to Linux Novice [series of five]_unix Linux

"Doctor, I'm in pain, tell me what to do."
"Don't worry, you first tell me where it hurts."

"Oh, where the pain is not the same treatment ah, I have a stomachache, tell me how to do it, I am very worried."
"Don't worry, say again what did you do yesterday?" “

"What's the matter with yesterday?" Yesterday I did what I do every day, I feel very normal, why don't you tell me how to do? If you don't want to say it, don't.
"Don't worry, you think again, yesterday did something different from the usual things?" “

Different A lot of different ah, I did not catch the bus yesterday, the morning no one called me, more eccentric ...
"Not that, I'm asking you about eating, sports and stuff."

"Oh, this ah, last night I ate dumplings, very delicious oh"
"Oh, how many dumplings did you eat?"

"Well, more than 80, oh, yes, the stomach aches at night, until now."
"Oh, so you're eating."

These are the articles that I remember Bob's teacher wrote. If you think it's a joke, I'll go through this kind of joke almost every day. A person will first ask "My Linux how xxx, how to do", to the last step of the induction problem until the answer is revealed. You will come across a lot of problems, you don't know where to find the answer. You think the Internet is a master, you think the master is you a station to where he will know you have any problems. He knows everything and will tell you a "trick" to solve your problem. So you don't have to say any more, the title of a sentence plus a "no content" content. Just wait for the ace to give you the "Ace". It is a pity that such things have never happened before.

As mentioned earlier, Linux has a lot of new concepts relative to the Windows system you might be proficient in. It seems that calculus is the same for a person who knows only simple algebra. In this case, it is obviously difficult for you to try to get the answer with your inherent system of thinking. For example, Linux's graphical interface x configuration has always been a novice must ask questions. You install Linux but the screen is 300x200,16 color, you want to know what to do. From Windows experience, you think there should be a way to find the "Display Properties" menu and then change the resolution color depth, even the scanning frequency is OK. So most of your questions are "My x only 300x200, where can I change it", and then you expect a master to tell you "in the XXX place the right mouse button click, you will get the menu of display Properties", and then you can like in Windows to modify the screen resolution. What's wrong here? The wrong place is that Linux x is not Windows, its display resolution is not in the graphical interface adjustment, but before entering X, more importantly, can change to a higher resolution of the premise is the driver of the display card to be configured well. And this is related to the release of Linux, version and so on. So many circumstances do not know, the master is absolutely no "trick" to tell you. Compared to the previous joke, there are many reasons for belly, if the patient can know and judge out, what is the use of doctors?

So what should you do when you have a problem? First, it's best not to ask questions. The Linux installation configuration itself is a learning process, and it may be much slower to solve a problem by yourself than others tell you, but the problem-solving itself can help you deepen your understanding of the Linux concept. At the same time, there may be many other problems to solve a problem. I remember when I first started Linux on a broken machine to install Linux and win98 many times, and finally understand the Linux partition DOS partition coexistence, the deployment of lilo many problems. Of course, some key places to explore their own time consuming too much and meaningless, more exchanges can achieve the effect of common improvement. about how to actively explore the answer to find the question I will say, here is assumed you need to go to the BBS to ask a question you can not solve.

You run into a problem, Lilo does not start, show 010101 or Li Panic, or do not know why your X screen is only 300x200, or do not know how to configure the network card, or do not know why the book said Cd/usr/src/linux; Makeconfig returns an error message, or compiles a test program gcc-otesttest.c and then runs tests with no output. You don't have a clue. You want to go online and ask "prawns" to get answers.

The 1th question is to understand that two words can explain the problem and solve one of the things that happened in a warrior may be very natural, but when you ask a question can only behave very ignorant, like the one who said "I hurt" the same patients. You have to describe a few questions in detail: what you have, what you do, what you want to achieve, what you find, and the specific problem description. For example, if your network does not pass, you need to first say what your Linux release, what version, how you installed, how to configure the network, detailed to the specific commands, your network situation, Lan Wan and so on. You may say a lot of nonsense, but to understand that you're asking questions, you don't know exactly where the problem is, so you have to talk about what you can think of as a problem that can contain specific problems. Here you are not a warrior, not unrestrained and unrestrained problem. Our aim is to solve your problems and to solve problems by getting your own improvement, without it.

2nd, do not make any judgments on your own. Like the one who thinks Linux should have a place like Windows. Right-click to get the "Show properties" problem. You have done your own problem-limiting in advance based on your experience with other systems and have limited the likelihood of answering questions to a very small extent. This limits your own thinking and also affects your ability to describe the problem correctly. The fact is that most of your mistakes are conceptual mistakes, and the direction you start to go is wrong, so instead of putting aside the specious things you know, you have to take those questions (what you have, what you did ...). Write clearly and see how others will judge.

3rd, you are here to ask questions and you think you should be helped. Wait a minute, this is not a teacher answer, you are no longer a student with the right to education. The person answering the question is no longer your teacher or TA. They have no responsibility for you. Everyone is only in one place to communicate with each other and improve together. If someone answers you, it is absolutely helpful to help you. And when you have no one to answer the question, most of your description is not detailed enough, others are not doctors, do not need a problem to induce. So when your question is not answered, it is also a thought process to revise the description of the problem against the previous point. No, just do it on your own, then read the following article.

One of the important functions of Linux, I think, is to cultivate the ability to explore themselves. Think back to our learning process, from primary school to college. There are too few environments for people to explore themselves. All questions have a standard answer, either in the teacher's or in reference books. Even the composition of such an inability to quantify things also have a bad "central idea." The so-called "self-study" is nothing more than to guess exactly what the standard answer is. If you want to do a larger course project (class project) will also be defined in detail, the teacher would like to put all the details of your own creation, so as to facilitate his marking. This environment under the education of people, to Linux will often feel at a loss-indeed, there is no teacher's standard answer, you do not only know the right.

So learning Linux, it is very important to have their own search knowledge, to break through the limitations of their own ability to think. The first step is not to think of "who has the standard answer" and then to ask people, but first think "How can I solve him", do not find a solution to their own, and then consider the solution why they can not think of, in the future encountered similar problems should be in which direction to work. Finally, consider whether you can make improvements in this direction. After a lot of such things, people's creativity will be greatly improved, and this for now rely on technology to eat people, is the difference between 100,000 and 2000.

OK, you have a problem, you do not know how to solve, how do you find the answer, how to improve yourself? When there is a problem, you first have to think, you are a novice, before you have a number of novice, you will not be a very special novice. The only difference is that your knowledge is different from others, not how special your problems are. For example, you have a D-link 220 NIC is not configured you feel very confused. The reality is that a lot of people have been confused, they've asked the question and they've got the answer. So your first step should be to understand that "this question has been asked by someone like me and has an answer somewhere."

So, how do you find the answer? On the BBS, you can enter the Linux version, and then think "have the answer, where it." First you can look in the previous article, this can be used to search the title method. Think about it first if you want to ask this question what keyword do you want to use for the title, and then search for this keyword. On the BBS search is the input number and then enter the key word and then return. Search in what keyword is very exquisite, for example you want to find the information about DLink 530-TX card, then you want to think how others will ask. Sure the title has a network card model, but how will others write it? Maybe it's 530TX, maybe it's 530 TX, maybe it's 530-tx. So but certainly all include 530, so you can search for 530 of this keyword, and then the search to read the article, basically have the answer. A similar problem to search for is de-220,810 (Intel 810 motherboard built-in video driver).

In fact, BBS is only a very small place, the real latest and most complete knowledge on the network. Almost all Linux related programs, frequently asked questions will be sorted out on the Internet. It should be noted that Linux is not Microsoft and there are specialized companies that maintain documentation. Linux documents are available everywhere, with varying quality and with different versions of Linux as they continue to be upgraded. For example IPMASQ because it updates with the Linux kernel update quickly, its help (FAQ) is also frequently upgraded. Looking at the old FAQ will make you more confused. So find a document do not see a blindly follow, to confirm that it is really useful, maybe you find an old version of it? To know some Linux articles are 5, 6 years ago, when CDROM is a rare goods, you want to get from there how to install Linux with CDROM problem, but found above all is about how to use floppy disk installation, this is not good. In addition, some of the kernel-compiled documents are said to make config, and the options are also very old, in fact, the kernel is now compiled with the menu method made Menuconfig. So the new and old document is a very important thing to pay attention to. The 2nd is that you can't escape the use of English, you have to force yourself to understand English documents. There are documents in Chinese, but the general problem is the lack of maintenance, too old.

Please write this URL on the back of the hand: www.google.com. After you have a problem with Linux, go to the top search. Google is the best search engine I know, especially in terms of Linux knowledge. Almost I want to know what can be found out, from the NIC driver to the parallel computer configuration. I hope you have searched this before asking questions. The main technique of search is to select the correct keyword, refer to the previous mentioned, search 530-TX drive Best input Linux 530 driver typeface. About search Tips If I have time to write something alone.

Another place is news group, but the general news server is not linked and there are not many groups. We can go to the www.deja.com to search. This is a very new international newsgroup discussion, and you can search here when your questions are new to the latest documents. Novice problems are generally not needed.

Of course, do not forget the essence of the BBS, there are often some unexpected harvest, still need to pay attention to the problem is that some Chinese documents, especially long articles, often very old.