18-10-2012, 23:18
(18-10-2012, 19:23)tibetan113 Wrote: Just curious, what does RTFM? Read the Forum Moron? LOL!
That works! Originally it meant "read the f'ing manual" and comes from the 'nix community. You see, all unices come with a very expansive built in help system called "manual pages", also referred to by "man pages" for short and in reference to the command that brings them up - "man -topic-".
Many, MANY hard-line 'nix'ers are quite rude to newer 'nix users and will often quite forcefully and rudely tell them to just "rtfm". Even though some of those man pages can be a chapter books worth of information all by itself and all they want could be more succinctly explained in just a few sentences. Often times they don't even bother telling them WHAT man page to read, let alone directing them WHERE in the mammoth ones to look.
(18-10-2012, 19:23)tibetan113 Wrote: btw, the random spamming is pissing me off!
Agreed.