Re: One final test!


"ramswell" <shifty_butch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Apr 9, 7:32 pm, s...@xxxxxxx wrote:
I'm trying to what was supposed to be a "simple thing;" that
somehow, some way became complicated beyond proportion.

Everything seems simple when your knowledge about it is so superficial
that you have no idea how deep it goes. Also, it's easy to feel
something to be simple when you know you can always rely on someone's
help (at his or her cost). (_I_ can fix a broken car, too. I mean, in
theory. I mean, I have a friend at a car repair shop.) And, anyway,
what's the point of doing something if it's simple? The point of it is
NOT being simple: that - supposedly! - makes you learn something.

I asked for help time and again over and over and all I got WAS
ATTITUDES!

I'm surprised that you're surprised about the reaction; I thought you
got used to it long ago. Perhaps, you're surrounded by too many too
helpful people whom you can exploit...

just because you don't want to contribute.

<lol> Contribute to what: your crusade of setting up a BBS in about
ten times as much time than it would take for someone who has the
slightest idea about it?! Also, what can _you_ contribute to the
community to justify the the community's lending a helping hand every
half a day?



That's WHY I was setting up my BBS in the first place (to
contribute). But nevermind...


Setting up a system you cannot support and expecting others to get it up
and on the net is not contributing.
It is a net drain on the resources of the community. It is a negative
contribution.
There is a huge difference between helping you do something and doing it
for you.
I have followed the various threads and you continually question advice
given to you.
This is your attitude, "That can't be correct because of x, y, z... But
that's all right, because
so and so will be here soon and he knows what he's doing, because you
obviously don't."
If you were competent to question the advice freely offered, you wouldn't
require the advice.
You're not going to be able to fly a Boeing 747, if you're unable to open
the door on a Piper Cub.
Even so, getting a plane in the air is one thing, but landing it is another
entirely. Should anyone be able to fly a plane
just because they can always call for support on the radio? No, because that
is not what the network is for.
It interferes with the normal operations of people competent to fly.
There are other factors involved here. People that want to feel good by
'helping' you. You want to feel like you're
'making a contribution'.
What you need to do is to honestly appraise your actual skills and level of
understanding.
Read a book that pertains to what you want to know. When there are points
that you do not understand,
read another book that explains that point, until you can absorb what you
want to know and so on, ad infinitem.
Acquire one patient mentor to explain what you are unable to understand.
If this is too much for you, there are many ways to contribute to the
community without being a drain on it's technical resources.
A good example of that is our good friend Robert Bernardo. He is arguably is
a great asset, though technically he can't find his ass with both hands.
Suck up your feelings on these matters. Computers don't care how you feel,
and your feelings are an obstacle to obtaining knowledge.



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