On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Karl Larsen wrote: ... snip ... > Thanks for your help rday. your fundamental problem, karl, is that you insist on publishing (and re-publishing and re-re-publishing) documentation that is simply wrong. and one of the things about documentation is that *bad* documentation is even worse than *no* documentation -- if anyone had decided to follow your early advice, chances are good they would have screwed themselves thoroughly. and *that's* the most compelling reason for you to get your own blog -- so you can publish inaccurate and dangerous tutorials where there's less chance of them hurting someone. because as long as you keep posting them here, you're encouraging someone to actually believe you know what you're talking about. and that is a guaranteed recipe for disaster. so, please, karl, for the sake of people who might be tempted to listen to you and follow your advice, stop. just stop. and leave writing helpful HOWTOs to those people who a) know what they're doing, and b) have actually done it before. you don't need to be *writing* documentation, karl; you need to be *reading* it. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
