk)' -e '^gcj-(.*)-j(re|dk)' -e 'java-common' | xargs sudo 
apt-get -y remove

Yet another example of an awesome answer:

dpkg --list 'linux-image-*' \
    | perl -ane 'BEGIN { $r = `uname -r` or die; chomp $r } print $F[1], "\n" 
if $F[0] eq "ii" && $F[1] !~ /\Q$r\E\b/' \
    | xargs -r aptitude purge -y

I bet that no one here is willing to give that kind of awesome answers, 
assuming that they know. The so-called experts here will tell me to first read 
the official Debian Reference manual, "man pages" and maybe a book on bash 
scripting for the uninitiated.

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