Howdy,

Woke up early today. Got my coffee mug filled up, decided to relax in my fancy sofa, got my macbook and went on to read up on some mailing lists (Yeah….i like to read up on mailing lists…now beat it!). Now the first post i read was from a person trying to add a specific functionality to a certain software product. The mail was something like this:

“Please teach me howto to X”
Bgrds,
Unamed Person

Now, the software product in question here is a widely used piece of high availability clustering software. The manufacturer has some good manuals on how to do X and a quick google will give you a awful lot of information on how to do this.

What i am trying to say here: RTFM or at least TRY to Google your issue before posting onto a list. I’m betting around 70% of the users on the mailing lists are system administrators that are already working in a 150% job and would really like to help, but they won’t help if you don’t even try to read the bloody manual!

Bleh….maybe i have not had enough coffee in the morning….but people…TRY!

I’m off to read up on more mailing lists….wish me luck!

Bgrds,
Finnzi