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[cobalt-users] Don't bother [was] Permissions and Ownership command
- Subject: [cobalt-users] Don't bother [was] Permissions and Ownership command
- From: "Jonathan Lee" <mrlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Jul 18 15:35:01 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
As you can see Jimi from the intelligent list (and even more intelligent
offlist) responses I have gotten, asking general knowledge questions are
grounds for a sentence to life eternal in Hell.
---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Jimi Begbaaji" <jbegbaaji@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:40:33 +0100
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Permissions and Ownership command
> I just had to reply to this. I bought the cobalt raq because I was
> assured by the sales guy selling it that it would be no problem to
> administer it and very little intervention would be required. I
> have 11 months of the contract to go and counting ...
>
> I don't know the fundamental stuff. I read some of your postings
> wide-eyed with horror at some of the commands one is expected to
> know. I've held manual to my nose in one had and mouse in the other,
> trying to configure somethings. Some things happen the way the
> manual says it will, others don't. I've trawled web sites,
> bombarded the help desk, still trying to figure out how to set up
> the email.
>
> So, I'm likely to ask some pretty dumb questions to start with. And
> I hope to get smarter as time goes by, and be as helpful towards others.
> Anyone that thinks my questions too dumb to see the light of day,
> just hit the delete button. I'd be happier not getting a response
> to a question, rather than one laden with insults. But I'd rather
> be foolish for five minutes than be foolish for a life-time. :)
>
> Jimi