[Wolves] Fool and his money

[Simon Burke]

On 13/4/04 1:07 pm, "Peter Cannon" <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hi Simon
> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 12:40, Simon Burke wrote:
> 
>> I know what you mean, I am generally the same preferring to just chuck it in
>> and away you go instead of mucking about with stuff, but theres still the
>> gratification of doing it yourself and theres always how-tos and stuff
>> knocking about lol.
> 
> Fair comment trouble with most how-to's is they assume you have some
> knowledge rather than none at all.
> 
> To give an example Suse tell you that you can get it for free but you
> have to download the whole "tree" now U and I know what they mean by
> tree but someone new wouldn't its the old chicken and egg conundrum
> people who don't know would write it in understandable language but cant
> because they don't know the product.
> 
> People who know the product cant go back and write in plain terms.
> Classic example is Umm Ooh yea All you musicians, I bet you are all
> really good players now try and play something deliberately badly but in
> such a way that the tune is recognisable, not easy is it? Thats because
> you have conditioned yourself to get it perfect and know what your
> doing.
> 
> Just a thought, no big deal.
> 
> They crucified a man for being perfect!
NO man is perfect IMHO. I agree that the howto's are usually written for
those who are not complete newbies, and that¹s where a lot of linux doc
falls down, I remember the first time I tried to compile my own kernel it
just didn¹t work, despite doing exactly what I though the docs said to do.
Theres a lot of doc projects out there somewhere, and its the somewhere
that¹s the prob really.