On January 26, 2004 06:19 am, Andy Green wrote: > Just a philosphical thought on this... many times I too have burnt days and > sometimes weeks on a thing that WILL NOT WORK (not just on Linux). ÂI am > left depressed and defeated by the experience. ÂBut then some months later, > I am faced with an unrelated task that happens to touch near a common area > with the job that defeated me. ÂTo my pleasure I realize I know quite a bit > about that subsystem due to the earlier struggles and am able to get the > new task to work immediately in that area. ÂI ponder then just how wasted > the time spent being defeated actually was. Point well taken. I'm enrolled in computer science classes and last term, when I should have been working on a Java assignment, I spent nearly 5 days trying to get Linux to connect to ADSL through my ehternet card. In the end it turned out to be a faulty(?) NIC and replacing it solved the problem (it worked in Win2k and OS/2 but...). The experience was infuriating and I *should* have used the time for school work. But this term I'm taking a course on C and shell script programming and, to my surprise, the prof is basically starting out with weeks of basic *nix system use and he is even using FC1 as his example system. Now I find myself easily able to follow everything because I've already been familiarized. (Compare that to how hard it would be to follow/remember what various linux commands and programs do just by watching an overhead projection with no computer to test on in front of *you*.) I'm still angry that I spent so much time trying to get FC1 installed and working properly but it's coming in handy now. -- Trevor Smith | trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
