Re: OSX encryption with a difference.

In article <uce-498859.06573329092005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Gregory Weston <uce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It would be worthwhile to remember these resources for future use so you
> don't have to wait for hours for someone to see your message and have
> their response make its way back.

Ahhh, but anticipation is half the fun of learning.

I would much prefer to wait for the Tooth Fairy to leave the info'
under my pillow, versus the alternative of wading through hundreds of
posts, and cluttering up the bandwidth of the Internet with hours of
searching, not to mention the waste of my valuable time, which I
calculate is worth $100 a minute.

The down side is that the NGs are cluttered up by posts from people who
are trying to avoid all the pain associated with digging up info'

Obviously, some sort of compromise solution is the best choice.

I don't go along with the "Unix Geek Attitude" that a month of
searching should be done before asking for help in these NGs.



Usually, I myself do a little web searching, and a bit of searching in
my books. If that doesn't pay off, I yell for help in these NGs.

Why do stuff the hard way? I myself am happy to answer questions in
these NGs regarding subjects I know about, even though those same
subjects have been brought up innumerable times.

I look at it this way, I am saving the newbies hours of hunting, that
is a Good Thing, IMO.

I agree that carrying this to extremes encourages lazyness on the part
of the newbies.

However, keep in mind that being lazy is not all bad, if you compare it
to the usual Hard Core Attitude of Unix types, who insist on doing
things the hard, slow, difficult, second-rate, old, obsolete, ways.

Perhaps the Unix guys are bitter because they had to learn the hard
way, so they want everyone else to suffer the same way.



Y'know, I kinda hoped that newbie NGs would become "popular", but they
never did. A few experts doing public duty service in such NGs could
save thousands of hours of newbie time, which would otherwise be wasted
in fruitless searching.

On the PC side, such NGs appear to be working, from what I observe.

Hundreds o PC users ask questions, and a few "regulars" seem to get
around to answering their questions. Typical threads are 2/3/4 posts
long, as contrasted to Mac threads which seem to be much longer, on the
average.

Wonder why the same approach does not work in the Mac NGs - - - strange.

Perhaps there is some basic difference in the outlook of PC users as
compared to the outlook of Mac users.

Mark-
.

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