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Note the subject change, please On Tuesday 20 April 2004 3:58 pm, D.E. Chadbourne wrote: > anyway, to the people around me on daily basis i am a minor computer > god. they never understand what i am doing. they're just glad i help > them sometimes and don't do anything to harm their computers. compare > me to the 2 or 3 fellows who responded to my questions concerning > environment variables and i'm nobody special. so in relation to them, > i'm a mere noob. they're big dogs and i'm a late convert little dog. > see. but i am trying hard to catch up. so play nice and don't be so > hard on me. -eric the chihuahua. Too simplistic a viewpoint. Each of us "experts" on the list have our own specialties. We are all jacks of all trades, master of quite a few, but not all. Even people who have been there since the beginning of this group bow to others (and each other) when it comes to some topics. So, you are simply running into more areas of computing that you have not yet put a notch on your belt for yet. The best way to do that (if you don't have two weeks to bang your head against it) is try it, find out what you don't know, ask people who know that stuff, try it again. Repeat until desired results are met. Note the all-important "try it" first. Or at least do some research first. If you don't take the first step of doing a little legwork on your own, you will be treated as just another college student asking someone to write their paper from them. True geeks will respect the not-yet-informed but willing. Case in point: There is another mailing list that someone else (who is also a BLU member) moderates, and I maintain the FAQ for. The FAQ gets sent out by my avatar twice a month (because once a month wasn't enough for those morons). I got an email from someone on the list who was complaining their post got deleted, yadayada. I was pretty sympathetic, until in her next email to me she said she hadn't even read the FAQ I send out. Twice a month. That explains the rules of the list. Which she was complaining about. BACK OF THE CLASS! My tone changed considerably in my next email to her. What I'm trying to say is the best way to become an expert is to do just what you're doing, but without the self-denegration. The black belt comes to those who try. -- DDDD David Kramer david at thekramers.net http://thekramers.net DK KD DKK D Secret hacker rule #11: hackers read manuals. DK KD DDDD
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