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On Dec 11, 2007 11:21 AM, Matt Shields <[hidden email]> wrote: > > > I'm sorry, but if someone doesn't have the common sense to take what > people say and do a little investigation into why they gave that > answer and possibly learn what you are doing instead of typing > something in with blind faith, then you deserve what damage it might > cause. Linux is not that difficult as some people claim, what I've > found is most people are ignorant and don't care to learn new things, > especially when it comes to computers. I as a computer professional > absolutely hate it when someone asks for help, then they don't learn > and they continue to do it over and over again. Yet we IT > professionals put up with their ignorance. I can sit anyone down in > front of Linux show them 'man' and tell them before they type any new > command they first have to type 'man command' and learn what it does. > What this does is it teaches people to try to find the answer first, > then if they can't figure it out ask questions. Then when I give them > the answer or point them in the right direction I expect that they > learn from it. > > Also, if you actually trust every person you meet, then you are fool. > Of course there are people out there that want to do you harm, and > even more so on the internet. So why one earth would you trust > someone that you haven't even met and do exactly everything they say > without doing some research. Yeah, like I'm going to blindly trust > anyone that tells me to run a command on my personal machines or my > work's very expensive servers. > > By the way, since you trust everyone, can I borrow $100? I promise to > pay it back to you tomorrow >
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