Why don’t people do their homework ?
So you have setup your Solaris/SXCE/SXDE/Indiana system and ran into problems. YAY there are irc channels to help. Just login to freenode and join #opensolaris #solaris or any of the language specific channels and start torturing people with questions. Oh, you get attacked and laughed at ? Now go figure …
The problem is easy. SUN, as strange as it tends to behave sometimes has put into public access tons and tons and tons of documentation. This documentation is available to everybody with a webbrowser and sometimes some patience at http://docs.sun.com/ . People will attack you or laugh at you if you did not even put any effort into reading up and solvin the problem yourself at all.
There is a simple reason for that. Close to everybody in those channels is working day in day out with the systems and trying to make his living administrating, developing with, on or in those systems. We all spent tons of our time working out things, reading documentation, attending training etc and we just can’t understand why it seems to be so hard for people to first use SUN’s excellent documentation site, than use google and only as a matter of last ressort torture people on the irc channels with their problems.
DO YOUR HOMEWORK before asking on irc, or you make life hard for the people that have really tricky problems and search for answes there, since they will also have to get through the opnion that they did not do their homework.
Just my 2c EUR, as usual …