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  Newbie Arun Mathai <arunkollannur10@gmail.com> - 2020-06-25 11:00 +0200
    Re: Newbie Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2020-06-25 11:10 +0200
      Re: Newbie davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2020-06-25 12:10 +0200
        Re: Newbie Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2020-06-25 14:10 +0200
          Re: Newbie Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-06-26 09:00 +0200
    Re: Newbie Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-06-25 11:10 +0200
    Re: Newbie Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-06-25 21:50 +0200
    Re: Newbie Mark Allums <maa@allums.com> - 2020-06-25 23:40 +0200
      Re: Newbie Olivier Humbert <trebmuh@tuxfamily.org> - 2020-06-26 00:20 +0200
        Re: Newbie Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2020-06-26 01:50 +0200
    Re: Newbie 황병희 <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> - 2020-06-27 04:20 +0200
      Re: Newbie "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2020-06-30 15:50 +0200

#223990 — Newbie

Hello Guys,

I am a total newbie for debian.

I have some technical difficulties and questions that i want to ask.

Could anyone please tell me how to proceed.

Regards,

Arun Mathai

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#223991

On 26-06-2020 07:26, Arun Mathai wrote:
> Hello Guys,
> 
> I am a total newbie for debian.
> 
> I have some technical difficulties and questions that i want to ask.
> 
> Could anyone please tell me how to proceed.

First, make your subject line in the email descriptively relevant to
your problem.
Do not put all your problems into one email, but if you do have separate
issues, make an email to the list specific to each one.
Describe what attempts you have taken to solve them yourself
Describe the problem you have as concisely as you can.

-- 
`Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false,
and by the rulers as useful'.

— Lucius Annæus Seneca.

Terrorism, the new religion.

Registered Linux User: 554515

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#223998

On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 Weaver wrote:
> On 26-06-2020 07:26, Arun Mathai wrote:
>> Hello Guys,
>>
>> I am a total newbie for debian.
>>
>> I have some technical difficulties and questions that i want to ask.
>>
>> Could anyone please tell me how to proceed.

[Begins evaluating OP against checklist below]

> First, make your subject line in the email descriptively relevant to
> your problem.

Check.

> Do not put all your problems into one email,

Check.

> but if you do have separate issues, make an email to the list
> specific to each one.

So far so good.

> Describe what attempts you have taken to solve them yourself

Not applicable. (Original Post *is* that attempt.)

> Describe the problem you have as concisely as you can.

Check.

OP is a natural!

-- 
What do you want to take off? [hrzF or ?*] F
You were wearing a +0 robe.  The frost giant turns to flee.

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#224007

On 25-06-2020 20:05, davidson wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 Weaver wrote:
>> On 26-06-2020 07:26, Arun Mathai wrote:
>>> Hello Guys,
>>>
>>> I am a total newbie for debian.
>>>
>>> I have some technical difficulties and questions that i want to ask.
>>>
>>> Could anyone please tell me how to proceed.
> 
> [Begins evaluating OP against checklist below]
> 
>> First, make your subject line in the email descriptively relevant to
>> your problem.
> 
> Check.
> 
>> Do not put all your problems into one email,
> 
> Check.
> 
>> but if you do have separate issues, make an email to the list
>> specific to each one.
> 
> So far so good.
> 
>> Describe what attempts you have taken to solve them yourself
> 
> Not applicable. (Original Post *is* that attempt.)

No, it's applicable.
(1) What he might have tried could cut out some potential(s).
(2) There are a lot of people around who prefer to use your mind, and
not their own. It's a good gauge in determining if someone is worth
helping or not.

 
>> Describe the problem you have as concisely as you can.
> 
> Check.
> 
> OP is a natural!

-- 
`Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false,
and by the rulers as useful'.

— Lucius Annæus Seneca.

Terrorism, the new religion.

Registered Linux User: 554515

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#224037

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On Jo, 25 iun 20, 05:06:30, Weaver wrote:
> (2) There are a lot of people around who prefer to use your mind, and
> not their own. It's a good gauge in determining if someone is worth
> helping or not.

Anyone deserves a chance.

Gently pointing them towards the fine manuals is also help.

Kind regards,
Andrei
-- 
http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

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#223993

On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:26:00 -0700
Arun Mathai <arunkollannur10@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Guys,
> 
> I am a total newbie for debian.
> 
> I have some technical difficulties and questions that i want to ask.
> 
> Could anyone please tell me how to proceed.
> 
>
Ask questions here, start a new question for each unrelated problem and
put a very brief description in the subject line.

This is a user forum, not a paid helpdesk, so we do not know
everything. We should be able to help with most newcomers' problems.

-- 
Joe

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#224022

On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:26:00 -0700
Arun Mathai <arunkollannur10@gmail.com> wrote:

> Could anyone please tell me how to proceed.

Ask away. There is already some good advice on this thread. You might
also read (or at least browse) Eric Steven Raymond's How To Ask
Questions The Smart Way, http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

-- 
Does anybody read signatures any more?

https://charlescurley.com
https://charlescurley.com/blog/

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#224029

Ask one question per post.  Do research yourself (Google is your friend.)

Mark

On 6/25/2020 4:26 PM, Arun Mathai wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>
> I am a total newbie for debian.
>
> I have some technical difficulties and questions that i want to ask.
>
> Could anyone please tell me how to proceed.
>
> Regards,
>
> Arun Mathai
>

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#224030

Le 2020-06-25 23:33, Mark Allums a écrit :
> Ask one question per post.  Do research yourself (Google is your 
> friend.)

Google is no one's friend.
Google is a business.

The real (interesting) sentence should have read : (a search engine is 
your friend.)

Olivier

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#224032

On 26-06-2020 07:55, Olivier Humbert wrote:
> Le 2020-06-25 23:33, Mark Allums a écrit :
>> Ask one question per post.  Do research yourself (Google is your friend.)
> 
> Google is no one's friend.
> Google is a business.
> 
> The real (interesting) sentence should have read : (a search engine is
> your friend.)

https://duckduckgo.com/

 -- 
`Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false,
and by the rulers as useful'.

— Lucius Annæus Seneca.

Terrorism, the new religion.

Registered Linux User: 554515

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#224080

On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:26:00 -0700, Arun Mathai wrote:

> Hello Guys,
> 
> I am a total newbie for debian.
> 
> I have some technical difficulties and questions that i want to ask.
> 
> Could anyone please tell me how to proceed.

Hi Arun,

Yes this is question place.

Sincerely, Byung-Hee

-- 
/home/soyeomul/__SIG__

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#224232

=?euc-kr?b?yLK6tMjx?= <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> writes:
> Hi Arun,
> 
> Yes this is question place.
> 
> Sincerely, Byung-Hee
> 
	It is one of the most helpful groups I know of as
sometimes, there are questions that don't lend themselves to a
search engine string although one can get really lucky if you try
to not use words that easily can mean several things at once.

Occasionally, we dazzle ourselves with our own brilliance,
thinking our search terms should be so concise as to drill right
down through all the Ebay pitches and mercantile flotsam to see
the answer to our question on the first link to pop up only to
find we have asked a question similar to "Can birds fly?"

	When my wife was getting her Master's in library science,
she related a story about a person walking in to a library and
asking that question.

	It turned out that the patron was interested in whether
or not birds could be carried on an airplane and how do you do
this?

	The search engines are as good as we are so if you ask
duckduckgo if birds can fly and also ask Google the same
question, you probably won't get quality answers from either
search but with one of the two, your spam level won't change.
Three guesses as to which engine changes your spam quantity.

	I do amaze myself at how many searches go off the tracks
because there are many ways to interpret the same question and,
when you see what you got, one can usually also see why.  If you
like puns, you may be thinking like a search engine.

	For those not familiar with English, a pun is a play on
words in which one word has many different meanings.  The punster
intends for you to notice the other meaning.

 If you have questions about debian buster or redhat or freebsd, 
it cuts through a lot of jungle if you put the operating system you are asking about as the first
word so that something like 

debian buster end of line character

will instantly weed out how Windows does it as an example.  If it
doesn't completely remove all the irrelevant info, the unwanted
things tend to be near the bottom of your search.

Martin

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