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Operating Systems AIX Need a Good AIX Book Post 302227871 by bakunin on Friday 22nd of August 2008 05:12:40 AM
Old 08-22-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pennant Man
Edited to add: I just had a look on Amazon - the first reader's review of the AIX Survival Guide is actually rather negative - if you can see it I would be interested to know if you think it is fair? (Before I go ahead and buy the book). Thanks.
I suppose you mean the review of "Art25". If this is the case: first off, he is completely wrong in saying

Quote:
There are many tasks that need to be done that are not available in smit (smitty). This book won't cover them.
because this book does not tell you at all how to use SMIT - it tells you how things work, IMHO with a nice balance between the painful detail of man-pages and the like on one hand and the broad-brush, "beginner-oriented" attitude of "enter x in input mask y and press the magic key". You will find a lot description about how things work and how they work together.

/philosophical rambling on

Secondly, this "art25" seems to be the typical "wannabe-guru", a character trait not uncommon in the *NIX-culture: i could answer absolutely any question by "go look into the manpage/google/usenet", shrugging it off as it were obvious, regardless of it really being obvious or not. Some have cultivated this attitude to impress upon beginners.

This nonsense (and it *is* nonsense) is just designed to brush the egos of the ones exhibiting this attitude and doesn't help anyone. If one asks me a question he wants a answer, not a sermon about me being cleverer than him. I can and may deny the answer for a variety of reasons, but a simple "no" is ok while adding insult to denial is not.

This is the reason why here, in this forum, this attitude is not very well received and tried to discourage: we are here to help each other, not to belittle each other.

/philosophical rambling off

bakunin
 

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