You may want to sign up for the ASU LUG list, while we have a few kids that
try to posture, most of us are either students, who have to ask
"dumb" questions all the time, or are staff/faculty in an academic
environment, so we are also used to answering question knowing that no
question is dumb...
I my self have two degrees, and I am president of ASULUG, but recently I was
giving a presentation (using Knoppix) and I forgot how to launch something
from terminal (I forgot the need for the . in ./app Perhaps I am getting
too used to my Mac ;)
Even though I felt like a total idiot everyone treated it like it was an
honest mistake (which it is, particularly when your don't commanding launch
apps very often). The point is we try to encourage open communication, and
while we do have some people who like to posture, and a few who are lacking in
social skills, we treat no question as dumb... Particularly if your NOT a
system administrator ;)
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And you business skills may prove invaluable to a number of our members :)
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, mike enriquez wrote:
> I need a linux "Buddy". A buddy for me is someone who can help me learn
> Linux without thinking my questions are dumb. I am a total dummy when it
> come to Linux. To learn Linux I am taking a class at a community college
> and I am setting up 4 dual boot computers with 4 different distros. I
> learn by doing and "seeing". Just verbalizing it does not do it for me.
> Some people answer a question by trying to prove how stupid it is to ask
> the question. Well I am dumb and stupid when it comes to Lunix. So I
> need a Linux buddy who is beyond that attitude. Over the phone and
> internet help is all I need.
> In exchange I can help my buddy in a few areas. First I have "never" had
> an employer and now I am mostly retired except for my hobbies and
> managing my investments. I have always owned my own business.
> So if you want to own your own business I will be a good buddy for you.
> I also I did my graduate work at Harvard Business School. So if you want
> to know how to make "money" I am your buddy. I owned a seminar business
> where I taught people how to price and market their products and service
> a lot of computer people could use this help. Also I own an Intel
> dealership so if my buddy needs computer parts thats available. I have a
> computer for kids program where I rebuild computer and donate them for
> free to single parent families, so I want to learn all about linux so I
> can distribute these computers with my own "kid" type of distro.
> So I need a "Buddy" to ask my stupid questions and then if I have to I
> will post my questions to list like this one.
> Thanks
> Mike Enriquez
>
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