On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Travis, Tony <a.tra...@abdn.ac.uk> wrote: > Hello, Jon. > > Well, I think you were right to post your question here: Anyone who thinks > they know > everything about IT is a fool. > > The essence of our FLOSS community is helping each other and being honest > enough to > admit when you don't know. Cornelius is right about the RTFM, of course, but > the bane of > my life is people who are too insecure to admit that they don't know > everything and struggle
I agree with all of that, though I think you've got Jon and Cornelius mixed up :-) RTFM is a great concept, but it really depends on what it is you are trying to do. Sometimes if it's a package and it's behaving oddly and you've already spent some time on it the sensible thing is to ask others who might have experienced the same - a large part of being an effective IT person is to know where to look for answers if you don't know them yourself, and that is equally likely to be a person as a book. Best, Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
