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Originally Posted by Habitual
Never mind the bait. Let's get him fishing!
While recent examples are fine. I prefer to believe they still teach principles and techniques the OP clearly does not possess.
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Very true, certainly. But after so many years, my bookshelves are littered with out-of-date stuff that I rarely (if ever) reference. What I can find with man pages and a brief search tells me much more than having to find the book, then find the part in the book I'm after.
I read a lot of books...just not technical ones, unless they're really hardcore, like "Applied Cryptography" or the like.
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Sticks out like ....But I read posts funny.
I just look for the obvious and it is usually directly contrary to something a visitor has already "confessed" to.
I look for contradictory statements (or mutually exclusive ones any way) to reveal what the poster "knows" or claims to know or reports to know. I ask myself "why did they say this, but not know that?" Or the unanswered, or selectively (I have to do this, I have ADD-[LMNOP] omitted replies?
Bait? Naw. They out themselves. I read that as "I'm a recent Linux system admin."
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Agreed. Easy to spot, and typically defensive/evasive when asked.
