23 Nov
2010
23 Nov
'10
10:43 p.m.
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Tony Duell wrote:
Be warned that if you ask me for troubleshooting help
for a machine I
know well (and I get a fair number of such e-mails), even if I am darn
sure I know what the problem is, I will not tell you :-). I will talk you
though how to trace the fault. That way you learn something, and next
time you may be able ot work it all out for yourself. This is not because
I objsct to answering such questions, but because I would ratehr the
knowledge of how to diagnose faults was preserved. I am not goign to be
around for ever...
A classic example of
"Give a man a fire, and he will be warm for the night;
set him on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life"