Re: IRC Site

["Jimi Thompson" <jthompson link com>]

The first step to learning anything is admitting what you DON'T know.  My
experiences in life have taught me that ignorance is curable.  Stupidity is not.
You sound like you are well on the path.

GL Fournerat wrote:

> Hello Mike:
>
> A few years ago I was searching the world for information on NT 4 and was
> directed to a channel on Dalnet (I believe).  I went there, got my answer(s),
> and dropped off.  Shortly thereafter, I began getting my feet wet with RedHat
> 6.0.. and decided I would go back into Dalnet and create my own channel
> (#redhat6) and see what happened.
>
> Have you ever heard of the term "biting off more than you can chew"?  LOL..
> talk about an overnight education in what I did _not_ know.  Up until that
> night, I only knew of Enlightment and a little about X windows.. and folks
> started dropping into the channel left and right with questions about KDE, GNU,
> GNOME, kppp, etc., etc... and I was absolutely clueless!!
>
> But what did happen was amazing to watch... folks that were coming in to get
> answers ended up helping others that were seeking answers themselves.. I just
> provided the forum, and sat back and watched (still open for debate as to
> whether I learned anything or not. LOL).
>
> My point being... if you find a need for (fill in the blank), by all means, do
> not wait on someone else to create it for you.. go out there and create it
> yourself.  You (yourself) may not know how to create it.. but by asking around
> (to lists such as this one), you'll find that there are people around that do..
> and their advice/assistance is given from the kindness of their hearts... for
> free.
>
> I have trouble dealing with people that I feel constantly want to pat
> themselves on the back for this or that, so I'll be brief about my own little
> task I'm working on... 2 weeks ago I finally began taking some steps to get
> Samba running on a Guinness box I'd recently created.  I'd been studying one
> particular manual and thought I had a fairly good grasp of what was required...
> then I ran into the inetd/xinetd issue and SWAT.  After some venting at this
> list, which (thank goodness) Mike Harris and Erik Troan addressed (in a more
> mature manner than I deserved), I decided the world needs a HOWTO Samba with
> xinetd.d/swat... and began creating it (not on my own mind you).  I had to
> laugh at myself for even attempting to write such a document, since I know
> SQUAT about SWAT... but I'm learning.
>
> Gary Fournerat
>
> Mike Chambers wrote:
>
> > BTW, is there an irc server/net/channel that maybe RH support folks may hang
> > out at to help or support or anything like that?
> >
> > If not, why not create/make/join one?  Either make your own irc server(s),
> > connect to another network even if it's not as much as the big ones, or just
> > create a channel on an existing server and maybe setup couple of eggdrop
> > type bots or something to help run it, with RH folks being the head ops or
> > something.
> >
> > People could come and get support/help with things in stead of always doing
> > stuff via email.
> >
> > Besides, nothing better then talking one on one about a problem, or at least
> > close hehe.
> >
> > Anyway, just a thought/suggestion if it doesn't exist.
> >
> > Mike Chambers
> > Mt. Prospect, IL
> > EZNetworx
> >
>
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Jimi Thompson
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