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absorbing English. <BR> <BR> 4. Where's the Fricking Manual? By this point in the game, I may not <BR> have succeeded in installing a working version of Linux, but I <BR> certainly have accumulated a list of 916 Websites containing tons of <BR> useful information, often phrased in ways I do not understand <BR> (probably because they do not tend to parallel the concepts that, for <BR> better or worse, I absorbed from Microsoft). Call me crazy, but I <BR> begin to suspect that not every software engineer in this world is <BR> half as good with the written word as s/he may think. Let us learn <BR> from the example of lawyers: someone can use complicated terms about <BR> subjects that other people have never heard of, but the big words do <BR> not prove that this person knows what they're doing, makes any sense, <BR> or is providing a genuine service to humanity. <BR> <BR> 5. Who needs a Fricking Manual? It is remarkable that, in an era of <BR> holograms, high-quality video, and million-color graphics, people <BR> still think we should all be learning by reading words scratched on <BR> parchment. Just imagine how you'd feel if someone required you to <BR> communicate by spelling out every word you say, one letter at a time! <BR> I mean, you could do it, but you'd probably refuse to. We appreciate <BR> users who are excited about computers, who develop a taste for <BR> extremely rapid, hands-on learning -- but then we yank them up short <BR> and say, "OK, now it's time to read the manual and become bored and <BR> confused." Small wonder they balk! Many times, when we hear "RTFM," we <BR> are dealing with a computer expert who will not, or cannot, understand <BR> and deal with the reactions that a piece of hardware or software is <BR> generating in a human mind. <BR> <BR> No manual -- not even the Bible -- is written so well that it can keep <BR> its readers from forming their own sensible or nutty ideas about what <BR> it says. "RTFM" -- like "No way" and "Go to hell!" -- is sometimes a <BR> valid and reasonable response; but often it is a revealing comment on <BR> the personality of the speaker, or at least on the existence of some <BR> bad bureaucratic influences in the speaker's past. I regret that we <BR> had so many DYRTM-spouting MBAs floating around our corporate <BR> corridors in the 1980s; I only hope we can get over them. <BR> <BR> It does seem bizarre, I agree, that developments in software (both the <BR> actual complexity of the programs and the ways in which players like <BR> Microsoft market them) should produce a situation in which people no <BR> longer know how, when, and where to consult the relevant manual; but <BR> that does seem to be the case at present. I hope it doesn't stay that <BR> way, though. I say that because, at this moment, I need some answers <BR> about Linux and I really have no idea where to get them, other than to <BR> write to this one helpful guy named Igor. No kidding. <BR> <BR> Respond to this article in the discussion forums. <BR> Would you like to have your article published online? Send them in to <BR> <A HREF="mailto:newfiles@linuxnewbie.org">newfiles@linuxnewbie.org</A> <BR> <BR>-------- <BR>Footnotes: <BR>------faint, rtfm -> Read The Fucking Manual!!!-----老外, I 服了 you!--- <BR>rtfm(8) MAINTENANCE COMMANDS rtfm(8) <BR> <BR> NAME <BR> rtfm - read the fucking manual <BR> <BR> SYNOPSIS <BR> rtfm <BR> <BR> OPTIONS <BR> None, you have to read the manual for an answer. <BR> <BR> DESCRIPTION <BR> Used when lazy people ask stupid questions. Normaly cried out <BR> in vain. <BR> <BR> FILES <BR> /dev/null <BR> <BR> ENVIRONMENT <BR> Any. <BR> <BR> SEE ALSO <BR> man(1) <BR> <BR> DIAGNOSTICS <BR> Is an diagnostic. Since you are reading this you are getting <BR> the idea. <BR> <BR> BUGS <BR> Ha! <BR> _________________________________________________________________ <BR> <BR>=======End=============== <BR>-- <BR>|======================+========================+====================| <BR>| 以无法为有法 , | 拳本无法,有法也空; | 我爱GNU/Linux, | <BR>| 以无限为有限 | 一法不立,无法不容。| 因为我爱自由! | <BR>| | | | <BR>| 截拳道宗师-李小龙 | 意拳宗师-王芗斋 | 土人 Linuxrat | <BR>|======================+========================+====================| <BR> <BR>※ 修改:·linuxrat 於 Jan 17 14:32:05 修改本文·[FROM: 202.112.168.253] <BR>※ 来源:·BBS 水木清华站 smth.org·[FROM: 202.112.168.253] <BR><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</H1></CENTER></BODY></HTML>
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