Re: [cobalt-users] CGI Script wwwcount2.5

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Carrie Bartkowiak wrote:

> > > Oh I am *so* confused now. CGI is supposed to be uploaded in ASCII...
> >
> > You seem to have misunderstood the term "CGI". CGI is just a protocol that
> No, I haven't misunderstood the term CGI - I know what it is... Common

> I keep forgetting that I'm talking to a Linux list, but really, did I *have*
> to say "cgi *****SCRIPTS***** are supposed..." ??

LOL! *I* knew what you meant ;)

> 
> Sometimes I'm not sure how to talk to you guys. If I talk plainly,
> person-to-person, assuming that my post will be read in its entirety and the
> message as a whole will be taken, the "newbies" send me thank you notes and
> the "gurus" tear me apart for missing one word in a sentence where the point
> I was trying to make was still perfectly clear.

This is a very hard thing on this list, there is a huge diversity of folks
here, it's frustrating at times, there are people here who have been 
administering unix on multiple platforms for large groups of machines who
have a great dead of expertise, and folks who bought a used machine off of
ebay yesterday and are still trying to find the power switch. I have no
idea what the answer is except to take a shot and have a thick skin -}

The bad side is it can, from time to time be dangerous, if i tell you to
'remove' a file from a directory, you will probably be prudent and 'move'
it somewhere else, but some folks will just delete it ;)

If i give you step by step instructions on how to delete a file you will
probably be a bit annoyed
;) It's no-win sometimes ;0

> If I talk as if I'm speaking to "gurus", then over half of the people who
> read my post won't have a freaking clue what I'm talking about. I'll just
> end up confusing them more and losing them in the details.

But keep doing it Carrie , folks who read a book or two but still don't
'get it' will sometimes sound like they have the necessary background for
a complex procedure, only to email you back telling you they just did
something increadably stupid -/

The knowledgable need to learn a bit of patience, IMHO it never hurts to
have a bit of 'extra' detail, but it can be lethel to be missing the one
important detail you didn't know ..

stick the key in
> the ignition, turn it to unlock the steering wheel and give power to the
> starter, turning it and in turn, rotating the flywheel connected to the
> crankshaft, which moves the pistons up and down, which is in turn, rotating
...

LOL...I was riding with someone once who suddenly swerved into a gas
station...what are you doing? "I need oil" ?? how did you decide that? 
"The light came on" ...ouch

gsh