On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:01:02 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> But, if you ask a question such as "why doesn't this work on Windows?"
>>> you will be greeted by deathly silence. Indeed, there are whole
>>> classes of questions which nobody will answer.
>> 
>> Maybe nobody knows.....
> 
> While that *is* quite likely, it's also quite unhelpful.

That's the nature of online support.  People who don't know don't speak 
up because they don't feel they can contribute anything by saying "I have 
no idea".

> Well anyway, I threatened them with http://www.bash.org/?152037 and now
> I seem to be getting useful hints at least. (Stuff like "turn on debug
> logging".)

Heh, funny, but in reality that doesn't work either.  We get that on the 
openSUSE forums (where I'm now a moderator) occasionally, and the typical 
troll is "Linux sux and I'm moving back to windows", which gets the 
response "Have a lot of fun!"  (A tagline of sorts for SUSE).

Jim

Post a reply to this message