[GRLUG] "network is unreachable"

[Alan J Abma]

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no
point in being a damn fool about it.”

	W.C. Fields


On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 19:47 -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         On 2/11/2010 6:25 PM, john-thomas richards wrote:
>         > Ah, the pragmatism that comes with age.  I've been using
>         Linux for about
>         > thirteen years now and only once have I reinstalled from
>         scratch in
>         > order to solve a problem, and that was about a year ago when
>         Debian
>         > Testing got really, really messed up (modules wouldn't load,
>         etc.).  I
>         > realized life was too short for me to go through the long,
>         arduous
>         > process of fixing it so I reinstalled.
>         >
>         > There's wisdom in that.
>         
>         
>         One of the valuable things that arises from the time spent is
>         learning
>         why it broke in the first place. Not "why" as "this file was
>         removed",
>         but "why" as in "oh, this subsystem needs to talk to that
>         subsystem, and
>         that thing needs to be configured so that that part over there
>         works."
>         
>         If that's outside one's area of interest, then yeah,
>         reinstall.
>         Otherwise, by all means, be stubborn and learn!
>         
>          
> 
> 
> All true.  Or cave, and learn about 
> something else.  I suspect that for
> most of us here it's a matter of what
> one learns about, not whether they
> will learn about something. 
> 
> 
> It's usually not particularly instructive
> to spend too much time on something
> unless you have the background to at
> least have a shot at a solution.  There's
> also the monkey at a typewriter, cranking
> out Shakespeare.  Possible, just not very
> likely.
> 
> 
>    -- Bob
> 
> 
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