[cobalt-users] Re: Re:My SQL for RAQ XTR

[Charlie Summers <charlie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 6:05 PM -0500 12/28/02, Bob McCoy is rumored to have typed:

> Thanks for your help. If you would have spend as much time giving some
> helpful advice  instead of acting like you were born knowing it all, you
> would be a better service to the group.

   Until you've contributed _anything_ to help _anyone_ on this list, I'd
strongly urge you to be a little careful being flippant. There are a whole
bunch of people on this list who have been helped and guided by me, and
others like me who are a little weary of the self-professed "system
administrators" who keep whining about .pkg and .rpm files without sucking it
up and learning how to actually _administer_ a server. As to my acting as if
I were, "born knowing it all," I wasn't and don't; what I do know I learned
from people who took the time to tell me when I was being an ass, and how not
to make the same mistakes again.

   If you expect me (or anyone here) to baby you, you're _really_ in the
wrong place. Had you asked for help in installing from source, I would have
been the first in line to give you as much help as I could, no matter how
long it took (and I wouldn't have offered to _rent_ you my services, either).
Since instead you require packages (Cobalt or Redhat), and are for some
reason afraid to type 'man make" and actually _learn_ something, I'm afraid I
can't help you.

   You're welcomed to have the last word here, since I'm quit with you and
will no longer see anything you write. Perhaps someday you'll figure out that
the advice I gave you is about the best help you've _ever_ received. Or not,
in which case the only people who will suffer are your clients, or anyone
else who believes you when you say you're an "administrator."

         Charlie Summers