What is on Your Mind?

Hi all...

<semi-rant>

I am an amateur coder, (and it probably shows ;o), and find that the Internet ether is a wonderful thing.

I very rarely ask for help for any coding on any platform and will try and solve a problem by approaching it with a bit of lateral thinking.

I will search the WWW and forums like this for ideas to help me...

Why is it that people still ask the same type of questions and never try and solve it for themselves, especially if these people are supposedly professionals...

the odds are that the problem these people are facing has/have already been solved almost to their needs and with a little perseverance with experimenting they would solve things for themselves.

LBNL, if they HAVE solved a problem why not give yhose solutions to sites like this for the greater good?

</semi-rant>

Maybe it is just me...

Bazza...

You have been around the forums long enough to know not to start a thread with the vague subject... 'What Is It?"

Please follow forum rules!

Hi Neo...

Humbly apologise.

I honestly thought that this forum was a _chat_channel_ and hence the upload.

It will not happen again...

Bazza...

It is, but the rules still apply.

As for your question... A lot of what come here are not professionals, but desperate students who will go to any length to get a free answer. Or desperate, overpromoted technical people who put UNIX on their resume without expecting their knowledge of it to ever actually be called on.