On Friday 24 Jan 2003 2:19 pm, et wrote: > On Friday 24 January 2003 06:29 am, Robert Wideman wrote: > > I am seeing a lot of posts of where to find programs. Yes i personally > > ask occasionally myself but that is b/c i have searched about 50 > > different sites. The main sites for finding apps i use are search > > engines and i KNOW how to use them. Only a very few people i know even > > think of using them. As a techie and an advocate of "find it > > yourself"...coming from a technician point of view who technically doesnt > > know anything just knows where to find the answer...use these sites: > > http://www.google.com > > http://rpm.pbone.net > > http://rpmfind.net > > > > > > > > Rob > > NOw Rob,,, we are "NEWbies" and a bunch of folks too lazy to look at > google... but really, there was some discussion a while ago about how it > feels when you are "lost in the ether" to recieve "STFW-G" or "RTFD", and > how we would try and be as civil as possible about it, and even go so far > as to do the search, and then reply " a search on google for "lost in the > ether" came up with 27,000 hits, and the one _I_ personally liked was > "http://www.lost_in_the _ether.info" (note; I don't think that site really > works) > I is often pretty hard for someone (that just figured out that the > cupholder keeps breaking when it wants to retract into the box for no > reason, and it spills the coffee each time too) to figure out just which of > those 27,000 pages really have some info that might help and are not just > selling stuff.
A reminder of resources from time to time is useful, but for a newbie searching is doubly difficult, because often you don't know the question to ask or the term to search on. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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