Re: what's up with all the attitude

[Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com>]

Kevin Mark wrote:

> Hi Greg,
> I read a blog post which I think can enlighten the 'I googled and found
> nothing' issue. The post pointed out that two people google differently
> because not all of us have the same 'skill' at it. Thus if you google
> and get the answer, it is because you may have more 'googling skills'.
> This skill may be proportional to your Debian skill and thus the more you
> use Debian, the better your ability to find the answer and the better
> you can use Debian. It may be useful to show folks what query was used
> by you and compare it to the one the confused party used, in the same
> way you should ask for the output of a command like 'route' for
> comparison with a network problem.
> Cheers,
> Kev

Should we let people in on one of the big Google-Fu secrets?

The super-secret "+" character can raise your Google-Fu by many skill 
levels.

:-)

There's also the ultra-big-secret (LOL!) http://google.com/linux URL set 
up by the deep-cover Linux/Google gurus.

(Ha, yes... I'm joking about the secret part.)

Nate

(The "+" is a modifier for Google that allows you to give Google TWO 
terms to search for together, usually a better result than just a few 
words and a single topic.  topic 1 + topic 2 type of thing.  "rsync" + 
"Debian Sarge", you know... that sort of thing.  Try it out, you'll get 
addicted to it quickly.)