Re: More Active Newsgroups?

From: Moe Trin (ibuprofin_at_painkiller.example.tld)
Date: 07/18/05 

Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:46:37 -0500

In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux, in article
<slrnddkg95.p4u.Raptor@Western.Migration>, Thorn wrote:

>Here Google is your friend. When I have a failure of some sort that isn't
>easily identifiable I'll run the program from an xterm (if usually launched
>from an icon), copy the error message (sweep with mouse pointer while
>depressing left button) and paste (middle mouse button) it into google's
>search box.
>
>99% of the time I'll get a good hit on that text regardless of how arcane it
>may appear.

Two .sigs I've seen on Usenet:

   "Ten minutes with google will tell you more about anything
   than you ever wanted to know." -- Ross Presser, 2002

   Google.com for a man, and you'll answer his question. Teach a man to
   google.com and you'll teach him to google forever.

There is no finer resource available. I use it at least several times a
day, often as much as a dozen times, and it _rarely_ fails to provide the
clue or fact you are searching for. Actually, I have an alias set up
(google => lynx http://www.google.com) to speed things up a few keystrokes.

        Old guy

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