Re: Question: Registry Edit Programs

Marten Kemp wrote:
William Munns wrote:
"Tarkin" <Tarkin000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1188556258.073678.58690@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Aug 30, 11:43 pm, The Natural Philosopher <a...@xxx> wrote:
[attribution snippage, hope I got it right]
I disagree with one minor point- most (all?) distros come
with a manual or two- and a lot of HOWTO's and FAQ's
are available.
man man, man!

A manual which is only useful if you know what the right questions are ;)

And how to interpret the cryptic runes served up as "answers."

Indeed. There are a lot fewer good manuals than good software.

I remember thumbing through a Solaris admin manual to find the one magic string in the early days of LPadmin.. a 48 character string that magically DID enable its serial port to have a printer attached and BEGIN to work.

The trouble is the dcs are all written bt teches and are of the 'this is the wonderful features of this command' variety rather than the 'if you want to do X, here are Y steps you have to take'

The modern approach is to have te software scan the hardware and make hopefully intelligent decisions about what it should all do, and heaven help you if its guesses are wrong..



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