On Friday 14 August 2009 12:12:06 Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 16:35 +0800, Clarence Huang wrote: > > How do I know that information is true or false? > > You have asked a good question. The same applies here. You only hope > we have the right answers. You need to use common sense. > > Do several different websites offer the same advice? Have you tried our > own website, first? http://fedoraproject.org/ There's lots of things > on there (FAQs, guides, etc.). > > When you find advice on websites, are there replies to the advice? And > do they confirm or refute the advice? > > Does it sound sensible? Look for advice that explains, rather than just > a list of things to do. > And if you're still not certain, take the same thing one step further. Take what look like the most significant words or commands from the answer you see, and do a google search on that. If there's a problem with it you are sure to find a message somewhere that says 'I did foo and now my computer won't boot' or some other disaster story. One other thing - before you click on an entry from the google search, take a look at the url that it is going to load. If at all possible, stick with ones that imply either a distro-created message (whether, for instance, and official Fedora one or from a Fedora mailing list) or from a reputable Linux forum. Avoid anything from individual people's sites unless you have reason to know that they are probably OK. It's time-consuming, yes, but if you follow the advice in this thread you should be fine. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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