On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Chris Miller > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Don't give thanks in advance: >> >> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#courtesy > > That's not quite what is written: > > <quote> > Some hackers feel this connotes an intention not to thank anybody > afterwards. Our recommendation is to either say “Thanks in advance” > first and thank respondents afterwards, or express courtesy in a > different way, such as by saying “Thanks for your attention” or > “Thanks for your consideration”.) > </quote> > > Note "Some hackers", not all. "Some hackers" are socially maladroit > and gauche. "Some" don't bathe. So, one might want to take their > social advice about courtesy with a hefty grain of salt (or Purell).
I made that snippet as a canned response a year or so ago. I think it changed in that time. Just me and my collection of stale links, nothing to see here. Move along. :) On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > It's the shorthand way of saying "Get outta here, kid". > > It actually means "Read the freaking manual", meaning that the answers > sought can be found in the program's general documentation. Since it's > considered good etiquette to make a good faith effort to find your own > answers before asking a user's group, many hackers feel self righteous > and say 'RTFM' whenever the answer is already documented someplace. > > While this attitude may be fitting on occasion, I think it's generally > more inflammatory than helpful. Pointing the user to the documentation > (maybe with a quick note on how you found the answer) is more > constructive. If you're new to shell scripting it isn't obvious. There's nothing about the name "grep" which (to me) says "find stuff in text." So I basically tossed a few command names at you and now I expect you to make use of documentation to figure out how to pass them the correct arguments, etc. to create the proper script (and toss that in cron or what have you). So I guess mine was kind of more like "Read THIS Freaking Manual" than anything else. The OP smelled rather like a homework question though, which triggered my intensely primal snobbery. -- Registered Linux Addict #431495 For Faith and Family! | John 3:16! http://www.fsdev.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
