Re: IT Expo

Matthew Dunaway wrote:
> I would love to see a beginning class on setting up mySQL.
> Microsoft Access is a piece of cake to set up.
> How the @#$% do you set up MySQL????
> I have a program or two that require MySQL in order for them to work.
> In Windows, all you have to do is double-click the install file.
> What the hell are you supposed to do if the program asks you if you have
> MySQL installed and configured???
> And if you go into YAST (I happen to be using SuSe 9.0) and it tells you
> that MySQL is installed, but not configured yet, Then what??
> There are a hell of a lot of people on this list that know a shit-load
> about Linux.
> I try to follow the conversations on this list, but I find myself
> getting lost after the second or third reply.
> Everybody is speaking gibberish. For instance, compiling a kernel. For
> most people on this list, it is second nature to compile a kernel. What
> if I need to? Is somebody on this list willing to walk me through it???
> If you want Linux to catch on, then don't treat newbies on this list
> (like me) as if they know everything there is to know about Linux.
>
> I would love to come to the Friday meetings at 9-Star, but I am afraid I
> am going to get humiliated by the "Linux-Gurus" so I don't go. I don't
> want to be treated like I am some kind of idiot cause I don't know squat
> about Linux. Nevermind the fact that I have been using computers since
> the Commodore 64. Which, by the way, I happen to have one in mint
> condition sitting in my closet along with 2 monitors, 2 disk drives and
> about a 100 programs.
>
> Last year, I asked on this list how to get my modem to work. I got about
> 100 replies to my question, and I did not understand a single one.
> The one reply that did help me was somebody told me to run wvdial.conf.
> And it worked
>
> If you want Linux to try and overcome Window$, then you need somebody
> that has a little patience and is willing to walk us newbies through the
> steps in order to use Linux, instead of telling us to "Read The Fucking
> Manual:.
> I, like a lotof other people, hate Windows. It would be much easier for
> us "newbies" to try and switch over to Linux if the fucking brainiacs on
> mailing lists (like this one) would try and remember that they did not
> know shit about Linux when they first started using it.
> That's why i don't ask anymore questions on this list, because everybody
> assumes I know Linux, and I don't know shit!!!!!
>
> Rant over. ( for now)

Easy now :), keep posting your questions Matthew and come to the
meeting. I am pretty comfortable in Linux and when I do attend the
meetings this elitist attitude is not there. The people there are very
friendly and helpful, sometimes people have bad days but we all do
sometimes. When I started out I felt the same sense of being overwhelmed
as you are stating here.

Go back through the list archives and look at my early posts, these guys
are really very helpful. If you ask a question and they talk over your
head just reply back to the list and let us know. Sometimes the
RTFM(ReadTheFineManual) is great advice, when I finally started doing
that things began to get easier not because I understood those frikkin
things but I began to understand how to solve a problem. I rarely ask on
the list for help because I can usually find the answer and to me, thats
half the fun.

Endeavor to persevere! :) Linux is wicked hard when you first come over
but keep asking and stay humble and if anyone on this list is a jerk I
am sure there will be plenty of us to tell them that they are and offer
help in a more friendly manner. I have yet to ever feel that way about
anyone on this list though.

Jon
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Received on Fri Jul 22 09:33:03 2005