Re: Highmem and lowmem
On 2010-01-24 at 15:08:57 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> I guess I'm just kinda down on Roman after he sent that Gmail invite to this
> list a while ago. And it seems that he's using debian-users as a personal tutor
> while building his system, asking here first thing every time he runs into a
> small gotcha, even the really simple stuff. Look at his posts, and the volume
> of such, for the past month.
>
> We all need help now and then, but sheesh...
>
> Maybe I'm being a bit hypocritical, as I tended to flood #debian on IRC eons ago
> when I first started using Debian. And, guess what? The kind folks there told
> me the same I told Roman: Make some effort to look this stuff up yourself
> instead of flooding this forum. ;)
I used to be an applications developer myself. I wrote custom software for users
at a large company. (Unfortunately, the specific skill sets I used back then,
such as PL/I, REXX, etc., are pretty much useless in Linux. But I digress.)
Anyway, after I wrote the program, I would of course also have to write the
documentation. For most systems that I wrote I would guess that about 20% of
my time was spent writing the documentation. I did the best job I could to
write documentation, and my manager, who spent very little time reviewing my
code, spent a great deal of his time reviewing my documentation. Documentation
was important to him as well. He wanted everyone on his staff to be known
for writing good documentation.
But some of the users tended to be lazy. It was quicker for them to pick up
the phone and call me and ask me how to do something than it was for them
to open the manual (hard copy in those days) and find the answer themselves.
With some users I had to get to the point where I would say, "The answer is
on page xx in the documentation. Read that section, then if you have any
questions give me a call back." Once they realized that they couldn't avoid
cracking the cover of the documentation, they usually stopped calling.
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